The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-13

william Allen White, National Conn
mitteeman for Kansas. He Has
Sounded the Bull Moose Call for
November 20.
at the meeting. We will talk over
county tickets and the making OF q
state and congressional ticket. The
ballot law, I am sure, will be OF great
help and advantage to the Progress
sives and the Progressive party will
put q full ticket in the field under the
new law applying to primary cleo
tions."-W. A. White. in his call for
state wide Progressive conferences.
Progressive party leaders from every
county in Kansas are coming to To-
peka Thursday, November 20 to talk
over their plans for the 1914 campaign,
according t. announcement made IN
Wichita last night by William Allen
White, Progressive national commit
teeman for Kansas. The 1914 campaign
will be thoroughly outlined at the To-
peka meeting. White says, anc 1t Is
probable that announcement OF a full
set of candidates for state and congress
sional offices will be made at the meet
ing.
From the day the new party was or
ganized, White has contended that the
Progressives would carry trouble to the
old parties In every town. county ana
congressional district In the state. Al
ready several candidates ON the Pro-
gressive ticket have been slated by the
third party national committeeman ano
expected to give a clear line on the
candidates for all Of the more impor-
tant offices in the state.
Women Are Coming.
In sending out his call for state
wide meeting. White did not forget to
invite the ladies. The new voters IN
Kansas have been welcomed to every
meeting of the Progressives in Kansas
and they have always responded. When
the state. wide Progressive meeting was
held in Topeka last fall. the women
participated and it was a Kansas wo-
man who arose in the meeting and
offered the Bull Moose its first bale OF
hay in the form Of a $50 contribution.
At the Progressive banquet last winter
the women sat at the dinner and were
recognized when the list Of after dinner
speakers was announced. So Kansas
women Of Progressive tendencies have
been invited to the meeting next week
The White call has gone into every
county in the state and White believes
that all of these counties will be rep.
resented at the meeting. 1t is the plar
Of the EmporIa publisher to place {
| Progressive ticket In every county IL
| Kansas next year. But this is a mat
, ter that viii be talked over by the mel
and women who participate in the con-
| ference. Progressive leaders in man.
| of the counties have already announced
| that they will place tickets in the flelt
in 1914, but local conditions will large
ly determine the action to be taken il
this matter.
| Full State Ticket.
l efo 70 q
tickets, the Progressives plan to offe
candidates for every office. They hav
even agreed that they will oppose Stat
| Treasurer Earl Akers. who fought an
bled for the Roosevelt cause last yea
but has refused to leave the Republican
reformed Democrat. will probably b
Akers' opponent.
Lieutenant Governor Sheffield In
gals of Atchison will most probabl
be the Progressive gubernatortal can
didate. He has declared fatty for tn
new party and recently campaigned Il
New Jersey In behalf Of Progressiv
gubernatorial and congressional can
didates.
Each congressional district, Whit
contends, will be the scene Of battl
with the Progressive party fighting fo
first place. J. l. Brady has already de
clared his candidacy for congress o
trict and it is understood that Geore
E. Tucker will be the Progressive car
didate in the Fourth. Unless Senate
Bristow should return to the RepublI
can party and Aurdock crowded int
the United States senatorial race, th
Wichita editor will seek reelection
congress rs q Progressive 1t II c1afme1
Some definite statement az to tho q
4 titudc which Senator Bristow will a
sumo, viii probably be made hy Whit