The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
Bowersock Story a Fake.

There is nothing to the fake story m
the morning paper about a train load
of machine men coming here from
Montgomery county to boost Congress
man Bowersock of Lawrence as can
d1date for governor at the banquet to-
night. There are only four Montgomery
county people in town today. Judge
Chas. LobdeH of Larned is being urged
to announce for governor, but has not
decided to enter the race. The cause
of the hesitancy on the part of ex-
Governor Stanley and Judge LobdelI to
make the fight is the cost of a guber-
material campaign under the primary
system. 1t will take $4,000 to make the
campaign properly.
1t Is reported on reliable authority
that letters had been written to ma
chine men all over the state this week
urging them to come to the banquet
and stampede the meeting for some op-
ponent to Governor Stubbs. If this was
true the effort came to naught.
w. Y Morgan of Hutchinson. his
torian for the club and one of it's
earliest and staunchest members, is
here today Also W. I. Cunningham of
Arkansas City. Mr.. Cunningham was
one of the leaders of the last Iegis-
lature, and is being urged to run for
railroad commissioner. 1t is believed
that he will enter the race and make
his announcement inside of the next
two weeks. A strong delegation is here
from COWley county.
Those young men who gathered at
the Throop hotel 19 years ago today
and planned these banquets in order to
force recognition from their elders can
look back on the work of their hands
and call it good. Each of these ban
quets has given to the state another
thinker. orator, statesman, or genius
In the MANAGEMENT of affairs Each
banquet has been better and more in
huential than the preceding one. The
old timers who had taken all the profits
and glory and given nothing to the
young workers, repented too late and
offered portion to the younger sons.
But it was too late. The spirit of these
club banquets had Mastered the dawn
and the day came close at its heels,
and only full share can now satisfy
the boys who speak to the state through
this medium.
Every congressional district in the
state is represented here today by young
men, and the older men are here too.
They have to be here if they want to
are over, and Kansas day gatherings
offer the only chance to make medicine.
There has never been banquet so i'm
pcrtant to the candidate as this one
and it is being taken advantage of by
ali of them. The new custom has
been inaugurated this year of reading
the announcements of all candidates
for state and congressional Office after
the regular program of the evening has
been carried out.
Today is official announcement day
for Candidates, and this adds to the
prestige and influence of the Kansas
Day club.
The banquet tonight will be as well
attended as any in the past. The pro-
gram is as good. the interest is still
there. And more important still is the
chance offered to hold a love feast be-
fore the banquet.
Some of the boys who speak tonight
Will take the places OF older club mem
bers now in Washington, or on the
bench of the supreme court, or in the
state house. or other offices of trust and
honor.
This banquet tonight is one of the
fixed and most useful institutions of the
state. The only requisite for member
ship in the club is that the applicant
must be a Republican and pay his dues
of 81 per year Another splendid rule of
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