The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
Charlie Scott Made Great Show
ing in Convention.
Failed to Receive Votes in Only
Eighteen Counties.
BRISTOW LOST IN Sc OF los
SaIina Man Carried Only One
Congressional District.
Benton and BurrOW Forgot
Feud but Without Success.

Charles +. Scott of lola made the
record showing of the eight candidates
before the Republican state conven-
ton. He not only polled the high
vote, but won votes in all except elSh-
teen of the 105 counties. In this con-
nection evidence of the BurroW- Ben
ton Bristow- Bailey combination came
into evidence. OF the IS counties
which scratched the lola man from
the list, 16 were Sixth district coun-
ties. The two remaining counties IN
which Scott did not show were Same
the home of Bristow-and Franklin
which supported Bristow, Bailey and
McAdams.
Votes Of all delegates in the conven-
ton tell some interesting stories An
analysis of the returns shows not only
the relative and geographical strength
of the various candidates for delegates
at large to the Chica go convention, but
they furnish the basis for reports or
manipulation of delegations me re-
turns show that Joseph l.. BristoW
failed to win a vote in Sc of the 100
counties of the state and carried but
one congressional district-the Sixth
and that largely through the manip-
ulations of the recent Burrow-Benton
combination.
Went in as a Bull Moose.
Bristow went into the race as Pro-
gressive candidate. The things that
plain, simple returns from the conven-
ton Bristow failed to carry the Fifth
district his home. He polled but %
votes in his district, as against 90 Tor
George w. Hanna of Clay Center
Hanna had previous to the convention
offered to submit his candidacy to the
Fifth district delegates. But BristoW
refused. He insisted on entering the
fight even in the face of the oppOsi-
ton in his nome district.
But that was not all. With the
Burrow- Bristow- Bailey combination
fighting Scott, the lola man polled
virtually twice the strength of Bristow
in his home district The Fifth dis
trict which gave but So votes to Bris-
tow and Sc to Hanna, registered 1O2
for Scott
In the Second district Scott s
friends retaliated quite successfully
for the attempt to handicap their
home man. Even in the face of Bris-
lows alleged combination with the
Wyandotte county delegation, Scott
polled the votes of 81 Second district
delegates while Bristow received but
54. OF these + were from Wyandotte
and ~ from Franklin-Scott's chief
source of trouble in his home district
Douglas county also cast votes for
Bristow The lamentable showing of
Bristow in the Second was the more
apparent in view of the Wyandotte sit
cation and the fact that he formerly
lived IN DOtn Douglas ana RANKIN
counties. Outside these counties, the
Second district gave BristOw just 1
votes.
He Carrid One District.
one congressional district gave
Bristow a majority. That was the
Six L Out in the big northwest dis
trici, the BurrOW- Benton influence
was working. After a IA years row,
Burrow and Benton forgave and forgot.
They left a few hundred close and ar
dent friends on a limb and delivered
as much Of the district as possible to
a Bristow- Bailey McAdams slate.
Counties of Decatur. Ellsworth, era
ham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Rocks,
Russell, Sherman, Smith and Trego
voted the slate. AS result of the
combination. Bristow polled 81 votes
in the district as against 80 for Scott.
In the First district, T. d. Smith of
Hiawatha ran far ahead of w. J. Bal
ley of Atchison. Both are residents