The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-08

ton suffered from q feeling among the
Democrats that that city was Too
near Wall street and too close to Tam
many hail.
All of the cities making claims fol-
the convention will be given a hearing
and it will be late in the day before a
city IS chosen.
Many Favor june Is.
Many of the members favored June
IS as the convention date. The prob
abilities are that the COMMITTEES will
dispose of the primary question by
adopting a s'permissiVe primary plan, -
whereby states having primary laws
may select delegates in that manner.
Tt is also proposed that state com nit
tees shall be given power to direct that
primaries be held in states that desire
to raise the necessary money. No at
tempt to make primaries mandatory
will succeed in the committee. Speaker
Champ Clark on his way to the capt.
tol today stopped at the hotel where
the committee is meeting and paid his
respects to many old friends.
Some doubt existed today as to just
what disposition the committee would
ma Ike of the GU estion of convention ar
rangements- The whole matter may
be left in the hands of Chairman Nor
man E. Mack. or it may be turned
over to subcommittee, which it was
said would be headed by Roger Sui
Ivan of Illinois. Tom Taggart of In
diana would be a member Of such a
subcommittee.
The eantests from Pennsylvania and
Tennessee were expected to occupy
the oTnmfttee's attention for several
hours and to take precedence over all
the sitting members, Mr.. Guffey from
Pennsylvania and r. E. T.. Mountcastle
of Tennessee would be sustained.
Wilson Opens Headquarters.
W. F. McCombs of New York, head
and front OF the woodrow Wilson or
r,Trr TO-
He declared this evening that the VIII
son forces have no intention Of moving
for the abFogation of the traditional
tWo-thIrds rule. He processes conf
dence that Wilson will have a ma ioritv
of the delegates at the outset, and says
he will rest on the precedent that with
but a single exception, the candidate
Who has entered a Democratic national
convention with a majority of the dele
gates eventually has landed the NOM
inatIon- It should be said parenthet-
ically. that outsiders do NOT concede
that Wilson viii enter with a majority
1t is declared the WfIsonftes have no
policies which they will try to force
upon the national committee A CON
terence of their own on Monday and
Tuesday Will bring together about 40
of the leaders of the movement from
various states. Notes will be comnared
and methods for pushing the organize
ton work still farther will be dis
cuSsed-
Mr. McComb declares he is well sat
lsfled with the situation and that he is
aoe worrying about schemes known to
pc afoot to detFact from the force of
the wilson BOOM Among other things
e - expected soma ancient letters VIII
pc sprung, perhaps tomorrow. evidence /
r1g criticism of Bryan by the Princeton,
educator and also showing an opinion
ADVERSE to Wilson by the late Grover
Cleveland
Opposition to Harmon.
The Harmon boom also is encounter
ng snass- Experts on Ohio conditions
lecl4re tnat the 1nsurgent opposition TO
4 arnon at home is much more serious
nan the fnsurgent Republican move |
nent against Taft in the state Doubt !
5 expressed as to Harmon's ability to t
master solid delegation from Ohio to |
he national convention.
Bryan is at the bottom Of the Har-
non trouble at home. He has been !
1ooding the state with pap7nI7Ia+s -
1gned to excite prejudice among his
PERSONAL followers. who are strong IN
3uckeyedonn- Apart from this the [
FORCES nave more or less Sc
ious complications on their hands
sroWlng out of the last senatorial cleo
ION, and, in addition, it is commended
nat Governor Harmon has developed
n afraid of-himself character which
nay be a handicap. He is declared to
'e IeafIul or expressing himself on
Luest1ons upon which he ought to |
peak.
Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall. 1T
s conceded, will control the New York
delegation and his intimates in politics
low understand that, while he plans
lie VIII have New York candidate for
he presidential nomination
New York to Back Gaynor,
1t VIII not be Governor Dix, either.
Is at one time expected. but Mavor
Iaynor, who, the Tammany band of I
'trateglsts think, may be something
more formidable than a trading horse I
n view OF the complications that are /
bling up SO conspicuousIy. Judge Cav /
lor has treated the Tammanv organ
1allon Wen IN patronage matters as
although he has forced the
eaders to present strong men for his
'avor.
Another interesting New York side
tight IS the vice presidential candidacy
If Herman Rider editor of the
Stats Zeitung. Mr.. Rider Is here
n double capacity-as treasurer of
he national committee and a sswillfn'
performer" in the matter of compIet-
ng the national ticket. Booms for
he vice presidency in advance of the
ettlement of the first place on the
lcket are infrequent, but this is the
exceptional year. Harmon and Rid
err is one of the com binations that is
eing exploited.
As the political cauIdron approaches
he boiling point more and more inter
1T eenters in Colonel Bryan. Nobody
nows exactly what he may do or at
smpt to do, but there is a disposition
, take it for granted that he viii ere
te trouble of some sort. If the Ne
raskan merely comes and permits his
road smile to illuminate the concIave
will be the greatest surprise he ever
erpetrated ~
1nasmueh as so many Democrats
ave hoped to start their campaign
lth great harmony, 1t IS discouragin
nave SHADOW cast by Bryan in ad-
ition to the rows that are scheduled
yer the pennsylvania and Tennessee