The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-04
So Says TrOutman of the Har.
mOny Meeting.
About 900 Delegates Were in
Attendance.
PROGRESSIVE MEASURES
They Were Tackled on the
Resolutions.
Harmony Spirit Once Started
VIII Naturally Grow.

After adopting resolutions that
were truly progressive in tone. the.
harmony delegates quit work early
Tuesday evening and declared the
first state wide get together conven-
ton success. 1t was the fact that
both Progressives and Regulars seem
ed pleased with the resolutions and
harmony speeches that gave the po-
litical leaders hope and revived the
belief that the two factions in the Re
publican party can be united for the
next election.
1t was nearly 4:3O Tuesday after
noon when the resolutions committee
reported its findings and Senator
James A. Troutman read the declara-
ton of principles prepared by the II
men appointed to draft the advance
dope on the 1914 platform. Some of
the things in the document occasioned
debate. But it was on the issues that
the committee expected the greatest
trouble, that brought forth not the
slightest objection.
For more than an hour the special
committee had fought out the initia-
tive and referendum and recall propo-
sitions. They went into the resolutions
over the objections of Chrales F. Scott
of lola and a protest by w. Y. Morgan,
who declared such action was i'm
proper at this stage of the game. But
and R. plank didn't bring forth one
word from the Regular wing of the
party and the men admit that they
are not enthusiastic for the reform.
Only on the sections of the resolu-
tionS which criticised the Democratic
administration was there serious OBJ
lection. Once criticism was hurled at
the provision which called to task the
Democrats for the appointment of the
educational administration board and
the trouble at the state schools An
other time Attorney General John S.
Dawson objected to the protest against
the Hodges plan for a commission
form of state legislature. For a few
minutes there was some lively debate.
But both of the Objectionable sections
were permitted to stay in the official
document Then Dawson succeeded
| in tacking onto the end of the resolu-
tions an endorsement of the Borah-
Cummins-LaFellette Hadley Trout
man movement for a 1914 harmony
program and each faction promised
the other that there would next year
be no blacklisting of the candidates
because of the stand which they took
in the 1912 election.
That ended the meeting. While the
committee was drafting the resolu-
tions, speeches were made by Judge
Dennis Madden of Emporia, Paul Gill
more of Kansas City, Attorney General
John S. Dawson and others. Secretary
of State Charles Sessions then passed
the contribution box to raise funds to
cover the expense Oh Ine
movement. About $4OO was raised in
a very few minutes.
In the hotel Hobbies last night, dele
gates to the convention declared that
the meeting had been a success. Both
Progressives and Regulars seemed
satisfied and the men who came to
Topeka to attend the meeting have
gone home to work for a united party.
at was a great meeting and much
good has been DONE" said Senator
James A. Troutman in discussing the
event. "Of course there is still much
work to do, but the movement is
started and I believe that every man
and woman who came to the conven-
ton went home convinced that the
problem as it seemed"
There were between 500 and 500
delegates in the convention. OF this
mum ber, probably 25 per cent were
Progressives and supported Roosevelt
in the recent election. About 25 wom-
en- delegates came to the convention.