The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15
The KANSAS VIEW
What the SunflOwer Delegates
Are Doing.
Gossip About Our Representa-
tiyeS at st. Louis.
(BY A. l.. SHULTZ.)

Estate journal Staff Correspondent
st. Louis, June 15.-While Kansas
Democrats are talking harmoney for
the national ticket during the present
campaign, they are also discussing
the situation which may face the party
at home in 1918. In connection with
their consideration of the future,
number of Bourbon patriots have
launched a little boomlet for Samuel
B. Amidon of Wichita for the sena
toriaI fight two years hence. Amidon
is listed as the latest possibility in the
fight against William H. Thompson
for denomination and his boom is
being engineered by the men who
came from Kansas to assist in the
Wilson ratification.
There has been no open trouble
among the Kansas Democrats during
the convention. There is none now.
Every one out in the Sunflower state
is for peace and harmony. They see
in a peace situation the one possible
chance of party success in November.
Leaders have gone to such an extent
as to agree to eliminate factional
fights in the primaries. 1t is a presi-
Dental year and every one is anxious
for Bourbon success. But certainly
there can be no sin in the considera-
ton of a situation that will face Kan
sas Democracy in 1912. That is the
reason the little boost for Amidon was
gently placed on the track when no
one was looking.
Amidon isn't exactly candidate
Neither has he exactly committed
himself regarding the matter. He is
chairman of the Kansas delegation
| in the national convention and he be-
| lieves in looking after just one poll
l teal issue at time. He was chair
! man of the state convention at
/ Hutchinson, has been active in the af-
| fairs of his party for a number of
years, is an able lawyer and is re-
garded by the anti-Thompson men as
trouble to Thompson in a primary
contest
In the handling of the affairs of
the Kansas delegation, Senator
Thompson has been much in evidence.
When there was a mixup regarding
the ticket situation and someone filed
first claim on a block of tickets be-
longing to w. F. Sapp, national COM
mitteeman, Senator Thompson made
himself solid for life with the con-
vention visitors when he began the
distribution of a large supply of paste
/ boards. Then, too, the Democratic
senator from Kansas picked off the
place on the platform committee when
the Sapp forces had made all arrange
ments to send it elsewhere.
None of these things caused an open
eruption among the delegates or Wis
situation. They elected Thompson
/ unanimously. They were friendly
| with Sapp. And Sapp was also open
ly friendly with James w. Orr OF
Atchison, whom Sapp recently defeat
ed for the national committeemanship
When Orr came to St. Louis, Sapp met
him with open arms and the war OF
the Hutchinson convention was waived
aside, as Sapp rendered the Atchisor
lawyer some choice seats on the
speakers platform.
Outside the convention hall, the
Kansas delegates are having the time
of their lives. They have been enter
tanned and made happy with the best
the Dutch convention town could of.
fer. Following the opening session OF
the convention, the Kansans were
guests of members of the Business
Mems association and were given g