The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-01
A 7. R. TICKET is MOVING SLOWLY Y THIS IS THE DAY
Kansas VIII Have One From
Top to Bottom i'm November.
White and Allen and $50 Dele
gates Will Go to Chicago.

In the November election, Kansas
will have a full ticket of Bull Moose
candidates for state officers. each can
didate an approved and guaranteed
progressive. Not only will the Third
party supporters make a fight for ev-
cry office in the state, but they will
participate in the new party conven-
ton in Chicago next week and full
delegation of KanSanS will represent
the state in the selection of candidates
for president and vice president and in
the writing of a platform of progress
i've principles.
That the fight will be made for
Roosevelt, the Roosevelt principles and
for Roosevelt men for every state of
flee, was made public here today by
men who have been shaping the fight
for the control of the state political
machinery by genuine progressive
leaders Under their own party err
blem the Bull Moose forces will wage
their fight for the election of men to
every state office. Should StubbS, Cap =
per. Akers and other progressives be
successful at the primaries next Tues
day their names will of course appear
on the Republican ballot in November.
On only the officials who are not firm
believers and leaders in the progress
i've movement in the state. will the
new party make fight. but they Will
he in q position to claim support for a
candidate for every job in the stare
house.
FROM Emporia today came the news
that Kansans-15o strong-will sit in the
Third party convention in Chicago next
week William Allen White, of En-
poria. and Henry ]. Allen. of Wichita,
took stock today in telephone com
n,unication compared notes and agreed
that at least $50 Kansans would be in
the Chicago convention.
White and Allen to Chicago.
Allen and White will both leave this
week for Chicago and will play an i'm
portant part in the preliminary organ
ization of the convention. Allen will
at once open headquarters in the Con-
eress hotel and this will be head
Quarters for all Kansans who attend
the convention. Here the plans of the
Kansas delegation will be Matched and
the first real movement for full new
ticket in this state will be laid.
At 10 o'clock Monday morning. all
Kansans attending the convention, will
meet at the Congress hotel. From
among the $50 or more progressives in
this state who will attend, a list of 20
delegates and 20 alternates will be
selected. Space in the convention has
been reserved for 40 kansans and these
20 delegates and 20 alternates will oc-
supy that space. Other Kansas pro-
gressives who journey to Chicago for
the meeting will be provided with seats
at the rate of So per seat.
There will be at least $50 Kansas
prOgTeSSiVeS IN the convention, said
William Allen White today, land I
really think the attendance from this
state will be even larger I am sure
of $50 seats for Kansas men, though
For days the regulars in the Repub-
lican ranks have watched the develop
ment of the Third party movement in
the state. Recently the regulars had
concluded that the Roosevelt forces in
the state would make nc effort to
name a full ticket, but would content
nominations as could be secured in the
Republican primaries. The announce
ment today came as a surprise to those
men, who had led the fight against the