The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-31
BIG BATTLE OF
BALLOTS WILL
BEGIN TUESDAY
Kansas To Go Into Primary
With Blaze of Fire.
Campaign Is Most MuddIed in
History of State.
FRACTIONAL LINES REMOVED
Everyone Is Claiming Every
thing in Tuesdays Voting.
Dope Sheet as Puzzling as
Chinese Laundry Slip.
Campaign Is Most MuddIed in
History of State.
FACTIONAL LINES REMOVED
Everyone Is Claiming Every
thing in Tuesdays Voting.
BY A. L. SHULTZ.

% "A. L. Sf1OL1H-
Kansas is going into her eighth
state wide primary in a blaze of red
! fire and cloud of blue smoke. A bab-
BILE of claims, volley of sensational
charges and a final broadside of ora
tory tonight will mark the finish.
Then the third voter will go to bed and
dream to do his durndest with his bal
/ lot in Tuesdays voting.
Never IN the history of the state has
a campaign been so muddled. Never
! have established factional lines been
so thoroly obliterated. Never have re-
suits been so gravely in doubt.
Weeks of labored, tedious effort by
the candidates have suddenly ended in
/ a big row and smash in which almost
J every candidate for state office is con-
cerned. From the governorship
down to minor state offices there is
newly developed hostility that threat
| ems to take all elements of lady like
politics out of Tuesdays battle of bal
lots.
Dope Sheet Is Puzzling.
With a dope sheet that is as puzzling
as a Chinese laundry slip, the voters
and candidates have been thrown into
disturbance. Stubbs headquarters
started a lot of the trouble. Their
/ outburst came in the form of a page
advertisement of names of prominent
men and women who, it was claimed,
were supporting the former governor.
The list looked like choice selec-
| tions from the state political directory.
| On its face it carried a lot of weight.
But with only two days in which to go
on record, persons claimed for the
! Stubbs cause have burned up the tele-
| phone and telegraph wires repudiating
| the StubbS claim Many wires were
sent TO Lambertson and Morgan head
quarters in Topeka asserting that al
legged signers of the endorsement were
for other candidates.
Right on thes heels Of. the sensa-
tional play of the Stubbs orsanlzation n
for votes was a free and untrammeled
heaving of bricks regarding the tax
league support. Saturday j. M kess-
Ter of Topeka endorsed Knapp. 1t
was merely Kessler's personal en-
{ dorsement. But it was yelled in such
a manner as to indicate that the
league was behind the Salina man.
No Action by Tax League. |
Now messages are coming into
Lambertson headquarters to the et-
feet that many local leagues are for
the state league has not taken action.
On the strength of the kessler state
ment kilograms were received IN 10
peka today to the effect that the
Franklin county league had endorsed
Knapp.
AS tho there was not enough trou-
BILE in the tired old world, Emmett d.
George exploded some T. n. I. under
I the Dig DOWN east INSURANCE SO1P PNAG~-
! tions. George, who is running for Su-
perintendent of insurance, as one OF
the very interested buC sometimes
downtrodden policy holders, has
! charged that the nomination is being
! commercialized. He has given out an
| interview that hundreds of thousands
! of pieces of literature have been
mailed. in the interests of Baker and
Herrick and that the campaign sup
/ port was paid for by the insurance in
terests. Herrick today made strenu-
| Gus denial of the charge.
! George Stirs Up Trouble.
| George has stirred up a lot of hos
tility among the old line insurance
agents But he has also caused a con-
siderable number of policy holders to
stop. look and listen. And Georges
| of the bursts of blue flames in the
| closing hours of the primary fight
Many New Ones in Race.
More men unfamiliar with state poll
tics and the old lines are in races for
office or managing campaigns than
ever before in the hard fought con-
tests for nominations. That situation
plus the development OF new issues
and the drawing of new lines in the
primary results a mere speculation and
! guess.
{ Voting in the larger towns and
cities will begin at o'clock, Tuesday
morning and will continue until
o'clock in the evening. In the rural
districts and smaller towns the polling
places will not open until in the
morning and will close at in the
evening.
/ Returns will come late. The ballot
/ is the heaviest the voters have ever
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