The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-15
Roosevelt VIII Make Eighteen
Kansas Speeches.
Four Stops in Fifth Congress
siOnaI District.
ONE DAY IN THE THIRD
Insurgents Will Try to Capture
Campbell Stronghold.
Fight for Delegates in Kansas
Is Going On.

! Travelling in special train through
| Kansas next Friday and Saturday,
! Theodore Roosevelt will make sixteen
| speeches in the state between Friday
morning at MarysviIle and Saturday
| night at Parsons. The schedule has
| been arranged by the state committee
and provides for a speech at Marys-
vile at 8 o'clock in the morning.
| From there the eX-president will go
| to Manhattan, Junction City and Sa-
| lima. He will speak at Hutchinson in
| the new convention hall at 5 o'clock
, in the afternoon. Then he will go -
| Newton and make a short speech and
speak at o'clock Friday night at
| Wichita.
That is some strenuous day even for
the strenuous colonel. He will have
to make two lightning jumps from
Hutchinson to Newton to Wichita.
Saturday morning the colonel will
open hostilities in wellington at
o'clock. He will speak that day in
| Winfield, Moline. Elk Falls, Indepen-
dence, Cherryvale, Chanute. At night
he will address a big rally at Parsons.
The Roosevelt special will stop two
to five minutes at all larger towns
through which it runs and rear plat
form speeches will be made.
Governor Stubs. Henry Allen and
the newspaper correspondents Will
leave Thursday for Lincoln, Neb.,
and meet the colonel there and ac-
company him on his Kansas trip. The
Roosevelt leaders are elated over the
Illinois and Pennsylvania 1andSlides
and expect to win all the state for
Roosevelt except the First district,
which has already elected a majority
of Taft delegates. Governor Stubs
expressed his views on the present
situation in the following telegram he
sent to Chairman Dixon of the RoOSe-
Welt headquarters:
Roosevelt Republicans in Kansas
are jubilant over the OVerwh Ginning
landslide in Pennsylvania, and send
you hearty congratulations upon the
greatest victory yet achieved. The
most prominent and far-seeing Taft
Republicans are openly saying here
today that the fight is over and that
the results in Illinois and Pennsyl-
vania spell nomination by acclama-
ton for Roosevelt at Chicago. A
prominent district judge in central
Kansas, who was an enthusiastic Taft
supporter, after hearing the news
from Pennsylvania, said that if every
Republican in America would stay at
home on election day, he believed that
Roosevelt would get a majority of the
Democrats and sweep the country.
He also stated that it is now plain
that the Republican masses want
Roosevelt, and declared that from
this day on he would work for his
nomination and election. A few weeks
go not only the Taft men, but some
strong friends of Roosevelt did not
feel certain that the colonel would
be nominated; today it seems to be
the almost unanimous opinion among
all classes of Republicans that his
nomination is not only logical, but in
eVitable.
James S Patrick, chairman of the
Haskell county Republican committee,
announces that the committee has de-
cided to call a Republican mass con-
vention at Santa F'e May 4 to elect
congressional and state delegates.
Frank B. VanGundy, editor of the
Richf1eld Monitor, has announced for the
Republican nomination for state print
er. VanGundy comes from the extreme
southwest county of the state and his
friends down there base their claims i
on the fact that this section has never
been represented on the list of stale
officers. VanGundy founded the Mont
tor in 1883 and has run the paper ever
since.
The primaries in Brown, Bourbon AID
Finney counties Saturday resulted in
victories for the Roosevelt men. Taft
carried the Crawford county caucuse5
and will dominate the Crawford con-
vention. The fight for Kansas delegates
TO the state convention now stands as
follows:
For Reconsideration II. Brown |
r. Doniphan 10, Douglas IA, Finney O. |
Franklin IL. Gray 3, Jackson 10, JEFF |
ferson 10. johnson 10. Nemaha ID, Wy |
andotte sc. Total 147.
For Taft--Atchison. IA; Cowley, IS; !
Crawford, p; Dickinson, 10; LeaVen-
worth, 90: Shawnee, 81. Total, lis.
Geary county will hold Republi-
mittee has decided on April 81 as the
date for its county convention to elect
congressional and state delegates. The |
sentiment in Chase is said to be evenly |
divided between Taft and Roosevelt.
Gearge county will hold a Republi-
can primary April g and Miami coun
ty April "a. The Woodson county
committee met and revoked its for
mer decision to hold convention and
voted to hold a primary. The Cloud |
county committee voted to hold a con-
vention April rs. Rocks county Re-
publicans will hold a convention
May 2.
HACKNEY IL 0IIT