| Show KANSAS POPULISTS INDIGNANT i S Iho Action of the Canvassinsr Board the S CauseS Cause-S TOPEKA Dec BThe Peoples party andS and-S Democrats are highly Indignant over the action of tns stats board of canvassers declaring 5 de-claring that two Republicans are entitled by lot to represent the state in the lower house of the legislature The leaders of tho populists say they will organize the house composed of S S their men and ignore the Republicans Republi-cans and that Gov Lawellyng will recognize recog-nize that body and the populist senate andS and-S let the Republicans crack then whip inS In-S this way they will elect a United States senator who they say will be seated Speaking of the action of tile canvassing S board chairman Brcldenthal says if they L Intend giving fair play why did they drive I 5 us out of the room when tao drawing took S place 1 Their man was represented on the i board ours was not j 3 Official Legislative Count TOPEKA Kan Dec According to the S official count tho political completion of the next legislature on joint ballot is as follows 0 fol-lows Republicans 79 Populists 82 S Democrats 4 Eightythree votes are necessary to elect S California Official Return SACRAMENTO Dec 80fficia returns S have been received from all except Alpine r and San Francisco counties They show that between seven and ten thousand voters in the state refused or neglected to voteS S vote-S for any presidential electors and 30000 failed to vote for any candidate for Congress Con-gress Returns on members of the next legls C r lture show that of 120 votes on senatorial Joint ballot the straight Democrats willS will-S have 59 tho Republicans 52 In addition there are are live Peoples party candidates S S candi-dates who were indorsed by the Democrats S and who are expected to vote with the party whenever necessary making thee the-e total Democratic vote on joint ballot 64 besides S S be-sides two straightout Peoples party assemblymen 1 as-semblymen one Independent and one nonpartisan S non-partisan S A North Carolina Contest Settled S RALEIGH N C Dee 3The contest before S fore the state canvassing board in the Fifth congressional district resulted In favor fa-vor of Settle Republican Williams may contest before the House S |
