The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-06

lnlS morning.
Dapper Vic Rosewater and Beau
Brumm elesque r. Beecher Howell OF
Nebraska, the TaIcum Powder Twins
of Peacock alley are bitter enemies
on all subjects save femininity.
Phew for the perfume of Peacock
alley. 1t is a worse com bination than
a village cut-up leaving country bar
Der shop on Saturday night. Odors
range from the delicately insinuating
to the simply staggering.
There's many a dark horse stabbed
on Michigan avenue that will never
leave his stall.
Dark horse puzzle: If Weeks. Knox.
Ford and Brumbaugh, Borah's Du-
points delegates to Root for Roosevelt
where will Burton, the others come
in? In other words Hughes who?
Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, the
prize pussyfooter of politics, never
spoke over a murmur but when he
whispers at one end of Michigan ave-
nue., he is heard by politicians for
miles around
The Barton Republican Glee club is
for Ohio's favorite son in both the
bass and treble clefs. AS they sing it,
He may not be hero, but he is not
a zero
The preparedness and safety first
idea has captured convention hotel
Managers. They've stripped the lob
bies of smashable furniture and hurI-
able cuspidors anent the advent of the
mobs.
| Purple. white and yellow suffragists
| are here looking like sunrise in the
| CatSkiIlS
! blacksmith John Blake, of Altoona
Is here with his hammer out for eyery-
body but Roosevelt He wants to see
MS imperial strenucusity forge ahead.
Elmer Burkett. of Nebraska. is
dragging his own vice presidential
boom around Candidates Row by the
heels. Burkett ought to go down in
history as the only man that ever
wanted the vice presidency and ad-
mitted it
Teddy may be interested to learn
mat group OF soprano gentlemen
Win vest pocket piano are piping
MN up in all the Hobbies.
Albert ]. Beveridge is with the Pro.
gresslves here this time only in spir.
IT, pen and ink. He's so busy writ
ing his John Marshall memoirs a,
Beverly Farms that he canrot come
Ohio's hackers of Theo. Burton dc
not take kindly to mention of thei,
1avor1te as the bachelor candidate
out any campaign buttons for Burton
lest some officer should designat.
them as bachelor buttons"
on the theory that seeing is be
heVlng, Sherman boosters have mn
yelled in their headquarters heroi,
sizeo picture of Abrah ham Lincoln. Al
VISITORS are asked to study the nor
tIalt well and then compare it Wit,
the likeness of Illinois favorite on.
Hawaii's two delegates were on tb,
ground today. J. Kalanianole com
i, on 1rcm Washington, where he repre-
seEtS the island as congressional dele
go denry Joiner Lyman arrive,
from Honolulu. The island co.,,
vote, but the people were intenseJv in
.erested in the outcome of the Rennh
llcan convention when 1 left home
Lyman declared
/ Mrs. Frank B. Willis. wife If Ohio.
f governor. will be in the suffrage IA :
due wednesday. She's an ,ctiv
worker in the suffrage organ ization a
Columbus ioii d
one Of the most belligerentlv pro
: so1SeveIt persons in Chicago is Mr.
a II. wharton of Seattle, Wash. Mr.,
a arton mas stumped the northwes
! TOT Roosevelt more than once and a
5 organized Roosevelt clubs among IN
e t oleH OF scores of northwest
i Towns She has a petition. signed b
1000 of those women which sba ~;
i nave presented to the Republican cor
d ven1ion asking that the G. 0. p. nam
S MIN Tor its presidential candidate
e me 1Irst woman sergeant-at-aru
r ever appointed for a noiit;c.I i "A
n ton is Mrs. Sarah f. Lyons of Mime
t poiis' who arrived here today. alrea 4
10 queil any disturbances that ma
: arise among the 80 women delegat.