The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-31
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Republican State Chairman
After Kansas Day.
Central Committee to Topeka
for the Election.
Sen. MALONE FOR CONGRESS
New Face Appears In Sixth
District Politics.
Emporia Conference Was the
Genuine Article.

Not until after the Kansas Day club
banquet will the Republican state
to elect q new state chairman to sue
coed J. N. Dolley. according to an
nouncement made by ]. c. Gafford.
secretary Of the committee. 1t IL prob
able that Mr.. Gafford will call the
committee together late in February
or early in March.
For sometime it had been rumored
that the committee would meet in To-
peka, January 20. Kansas Day. and
elect a new chairman. But Gafford
mer plans. Recently calls were sent
out urging Kansas Republicans to
meet Saturday, January "a, in the
county seat towns of the state and
hold county harmony meetings. On
the same date, the Republican county
central committees will meet to I'LL
| vacancies caused by assertions to the
Progressive party. In some counties.
the chairman and various precinct
committeeman have withdrawn from
the committee. These vacancies must
be filled before a state chairman can
be elected.
Il had expected to call the commit
tee together Kansas Day." said CAT
ford. but the county meetings will be
held so late that it will be impossible
before January 20. So the call for a
meeting Of the state committee will
most likely be issued for sometime In
February, although 1t is possible that
the meeting will not be held until early
in March,
Secretary Of State Charles Sessions
is the only candidate thus far mention
ed for state chairman and 1t il gen.
orally believed that he will be elected
, without opposition.
Senator Malone May Run.
Out in the Sixth district there IL
rumor to the effect that Senator Jas
A. Malone of Herndon, Rawltns coun-
ty. may be q candidate for the Demo-
cratic congressional nomination In the
Sixth district next August. Senator
Malone has not announced his 1nten-
tons, although it Is probable that he
| the anti-Connelly Democrats decide to
contest the present congressman
rights to a denomination.
| Most Of the Connolly trouble in the
Sixth district has resulted from the
+, ever present postoffice rows. The
postoffice situation was a bit too COM
plicated for a new congressman ana
Connolly, like many other new MEM
bers. was charged with Distributing
more promises than he could protect
Now there is a small army OF disap-
pointed candidates who are looking
| for Connelly's political scalp with
lantern. AS evidence of good faith,
thew have offered to run Senator Ma
lone for the nomination.
That Emporia Meeting.
Reports from Emporia indicate that
the Fourth district Progressive con-
ference was the genuine article. Eighty
men and women journeyed to Emporia
from other towns and William Allen
White and As other Emporians sat at
the luncheon. True to advance notices
the Progressives adopted resolutions In
which they laughed at the harmony
idea and promised to put full tickets
in the field in the state, the district
and in every county.
Whether Senator Bristow stays with
the Bull Moose cause or feels his way
along the rail to a safe spot within the
Republican camp, the Pr0gressives
said they cared not. In fact they in
Dictated that Bristow has already de-
layed so long that his declaration OF
principles sometime in the future will
come too late to arouse the enthusiasm
of either party.
AS for state candidates, the Progress
sives showed a tendency to drop the
Ingalls, and Codding talk for the pres
ent and to urge the nomination OF
Henry J. Allen for governor Allen
was in attendance at the meeting, but
he refused at this time to admit that
there is even a vague possibility that
he will become a gubernatorial candi-
date.
Our meeting was in answer to the
thermometers" declared William Allen
White. Progressive national committee
man for Kansas. White declared that
there were just seven people in attend
ance from other towns at the recent
Fourth district harmony meeting in
Emporia.
Bristow Here Next Week.
United States Senator Joseph L.
Bristow will come to Topeka next week
for two or three day conference with
Kansas political leaders The exact
date OF Bristow's coming has not been
announced although it is believed that
the senior senator will be here early in
the week.
AS yet Senator Bristow has not an
nounced his political plans for the flu
ture. He MAJ run for denomination as
Republican. Progressive, or as an
Independent candidate There are
Kansas men who view the matter in
all of these angles. Lately, however,
there has been a more general impress
sion that the Bristow announcement
will declare for the old party and that
ne will try to Ind his way back into the
Republican camp and the good graces
OF the party which elected him. Per-
maps Senator Bristow will make his
announcement while in Topeka. Per-
maps not. No one seems to know. And
In the six days that Senator Rristow
mas been home he has failed to mem
ton the matter himself