The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-25
BRYAN MEETING.
1t May Yet Be Held at the Auditorium
Bryan to Decide.

1t is now up to Mr.. Bryan-to use
slang, but expressive phrase.
| Whether the Bryan rally shall be
| held at the fair grounds or the audi
! torium on the evening of Thursday the
| 27th, has been left to the speaker
himself. A telegram was sent to the
national Democratic headquarters at
| Chicago, offering the choice of both
places and the answer stating the de-
cision which will govern the local en-
| tertainment committee is expected late
today.
Mr.. Bryan left Indianapolis for his
home in Lincoln today and will prob
| ably arrive in Topeka from Lincoln
sometime in the afternoon of Thurs
| day.
THE exact time is something that
not even a wise man could guess -
said John H. Atwood, who is head of
the national speakers bureau and
which has in charge his ARRANGEMENTS
| for the political addresses that he will
make from now until November.
The telegram wired is the outcome
of a truce between the local forces of
the party which have been warning
since the meeting of the county CEN
trail committee about a week since.
Frank Thomas, chairman of the
| committee. who won his place despite
a determined fight made against him
led by w. H. Kemper, Mike Heery
and several others and Kemper clash
ed at this time. When it came to
ma king the arrangements for the Bry-
an meeting, the chairman of the coun-
ty central committee was ignored and
the result was another fight reopened
with a vigor that stirred up the party
to its depths.
Kemper and several others picked
the fair grounds as a suitable place
fn aS1y iTro m to- Alrax
but opposition developed Immediately
and the auditorium was offered by
Frank Thomas and others as the only
place that could be considered.
Thomas who bluntly stated that
Kemped had "butted in without lav-
was threatened with a suit for Islander
by Kemper Monday afternoon because
Thomas had made uncomplimentary
remarks about Kemper's arrangements,
in the newspapers.
did you make that statement in the
State Journal?" asked Kemper OF
Thomas.
II certainly did, every word of it,
said Thomas.
We'll, if you make another state
ment of that kind 1 will sue you,'
threatened Kemper.
/ go ahead and sue. You can't get
/ anything out of me on that, that's moi
! SANDER, 1 simply quoted what the Law
| was. II you go up. TO the county at
| torney with that he will laugh at you,
| said Thomas.
| Not wishing to have a local fight or
| when Bryan arrived an effort was made
| to patch up peace between the two
| factions. A meeting was arranged fol
| on Monday afternoon to talk thing:
| over and at that time Kemper approx
| ed the suggestion that Thomas be.
made a member of the reception com
mittee and that it be increased from
| five members to ten with an equal di.
vision of members. Thomas refused t.
| have a place on the committee.
| You have not one representative
| from the country districts on that
committee and yet you have twenty
| precincts in the country" Thomas Is
/ reported to have said.
!, You will have to appoint five men,
| bers, with equal power with those that
are now on the committee and the
country shall be represented" con-
| tinued Thomas.
Kemper and his forces consented and
| the following were suggested by Thorn
| as and his supporters: Dan Marker
Soldier: j. W. Cochran, Menoken: S.
| T Cromwell, George Hanley and Abe
| Steinberg, the latter three being from
the city Added to these is the original
Kemper committee of G. E. Barnaby,
Dr. F. H. Scholle, George Gliesnner,
! H Kemper remains as chairman of
| the reception committee.
well 1 have won out twice now, on
| the craftsmanship and on this matter OF
| a committee and 1 am not making a
| fight further. 1 am ready to make
truce and patch up differences" said