The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-27
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Brown of Kingman Will Take
the Stump.
''IrOnjaW'' Is Billed for a Score
of Speeches in West.
HAS FORGOTTEN HIS WRONGS
Most Loyal Clark Man FOrgiveS
DesertiOn of MiSSOuriaD.
Gossip of Candidates and Their
Dates for Speeches.


man, has remained quiet and submis-
sive since the August primaries, but
the love of war has returned and the
Kingman county warhorse has been
billed for speeches all over the short
grass country. He will speak in every
! county in the Seventh district before
the November election
Brown, who was the most loyal and
patriotic Clark man in the world, was
| i'll at ease last summer because of the
! actions of the Kansas delegation in the
! Baltimore convention. The Kansas
| delegates had been instructed to vote
| for Champ Clark as long as there was
| q possibility of his nomination. While
| Clark still had a majority of the dele
gates with him, the Kansas delegates
/ jumped to Wilson. Judge A. NJ. Jack
didate for the Kansas Democratic
gubernatorial nomination, was in the
convention and helped lead the bolt.
Then Brown broke bondage, declared
his freedom and denounced Jackson's
treaChery from the house tops. After
reaffirming his faith in Clark and sue
cessfully branding Jackson's actions.
Brown meekly returned home and
contented himself with another legis-
latIVe nomination.
Now Brown will campaign and make
speeches for the entire ticket. He is
something of power in the short
grass country and there are no speak
ers at the disposal of the Democratic
state committee who can eclipse
Brown when he is in his glory and
fully aroused to the occasion. His ef-
forts in the legislature were never
without reward. The house calendar
was never SO blocked with important
pending measures that Brown could
not control the privilege of the floor
for so minutes to defend the birth
rights of the downtrodden. He fought
and bled and wept copiously for the
slave for the rights of the ordinary
man who helped to make the "com-
mon people," 1t was always when
their rights were in danger that Brown
shone in his most dazzling light and
kept the reporters busy trying to
chropicle his speeches.
Outside the legislative halls Brown
has ever been cooked and priIned for
argument and is a f1end for oratory.
At the Dodge City convention last win
ter. it was Brown who made the dele
gates forget the blizzard that howled
outside the hall Is the Kingman fight
er painted the lilies of the valley
whittier white and told of the radiant
sunshine of success that would follow
the footsteps of Champ Clark. And
Clark, who sat right there on the |
platform and heard every word of it |
turned to a reporter and whispered |
Whats the use of me trying to un- |
load anything after that?" Clark |
meant it. too.
So, Brown is in the fight in the short |
grass country again. If there is a |
spark of patriotism and loyalty in the |
breasts of the downtrodden Democrats |
Brown will fan that spark to a fame |
and only the November returns from |
the Seventh district can accurately tell |
Just what Brown of Kingman has done |
for the cause.
Next week Brown enters Reno, Rice |
Barton, Ellsworth and Dickinson coun- |
l.
in the short grass district before the !
election and good many fiattering |
Republican records may fall before the |
knife of the iron jawed one from King |
man before the polls open for business
the morning of November ,.
Candidates for office on the Repubh
can state ticket. will return to Topeka
tonight and tomorrow after their first
weeks visit in the state. Since the
August primaries, the state committee
has been outlining its campaign and
last Monday for the first time since the
sent all the state candidates
into the fight. Most of these cand1-
dates have been making a hand-shak-
ns tour of the counties and there has
been but little oratory shed by the men
who are Republican nominees for OF
ice Tonight these men will return
10 Topeka and report conditions over
he state as they found them Then
they will go into the fight again next
week and will be kept busy until the
November election.
The Democratic state committee has
the following speaking dates
FOR George H. Hodges. Democratic
nominee: September Y,
Reading; Sept. IS, Emporia; Sept. 30,
Pittsburg; Oct. l. Mulberry and Ga
ena; Oct. ., CherryvaIe: Oct, 8, Sedan.
Judge William H. Thompson, United
States senatorial nominee, will return
10 his home in Garden City today af
.er a three weeks campaign in thu
state After October /, he will again
enter the fight and his dates will be
arranged by the state committee. They
nave not as yet been prepared.
Senator William NJ. Glenn, of the
eighth district, is fighting the
Bull Nfoosers in his Greeley County Re
publican and is bitter because the
candidates on the Republi-
AN state ticket refuse to follow the
Iltimatum of their leader-Col. Roose-
re1t-and accompany his electors to the
cgolumn in Kansas.
Stars report of Roosevelt's OttaT a |
speech in which the Bull Moose chieftaiu
said My doctrine is never to cheat, ard
never 10 lie down under cheating Don't
90 wrong and don't submit to others
YOU. If we get our electors on |
the Independent column by petition, I
hope that all our electors will get off the
Taft ticket No Progressive nominee for
alector or any other office should stay OF
4 ticket with Taft's name at the head of
It. Now Glenn wants to know why Cap
per, Stubbs and other Bull Moose support
arS don't withdraw from the Republican