The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
CONVENTION GOSSIP

4 Beacon, and the COlOneIS campaign
| manager in Kansas, has found that a
national convention is a risky place TO
get off his style of humor. He made a
4 speech seconding the nomination of
| McGovern for temporary chairman
The man who preceded him had great
difficulty in combating the nrsnerous
4 Interruptions and cat calls. Allen de-
cided to try some of his native Kansas
humor on the crowd. He started out:
] Gentlemen of the convention and
contested delegates: I want to con-
/ graduate Chicago upon buying such a
! big show. Your hotels here are reap
/ ins; a great harvest. They are getting
| back all the money the show cost by
/ charging convention prices. / don t
know where We Kansas delegates are
! going to get the money to pay our
| Bills
Perkins shouted some fellow in 1he
gallery and the convention roared.
Allen then dropped his wit and got
| that won him much applause from the
| Coloners sympa thizers.
! Some of the old-timers from Kansas
couldn't withstand the call of the con-
vention and came at the last minute
pension commissioner at Topeka, who
| has been in the game forty years
| turned up. and so did Senator Cal Nor
row of Washington.
When the Colonel was first accused
of wanting to be made king, he replied
tfat he had seen a good many kings
and that they didn't amount to much.
They are about on par with the vice
president, if he were leader of the 400,"
he said.
The vice presidential question was
under discussion in his Headquarters
the other night and turning to Cover
nor Stubs he said:
Governor. why did you Lalk on the
vice presidency"
Wen. 1 remembered what you said,''
replied Stubs.
What was that?" asked the Colonel.
Why, you said a king didn't amount
to any more than a vice president Now
If vice president hasn't any more to
say about running things than king,
I felt that I didn't want the job
Ewing Herbert, editor of the Hfa-
watha, Kan, World, didn't decide TO
come to the convention until the las
minute and had no arrangements made
for ticket. He refused to stand out
in the street and finally figured out
this plan. Will T. Beck, editor of the
Holton Recorder, is a Roosevelt alter
nate, and nephew of Mr. Herbert
but not quite his size. Herbert told
Dave Mulvane that he ought to be
made a sergeart-at-arms because ii.
case of a row he knew he could take
care of Beck and possibly handle some
other small delegates at the same time
He got the job.
A. E. Crane, of Holton, Kan, dele
gate from the First district. and Fl
c. Tucker, the Holton postmaster, after
arriving in Chicago started out to find
the house where they had engaged
rooms. They went in the wrong direc
ton and when they reached the end of
the car line found themselves Il miles
from their destination. After half :
dozen trials they reached the place
In the meantime Mrs. Crane and Mrs
Tucker waited from a. m. to 2 D. m.
at the LaSalle street station.
DR.. Sam MLrdock of Sabetha, Kan,
is patting himself on the back. Up ia
the First district he was the 'insur
gent" candidate against Governor w.
j. Bailey of Atchison for delegate to
the national convention. Bailey won.
Murdoch came on up to Chicago any
way just to see the fun. 1t wasn't
until he reached here that he learned
that the delegates each has to put UP
SIS to $50 as their share of the head |
quarters expense. "A penny saved is
a penny earned, said DR.. Murdoch
C. E. ingalls, of the Washington,
Kan, Register Republican boasts that
he is the only man in Kansas who |
And he doubtless is. He was offered |
a place as sergeant-at-arms, but re- |
fused it. However. he will witness the |
big show from the spectators gallery |
1t will keep William Allen White |
bobbing four years hence to take care
of as many kansans to the national |
convention as Dave Mulvane is taking |
care of this time If there is a Kan |
san who fails to see the convention at |
1a How hi Ill =
Mulvane's fault.
This is no boys job, doing out |
tickets to the convention" remarked |
Mulvane. Il have worked night and /
will necessarily have to be disappoint-
ed, but / have done everything l can /
to fill the demand"
Asked how many sergeants- alarms
he had on the roll from Kansas, Null /
vane said, Il am ashamed to tell you"
Former Governor w. J. Bailey of
Atchison, Kan, says that this is. the
greatest crisis the Republican party,
as well as the country, has met since
the Civil war, and that it may be
necessary for the patriotic people to
rise up, not as partisans, but as Amer
leans, to stamp out the dangers that
now confront the country. Which in
terpreted means that the governor will
not take very kindly to the coloneTs
candidacy if he is nominated.
Attorney General John S. Dawson
and State Auditor w. E. Davis of
are on the ground watching
recurring events with deep interest.
incidentally they are making some
political medicine for themselves with
the kansans assembled here.
Chanute, Kan, makes the largest
thus far of any small Kansas
city. A car load of Chanute visitors
came in Monday morning and they
called it sixteen to one crowd-there /