The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-31
Last Day of Bitter Local Cam
paign for the Primary.
Contest for Sheriff Most Spec
tacuIar in Years.
TAKE ONLY $500 TO NOMINATE
Vote Is Well Divided Among
Nine Candidates.
County Attorney and Clerk
Fight Means Close Finish.

Today, the last day of the cam
paign, local interest centers around the
candidates in contests for three coun-
ty offices-sheriff, county clerk and
county attorney 1t has been years
since there was such a fight as has
been and is being made for these three
offices
Perhaps the fight for sheriff is the
most spectacular and most uncertain.
There are nine Republican candidates
for the office and every man has been
burning up his energy and that of his
friends to put him in first place. The
nine candidates are Hugh Larimer,
now undersheriff; H. A. Hodgins, j. E.
Wilson, G. w. Belts, r. w. Eaton, H
C. Ericsson, George Frost, W. T. Daw-
son, E. H. Shore.
The proba bilities are that $500 for
any one candidate will nominate him.
Every candidate claims to have that
many or more votes in his vest pocket
1t is doubtful if there is a voter in
shawnee county who has not been
seen by one or more of the candidates
for sheriff.
There are only two candidates for
county attorney and they have staged
the neatest fight that has been put up
locally during the present campaign.
Robert Carver and w. P. Montgomery
are the two candidates. Both are
young men and both ambitious. Gar
yer has served as judge of the court
of Topeka and is now serving as first
assistant in the office of the county
the office of the attorney general for
six years. They have made a neck
and neck campaign for five weeks.
The County Clerk Race.
There are four candidates for coun-
ty clerk-Wilber Galloway, Kenneth
Raub. John Wright and H L Monroe
Raub has served as deputy during the
administration of o. K swayze-
Wright is first deputy in the same Of
fee and has done much of the real
work for years Monroe is employed
in the Office of the county assessor.
Galloway is an outsider and has never
held public Office. He did not enter
the campaign until the day the time
for filing petitions expired.
Another fight in which there is
more or less interest is that for clerk
of the district court A woman and n
man are making campaign for it.
Mary E. Chaplin. a widow employed
| for several years in the office of tho
probate judge, and Will Harris, for
years an employe of the Santa Fe, are
| the candidates. For weeks Mrs.
Chaplin had all the best of it. Within
the last two weeks friends of Harris
at the Santa Fe general office building
have been putting time and money
into his campaign and have made In
roads on Mrs. Chapin's strength.
| Nothing to Worry About.
There is just one candidate for a
county office who has nothing to
| worry about. That is Douglas Gra-
| ham, clerk of the court of Topeka. He
secured the nomination two years ago
after a hard fight. This year there is
not a candidate against him for the
nomination and as the Democrats
failed to put a candidate for that placs
on their ticket he will have no opposi-
unless there should be an independent
candidate brought out.
Ralph Cav and D. H. Branaman
are attracting considerable attention to
the nomination for probate judge.
Both men have covered city and coun-
| try thoroughly and today both ex-
pressed themselves as being confident
of the result
| There are eight candidates for mar
shal of the court of Topeka and TN
have covered everything in town with
their cards but there is no one, except
the candidates, who is willing tc PEE
| dict the result of the fight.
W. f. Schoch and James A. Trout
man are fighting 1t out over the nom--
nation for state senator. Schocn
served two terms as probate Judge and
| Troutman is now state senator from
| Shawnee county. They have made
their campaigns but they have not
been anything like as intense as those
| of other men who are fighting over
some of the county offices