The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-02
Majority Republican Delegation
to Congress, Prediction.
President Wilson's Appeal
Brings Party Together.
CAST 100000 BALLOTS THEN
Women Will Make Up for
Absent Soldier Vote.
Seventy Thousand Kansas Men
Are in Army.

The Republicans will continue to
run thing in Kansas for the next two
years and it is very probable they will
again regain a majority delegation in
congress. This seems to be the view
of men who watch political events
closely but who take no active part in
political affairs.
The Democrats never intended or
expected to make any fight for the
state ticket. The ticket for state Of
fices was made up chiefly for political
purposes, Henry Allen, the Republic
can candidate is in France and has
taken no hand in the election. He will
return to Kansas some time next
month as the work he was commits
stoned to do year ago is practically
completed. Most of the Republican
state officials are candidates for re-
election an das they have made good
on the jobs it was not expected that
the people of the state would oust
them just to take care of a few DEM
ocratic candidates.
Fight on Congress.
The entire campaign has been
Waged on United States senator and
congressman. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike have fought to elect the
nine men who go to Washington next
month. Little or no attention has
been paid to the state ticket. Senator
Thompson has captured the Demo-
cratic state committee and it has de-
voted all of its efforts to electing
Thompson. There has been a good
deal of complaint from the congress-
men that they have not been getting
the help from the state committee to
which they were entitled. Six years
ago the state committee ran away
from Thompson and let him shift for
himself while it devoted its>efforts to
electing Hodges governor and the con-
gressmen. Now Thompson-h turned
the tables on many of~the same men
who were canpa igning six years ago.
In Republican circlel there seems to
be no doubt about Capper's ability to
defeat Senator Thompson, while the
Democrats admit their candidate may
have a close shave. Even the Demo-
Gratis concede that ordinarily Capper
would be elected because of his great
strength with the farmers, but they
are banking upon Thompson getting a
tremendous vote in the larger cities
and upon those who have soldiers in
the army shying at Capper's war rec
ord and refusing to support him in
preference to a man whose war record
is clear and who is experienced on the
job.
Ed Little. Republican, in the Second,
and John Connolly, Democrat, in the
Sixth, have the hardest fights on their
hands of any of the congressman up
| for reelection. Both were against the
war and reports from the districts in
dictate the vote is going to be mighty
close.
The Republicans regard the First
and Third district fights as settled.
The Democrats feel that they have an
, absolute cinch in the Eighth district
But in the Fourth, Fifth and Seventh
districts the real fighting is going on
and both sides claiming everything. An
ordinary observer has suggested that
in an ordinary political year Jouett
Shouse would win easily in the Sew
enth and Homer Hoch would win in
the Fourth with the game a toss-up
| il the Fifth. But this isn't any ordin-
| ary political year. 1t is estimated that
more than $4,000 voters are now over
seas in the army, and thousands of
others are in the navy and out of the
state working in shipyards, munition
| tries.
Many Things to Consider.
Estimates place the total absent
no doubt but that this must be reck-
oned with in making estimates. How
| ever, to offset this, the largest wo-
| man vote ever polled in the state is
expected. The registration of women
| was the biggest ever known, and
| many results will undoubtedly depend
| upon the attitude the women take in
| the matter of backing up their boys in
service. If they deem it necessary to
! give the president what he asks, the
majority will undoubtedly cast Demo-
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