The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-20
EYE ON 8 HOURS
Labor Vote in Third District
Will Go to Wilson.
Hughes Will Run Behind State
Ticket, Is Belief.
(By Staff Correspondent

| tricts this year the hughes vote will
/ help to put Republican congressional
nominees over the rough places. But
in the Third district the congressional
situation and strength of the Republi-
can state ticket will come to the aid of
Charles E. Hughes in the presidential
contest.
The Third district will stand alone
in facing this peculiar political condi-
ton. Hughes's trouble in the district
Is due to the heavy labor vote. And
| the labor vote has glued its eyes on
the Adamson eight hour law-so
called at least-and there is a waver-
ing and swing to Wilson that will aid
the Democrat nominee. Not that
Hughes will not carry the Third dis
trict. 1t is quite certain he will. IL
total several thousand. Yet Hughes
is not as strong in the district as is
the Republican state ticket-even the
state ticket below governor.
| In Chanute, Pittsburg Parsons
| Neodesha, Coffeyville. Columbus and
Moline, there is u railroad vote. The
| vote ranges from few score in Mo-
| line to several thousand in the larger
towns. With it is heavy labor vote.
No one seems to know just how strong
| that vote may be. No one seems ~
know just how far the influence and
| effect of the sentiment may swing.
the Third district is the center of the
! DIG Kansas industries and the Demo-
Gratis are making desperate fight TO
! extend the railroad influence TO labor
ing classes other than railroad men.
Sometimes ir former campaigns the
Republicans have not received large
per cent of the labor vote in certain
sections of the district That fact IS
due to the strong Socialist sentiment
in the various counties. This year
| some of the noisy Wilson talk comes
from men who formerly voted the So
cialist ticket. Maybe, after all, the
| Wilson sentiment in the railroad towns
OF the district is merely an evidence
! of a tendency of the Socialists to vote
| for a Democrat for president.
! Using Republican arithmetic there
| is claim that the German vote, the
Catholic vote and the farmer vote will
! more than offset any losses in the
| railroad vote. Then, too, Republican
| leaders in the district contend that a
majority of the labor vote which talks
| the loudest for Wilson is naturally
anti-Republican and couldn't be de-
1 livered for Hughes with a rope and
| halter.
Congressman Phil P Campbell is
| seemingly certain of his old time ma
! Jority in the district. The Third dis
trict congressman looks safe by 5000
to 10000, if conditions as encountered
| in hurried trip thro a congressional
district amount to anything. The Re-
| publican ticket is just as strong-may-
| be stronger-than Campbell. Progress
sives who shouted the loudest, worked
the nafQeSt ana fought the longest. are
now carrying the Republican banner
and working for the Republican ticket
i from Hughes right down the line.
With the women voting, the Third
district should roll up a nominal Re-
publican majority of 10000 to 10000
1t is probable that portion of the
state ticket; maybe all of it, will reach
| or pass the 700 mark in the No
vember election. Conditions in the
| district indicate such a showing. Con-
(Nor hall rrrif1
| campaigner opposing him on the Dem
| ocrat ticket and the opposition that
| a congressman naturally accumulates
thro patronage fights and long service,
is seemingly not as strong as the state
ticket.
| Governor Capper and S. NJ. Brews-
| ter, attorney general, shivered and
slipped and skidded in their trip thru
Il Wilson, Montgomery and Labette
/ counties heavy rain and a cold
| wind made automobile campaigning
most uncomfortable and ut times quite
| uncertain. At Independence the auto
| mobile was deserted and the speakers
patronized the interurban lines in fill
/ ing speaking dates. But every date on
the itinerary was kept.
Senator Ben s. Paulen of the Will
son-Neosho county district made the
trip with the party during the stay in
/ his district. Senator Paulen made an
/ excellent record in the sessions of
1885 and will seemingly win a re-
election by big majority.
4 In his Independence speech. Cover
nor Capper did not direct a personal
attack on Judge Flannelly in his dis
eussion of the Kansas Natural Gas
receivership. Turnout his speaking
trip the governor has used the gas
receivership as a horrible example of
judicial graft. Graft" was the word
he used. He has urged a control of
public service corporation receiver
ships by the public utilities commits
sion. In Judge Flannelly's home town
the governor did not mention Judge
II Flanneliy and confined his remarks to
an appeal for legislative reform of the
receivership system.
The third week of the governors
campaign trip will be concluded with
a trip Saturday thru Bourbon, Linn
and Miami counties, in the Second dis
trict. Next week the governor will
districts. The week preceding the
election, he will enter Wyandotte
county, the home of Congressman
Taggart, where ne will speak for the
election of Col. Ed c. Little. At pres
ent the Republicans have expressed
their only fear concerning Second dis
trict results in the uncertainty of re-
turns from Wyandotte county and the
possible Taggart majority in Johnson
county, the home of George H
Hodges, former governor.
Chanute sprang a new reform in
the regulation of campaign crowds
When Governor Capper spoke in the
Neosho county town the crowd was
/ much too large for the theatef. AS
y soon as seats in the theater were
i taken, firemen took charge of the
building and refused to admit more
people.
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