The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-16

Kansas men circulate, and they are all
over the town, their electioneering for
Captain Coney is met with d universal
response from the rank and file of the
veterans that Kansas demands for the
national commander-in-chiefsh are
well founded and should be recognized
and that no man is better fitted for the
office and more entitled to 1t than Cap
tain Coney
A most active campaign is being
wageu by the Kansas veterans for the
election Of Captain COney They held
a meeting last night in the main head
quarters room on the Hennepin avenue
side Of the Brunswick hotel which was
attended by several hundred veterans
w. w Smith presided and w. w Den
nison acted as secretary This meeting
was held for the purpose of devising
ways and means for the promotion OF
the Coney campaign. There was a full
and free discussion Of the subject
Many men were at this meeting who had
fought Captain COney in various c. A
r.. battles in Kansas and in which they
had been beaten But there We're no
soreheads among them One and all
they got up and expressed their admir-
alton for Captain COney as a fair fight
er and one who looked after his enemies
and friends alike. when the clouds of
battle had rolled away
A curious fact developed at this meet
ing. Most Of the members Of the Kan
sas department of the G. A. R. are men
who fought in the war under the flags
OF other states, men. who after the wa
was over, left their native states and
migrated to Kansas. And this rather
unusual condition Of affairs viii heln
out the COney campaign in great shane
as these men announced their intention
at last nights meeting to work indus
tricusly witt personal solicitation for
the success of Captain COnev an7or0
their friends in the departments of their
native states Such campaign cannot
fail to bear some sort Of fruit
The great argument. the one uybico
has most weight in favor Of the election
of Captain Coney is that Kansas has
never yet had the honor of a nationaf
conmander-in-chief Kansas. the s4ata
which sent more soldiers to the front
tnan II mad voters And as a sort of =
clinching argument to this one is tba
fact that the only two other states
which have candidates in the field. Mis-
Eouri and Ohio, have had this honor
three time each.
Brown, OF Ohio is running for
commander-in-chief for the fourth
time, and his friends are waeine 5,,sr
as vigorous q campaign as is Canfafy,
Coney and his followers. About the
only ones outside of the rival candf-
dates and their friends, who are on
lcf
choice are . few of the Dron7nar'+ =.
A. r. men throughout the conntr,,
who are facetiously referred to as the
"House of Lords" This "FJousa ~
Lords is composed chiefly of the past
national eommanders-in-ch who
try to run things to their own lfxfno o
at all the G. A. r. encamDments an,3
among them who are opposed to Cant
Coney are Louis Wagner of Philada1-
phia, r. r. Beath OF Phi1adelnh5s
A. G. Weissert Of Milwaukee and
Thomas J. Stewart of Norristown. Pa.
It is not believed that the "E4o1,sa os
Lords viii be able to dominate mis-
enca mpment in the way It has some
OF those which have gone before.
Kansas has another candidate for
national c. A. r. honors In this in
stance it is woman, Mrs. Flna r
Dalton, OF Winfield, is a candidate for
lhe presidency OF the ladies of the