The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-22
Expected to Be Event of Pri-
mary Campaign.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITES Pen
He Is Writing a Serial on Cur
tbs and LOrimer.
Peter Pyle Writes Another
Letter to Capper.

Hutchinson win tonight be the scene
of the first really big political pow
WOW of the primary campaign and
everything on the bill of fare bears the
progressive Republican trade mark and
has been guaranteed under the pure
food and drug act. A half dozen ex-
cursion trains will carry the workers
to Hutchinson from every section CT
the Seventh district and every reform
spellbinder who has an open speaking
date win be displayed at tonight $
meeting.
Governor Stubs will be the feature
attraction at the Hutchinson oratorical
show. But Stubs is not the only factor
in the tapping of a four foot vein of
campaign pleas and promises. Not
less than 10 speakers have been billed
for the Reno county affair and 1t is
believed that the crowd which will at
tend tonight's meeting will be one of
the largest that has reported for a
political meeting in the Big Seventh
in many years. The Seventh will it
self contribute orators for the occasion
and almost every other section Of the
state will have some favorite son who
will be allotted place on the program
Six Special Trains.
Some six or seven special trains,
leaving Hutchinson at the conclusion of
the meeting, will be run by the roads
entering the town. These trains are
expected to bring a big crowd from
every section of the district and an
ncuncement has been made that the
attendance from towns outside the
seventh, will be heavy. At Roosevelt
headquarters today, Earl Akers stated
that the Hutchinson meeting would
without question be the biggest event
staged by the Kansas progressives be-
fore the August primaries.
Among the speakers who have been
q -
nor W. r. Stubs, Congressman Fred
s. Jackson, of the Fourth district
Congressman Victor Murdoch, of the
Eighth district; Samuel E. Griffin, of
Medicine Lodge, candidate for Attor-
ney General, Sheffield ingalls,, of Atchi-
son, candidate for lieutenant governor,
Richard L. Hopkins, of Garden City,
candidate for congress from the
Seventh, Earl Akers, of Stafford, can
didate for state treasurer W. B. Aus
tin, state printer, c. W. Trickett of
Kansas City, and Cliff Matson, of
Wichita. Neither Capper nor Allen will
attend the Hutchinson festivities.
Capper will attend a meeting tonight
In Seneca and Allen is filling speaking
dates in the Second and Third districts.
About a dozen progressive leaders
will leave Topeka this afternoon to at
tend the meeting. The Topeka crowd
will leave over the Santa F'e at 80 this
afternoon and will return Tuesday
morning.
Curtis Hears From White.
For the second time since the open
ing of the primary campaign, William
Allen White hays United States Sena-
tor Charles Curtis and links his record
with that of Lorimer of Illinois. But
the second chapter of the Curtis TRADE
is less severe than the first. In fact
portion of Whites article is devoted
to an explanation of his once lauda-
tory editorial, praising the work of the
senior senator from Kansas.
Times and men have changed"
says White, in reviewing the political
affairs of the last decade. Ten years
ago Roosevelt had a good notion of
Dave Mulvane and Curtis. Six years
ago, he rather hoped Curtis would win,
and it is mighty certain he would have
preferred Curtis to either of his OBJ
ponents-Murdock,B ristow or Stubs.
Six years ago, Roosevelt was a great
sttckler for regularity. He once jawed
me for opposing Curtis, and to get the