The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-05
VOTED With KNIFE
Kansas Didn't Show Any Con-
sideratiOn for Favorites.,
Farmer Constituents Went to
Polls With a Cleaver.
lunches AND TIPS NO GOOD
r.
Voters Ate Up All the Doctrines
for "Nice Things"
Defeat of McCray and George
a Newspaper Loss.
LUNCHES and TIPS NO GOOI
BY A. L. sHULTz.

Now that the storm is over and al
most every one was damaged more or
less. there is a general tendency to
look around and speculate as to Just
how II all happened in Tuesdays pri-
marfes. Folks out in the state were
never so rough in their free and I'M
restrained handling OF political as
pirants. Nor were the general lunches
and tips and dope sheets given so lit
tie consideration.
News which continues to filter in
from the outlying precincts by freight
and barbed wire telephone shows that
the farmer constituents stayed at the
polls with a cleaver. They simply ate
up all the doctrines for nice things.
Every one who had access to null
tfgraph machine and could say Polly
anna things and glare at the demon
corporations was sure to get a big rise
out in the country this year
In the last week of the campaign the
supreme court as body came in for
a general attack by the press and
Anti-Saloon league interests behind
Richard ]. HopkinS's campaign They
sold the farmer vote on the theory
that the supreme court is a bad place
70 look for justice and that the rights
>f the pee-pul are never safe in the
hands of lawyers. The Hopkins or
ganization convinced the voters thai
as a member of the supreme bench IL
would merely be necessary to present
a claim against the owners of bank
account in order to find a ready
champion.
The Hopkins Porter fight which
has resulted in retirement of Justice
eilas Porter was the most bitter scrap
for a supreme court position In the
history of the state. The fact that the
entire state supreme court came in for
condemnation gave color to the sit
uation that was new in state politics.
Stubs Late Strength.
= There wasn't much advance dispute
regarding the winning of w. Y. Nor
l.
contest The fact that W. r. Stubs
came under the wire second rather
upset some of the dope. Yet in the
last week of the campaign there was
a growing feeling that Stubs was the
man who had a real chance to win
over Morgan.
Anti-administration forces which
began centering on Stubs in the final
days of the primary fight made MN
the runner-up. But the Morgan OPP
position was divided and there was
no chance to overtake the Hutchinson
newspaper man.
Speaking of the newspaper situation
in connection with the primary rather
gives an opening for a few new
thoughts. d. o. McCray. for secre-
tary of state. and Emmett D. George,
for superintendent of insurance. went
thru the campaign with the columns
or most Kansas newspapers open to
them. They received thousands OF
dollars worth of free space-in fact.
much space which could not be
Bought for price.
The GeOrgc-McCray Defeat.
= Now look. Both have been smashed
and battered and beaten. Apply your
own idea to the situation.
Then, too. McCray promised to stay
on the job days. nights and Sundays
He also promised to appoint a war
veteran as assistant and put out sew
eral other pledges which looked like
an aid to sound government and an
Assurance of more votes. Frank j.
Ryan. his opponent, merely an
xounced that he had been waiting
many years for this particular job
and inquired kindly just when the
voters expected to deliver. George
was beaten in a packed field of six
an spite of his publicity advantage.
OF course Kansas loves the World
war veteran. But Tuesday was hot
day and most of the voters didn't go
very far to display their enthusiasm.
William d. Baker. a service man. may
win the insurance superintendent
nomination by a hair. But Col. Leigh
hunt. one of the most popular officers
In the Rainbow division. finished a
bad third in the race for the Demo-
crat Sovernorship nomination.
Campbell Defeat n Shock.
Z There was but one congressional
disturbance. But it was a regular
earthquake shock Defeat OF Con-
Rressu1an Phil p. Campbell in the
Third district meant that Kansas Re
pnbiicans yielded thru their own party
urinary the most powerful member or
the national house from this state
Campbell was due for promotion as
chairman of the rules committee to
speakership. He was beaten by w.
H. Sproul. whom Campbell himself
defeated twenty years ago for his first
Congressional nomination.
The Topeka situation worked out
rather true to form. With the eX-
ception of Baker for superintendent
OF insurance and a possible chance for
Justice Judson s. West. Topeka's cam
didate list was annihilated by the
voters.
denomination of Congressman u.
II Anthony by an overwhelming plu-
raiity-in fact a majority over both
cpponentS-was another swat at the
heavy list of Topeka office seekers.
Anthony lost Shawnee county but he
came TO the capital with a big plu
rality in all OF the counties outside
OF Shawnee.
Fact is. Anthony's lead is rather
GeaggerinEly large. 1t will likely dis
courage competition in the First dis
trict for several years