The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-08
Taylor Riddle Fayors PIan for
Democrats.
And Hes Woald Havo February
% the Date.
BRYAN DINNER FOR JANUARY :
0 There'n Be I've Bourbon
Gatherings Next Year.
william Allen White Endorses
Foley Appointment

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Foley Appointment.
Kansas Democrats will hold q mass
convention In Topeka February 20,
Washington's birthday. to iron out
their party differences and submit to
the voters tentative party platform
for 1914. II the plans OF Represents
tive Taylor Riddle Of Marion are
adopted. Riddle would conclude the
conference with q big dinner at 81 q
plate.
The plan Of the Marion man will
call for two Democratic state gather
1ngs this winter. Tickets are now on
sale for the big Bryan dinner in To-
peka January s. Nearly 1000 Demo
Gratis are expected to attend the Janu-
ary banquet, which is to take the
cratic dinner formerly held February
~. Riddle, however, does not want to
give up the February date and would
hold mass convention in Topeka on
to the party workers who come to
make plans for the future.
Iron Out Party Differences.
I'VE need q state wide conference
or convention to put things in shape
for the next campaign" said Riddle.
II there is any faction difference in
the party in this state, it can be
Strengthened out at the conference
easier than ut any other time.
Il would not only favor an adjust
ment Of any differences at this meet
ing. but I think it would be wise to
submit to the voters q tentative plat
form for the coming campaign. The
regular platte rm, Of course, would be
written by the party council in Au-
gust. Hundreds OF Democrats would
come to Topeka for the conference, I
believe, and every man and woman
who attended would have an equal
voice IN adopting the platform which
would serve as q sort of declaration
OF principles. We could conclude the
conference with a big dollar-a-plate
banquet"
Discuss Party Candidates.
One of the things which Riddle re.
CARDS rs most important and should
be given attention by the mass con-
vention il the question Of candidates.
Perhaps such . move would prove an
opening wedge to all manner Of trou-
BILE, but Riddle is willing to tackle the
job and wants the Democratic leaders
to join with him in a sort Of elimina-
ton program.
For one thing said Riddle,
there II the prospect that there will
be altogether too many Democratic
candidates for some of the other Of
fices. We ought to get together on
this matter and take some action that
will save us possible trouble both be-
fore and after the primaries are held
in August"
The Riddle plan will be submitted
to officers of the Democratic club, but
it IL hardly probable that any definite
action will be taken until after the
Bryan meeting in January.
White En(lOrses FnIev.
William Allen White, one of the
few Kansas editors who criticised the
appointment by President Wilson of
Henderson Martin as vice governor of
the Philippines, says all manner of
nice things about Governor Hodges
appointment of c. F. Foley of Lyons
as Martins successor on the public
ment. says White. is the strongest
that the Democratic governor has
made.
Whites paper, the Emporia Ga
xette, contained the following en-
dorsement of the Foley appointment:
The appointment Of Charles F.
Foley of Lyons to be q member Of the
state public utilities commission is by
odds the best appointment Governor
Hodges has made during his admin
istration. Mr. Foley has lived for a
third of a century in Kansas. He went
i'm the days when Scott and the
Gleeds and Ed Little and Scott Hop
kfns and Fred Stocks attended-and
he has been county attorney OF his
home county twice. a member OF the
legislature, and for four years q mem
ber Of the board Of regents Of the
State university.
HE, as much as any other Demo
crat. and probably more than any 9TH
er Democrat, is responsible for the
vo~ ~ 4HnA 1ox ox.-}E to- q
a critical time, when the passage OF
the law was in danger, Mr.. Foley ad-
vised the Democrats in the legislature
that they. could well afford to lose 9
party advantage, vote for the law
! when their votes passed the law, even
| II they lost an issue. He advised his
| fellow Democrats to be better citizens
| than Democrats. AS result, he has
| been honored by the Stubbs admins
| tration whenever Stubbs could find 9
place that Mr.. Foley would take. Mr.
Foley declined q place on the state ta1
| commission, and when the board OF
| administration for educational tnst1-
| tutions was passed three years ago
! before he vetoed the bill, and while
| he was securing Kansas to find big
| enough men for the job. Stubbs offer
| ed the place to Mr.. Foley. Mr.. Foley
1 frankly said he did not feel that hs
was large enough man for the job.
| Mr.. Foley IL q painstaking lawyer
a public spirited citizen. and . con-
scientious man He II anything but q
partisan Democrat He will feel . BIT
lonely in the state house"
Expects . Long Session.
Dudley Doolittle. Fourth district con-
gresham. expects the present regulal
session of congress to extend well into
next summer, according to q statement
which he made. before returning t.
washington He expects congress t
take definite action on his farm loaI
| bfll 1t this session and antictpates n
vorable action soon ON the currency
| bill and anti-trust legislation
Do0little's mother accompanied hin
i to Washington for. the present se2siOn
Although she was born and spent hel
tsax1y childhood In virBfnia. shs ha,