The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-12
KANSAS PROGRESSIVES
ARE HERE IN FORCE
CONTINUED from Page One,

1858 OS AVlOWSs O808cs 1VUs w yam
dotte. 100: Shawnee. 100: Douglas. 100;
Jackson. 30: Atchison, 20; Franklin. 25;
Jenerson. 30: Mcpherson, 80; Lyon
~; Riley. 20; Sedgwick. Is; Chase, 10;
! fottawatomie. 20: Wilson. 20: Woodson
(, Y; Geary. 10; Washington. 10; Mont
! gomery. 20; Reno. rs: johnson. 10;
/ Rocks. s; Wabaunsee. 20: Anderson. 10;
Hice. 6: Stafford, 8: Sumner, Is: Bour-
bon. 10; Neosho. 10: Labette. 10; Green
wood. 8: Pratt. 20; Barton. 10; Clay. 10;
vey. II: and Wilson. Is. Additional
tickets were sold during the morning
hours and at noon there was every in
dication that the demand for seats al
the annual dinner would equal the seat
ing capacity on the. first floor Of the
Auditorium.
Allen for Governor.
Following the morning meeting OF
Kansas Progressives in the Grand
] opera house, 400 Bull Moosers crowded
into the parlors Of the National hotel
, to urge the candidacy or Henry }.
Allen Of Wichita, Congressman Victor
Murdock started the general stampede
for Allen-if 1t really needed a start
when he aroused the enthusiasm and
fighting spirit of the Kansas Bull
Moose by declaring that the third party
workers should take the Wichita pub
Usher by the collar and push him into
| the fight.
Murdock and U. s. sartin were the
principal speakers at the morning
meeting Of the Progressives who made
preliminary plans for the writing OF
tentative state platform. The enthusi-
| asm of the Progressive leaders was just
as evident as at the meeting OF the
party workers a year ago when they
declared for a new political organtza-
| tiOE in the state. Some Of the men who
sat in the 1913 meeting were not pres
ent today. But large crowd OF Kan
rIvv NJ hny
out of town visitors for the banquet.
sat in the theater today and forgot the
young blizzard that they might attend
the meeting.
The Allen for governor boom. how
i ever, was the big feature Of the morn
ing session. Delegates from every
county represented at the meeting had
discussed the possibilities Of Aliens
, candidacy Allen himself had been nom
committaL Party leaders refused to
concede that there was no hope for the
Allen announcement and Murdock sent
the crowd to Aliens room to demand
that he make the race.
I'VE must close up our ranks In
Kansas" declared Murdock. in ad-
dressing the Bull Moosers. I'VE not
only want a candidate for United
States senator, but we want a candi-
, date for governor. Let every man and
women remember room 270 at the
National hotel. And let every one of
you take Allen by the hand and the
coat collar and push him into this
race"
The proposal received a noisy re-
ception and the Bull Moose crowd did
not forget Murdock's suggestion.
Let me think. Give me time. See
me after Iunch," were the excuses
which Allen offered the several hum
dred visitors who went to his room.
"I don't want to run. I am with you,
will fight for you, will put my life
into it; but 1 don't want to rum
Aliens statements to his friends fol-
lowed earlier remarks to newspaper
reporters who asked him regarding
his possible candidacy.
II am standing by my former dec
larations," was all Allen had to say
for publication.
But the Allen boom was the real
genuine article. And this afternoon
the Progressive Eubernatorial nomi-
nation is at Aliens disposal.
Should Allen refuse to run. it is re-
garded as probable that Sheffield In
gals of Atchison will be a candidate.
Yet Ingalls, will make no statement
until Allen has announced his deci-
sion.
1T still looks as though Allen will
rum said Ingalls,. $50 far as any
possibility Of my own candidacy Is
concerned, there Is nothing which
no statement until Allen decides"
The Morning Meeting.
Planks for a tentative Bull Moose
platform in Kansas are being drafted
this afternoon by a committee named
tricts of the state. That the prepri-
mary platform will declare for the most
genuine progressive principles and per-
haps reaffirm all Of the planks OF the
national platform of 1912. is the belief
and hope of many Of the Progressive
leaders who are participating in to-
days proceedings.
During the noon hour members of the
resolutions committee held confer
ence. but when the afternoon meeting
was called at o'clock, but little had
been accomplished in the drafting OF
the platform principles Of the COM
ing campaign. William Allen White.
Progressive national committeeman for
Kansas, declined to serve on the res
olutions committee and the places went
mainly to workers in the several dis
tricts. Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy. OF
Goodland, and o. w. Dawson of Great
Bend, both congressional candidates,
are the only state candidates who were
given places on the committee.
An effort to delay the appointment
of a resolutions committee was voted
down and the Bull Moosers IN Topeka
today indicated by almost unanimous
vote that they wanted early action on
platform. Harry Wright. an em-
ployee on the Capper publications.
sought to delay the announcement OF
the First district members Of the COM
mittee until after the noon lunch hour
But Wright's plan received only his
Individual vote.
With the naming Of the committee
Progressive leaders turned over to the
members a big bundle of proposed
platform planks. The incl1ded endorse
ments of radical initiative and referen-
dunn and recall policies, recall Of ju-
dietary and judicial decisions. govern
ment ownership of railroads and pub
lie service corporations, national pro-