The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-22
Topeka GETS ONE
Democrats VIII Be Here to Nom-
mate State Ticket.
Wichita Is Also Favored With
Convention.
FIRST is TO BE APRIL 2
Purpose Is to Select Delegates
to st. Louis.
Hearst Endorsement Is Not Con-
sidered by Committee.

If there had been only one conven-
ton Topeka would have won it. Frank
Thomas, treasurer of the Democratic
state committee which met at the
Throop last night to call the conven-
lions, says the majority of the votes
had been corralled for Topeka, but
when the two-convention idea was
sprung, Colonel Tom Fitch and H. G.
Hagny, who represented Wichita, asked
that Wichita be given one, to which the
Topeka people consented. The conven--
ton to nominate state officers will prob
ably be the larger of the two and To-
peka therefore selected that one to be
held here.
The Democratic committee meeting
last night was exceedingly tame It was
rumored that there would be an at
tempt to stampede the committee for
Hearst for president, but no resolution
of any kind was introduced regarding
the presidential nomination, although
there was a very pronounced Hearst
sentiment among the members of the
committee.
The Democratic state committee is a
! very large one, but every member was
present in person or represented by
| proxy except four. There are members
for each of the thirty-four judicial dis
! trlcts in the state, members for each of
| then several at large and honorary
members thrown in for good measure
The only question over which there
! was much dispute was to the basis
| of representation. and there was really
no very great division on that subject.
| Nobody knew exactly how many votes
| the Democratic candidates poIled two
years ago, and finally Colonel 'BiIl''
Sapp of Galena, who was, of course
son hand with his plug hat, moved A
recess While some one found out how
many Democratic votes We're cast in
1902 so that the basis of representation
could be fixed definitely and the COM
mittee' know about what it was doing.
1t was desired that the convention
should contain about 700 delegates, and
to get this number approximately the
basis of representation was made one
| delegate for each 200 votes or major
| fraction thereof cast for Craddock for
governor, and one delegate at-large
! for each county.
The convention at Wichita in addi-s
ton to electing the delegation to the
national convention, will also probably
name the national committeeman, and
that is where there will be fight.
Taylor Riddle, a member of the Pop
ulist state committee, and Judge Frank
Doster were present in the meeting but
simply as spectators, although both are
now counted largely as Populists.
A movement was set on foot last.
night, at the instigation of E E. Muir
/
cratic organization to hold an annual
banquet such as the Republicans hold
| on Kansas Day. Murphy gave credit
| for much of the success of the Republi-
cans to the inspiration which they
4 gained from their Kansas Day ban
DUETS. Chairman Hugh F'arrelly WAS
instructed to appoint committee of
one from each congressional district
| to make arrangements for such an or
| ganization and report to the committee
at the time of the convention in Wich-
| ita.
The treasury of the state committee
came through the last campaign and
had $26.13, which w. H. L. PepDerell of
committee, pointed to as something
remarka BILE. The committee spent in
the last campaign, according to the
report of the committee, about $2,700.
IF that is all the money we had to
spend, it is no wonder we were beaten
by $4,000 majority" remarked ''BilI'
Sapp.
Secretary Charles McCrum was in
structed to go ahead with the work
of organization and getting into touch
with all the Democratic workers in
each precinct of the state as far as
possible. There will be some expense
attached to this, and each member of
the committee was assessed $40. Frank
Thomas first suggested that it was
customary to assess each member of
the committee $25, but w. H. L. Pep
perell objected to that. He said the
| present committee has been assessed
once at that figure, and no new assess
ment ought to be made at SIS until
new committee is elected. The amount
was finally reduced to SO.
Among the spectators at the meeting
last night was Senator Harry Mcmillan
of Ottawa county, who has an embry-
otto gubernatorial boom on his hands.
He is not an active candidate how
| ever, at present.
Ed Hoch in the Marion Record:
The three temptations to which Jesus
was subjected, recounted in last Sun
days Sabbath school lesson, covered in
| their three-foId character every posi-
| BILE temptation to which human beings
may be subjected, and clearly interpret
the words of Paul: HE was tempted
in all points as we are and because OF
this experience is touched with a feel
ing of our infirmities." Why is not
every human being in his relation to
others, touched in like manner? Surely
our experiences are in common. Why
shouldn't our charity and sympathy be
in accord with our natures and needs,
and IN harmony with the example of our
\ great Exemplar?
Mr.. Hoch did not make himself en-
tirely clear in the above. In the Sunday
school lesson it is told how Satan took
Christ up into a high mountain and
showed him all the world and offered
q to give it to him If he would fall down
Hoch's situation He was taken in
charge by the Burton managers and
offered all the world but unlike Christ
he failed to Withstand the temptation
might be traced indirectly to the flood
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