The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-04
FINAL APPEALS
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cent may be expected, according to
/ conservative estimates.
| Two years ago the Republicans and
Democrats polled $4,000 votes. 1t is
likely that a vote of 100000 to 49,
900 will tell the story this year. Re
cords for the state show that an of
year election results in a decrease in
the totafvote. In spite of the ancient
dope book. tho, there has been an
enormous registration in many of the
larger towns and cities where the
heavy labor vote is expected. This
fact is claimed as an indication of sue
cess by the Democrats.
To Use Double Boards.
/ Returns from Tuesdays election will
come earlier than in the primaries.
Use of the double election board sys-
tenn in the towns and cities as well as
in some of the larger rural districts,
will give the state an early indication
as the course of the voting. Count
| ing of the ballots will begin at 10
o'clock Tuesday morning. When the
polls close at night it is probable that
half of the votes in some of the dis
tricts will be counted.
News of the election will be gather
ed quickly from every section of the
state this year. Every county in the
state has been organized for reporting
of results and these returns will be sent
to central distributing points as soon
as precinct counts are completed.
The bulletins will be flashed to The
State Journal over Associated Press
and SPECIAL wires and bulletined as
soon as received.
Prohibition Is Missouri Issue.
CBy the Associated Press.)
st. Louis. Nov. AIS the Missouri
political observers declare the sena-
torial race between U. S. Senator
James A. Reed, Democrat, and r. r.
Brewster, Republican, will be marked
by OBJECTIONS on both tickets.
A Roodly number of wet Republi-
cans, they say, Will swing to Reed,
while Brewster will receive the sup
port of large number of dry DEM
ocrats, and Democrats who are dis
satisfied with Reed because of his op-
position to former President Wilson.
The prohibition question seems to
have overshadewed all other issues in
the campaign. Reed has declared him
self in favor of modifying the Volstead
law, while Brewster has declared he
would never vote to modify it. Both
candidates, particularly Reed, have
denounced the Ku Klux Khan and
Brewster has been vehement in his
denunciation of the Herrin mine kill
ings.
Bitter Fight In Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 4:-The cleo
ton campaign draws to a close in Ok
1ahomA with the race for the gov
ernorhip between B. J. Walton, DEM
ocrat, and John Fields, Republican,
virtually obscuring the contests for
other state offices and for congress
sional seats. The campaign has been
the most bitter waged since statehood. |
Walton, mayor of Oklahoma City, has
made his appeal to the farmers, the
union worker, former soldiers and to
the Independent oil and banking in
terests, whom he promises a square |
DEAL" charging that Fields is allied |
with the bankers ring" the Standard |
oil and the Dutch-shen oil interests. |
which he claims have control of the |
state. His program embraces a state |
soldiers bonus. with a proposal for
payment of $50 a month.
Fields. editor of a farm paper owned |
by Senator Capper OF Kansas, has |
made an open appeal for Democratic /
votes, declaring that the election OF
Walton Swould mean the turning over
of the state to socialists and radicals,
whose program would bring disaster.
Keen Race In New York.
New York, Nov 4.-The keen race
between Governor Nathan L. Miller,
who is seeking reelection on the Re-
publican ticket. and Former Gov
ernor Alfred z. Smith, his Democratic
opponent. overshadows all other con-
tests in the November elections in the |
Empire State from the point of popu-
lar interest
Calder, for reelection to the United
States senate on the Republican
ticket, and Health Commissioner Roy
al S. Copeland of New York, the Dem
ocratic nominee, is SLOW in comparison
to the pace set in the Miller-Smith
encounter.
The struggle between Governor Mil
Ter and Mr.. Smith is continuation of |
the contest two years ago. when the
governor was swept into office on the
Republican presidential landslide,
over Mr.. Smith
In the last two years the governor
has made, in the eyes of his friends /
and the Republican press, the best |
chief executive the state has ever had.
He is being put forward by his friends
asA possible candidate for president
two years hence
Blank Ballot in Texas.
' Dallas. Nov. 4-Texas voters will |
go to the polls Tuesday to select |
among other publiG. officials a United
States senator to succeed Charles A.
be handed them. from present indi-
cations, will be minus the name of a
candidate for that office
The name of George z. B. Peddy,
Independent Democrat and Repubh-
can endorsed nominee. is barred from
the ballot because he was not NOM
mated by the Republicans at regular
party convention as provided by law;
and the name of Earle B. Mayfield,
victor in the Democratic primary, is
being kept off by a series of injunc-
tons brought on the grounds of al
legged excessive campaign expenditures
on his part.
So it appears that voters will have
to resort 10 the expedient, probably
unprecedented of writin gthe name
Of their choice- for senator on the