The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
j. d. Smith, Roosevelt Leader,
Excited Over Report.
Denies That First District Dele
cation Was Wavering.
PRIMARIES BEING HELD TODAY
Fourth and Eighth Districts
Are Choosing Delegates.
Sixth Will Elect on Thursday
This Week.

| J. D. Smith, an attorney of Hiawatha.
| is here today to file an emphatic denial
| of the story in the Leavenworth Times
| about Judge Stuart trying to give
Roosevelt the double cross at the first
district convention at Atchison last
week. Mr. Smith was a delegate to the
convention from Brown county and at
tended the caucus of the progressives
! prior to the convention when a plan OF
| action was agreed upon.
| "There never was more malicious or
baseless campaign lie started than that
in the Leavenworth Times about Judge
Stuart" said Mr.. Smith. Il happen to
| know the facts in the case. I was pres
| ent at the caucus held in Judge
Stuart's room in the Bryan hotel right
after dinner 1t was decided there to
cast our So votes for Roosevelt all the
| time and not a voice was raised against
the plan
1--WE decided to vote and cheer for T.
R. to the finish. And we did We pick
ed our candidate for chairman and our
candidates for delegates and alternates.
We made the majority call the roll and
vote on every proposition that concern
ed the presidential nomination and we
gave our So votes solid every time.
ct was chosen to lead the fight for
Roosevelt on the floor of the conven-
ton I made a Roosevelt talk there.
w. +. Means, of Hiawatha, presented
Roosevelt resolutions We know where
Judge Stuart stood on Roosevelt all the
time And so do the So farmer dele
gates to that convention. We all went
home stronger Roosevelt and Stuart
men than ever and we will fight to a
finish
The counties of the Fourth and
Eighth district are holding presidential
primaries today. The Roosevelt men
claim these districts by big majorities.
The Sixth district will elect delegates
by caucus next Thursday. Roosevelt
men also claim a majority in the Sixth.
but it is expected that the result will
be much closer there than in the
Fourth and Eighth. Three big counties
of the Third. Montgomery, Labette and
Neosho, will also elect delegates this
week. The complexion of the state con-
vention will be decided by Saturday
night.
Cowley county must be taken from
the Taft column The county COM
mittee has met there and rescinded it's
action in naming the delegates. pri-
mary has been called to select the dele !
cation. Jackson county must also be |
taken from the Roosevelt column, as
the Jackson committee took the same !
action, Dickinson county still stays in |
the Taft column. The committee there |
delegates. A mass convention has been |
called by Roosevelt men in Dickinson
and the committee named delegation
will be contested.
The revised list of delegates selected
now gives Roosevelt 264 and Taft 112
OF the "a counties that have chosen
delegates to the state convention IS
are for Roosevelt and six for Taft and
one divided and one contested. Rice
county reported today a solid delega-
ton of eight for Roosevelt.
The report that Senator Charles
Curtis was to have spoken at the Taft
meeting at Newton last night was an
error. Charles Scott, and not Charles
Curtis, was the orator at the Newton
meeting. Senator Curtis will not get
back to Kansas until after congress ad-
iourns Former Congressman Scott is
the Taft orator in Kansas and w. J.
Bailey is another adherent of the presi-
dent who has taken the stump in his
behalf.