The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-18
POLITICAL GOSSIP.


can national committee and boost for
reunited party next year. A big
crowd IL expected at the EmporiA
gathering. Since the meeting has
been called for william Allen White
home town, the harmony workers Will
try to show the Bull Moose national
committeeman that there 10 real hre
and night behind the cause.
Last year the Fourth district turned
upside down and upset all the political
dope in Kansas when 1t defeated Fred
8. jackson for congress and when
William Allen whites home town ana
county went Democratic. There are
people in the Fourth district who still
wear the scars and wounds of the 1Slz
battle and more than the ordinary
amount Of harmony missionary work
has been done IN that locality. But
Friday the workers will try to put
across real harmony program and 1t
il believed that all Of the ten counties
in the district will be represented at
the meeting. A number Of Topeka Re-
publicans will probably go to Emporia
to look over the situation, among them
being Senator James A. Troutman, who
has been in charge o. the get togeth-
er movement in the state.
Ingalls, VIII Run-If.
Sheffield ingalls, will be a Progressive
candidate for governor next year-per-
haps- For several weeks the present
lieutenant governor has been marked
as the Progressive gubernatorial can
didate in the next campaign. but In
gals has made no definite statement
regarding the future. To be sure In
gals is safely within the Progressive
fold and attended the recent Bull Moose
gathering in Topeka. but declined to
say anything about his own political
plans for the future.
Bristow's Homecoming.
The homecoming Of Senator Joseph
L. Bristow to pick political berth for
in Kansas early next week. Senator
Bristow expects to leave Washington
Friday night, It is claimed. He will
spend ten days or two weeks in the
state, will talk to a good many men
and perhaps decide whether he will run
as Republican. a Progressive or az
an Independent candidate for the SEN
ate next year.
There is just as much uncertainty
in Kansas today, apparently. az six
months ago regarding Bristow's polit-
ical turn of mind. That is a matter
apparently. and NO one seems to speak
with authority in placing the senior
United States senator in any party.
For a time there was an enthusiastic
boom In Kansas Tor q Br1etoW-Capper
combination that would possibly re-
suit in the nomination of Bristow on
the Republican ticket and make Arthur
Capper the gubernatorial nominee. It
was advocated as the genuine article
in a get-togethera movement, but with
no assurance that the Bull Moose ele-
ment Of the paEtEI would quit fighting.
Now the movement seems to have
cooled off and the politicians are wait
ing for Senator Bristow to decide for
himself. They have reasoned among
themselves as to the Bristow-Capper
matter and fear chat II Bristow should
be beaten for the nomination that the
Progressive wing of the party might
bolt the primary nominees under the
declaration that Bristow was sacrificed
in fake harmony move. It would then
be harder to herd the Progressives
back in line than to continue with the
present harmony program and permit
Senator Bristow to work out his own
salvation and take his chances with
whichever party he desired to affiliate.