The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-28
Organized q County Support of
Party rs . Whole.
NOW IT WILL Be STATEWIDE
Workers Will Be Enlisted in
1O5 Counties.
Headquarters Established Here
-CrOssley President.

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the younger set Of Republicans OF To-
peka. including several from other
parts of the state who were here to
cooperate in the starting of a state
wide Young Mems Republican club,
stole a march On a movement to swing
| the youth of Shawnee county into line
| in a Capper for governor club at a
meeting to have been held tonight
| when they Thursday night formed the
organization Of young Republicans Tor
Shawnee county.
About $50 members in the new or
ganization had been signed up by noon
| today and reports from six other coun-
| ties indicate that as many other SINH
lar organizations will be effected
within a week or SO. AS soon as the
state university and the other state
and UNCONVENTIONAL educational tnstl-
J tutions Of Importance open college
organization will be formed in every
| one of them. BY that time arrange
| ments will have been completed Tor
| a statewide young Republican rally
now proposed to be held In the Audi
torium in Topeka when speakers OF
| state and national Importance Will al
dress the young Republicans OF Kan
| saS.
! Workers in Other Counties.
| At present representatives of the
state wide movement are at work
elsewhere as follows: Paul Cubb1son OF
Kansas City. in Wyandotte county:
William Smith Of Valley Falls in JEFF
ferson county; Eustace Smith Of
Hutchinson in Reno county: e. F..
Brewster, jr., Of Leavenworth In LeaV-
enworth county; H. C. McGugin Of In
dependence in Montgomery county
| Sumner county.
The leaders in the statewide move
ment will cooperate with the Repub-
lican state central committee in estab-
fishing additional county movements
until as much of the whole state as
| The county organizations will be COM
posed of first voters and Republicans
up to 80 years of age or thereabouts.
Include All Republicans.
The business Of the county organiZa-
lions will be to get behind the local
party organizations in the present cam
paign for the whole ticket. By moving
up the date of its first meeting. which
was held last night at the court house.
the new club plugged the prospects OF
| the proposed Capper for Governor
movement which was intended to labor
principally for q single candidate. AT
peace conference today the young men
who had laid plans for the Capper or
, ganization agreed to come in and line
is intended to be Of q permanent char
acter.
Besides adopting a few classical
| tenets of Republicanism In the resolu-
| lions adopted last night the new or
ganization swore fealty to the party
ticket from top to bottom.
Establish Headquarters.
Local headquarters have been estab-
lished in the Office Block on East
Fifth street in connection with those
already opened by the Republican
county central committee. Those who
have taken part in the organization Of
a nucleus for the statewide club have
been assured Of sufficient sinews Of war
to carry out plans now outlined In good
shape They assert their state organf-
zation will be a powerful influence In
the present campaign. There is some
talk of the organization of a first-vot-
ers' club for the women OF the state to
act as an auxiliary among the femi-
mime voters.
Officers elected at last nights meet
ing include A. B. Crossley, president;
Jay Jensen, vice president; Walter
CLANCY. secretary. The membership
committee which is now scouting fol
new names is composed Of Ed Rooney
chairman, and Harry Snyder, Clarence
E. Jordan, H. e. McGugin and Earl
Trobert.
The following resolution wal
Resolved, That we, the member.
Of the Young Mems Republican clul
Of Shawnee county. Kansas, unite IL
, the following declarations:
THAT while we acknowledge thu
patriotism and profound statesman
ship Of those patriots who laid thu
foundation of this government, secur
ing at once the rights of the state
severally and their inseparable uniol