The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP
A Capper.Brewer Combination
May Be Offered.
1t Ought to Please Both Fac
tions Of Party.
BREWER Of THE SENATE LODGE
That Capper's Paper Fought So
Hard for Four Years.
Brewer viii Run for Lieutenant
Governor at This Time.

Prospects for Capper-Brewer COM
bfnation in the interest of the harmony
cause. are made probable in the an
nouncement of ]. e. Brewer of Abb
lene that he will be a candidate for
lieutenant governor and seek to be the
Topeka publishers running mate. Both
Capper and Brewer will seek nomina-
ton on the platform planks adopted
Tuesday night by the Republican state
committee and both men will point to
the record of progress of the party in
Kansas
Capper's candidacy will be based On
his stand for progressive measures and
principles and Brewer will balance any
tendency on the part OF the Topeka
publisher to lean too far. toward any
faction or following. From 1905 to 1903.
Brewer was member of the Kansas
state senate. He was listed as one of
the tried, true and trusted members of
the senate lodge" Of 1907 and with F.
Dumont Smith. Noftzger. Fitzpatrick.
Stewart and others assisted in the con-
troll OF the upper house. Brewer is ac-
tive, aggressive and shrewd and above
all. high grade fighter.
An effort was made Tuesday by Cap
per's friends to bring about the an
nouncement of w. Y. Morgan Of Hutch
inson as a candidate for the lieutenant
governorship. But Morgan left town
without announcing that he would run.
Then Brewer came to the front and
said that he would enter the.race Thus
Capper-Brewer combination is Of
fered in the interests of harmony.
Capper's return from a Progressive
Republican and a Roosevelt supporter
of two years ago, to a running mate
with, Brewer Is regarded by political
leaders as a safe return to fundamental
or loo md In ri q lima
will satisfy the old crowd in the party.
On the other hand, Brewers desertion
Of his old associates to take up the
championship of Capper, jackson, Dol
ley. Bristow and Codding. places the
Dickinson county man in good stand
ing with the progressive element Of
the party. And as a final testimonial Of
the sincerity of both, the harmony
leaders recall that the state committee
resolutions were perfectly satisfactory
men will seek nomination endorsing the
same declaration of principles.
Endorsed Hodges, Hettinger, Neeley.
No man is ywise enough to know
what a Reno county political meeting
may do. Every politician-Republi-
can. Progressive or Democrat-who
reads a political item from Reno coun-
ty these days Immediately shifts the
air for the smell of smoke and the
odor Of singed hair. So it was only
in keeping with traditions of the coun-
ty when Reno Democrats met and did
the very thing they were expected not
to do.
Under a strange and peculiar situa-
ton which is best known locally in
Hutchinson. the stage was set to give
George A. Medley the scare OF his
young and ambitious life. 1t was also
planned to shut off Frank Hettinger's
congressional aspirations and to
square old accounts with Governor
| Hodges by mentioning him not at all.
And of course it was only natural that
the Reno county Democrats did the
| cry thing they had been advertised
not to do. They adopted resolutions
endorsing both Hodges, Hettinger and
Neeley Which is another testim onial
for the brand of political dope that
comes from Emmerson Carey's salt
~ Committees in All Counties.
In a statement by U. S. Sartin of
Kansas City, Kansas, the Progressive
state chairman states that county or
tually all of the counties of the state
ard that county committees will be
organized in 100 of the los counties
of the state.
Sartin, Il will have a list of more
than 100 chairmen in the los cOun-
I ties of Kansas. We have nearly all
of the counties organized now and are
working hard on the remaining cOur-
ties. The last ones are the more OBJ
stinate. Of course. and require harder
| work to perfect our organization. We
are advising the Progressives in every
county in the state to put out full
county tickets"
Sartin has spent couple Of weeks
visiting in the state and has helped in
the oganization Of a number OF local
committees. 1t is probable that he
will go to Wichita Friday for the
Eighth district Bull Moose meeting.
Murdoch Coming Home.
Congressman Victor Murdoch of
Wichita, Progressive candidate for
United States senator, will return to
| Kansas this week and will speak at
Friday afternoon. Murdoch and Henry
J. Allen will be the principal speak
ers at the Friday afternoon meeting.
while Raymond Robins of Chicago
will speak at the banquet in the
Forum Friday night. Large crowds
have been promised from all Of the
counties of the district; and the Wich-
tia gathering will be the first OF a
series of congressional district meet
| ings to be held by the Bull Moosers
this year.
| New Senatorial Candidate.
Fred Newburry, a Reno county
farmer, has announced his candidacy
for the Democratic United States SEN
/ atorial nomination. Newburry. who
is a stock raiser, once served a term
in the Nebraska state legislature. Al
the recent meeting Of the Pawnee
county Democrats in Larned. New
| bury, who attended, found an open
ing at the close of the program, intro
duced himself, walked to the stage
and told Larned Democracy of his
work in the Nebraska legislature until
the POSTMASTER called him down.
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