The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-27
To Make Six Speeches in
State Next Week.
CURTIS IN .El6HTH DISTRICT
Henry j. Allen Will Not Speak
in Emporia.
Frank Cumiskey May Land .
New Job.

wade Kansas next week for the Bull
Moose leaders and will make SIX
speeches in the state, including the
speech at the Eighth district Progress
sive meeting in Wichita Friday night.
April 3. Robins will speak in Leaven-
worth. Hiawatha. Usage City. indie
pendence. Coffeyville and Wichita next
week. but his exact speaking schedule
has not been announced.
The chief object in Robins visit to
Kansas at this time Is to attend the
Bull Moose meeting in Wichita next
Friday. Eighth district :Progressives
have planned a big all day meeting IN
the Murdock-Allen home town ana the
Chicago orator will be one Of the pr1n-
cipal speakers at the meeting. Robins
was in Topeka for the annual banquet
Of Kansas Progressives February IL
and his speech in the Grand opera
house was regarded as one of the most
forceful and effective speeches deliv-
cred in Topeka in many months.
| Recently Henry j. Allen went to
| Chicago to make speeches in the mu-
nicipal election campaign and In rec
ognition of this work, Robins agreed
to come to Kansas and campaign for
the Bull Moose cause. He has been
lLeavenworth next Thursday-speak-
| ing in Hiawatha in the afternoon and
Leavenworth in the evening. His
Wichita speech will be delivered Fri
day evening at the big Bull Moose
| banquet. The exact date of the Usage
City, Independence and Coneyvilie
speeches has not been announced,
Many of the Progressive leaders of
the state plan to attend the Wichita
meeting. Allen and Robins will be
the principal speakers, since Congress
man Victor Murdoch has announced
| that he will not be able to return to
Kansas at this time.
Curtis in Eighth District.
Charles Curtis, of Topeka, candidate
for Republican nomination for United
States senator, is campaigning In the
Eighth district, home of Victor MUIR
dock, Progressive senatorial candidate.
Curtis has made but few speeches He
and original manner and devotes most
Of his time to the personal contact
plan of winning votes. Recently Cur
It's spent a week in the Seventh district
for few days. He has announced no
itineraries and has made but q limited
number of speeches. Yet Curtis has
perhaps shaken hands with as many
men and women in Kansas in the last
three months as has any candidate on
any Of the several state tickets.
Saturday afternoon Curtis will speak
in ElDorado. With Ezra Branine of
Newton, candidate for the Republican
congressional nomination in the
Eighth district, Curtis will address the
county. Several women's organizations
have been formed in the county and
Curtis and Branine will be the speak
ers at their first big meeting.
Allen Withdraws from Program.
The meeting of the Good Citizenship
league in Emporia Friday and Saturday
of next week will not be addressed by
Henry T Allen PrOOrnc1ivo avvphArn0
torial candidate. Allen withdrew
from the program when the Demo-
Gratis intimated that the Bull Moosers
were trying to stage a booster Allen
demonstration in William Allen
Whites home town. Both Governor
! at the Emporia meeting and that all
of the gubernatorial candidates might
appear on the program and make
promises for the future. Allen was ac-
corded a place. But before the DEM
ocrats agreed to the program, they
asked that Governor Hodges be given
| the right to make the closing speech
and some of the Democrats were SO
| unkind as to intimate that the En-
poria attraction was staged in the in
terests of Aliens candidacy. Allen
sent his compliments to the league
And now the Bull Moose will not be
represented at the meeting.
s-' New Job for Cumiskey?
From Pittsburg comes the rumor that
Frank Cumiskey, state oil inspector, is
to withdraw from the fight for the
Pittsburg postofdce and is to receive a
federal appointment. Cumiskey's job
| as state Oil inspector pays s., 900 year
Had he received the appointment as
postmaster. his resignation as oil in
spector would have been rendered. But
now it il intimated that Henderson s.
Martin, vice governor Of the Philip
pines, is making a place for Cumiskey
in the Islands. Martin has already Of
fered two places to Kansas men and
it is believed by many Democrats that
job will be offered Cumiskey. Such
a situation would please Cumiskey's
political enemies immensely. With the
Pittsburg man several thousand miles