The Topeka state journal., 1908-10-13

senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana
IS SICK, and may be unable to nil MS
hansas and Oklahoma dates next Fri
gay. saturday and Monday Senator
beVeridge. at last reports, was In hos
pital in Nevada.
Before the dispatch came announcing
the sickness of Beveridge, Chairman
Di1on or the Republican speakers Du-
Ieau IN Chicago had wired the state
committee that Mr.. Beveridge would
nave to speak at Salina Friday morn
ing at 8 o'clock.
Mr.. Dixon said that ''the best he can
DO was to have Mr.. Beveridge at Sa-
hna at O'Clock for 45-minute speech,
give MCPHERSON 10 minutes, Hutchin-
son and Enid an hour each, and Okla
noma the night meeting Mr. Bever-
idge Will spend Saturday and Sunday
in Oklahoma. He will be in Kansas
again on Monday, speaking at Coffey-
vile at a. m. and at Springfield, MO,
at p. m He speaks at Kansas city
that night
Chairman Dolley is trying to get tn
national committee to change this plan
and make the Salina meeting later in
the day
What we want to arrange is to make
the Salina meeting one of the big meet
fngs of the campaign" said Mr.. Dolley.
1--WE can't do this If Beveridge has to
speak there at o'clock in the morn
ing"
The Pleasanton Herald, a Re-
publican paper published by j: T.
Latimer, reads the riot act to the Re-
publican state central committee In
its last issue for sending out through
its press bureau the story about Cy
Leland working in partnership with
Jerry Botkin to beat Stubbs. Leland
has never denied this story. but the
Pleasanton Herald says that 1t is being
circulated for the purpose of hitting
Leland over the head when he is
down. Latimer. was a Leland man IN
the primary, and supporter of the
"machine.'' He thinks that the pres
ent management of the Republican
state committee is "again" the ola
machine. Mr. Latimer says: 1T
time the bosses at Topeka get down
to business and recognize the fact that
to win this fall there must be unity
in the party. and it can not be secured
by calling Leland, his supporters and
others who were not Stubbs' reform
ers, rank traitors. It's time to
obliterate factions in the Republican
party and work unitedly for the entire
ticket, national and state.
The attitude of the Democrats on
the prohibition question is beginning
| to attract attention, and will prob
ably come in for consideration at the
state meeting of the State Temperance
union today It appears that the
Democrats want to avoid going on
record on the subject, and have re-
fused to allow Mr. Botkin to appear
before the State Temperance union
and declare himself.
The state central committee, it Is
said, has received word that at least
one of the big wholesale liquor houses
in Kansas City. which supplies the
Kansas trade, is writing letters to its
Kansas patrons and friends urging
them to support the Democratic ticket
This particular firm, through its
travelling agents, says that the Demo-
Gratis have agreed to let each county
run it's liquor business in any way 1t
sees fit. That is exactly what the liquor
| interests want.
Atchison Globe: B. p. Waggener
says DR.. Charley johnson last night
advised him to have an operation per-
formed for appendicitis; that that is
the only way out, Mr.. Waggener says
the books say that no man over As
ever had appendicitis. He Is 81.