The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP
What Is Being Done at Re-
publican Headquarters.
Speakers Chart Is in Place With
% Names.
BECK WELL PLEASED.
Says There Is No Indication OF
Republican Apathy.
Vast Quantities Of Campaign
Literature on Hand.
BECK WELL PLEASED.


The big speakers chart of the Re-
publican state central committee has
been put in place, and the managers
OF the campaign can now tell at
glance Just where every speaker is
supposed to he on any given date.
The chart is so arranged that there
Is a space for each day between now
and election. following the name of
each speaker. As fast as a speaker is
assigned to his dates. IT is recorded
on the chart The chart takes the
entire side of one of the rooms used
by the state committee.
The following is the list of speak
ers whose services have been ten
dered to the state committee, and
whose names are on the chart:
j. l.. Bristow, w. r. Stubs, Charles
Curtis. Chester I. Long, e. w. Hoch,
D. r. Anthony. Charles scott, p P.
Campbell, J. NJ. Miller. w. A. Calder
head. w. A. Reeder. f, TT. Madison,
Victor Murdoch. r. S. Jackson, T. A.
McNeal, w. J. Fitzgerald, John S.
Dawson, F. It. Fairchild, Charles
Barnes, A. NJ. Harvey, Clad Hamilton.
Robert Stone. L. S. Guyer, Henry
Allen and II. Ct. Larimer.
This list includes all the state Off
GERS who have any spell-binding
proclivities. but does not include many
''unknowns." The state committee
will not attempt to bill local cele-
campaign orators must be taken care
of by the local county committees.
The big guns only will be handled
from state headquarters. This is
because the state committee has no
railway passes, and can't afford to
a
did The orator must be winner in
order to get a place on the list.
The work of sending cut the speak
ers IS being handled largely by
Charles Gibbs. under the direction of
Chairman DolIey. There are so many
hard for the committee to supply
even the most important calls. The
demand is too heavy for the supply,
and all the counties want BristOw,
Stubs, Hoch and other star attrac
tions.
"There is no indication" says
William Beck, secretary of the com
mittee "of any lack of interest in
the campaign, if the call for speakers
Is any indication. We have fine list
of speakers. but it is plain that we
are not going to be able to fill every
application. The stories about lack
of interest don't wash with those of
us who are around headquarters. and
know what the people are saying and
doing. We receive from 40 to so
letters every day from Republicans
who are not committeeman, who want
speakers or literature. We are send
ing everything we can, but the de-
mand continues"
In the big work room at Re
publican headquarters. there are huge
packing boxes filled with campaign
literature from the national COM
mittee. Thousands upon thousands
OF copies of the Republican national
platform. published in a neat little
pamphlet of Is pages. are there for
distribution The state Republican
platform is also being distributed in
vast quantities. Some of the other
campaign circulars and leaflets are
as follows:
"Christian Missions and Civiliza-
ton" by VIM. H. Taft.
"Roosevelt's Endorsement of Taft
NEGRO Disfranchisement the
Democratic Purpose"
The Republican Party and La
Dor"
"Bristow on Bryan's Speech"
In his independence speech Con-
gresham Campbell took occasion to
fay his maligners in the matter of the
Uncle Sam Oil company case. Mr..
Campbell was drawn into this mat
ter by the allegations of the Demo-
effect that he had been mixed up in
some manner with David w Null
vane in the postoffice fraud order
against the oil company. He de-
clared that these reports grew solely
out of the fact that by request he
mentioned a number of attorneys to
Secretary Tucker of the company and
the latter chose Mr.. Mulvane from the
list
J. W. Blood, secretary of the Sedg-
wick Republican central committee
arrived in Topeka last evening on his
mission of righting the wrongs done
the city of Wichita by Chairman Dol
ley in the selection of Topeka over the
Peerless Princess a place OF the big
TAFT meeting for Kansas. The man
from Wichita with the sinister name
was received at the state headquarters
as a long lost brother and he soon
succumbed to the genial atmosphere
of the committee rooms. He trans
ferred his artillery from his clothes tc
his grip and smoked the pipe of peace
with the headquarters boys The
reasons advanced by Mr.. Dolley in Sc
lecting Topeka as a Taft rendezvous
were logical and appealed to the good
sense of the Wichita visitor who went
away satisfied with Sherman and g
few other choice selections from the
dazzling array of talent booked fol