The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
ENEMY OF RICH TRY FOR HARMONY h
Republican Legislative Men,
bers Call Meeting.
At State House Saturday Noon
to Try to Heal Faction.

| With hope that they can bury their
| grievances and get together for state
wide victory in 1914. Republican mem
| bers of the legislature and Republican
state officials Will hold meeting in
| the state house Saturday noon to dis
cuss plans for the future. The purpose
of the meeting is to reunite the warning
factions of the Republican party and
| to launch a harmony movement in adj
vance of the 1914 campaign.
In the legislature this winter, the
Progressives and Regulars have fought
side by side. Men who supported Roose-
Welt in the 1912 campaign and men who
fought for the Taft cause, have stood
on common ground and fought as Re
publicans. Both factions have entered
the Republican caucuses and these
caucus agreements have remained I'M
broken by either faction. In fact the
action of the minority members of the
Legislature this winter has done more to
bring together the Progressives and the
Regulars than any movement since
the election.
State house officials, Regulars and
Progressives alike, are standing true
and firm for the Republican party.
These men will enter the conference
Saturday and lend their aid and sup
port to the launching of a statewide
harmony movement that will bring sue
cess to the Republican party in 1914.
The meeting was first announced
Thursday night by Senator James A.
Troutman and Robert Stone, both
Shawnee county members of the leg1s-
lature. Practically every minority
member of the legislature has promised
to attend the meeting. Lieutenant
Governor Sheffield ingalls, will not at
tend the meeting and it is possible that
three or four other officials may de-
cline invitations to attend the meet
ing.
For an hour Thursday night the
house members fought and fused
about the Memorial building appropria-
ton. The report of the-ways ana
means committee recommending an
appropriation of $175 600 for the COM
pletion of the building aroused both
bitter feeling and oratory. By a vote
of 90 to 26, the appropriation was left
at the figure recommended by the COM
mittee.
That old desire of kicking Topeka's
dog around was still uppermost in the
minds of some of the members. Leg
islators who freely vote for any old
kind of an appropriation for the sand
hill country and plead long and loud
for the Door downtrodden farmer and
kick the corporations with both feet
made the most of another opportunity
of humping the capital city. This time,
however, they failed.
e Numerous speeches were made on the
amendment to reduce the appropriation
from $4,000 to S125,0O0. Robert Stone
of Shawnee won applause from every
section of the house and gallery in one
of the most clever and clean cut two
minute speeches of the state in which
he pleaded for fitting monument to
the memory of the veterans and the
founders of the state In the contro-
versy, Keene of Bourbon insisted that
d guardian should be appointed for
Boyd of Republic. To these remarks
Boyd took exception and demanded an
d apology. Keene explained that he had
no desire to injure the feelings of the
Belleville man.
House members who voted to reduce
the memorial appropriation were: ASH
croft, Bay, Boyd, Drew, Focht Gibson Of
Cowley, Hanger. Hines, Houtz, Kyser,
Laubach. Lyon, sMahurfn, McCollunl, Nc
Gregor Miller of Cherokee, Milton. Moy-
er. Mulroy. OConnor, Phillips. Robson,
Ross, Spiker, Thinker and Tromble.
In the press reports, Tannaflill OF Wood
son received the credit for introducing a
bill which compelled nonresident students
in Kansas colleges to pay q tuition. Rep
Ashcroft was author of the
bill The measure passed the house this
week.