The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
TAFT ORDERED THE ATTACK
Wanted 1t Applied First in
South Dakota Case.
w. A. White Will Oppose Suit
With Might and Main.
A Lively Fight Promised in
Kansas Courts.

Telephone adviceS received at To-
peka at 3:15 this afternoon were to
the effect that Judge c. f. Branine of
the district court of Harvey county
had issued a temporary injunction
against county clerks of the 1O5 coun-
ties Of the state from placing ROOse-
welt electors on the primary ballots.
The injunction was asked for this
afternoon by Taft supporters who left
Topeka OH the morning train for New
ton for that purpose.
There is a well founded report N
Topeka that proceedings will be filed
before Judge c. E. Branine in Har-
vey county today seeking to enjoin
the 1O5 county clerks in Kansas from
placing the names of eight of the So
called Roosevelt electoral candidates
on the primary ballots. The suit VIII
be brought in the name of Republican
voters who signed the nomination pa
pers of the eight defendant electoral
candidates and fraud, is alleged as
one of the prime causes of action.
This action to eliminate the Roose-
veIt electoral candidates from a place
on the primary ballots under the Re
DuDICdn
conference of Taft Republicans in To-
peka yesterday. In a statement made
to the State Journal, Chester I Long,
former United States senator from
Kansas, gave the intimation of legal
action to cleanse the party ticket OF
electoral candidates favorable to a
partv vet unborn. 1t is claimed that
the Harvey county action today is the
result of this conference in which d
half dozen party leaders in the state
Names of the eight candidates
sought to be eliminated from place
under the Republican banner, are not
made public. The independence con
vention named ten electoral cand1-
dates One of these men, Charles H.
srowne of Horton, was the only man
on the list friendly to Taft. This left
ticket Immediately following the
Chicago convention, names OF eight
Taft candidates were certified to the
secretary of state This made a total
places on the November ballot Each
side claimed nine.
One Roosevelt Electors DETECTION.
Now the Taft adherents seek to
eliminate eight of these candidates, but
the name of the man on the original
Roosevelt list whose place Will mo- be
contested is not made public. That
the Taft forces have gaiEed a convert
from the camp of the enemy is the
general opinion and it is believed that
after checking off the eight bolting
candidates, that tho Taft electoral bal
lot will show a solid front of ten tried
and true followers
Taft People AlIege Fraud.
Fraud in the securing OF signers to
the electoral petitions is charged in the
action for a restraining order and an
claimed that the eight defendants de-
ceived and misled the individual voters
bv the belief that the mel would sup
port the Republican nominee of the
Republican party Tor presldent-n
-7arty vet unborn. Then, too, the petit
ii lers in the Harvey county action
draw q distinction on names OF cleo
tors appearing under one party head
ing when they have pledged them
selves to support the nominee of an
other rarty. That is not the only le-
qal Dropoist!on presented 1t is charged
Thaf a sufficient number of signers to
+ba petitions were defrauded and mis-
led to inValidate the petitions of all
of the eight candidates and for this
reason that the number of bona fide
signatures is not sufficient to warrant
a filing under the primary election
law.
under the 20 county plan. In seeking
an Injunction against the men who re-
n1idiated the nominee of the Republican
national convention in Chicago, it was
necessary that the action be filed in the
conntv in which one of the defendants
is resident Samuel A Davis, of
Newton. one of the original Roosevelt
electoral candidates, is a Harvey coun-
~ resident and it was decided to bring
the case in his district
case to Be Tried at Once.
The case against the Roosevelt cleo
+crs will doubtless be given an imme-
Ija+e hearing It is less than three
weeks until the date of the Kansas pri-
maries and copy for the primary bal