The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-24
Activity for Offices at Shawnee
Court House.
This Was Last Day for Filing
Nomination Papers.
UNIONS BEHIND DEMOCRATS
Political Dope Points to Support
in the Election.
BOurbOns Are Out for Prac-
ticalIy Every Position.

t1caIly Every Position.
F'ifty-eight candidates are on rec
ord for county offices. Today was
the last day for filing petitions.
Rumors that the labor unions will
back the Democratic ticket were
strengthened when, in an eleventh
hour rush, fourteen Democratic can
didates for county offices filed their
nomination papers late Wednesday
| afternoon with Kenneth Raub. county
| clerk. The Democrats now have a
candidate up for practically every
county office and many of them are
labor union men. Several new Re
publican candidates also filed We'd
nesday afternoon and today. This was
the last day for filing.
NJ. A. Moore. general chairman of
the Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers,
Express and Station employees for the
Santa Fe eastern lines, filed on the
| Democratic ticket for state senator.
Moore is president of the Moore's
Universal Gas Saver company 111S
Kansas avenue,
H p Miller. a former city COM
missioner. filed on the Democratic
ticket for county commissioner from
| the Second district. Frank Summers
an officer on the Topeka police force,
will carry the Bourbon standard in
the race for sheriff. ]. Glen Logan,
la local attorney, will be a candidate
for probate judge.
Other Democratic candidates filed
| their papers for the following offices:
| Clerk, district court, John c. Schroeder;
| county clerk, John J. Melchoir; county
! assessor, John L. Pugh; representa-
tive, Thirty-third district. George Z.
Durbin; representative Thirty-fourth
district. c. E. Leonard; register of
| deeds, Otto l. Rain; county attorney,
Robert NJ. Yates; county treasurer. ].
w. Bell; representative, Thirty-fifth
district, ]. w. Russell, negro; county
surveyor, Delbert E. Livingston.
A Republican Ticket.
On the Republican ticket, ]. J. King.
a local attorney, and Lee Nichols,
route 2, have entered the race against
c. H. searle for representative from
the Thirty-fifth district. James c.
Sinner and Ed Buckman have filed
against Kenneth Raub and Henry Nc
| Afee for county commissioner from
! the Third district o. s. True, presi-
| dent of the Carpenters union in To-
peka. has entered the race on the Re
| publican ticket for state senator
against Hugh Fisher and W. F.,
| Schoch.
A surprise was sprung when Ed
Jones, deputy clerk of the court OF
Topeka, filed late today for clerk. Y.
Leonard Smith, present clerk, who was
appointed to fill out the unexpired
! term of Paul Edgar. has withdrawn
! from the race for business reasons, he
| said. Jones, who has served under
him, is a graduate of Topeka high
school. He attended Washburn law
school and went to France with the
A. E. F. early in the war.
J Walter H. White. a negro eX-service
F, man, has filed for marshal of The
court of Topeka on the Repu blican
| ticket. Frank Dreaming has filed for
county attorney.
Democrats Are Active.
With the exception of the position
of judges of the district court, judge
| and clerk of the court of Topeka and
county school superintendent, the
Democrats now have a candidate for
| every county office. Most of them
were nominated at the county Demo-
cratic convention held last week. The
fact that several of the candidates arc
union men and that many union men
attended the convention and were ac-
tive in nominating candidates, has led
to the belief that the labor unions
may back the Democratic ticket at
the coming election.
| Some dopesters have it that the
unions will attempt to nominate the
weakest Republicans at the primaries
! and that, in the event of failure, will
go solidly to the Bourbon standard at
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vote a straight party ticket at the pri-
maries it is thought the union vote for
| the Democrats will not be so large as
will be the case at the election if the
strong Republicans are nominated.
The Lineup.
! The present lineup" now regarded
as practically complete, follows:
| FOR STATE SENATOR X Republicans
! w. +. Schoch. Hugh T. Fisher, o. 5. True
Democrats; N: A. Moore. ,,o,-
publicans: W. f. Anderson. Mrs. Ora L
| Scudder; Democrat: John c. Schroeder.
FOR sHERIFF-Repubhcans Robert
Democrat: Frank semmers.
FOR COUNTY CLERK Republicans
Douglas A. Graham; Elmer A. Robbins;
FOR PROBATE JUDGE-Republican
]. D. NJ. Hamilton, w. G. Ralston; Demo-
FOR County Observation-Disclosures
Or. H. A. Alexander, DIR. II. L. Clark. DR.
A. A. Mcdonald; Democrat; DR.. G. C.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE, 3ard District
Republicans: Il w White L, II; Neis-
FoR REPREsENTETI4E a4th pr District
Republicans A. d. Bauer, Matt Weight
man; Democrat; c; F; Leonard.
--Republicans: c. H. searle: J. J. King,
Lee Hf 6%tST 9sGeSd' N Russs
| Democrat: II. P. Miller.
! FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, Third
| Distriet-Republicans Kenneth Raub
Henry McAfee. Ed Buckman, James c.
| Sinner = Democrat: none.
! FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY-Republie
ans: Rad NJ. Lee, Tinkham VeaIe. Frank
! G. Dreaming: Democrat: Robert NJ. Yates
| FOR COUNTY SSESSOR-Republiean
F F6k FSTe5 SohR IL Rgsh
= ]. A Campbell; Democrat: Delbert Z. Liv-
kingston.
| FOR COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERIN-
TENDENT-Repubican Josiah Jordan
| Democrat: None.
! FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS-Republic-
! an: Oran Layton Democrat: Otto L. Rain.
FOR COUNTY TREASU RER-Republic-
an: Tom Boyd; Democrat: ]. W, Bell.
| FOR MARSHAL COURT OF TOPEKA
Republicans: Tom ]. Hurley. Walter II.
White. Charles w. Hixon, Mike Morrisey