The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14
BOURBON BANQUET.

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Kingman, candidates for the United
States senatorial nomination, eacn
only speakers accorded places on the
regular program. c. M. Arnold, sec
rotary Of the Phillips county commit
tee, presided at the meeting.
Notes Of tho Trip.
Following the Democratic meeting In
Msnkato, Jewell county. Progressives
held an afternoon meeting in the opera
house and laid plans for the campaign.
Miss Alice Carpenter. Of New York, a
national organizer for the Bull Moose
cause, urged the Progressives to put a
local ticket in the field and appealed
10 the women to support the new party
Mrs. Eva Merely Murphy. OF Goodland.
Progressive candidate for congress in
the Sixth district, attended the meeting
and made a speech. No action regard
ing the nomination Of q county commit
tee has 40 yet been taken.
Mankato II one of the real wide awake
towns in the Sixth district. A modern
opera house with a seating capacity OF
700, Y. NJ. C. A. building with every
up-to-date equipment and big county
high school building are among the i'm
provements which help to make Man
kato a real live town.
Samuel Bartlett. Democratic candi-
date for attorney general, spent the day
with the governors party in Mankato,
Smith Center and Phillipsburg. From
Phillipsburg, Bartlett went to Oberlin
for a day with Decatur county Demo-
Gratis.
Two women are candidates for regis
ter Of deeds in Smith county and mere
men are standing on the sidewalks
awaiting the final result of the battle.
Miss Edna Zimmerman, stenographer
in the law Office of Senator I. D. Mahin,
Lima Amos is the Democratic candidate.
Mrs. Amos is the widow of ]. w. Amos,
former assistant secretary Of state.
The Mankato public schools were dis
missed during the Democratic meeting
and nearly 100 school children heard
Governor Hodges speech in the opera
house.
At Smith Center a brass band well
coined the governor. But there was no
parade. After luncheon, the band gave
a concert on Main street. but parade
features were dispensed with and Gov
ernor Hodges walked to the opera house
for the meeting.
From Smith Center to Phillipsburg
the trip was made II. motor cars. A
delegation of Smith county Democrats
were in the party and accompanied
Governor Hodges to the Phillips coun-
ty banquet.
At Mankato Henry Honey, the vet
eran editor. and r. w. Turner. one
time a prominent Jewell county Repub
lican. were in charge Of the ceremonies.
Honey presided at the meeting, and 1t
was largely due to his efforts that the
big morning crowd OF 700 men and wom-
en- came from every part Of the county
the working Jewell county, Turner is al
ways rated as one OF the assets.
Many Republicans heard Governor
Hodges speech in Smith Center. Promi-
nent among the Republicans in the
meeting were DIR. ]. B. Dykes, Repub-
lfcan candidate for congress-; DIR. J. b.
Dykes Of Lebanon. member of the
medical examining board; Dan Dyer,
former postmaster of Smith Center, and
F. w. Mahin, brother Of Senator I. M.
Mahin. Senator Mahin was in Oberlin
trying lawsuit.
L. c. Uhl, three times county attor-
ney Of Smith county. will be q Demo-
cratic candidate for the legislature. He
Is popular anon Smith county voters.
Uhl will contest with Frank b. Lump
kin Of Bellaire for the nomination.
Lumpkin was a member Of the 1913
session and wants to return next win
ter.
Progressive meetings are to be held in
all parts OF the Sixth district in the next
ten days, according to a statement
made by Mrs. Eva Merely Murphy while
in Mankato. Meetings have been held
in the last few days in Jewell, Bellaire
Lebanon. Smith Center, Osborne and
Stockton. According to MIS-. Murphy's
view of Sixth district conditions, Pro-
gressive county tickets will be nomi
mated in a majority Of the counties of
the Big Sixth.
Governor Hodges arrived in Mankato
at O'Clock in the morning. He was
tired and weary and wanted to rest in
preparation for the hard trip ahead of
him. A kindly and sympathetic hotel
proprietor stretched the rules of the
hostelry and the governor and his party
slept until o'clock In the morning and
ate a 10 o'clock breakfast.
The meetings in Mankato and Smith
Center are said to have been the
largest political gatherings held in
those towns in several years. A crowd
Of 700 people at 10 o'clock in the
morning at Mankato was a surprise
even to the local Democratic leaders.
Smith Center packed the opera house
with a seating capacity Of 1000 and
probably SO people stood during the
speaking. Every section of Smith and
Jewell counties were represented at
the two meetings. Progressive meet
ing in Smith Center Monday afternoon
drew a crowd of $50.
Dan Dyer. former postmaster and a
Republican of the old school in Smith
county, may be a candidate for a place
on the state irrigation commission. The
office pays a salary Of $4,000 a year
Paul Reich Of Syracuse, a former
member of the state legislature from
hamilton county. il the only Renuh-