The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-13
NO CONVENTION.
No Probability That the Re
publican Committee
Will Call One When It Meets
Tonight.
CHOKE OFF KICKERS
Is the Idea of the Committee
Members.
CHOKE OFF KICKERS
a Convention Would Let Them
Air Their Grievances.

The Republican state central commit
tee will meet at the Copeland at o'clock
tonight
Up to noon about a dozen of the
thirty-five mem.oers of the committee
had arrived and about twenty more came
in OH the afternoon trains.
What promised to be a very lively
meeting will be a one-sided affair, the
contest for q state convention by the
anti administration crowd dwindling
down to a mild kick by a few members
of the committee who failed to get
offices. There is no probability that
convention will be called. The senti-
ment of a large majority of the commit
tee present and those heard from being
against the scheme
Secretary Bristow said today that he
had heard from nearly all of the mem
bers and that there would be at least
twenty-five present. 4Ie said very few
of the mem bers would favor conven-
tion.
One OF the first members to arrive was
W. S. Kenyon OF Hodgeman county. He
sold to reporter for the STATE JOURNAL
that the Republicans OF western Kansas
opposed the calling of a convention. SIT
would simply open the way for wran-
gle over the prohibition question" hs
said, sand that the party cannot afford at
this time. Prohibition is a bigger issue
now than it has been for ten years, and
il a state convention is called, that ele-
ment in the party will force a prohibit
ton platform. We of the west would
be willing to measure swords on the
money question, but we do not want
row over prohibition. A state conven-
ton is not generally demanded, and it
would do the party more harm than
good"
A number of other members of the
committee expressed themselves as op.
posed to a convention on the ground that
it would give all the kickers d chance to
come to Topeka and air their
grievances against the administra-
expressed himself in little
knot of statesmen today, as follows: at
is ridiculous to talk about holding a state
convention to nominate candidate for
chief Justice, who has already been nom
mated by the people without regard to
party, Call convention here and it
would be made up of Prohibitionists, led
by Rev. Don Colt, who has made SO
much trouble in Wichita; Webster of
Fort Scott, and others, who led the fight
on the prohibition question at the Fourth
of July convention. Then such kickers
as Marsh Murdock of Wichita and Dan
Anthony of Leavenworth would break
in and take the other horn of the dilem-
ma. Any sensible Republican can see
that a conveation would open up a fight
that would end disastrously."
OF the dozen members of the commit
tee who want a convention in order TO
get even with Morrill, and Cy., not one
of them is a recognized fig hter. They
have made no effort to six" members
and the result is that Chairman Leland
whether present at the committee meet
ing tonight or not. will run things all the
same. His faithful friend, philosopher
and guide, Lit Crum will be on hand to
see that the Doniphan statesman's wishes
are carried out
Crum was delegated to see and talk
with John J. Ingalls,, ]. r. Burton, Con-
gresham Kirkpatrick, Congressman
Miller, and others, and ascertain their
wishes. Crum has completed his work
and will make his report to the commit
tee tonight He will say that the states
men interviewed do not desire a conven-
tion.
State officers, and local politicians have
spent much of the day about the Cope
land, and the state league has a banner
displayed on the veranda over the en-
trance. Only a few members of the
league are here.
1t is the purpose of the committee to
have blank petitions printed and sent to
the county committees throughout the
state, who will be requested to circulate
same for signatures, and in the course of
two or three weeks. forward these petit
tions to the committee. They will be
headed with printed form requesting
the state central committee to make
David Martin the Republican candidate
for chief justice.