The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-18
Comparison Of Hodges apper
Vote I'm Kansas.
~Wets" Turned ON Governor
Moosers ON the Topekan.
HE POLLED MORE THAN N 1912
Hodges Made q Gain of 1885
Over Combined Totals.
Billiard and Allen Make Plain
Dangerous Strength.

Complete returns on governorship
from the recent statewide primaries
furnish some Interesting information
from which political wise men are bas-
ing their predictions as to the results
in the November election. In the vote
or governorship, the records show Ar
thur Capper received $3.50 less votes
than were cast for Capper and Ryan
in the 1912 primaries, while Governor
Hodges polled 1893 more votes than
the combined vote received by Hodges,
Billiard and Jackson in the primaries
of two years ago.
The comparative figures from the
primaries of 1912 and 1914 show that
per cent from the Republican guber-
Material vote of 1912. while Governor
Hodges gained 20 per cent. In 1912
the combined vote for Ryan and Cap
per was 115.77O, of which Capper re-
!! ceived 81,554, with 1926 votes for
Ryan. In the Democratic primaries.
6O,79S were cast for governor. Hodges
received 1852, Billiard 2O,5O5 and
Jackson 1O,7O1. This year Hodges re-
ceived 72,736 votes.
In 1912. men only voted in the pri-
martes. This year the women voted.
The result shows an increase for the
Democrats on comparative showing
per. who carried 1O4 of the 105 coun-
ties over Ryan in the 1912 primaries,
this year-with the women voting
falls behind the Capper-Ryan vote in
So counties. The same. comparative
returns show that in rs counties Gov
ernor Hodges received greater vote
than that cast jointly for Hodges, Bill
lard and Jackson in 1912.
Hodges Slump in Wet Counties.
| WI
Hodges failed to increase his vote over
the total Democratic vote. of two years
ago. at least ten are listed in the wet"
| column politically and gave Billiard q
plurality in 1912. These counties in
cluded Atchison. Crawford, Ellis,
Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee
and Wyandotte. In all of these coun-
ties, Governor Hodges this year re-
cetved a vote smaller than the total of
two years ago, indicating to political
observers that the Billiard element re-
port of Hodges.
! OF the counties listed for Billiard two
years ago and where Hodges this year
| fell below the 1912 total vote, at least
four increased the Capper vote. These
counties were Atchison. Cherokee. Ellis
Shawnee as fifth county. Capper's
total vote in Shawnee two years ago
was 1907, as against 2,494 cast for Bill
Lard in the Democratic primaries
Hodges received 1863 votes. This year
Shawnee county gave Capper 1O,026 as
against a combined Capper-Ryan vote
| of 6,511.
PrOgressiveS Turn on Capper.
! In leading Progressive counties where
; an effort had not been made to increase
harmony sentiment by Offering near
Progressfves for Republican nomina-
1 ~ 1~,A
! is shown by the comparative 1912-1914
votes from Douglas, Franklin. jackson,
Lyon, Nemaha, Mcpherson, Sedgwick
and Wyandotte counties. In Saline,
Riley, Harvey and Wabaunsee counties.
near Progressive candidates were offered
| in the primaries and local sentiment
tended to increase the vote in these To-
| calities.
The heavy loss Of Capper strength,
however. in the strongly entrenched
| Progressive counties is viewed with
much concern by political workers The
showing means in their minds that the
Progressives refused to vote in the Re-
publican primaries and have elected to
go their own way in the coming CAM
paign.
Remembering Native Son.
Two years ago, 1914 votes were cast
for Capper and Ryan in Anderson coun-
ty. OF this number 808 were for Cap
per. The total Democratic vote was
but 511. Anderson county is the BIRTH
place Of Capper and every effort was
made for a big Capper showing there.
This year the returns show that An
derson county cast but 541 votes for
Capper. while the Democratic vote
| jumped from 511 to 1,268
The following table shows the vote
cast for gubernatOrial candidates in the
primaries of 1914 and 1912 and is taken
/! from the official record in the secre-
tary of states office. 1t is upon this