The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-13
anti MULvANE.
Movement in Shawnee County to
Oppose Local Boss.
Would Ask for Pronounced
Anti Delegation.
BAILEY MAY COME IN.
His Friends Talk of Securing a
Test.
BAILEY MAY COME IN.
Preliminary Clash of Burton
Curtis Forces.

There is a movement in Shawnee
county which is primarily intended to
destroy the power of D. w. Mulvane.
The purpose of those who are behind it
is to send a delegation to Wichita which
shall be distinctively anti-Mulvane and
at the same time be for E. w. Hoch
for governor. This would place a dele
cation pledged to Mulvane and Hoch in
the field and also one pledged to Hoeh
but against Mulvane. Whether the
friends of Governor Bailey will take a
hand and ask for a Bailey delegation
from Shawnee county has not yet been
determined.
The revolt in the ranks of the people
who have heretofore voted with Null
vane in his contests with Leland and it
is believed that it is the first indication
of the break between the Curtis and
Burton forces which is sure to come
before the representatives who will
choose a United States senator are elect
ed, which will be in two years.
The revolt against Mulvane is, how
ever, directly traceable to his methods
of handling politics in Shawnee county.
He has an organization which is riding
rough shod over all opposition and
which arranges details beforehands and
simply allows the conventions and pri-
marieS to ratify them. While this pow
| ct mas always DSSu CAOlC1oCO III liz III
terests of Mr.. Curtis up to this time,
the other Curtis managers know that 1t
will not be long until the power will be
used against Curtis and for the re-elec-
ton of J. r. Burton for United States
senator.
There have been two small meetings
at which the plan to defeat Mr.. Null
vane have been discussed and in a gen
eral way it has been agreed that the
best means to begin the fight is to have
a n nTlnnGiney 6alP0Q finr1 before the Sha
nee county Republican primary, which
will be held on February 27.
The feeling against Mulvane was in
tensified at the meeting of the Repub-
| lican central committee Saturday in
which the right of the people to vote
upon the delegates to the Holton con-
vention was abrogated and the delega-
| ton was selected by the committee
without the formality of primary.
/ When Mr. Mulvane saw that there
would be little or no opposition to the
! plan in the committee he proposed that
the committee might as we'll go farther
and select the delegation to the state
| convention He argued that he is the
| only candidate for national committee
man from Shawnee county and no
harm could come of allowing him to
name the delegation.
Then the followers of Curtis became
alarmed and protested and in the end
Mr. Mulvane gave up his high handed
plan of procedure and a primary for
/ the election of state delegates will be
held.
There has also been another element
/ which is opposed to Mr.. Mulvane, the
radical prohibition wing of the party
in Shawnee county for he has always
1 favored the liberal element in the pri-
| rnaries. The opposition would there
fore count upon the support of this ele-
ment in organizing the fight on Null
vane
The defeat Of Mr. Mulvane in Shaw
nee county would naturally mean hi:
defeat for national committeeman. anC
this would not be distasteful to the Lee
land Supporters or the friends of Nor
ton A1baugh. 1t would also mean tn,