The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-11
VILLA DIES FROM WOUNDS, WASHINGTON Il
Sate and City Officials Declare Grand Opera House Is In Dangerous


federal machine Anti-machine dele
gates were urged to support Il. y.
Doerr. Larned; Sa1nue. Bartlett. ELS
worth; Mrs. w. y. Harris. Kansas CITY,
and w. H. Carpenter, Marion, for
big four places. Thompson leaders
will also support Mrs. Harris.
With Hodges pledged to the support
of Senator Thompson the federal
crowd insisted on keeping their lead
er in the race. They also drew the
lines for Neeley voters
Will Not Nominate Orr.
AS he entered the convention Muir
ply stated that he did not expect to
second the nomination of Orr, al
though the vote of the Leavenworth
delegation would be delivered to him.
Murphy is said to have agreed several
weeks ago to take the floor for Orr.
S. B. Amidon of Wichita was chosen
temporary chairman without opposi-
ton and ]. M. Lewis of Kinsley was
placed as temporary secretary. In MS
address, Chairman Amidon lauded
President Wilson's policy in Mexico
and in foreign affairs and made
plee for harmony.
Let us remember that we have an
election next November and we need
peace and harmony for the best in
terest of the party" he said. ALREADY
that distinguished king of American
rough riders has lassoed the Republl-
can party and he will take the nomi-
nation at the Chicago convention. This
will afford the Democrats in Kansas
the privilege of carrying the state by
25 900 ma ajority at the next election.
Recess Until 3 p. m.
Both Whitney and Thomas delega
tions held seats in the convention dur
ing the preliminary organization
Their contest was to be fought before
the credential committee.
Thomas and Billiard sat side by side
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moved and unresponsive when Chair
man Murphy brought repeated ap-
plause by his tributes to the Wilson
| administration. Billiard showed equal
lack of concern when the delegates
applauded mention of Hodges.
Committees of forty members each
were named and instructed to report
after the recess which was taken until
8 o'clock.
Fight on Neeley.
George A. Neeley of Hutchinson
barely saved his Seventh district dele
gates in the big four fight when the
Seventh district insurgents sought to
| instruct the district convention for A.
a. Doerr of Larned. Neeley himself
took the floor to fight for adjourn
ment and was beaten IL to 81. After
hard battle the Doerr resolution was
tabled but Neeley was forced to go to
! the state convention with half of his
district against him.
4, The Neeley fight started when a
number of insurgents refused to fol-
low the Hodges suggestion and line
up for Thompson. The fight on
1t was started in his home district an
hour in advance of the state conven-
ton.
Thompson delegates spent the
morning in an effort to line up dele
gates for Sapp. Hodges and Farrelly
] RI Tod I1n fterY,% =
| SO postmasters and federal appointees
got in the fight for Orr and the
Thompson machine.
Sixth District Scare.
Sixth district delegates threw a
scare into the Thompson camp when
they adopted a resolution against the
selection of any federal office holder
to a place on the delegation. The
fight for the resolution came from
! the insurgent camp and was carried
against an organization directed by a
! dozen Sixth district postmasters.
Miss Vernon There.
That the Democrats might miss
nothing in the way of trouble Miss Ma
| bel Vernon came to town at a most
inopportune time. She wanted her
pet resolution for national suffrage
endorsed. She sat in a box with a
half dozen Hutchinson club women
| during the preliminary organization.
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before the committee depended on
the attitude of members. Her resolu-
ton will be urged she declared An
drew Shearer of Marshall county a
member of the resolutions committee
declared emphatically he would fight
| the measure.
Two hours was allowed the commit
tees to work out their programs while
delegates went to lunch. 1t was after
8 o'clock when Chairman Amidon
called the convention to order and the
stage was set for the final fight fo1
delegates and national committeeman
A Night of Trouble
Kansas Democrats spent a troubled
night before the convention and in fina1
| hours sought harmony in real earnest
some of them. The first step was
taken when George H. Hodges and
Hugh p. Farrelly lined up their forces
to support Senator Thompson for dele
gate at large, but insisted on the elm
ination of j. W. Orr for national COM
mitteeman. At midnight the second
harmony move was made when John
| E Wagner of Larned, withdrew from
the committeeman fight in favor OF
E. E. Murphy of Leavenworth.
The withdrawal of Wagner came
| when Murphy consented to make the
race against Orr and w F. Sapp
Neither Orr nor Sapp conceded defeat
! however, and both declared they
! would go to bat in today's convention
Insurgents in the convention clairr
that Wagner held the balance OF
power in the committeeman fight Il
this claim proves sound, Murphy i:
safe and the federal crowd is whipped
When Trouble Started.
Trouble for Orr started when the
forces led by Hodges and Farrell,
sought to secure the withdrawal o.
John E. Wagner of Larned as a candi
date for national committeeman L
was contended that Wagner in ths
early analysis of the vote, held tn.
balance of power in the convention
Wagner's withdrawal was sought OF
the grounds that a real harmony can
didate should be secured. Hodge.
and Farrelly swung their support Il
E e. Murphy of Leayenworth, chair
man of the state committee, and mar
with a strong following among Or