New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Victory Certain, but He
Will Run Behind State
Ticket, Is Prediction.
TO GET FOUR-FIFTHS
OF THE MOOSE VOTE
Republicans Hope to Dis
place at Least Four Dem
oCratS in Congress.

From sPsci, Correspondent o. The rrioune.l
Tooeka. Kan. Sept. % Hughes will
carry Kansas by fifteen thousand. If
harmony continues and the right speak
ers are sent 20 the state his plurality
may reach thirty thousand. That he
will carry the state is as certain as
anything in Kansas politics can be.
But he will run behind the state ticket
by fully twenty thousand votes.
Governor Arthur Capper, the Topeka
publisher. is running for reelection,
and nc is particularly strong. Capper
has not made striking Governor, but
ne is a harmonizer and an able eXecu-
tive. who has performed rather than
promised Even William Allen White,
militant Progressive. enthuses over
Capper. but gives Hughes only passive
support.
The real fight in Kansas is the Con-
gressional elections. The Republicans
hope 10 displsce some of the six
Democratic incumbents. It looks as
though they might succeed in two dis
trictS. The campaign is little differ
emit from any Kansas has ever had.
The volubility of Ksnsans politically is
we'll known. but there is little of it in
Kansas this fall.
Kansas always does the unusual. She
sent 4 whiskered PETER TO the Senate
in place of the polished ingalls,. When
the Populist movement had lost caste
everywhere else Kansas elected Pop
ulist Governor. Kansas gave her cleo
toral votes to Bryan in 1896, and four
years later gave them to Mckinley;
she elected Thompson 70 the Senate,
district judge Of county breadth, and
defeated at the same time Stubs, who
had q national reputation and was of
unquestioned ability.
Kansas Not for Wilson.
Kansas now has pacifst tendencies.
Kansas believes in proper protection,
and fighting if honor demands. But
Kansas is not for Wilson, and the cry
of the Wilson supporters that he kept
us out OF war does not influence Kan
sans. Most pacifists lean toward Will
son on this account, but because that
would be the usual thing, Kansas is for
Hughes.
Among the reasons Hughes will get
a safe majority in Kansas is that the
Cspper oil pouring has brought the
Moose and the "old guard" pretty well
together. and they are working for the
state ticket Recently Republican State
chairman Sessions announced his cam
paign committee. Three-fourths of the
members are Moose or former Moose
and not one is of the "old guard" This
peases the liberals. The working plan
Of the Kansas organization is to get
the liberal vote; the regulars do not
need counting.
The Moose leaders also are back in
the fold, with the exception Of Victor
Murdoch. He has now gone TO China
tor q newspaper. But ex-senator Bris-
tow is back, and Ex-Governor Stubs
WI make speeches for both Cspper and
Hughes. Henry Allen, who led the
Roosevelt forces in the 1912 convention
and was the Moose gubernstorisl nomi-
rec in Kansas in 1914, is making
speeches for Hughes.
Womens Vote a Factor.
Another factor in the Hughes
strength is the women's vote. Most Of
this will 20 70 Hughes. The Woman's
Federation Of Clubs. political science
clubs and good government clubs are
working for Hughes. They also are
working against the Democratic Repre-
sentstives IN Congress.
Anthony and Campbell, Republican
incumbents Of the LIST and Sd districts,
respectively. are up for reelection, and
vii! win beyond question. Tsggart,
Democratic incumbent in the I'd. is op-
losed by I'd Little, OF Kansas City.
~aggart may 20 back. In the 4th Dis
tr:ct Doolittle. Democrat, who has
served two terms, is opposed by Clyde
Miller. who is a successful business
man. and will put up real fight.
Charles Harger, Of Abilene, in the
:th. is irving 70 wrest the seat from
Guy Helvering, Democrat, and Harger
seems 20 be we'll in the lead.
In the 9Th and 7th districts John
Cornolley and Jouett Shouse, Demo
c,atic incumbents, seem 10 have the
better Of the night against Otis Benton
and John Simmons, Republicans. There
is a bare chance for Benton 70 dis
place Connolley, but Shouse seems to
In the sth District William Ayres.
Democrat, probably will be succeeded
Lv Judge Thomas Wilson. OF Wichita.
II present indications hold, Kansas
will have al least four Republican
Representatives in Congress, and may
A few Moose are dissatisfied and
few liberals are disturbed, but
Hughes will get 100 per cent Of The
Republican vote and so per cent OF the
Moose vote.