The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03
TRIUNE LEADERS.
They Are Here Today to Talk
of Campaign.
Final Arrangements to Carry
Out Fusion Plans.
DEMOCRATS MAY MOVE.
Headquarters May Be Taken to
Kansas City.
Organization of Local Clubs
Will Be Pushed.
Joint Meeting of Committees to
Joint Meeting of Committees to
BE Held This Evening.

Be Held This Evening.
The Populist, Democratic and Silver
Republican state committees, represent
ing the political elements which effected
such harmonious fusion at Fort Scott,
meet in Topeka this afternoon to con-
slider plans for the state campaign; the
opening of headquarters: the selection of
places for such headquarters; plans for
local organizations and whether the var
ious committees shall maintain separate
or join the headquarters.
The arrivals this morning were limited
but the crowd was augmented by the
noon trains, so for the meetings this
afternoon and evening there is a large
representation.
The Democratic state committee voted
at Fort Scott to establish headquarters
in Topeka but J. G. johnson and J.
Mack Love- the national committeeman
and state chairman for Kansas, reSpec-
lively, are now in favor of taking the
headquarters to Kansas City, Kan. This
proposition may be voted down by the
state committee, but Mr.. Love believes
it may be adopted.
There is no doubt about the Populists
and Silver Republicans esta ablishing
their state headquarters in Topeka The
fnd1ca tionS are that these two elements
of the fusion deal will work together in
joint headquarters
The three committees will meet in sep
arate sessions this afternoon, a joint
meeting being held tonight. The routine
business pending before the committees
will be disposed of regularly, then the
joint meeting will take up the general
plans.
The principal plan to be submitted to
the general meeting which will also be
discussed by the PopuIist committee, is
n
clubs, suggested by Taylor Riddle ex-
chairman of the Populist state commit
tee.
Mr.. Riddle believes in the organization
of local clubs and he wants the commit
tees appoint a committee of one from
each congressional district to have gen
eral control of these Organiza tiOnS. Mr..
Riddle suggests that the clubs be organ
lied under the head of Bryan and Breid-
enthal, a plan which will admit to mem
bership, the three parties which are sup
porting Bryan, and such converts from
other parties desire to ally themselves
with John BreidenthaPS campaign for
governor.
THE local campaign organizations. I
have found said Mr.. Riddle today, ''are
very valuable aids in campaign work.
The Democrats have been effecting
local campaign organizations through
the medium of the SunfiOWer club and
local Democratic clubs. but the adoption
of the Riddle plan would serve to merge
and BreidenthaI organizations and abol-
ish the party lines now existing for the
general good. it is claimed, of the fusion
plans.
The conditions which now prevail are
extremely likely to make this a woman's
campaign. 1t is claimed by the Popu-
lists that their scheme TO enlist the wO-
men comes from the hearts of the people
and they assert that the Republican plan
to enlist the women emanates from the
office seekers surrounding the Republi-
can state headquarters.
Whatever may have been the motive
which prompted the plan is not exploit
ed by the Republicans, but Miss Helen
Kimber of Parsons, one of the most ag-
gressive women speakers and campaign
ers in Kansas, has been commissioned
and sent out by the Republican state
committee to organize women's Repub-
lican clubs and however much the
fusionists may disparage the plan, it is
secretly much in favor among them and
there is to be careful consideration
given it at the meetings today. Some
of the leaders have been knocking on
the plan, but the Kansas woman comes
in for a full share of consideration by
the men when there is work to do and
the fusionistS are not exceptions to the
rule by which men are measured the
world over.
pelka Advocate is to be brought before
the Populist committee, too. 1t is rumor-
ed today among some of the Populists
that the subscription list turned over
with the sale of the paper to the new
management is one of one or two years
ago, containing $500 subscribers to the
paper.
1t is said by the Populist committee
members that this list was used in
mailing papers out at the first edition,
but the managers have since learned
that the list is not in excess of 800, so
they are complaining.
The sentiment seems to be not so
warm for an organ" as it was at the
time the deal was consummated and
through the misunderstanding which
now exists, whatever it may be, the deal
may fall through.
webb McNal will not be here today
to act as chairman of the Silver Re
publican state committee because he
has been called to Louisiana on A. o. u.
w. business. He first went to Chicago
and was sent from there to settle a con-
troversy in the Louisiana lodges. D. o.
McCray and D. c. Tillotson will run
the silver end of the meetings today and
tonight
The officers of the new Populist state
committee are as follows:
Chairman-E. r. Ridgley, Pittsburg.
Secretary-J. H. Curran, Parsons.
Treasurer-C. B. Hoffman, Enter
prise.
The officers of the new Democratic
state committee are:
Chairman-J. Mack Love, Arkansas
City.
Secretary-w. H. L. PeppereIl, Con-
cordia-
Treasurer-Frank Thomas, Topeka.
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