The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02

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off a bolt in the convention Allen
wanted to agree on a Wyandotte man
for chairman, Offering to take any fair
man on the Wyandotte delegation, and
leave the decision of the contests to the
credentials committee on the merits OF
the respective cases. This was accept
able to McGrew but not to the Bower
sock forces.
Bowersock, at the suggestion of w,
h Stubbs, offered to seat the Allen dele
cation from Miami county, if Allen
would allow the Bowersock delegations
from Johnson and Anderson counties to
be seated. Allen objected to anything
winch threw out his delegation from
Johnson county.
The credentials of my delgation,' he
said to State Journal reporter, "are
signed by los of the 212 delegates who
were IN the county convention, so that
a majority of that convention were for
my men. In addition l have affidavits
from about rs Bowersock men in john
son county saying that the version of
that convention as set forth by my
friends is the correct one. believe my
delegation from Johnson county is the
rlghtful one, and consequently I will
not consent to unSeating them.
McGrew's proposition was for each
candidate to select representative and
allow these three representatives to fix
up an agreement, the candidates them
selves keeping out of it.
II made that proposition to both
Bowersock and Allen Monday night,
said Mr.. McGrew. Mr. Allen said he
would agree to it, but Bowersock
wouldn't. l hope we may get together
in some way that will avoid a split
convention. l don't want the nominal
ton unless can get it from the whole
convention and unless l can get 1t
Squarely. A split would be suicidal to
the Republicans in this district. 1t
would not only let in a Democratic
congressman in this district, but it
would also hurt Hoch and the state
ticket
Clyde Miller, secretary of the anti
machine league is here, and it is said
that he is secretly urging that the NOM
ination of Allen would be in the in
terest of harmony.
W. R. Stubs asserts that what he
wants is fairness both in congressional
and state conventions.
at told Mr.. Bowersock," he said,
'tthat we can afford to be defeated but
not disgraced. We can't afford to do
anything that isn't fair, just because
we have the power. I believe Bower
sock won Johnson and Anderson coun-
ties and his delegations in those coun-
ties should be seated, but am not so
sure about Miami.
st urged the same kind of fairness at
our anti-machine conference at Topeka
Monday night. The machine men have
been turned out of power just because
they used their power unjustly. and we
can't afford to do that. We will have
power in the Wichita convention to dc
most anything we want to, but I am
urging that we can't afford to do any
thing but what is fair. The contests
between the various delegations should
be settled on their merits exclusively
Whenever the machine men have gone
outside the law, I Will favor throwing
them out, but if they have the law on
their side they ought to be seated"
T. T. Kelly is here doing all he car
in opposition to H. j. Allen. and in
cfdentally helping himself wherever
possible.
/ George w. Wheatley and A. d. Walk
er, candidates for reelection as rail-
road commissioners, and J. g. Sion
ecker, candidate for supreme justice
are also here to make hay, but the
congressional fight is too absorbing fol-
the delegates to talk of state politics.