The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-16
Say IA of 20 Delegates Favor
New Jersey Man.
CLARK MEN WERE CARELESS
Allowed His Opponents to Be
Chosen Delegates.
Satisfied When They Were In
structed for MiSsOurian.

convention at Hutchinson can still be
heard on the state. The Wilson men
die hard and the Wilson papers die
harder. They are still claiming a
| chance at the Kansas delegation
| through a technicality in the instruc-
tions. They say that while the 20
| delegates were instructed to vote for
! Champ Clark for president at Balti-
| more, yet whenever tWo-thirdS of the
| delegation come to the conclusion that
! Clark has no chance they may turn
| the delegation to Wilson.
| The Wilson men claim that fourteen
of the twenty delegates are personally
| inclined to Wilson. This is an exag-
geration. Only eleven of the delegates
/ favor wilson 1t can be taken as a
| for Clark at Baltimore for long time.
But the Clark men did manage
their affairs badly at Hutchinson.
They worked solely and simply for
| egation and got them, but they failed
to reward the Clark men who had
| worked early and late for the Mis-
sourian and were entitled to the hon
| or of going to Baltimore.
Brown of Kingman, that old war
| horse and Clark man, was cand1-
| date for delegate at large, and yet
| Henderson Martin, a Wilson man was
| named as one of the big four and
Brown is only an alternate. The
Clark men had the votes to elect four
strong Clark men for the big four.
They surely erred in allowing strong
Wilson men to get on the delegation
in such large numbers and may yet
pay for their oversight by losing the
delegation when it is most needed at
the Baltimore fight through some
juggelry or technicality. The Balu-
more convention will take many bal
lots before arriving at a conclusion, If
present indications count for any
thing.
Frank Thomas, our own Frank of
Topeka, was overlooked when dele
gates were selected from the First
congressional district. The first dis
trict delegates were three to one for
Clark and yet Jim Orr of AtchisOn, a
Wilson man, was elected, and Thomas
left out in the cold. It is said that
Thomas lost his fight for delegate be-
cause of friction in the Shawnee del
egation The Shawnee delegates say
that Thomas was inclined to unneces-
sarily rub it in after the Shaw
nee delegation had been secured for
Clark and that he made fight on Orr,
who had many warm personal friends
on the Shawnee delegation. Anyway,
Thomas did not have his own county
delegation solid behind him and he
lost the honor of being a national deli
egate from the First congressional dis
trict.
Speaking of Instructions. Jim Orr
of Atchison is the most instructed =
man in seven states Orr is a WILSON,
man. He was sent to Hutchinson as
a delegate to the state convention by
his own county and instructed to vote
for Clark. He did. He was named
a national delegate by the First
district congressional convention and
again instructed to vote for Clark.
Then for good measure. the state con-
vention instructed him again to vote for
Clark at Baltimore. AS a Wilson man
Orr's usefulness ought to be ended. He
hi n fr
trict and his state for his vote at Bal
timOre.
A. s Wilson, a well known lawyer
of Cherokee county, has written w.
B. Mckinley, chairman of the Taft
campaign bureau, as follows regarding
the presidential situation:
Dear sir: I do not approve of the
assault that is being made on MT
Roosevelt and have always been and
am now a warm friend of Mr.. Roose
velt's but am in favor of the nom
ination of President Taft for 1912
my opinion is that he will receive
the nomination at the Chicago con-
vention and that Mr.. Roosevelt will
thereafter heartily support him, and
will be able to line up the greater
Taft supporters after the convention
is over. I am of the opinion that the |
candidacy of Mr.. Roosevelt Will elm |
mate LaFollette, Cummins and the
to the nomination of Mr.. Taft in |
Roosevelt, and that thereafter when |
Roosevelt supports Taft after the con-
vention, the present Roosevelt move
ment will in this way in the end re-
suit to the advantage of Mr.. Taft; and
1 believe will result in his election. /
I believe that Mr.. Taft has made a
good president and is entitled to a
also I may say I was formerly a
supporter of Governor Stubs. but I
have become thoroughly disguised
with him and his political perform
ances of late There is no doubt but
that President Taft is growing strong
er every day in Kansas and L believe
his nomination will be satisfactory to
the Republicans of this state.
For reasons above mentioned it ap-
pears to me that the campaign for the
of President Taft should
be conducted as far as possible with a
view to avoid embittering the friends
of Mr. Roosevelt. / am satisfied that |
YOU and the other managers of Presi- |
dent Taft's affairs thoroughly appre-
ciate this. and that you do not ap-
prove of some of the things that are
being said about Roosevelt.
, "A S. WILSON"
Frank Knox, vice chairman of the
Roosevelt executive committee, while
in Topeka for a conference with Gov
ernor Stubbs and State Chairman Dol
ley regarding the presidential situa-
ton, takes most optimistic viey of the
situation He calimS all states west of
the Mississippi river for Roosevelt ex-
cept Utah and Arkansas and he has
hopes of the latter state He is claiming
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Ohio
for the colonel and all the states of /
the northwest. The action of the Kan
sas state committee in endorsing Taft
did not feaze Mr.. Knox Referring to
that action he said: 1T is Just sucn
performances as that, when the use of
federal patronage and illegal proxies