The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-15
is ALL ONE WAY.
Three-FOurths of the Districts
Have Held Conventions
For the Selection of Delegates
to Chicago.

vention elected in six of the eight con-
gressional districts, the vote today
stands: Standlatters, -; Progressives,
0. That is the net result of the fight
to overthrow the Mulvane rule in
Kansas. OF course Mulvane person
ally may be far, far from success. But
with a majority of the delegation to
Chicago already in the bag, there is
not a wise politician in Kansas who
cannot analyze the situation to mean
that the old crowd in the party will
have something to say about the cleo
ton of a national committeeman.
I'D to date Mulvane has a quite
friendly following in the delegations
from the First, Third and Fifth dis
tricts. He has neither asked for nor
received endorsements. The Second
district is against Mulvane personally,
but Tucker ard Morse, TWO staunch
Second district standpatters have
been selected. The Sixth district has
endorsed J. r. Burrow of Topeka
Eighth district Republicans have en-
dorsed Fred B. Stanley of Wichita, the
present committeeman and the man
who directed the fight against the
Roosevelt electors in the Kansas
courts in 1912. Burrow was a stock
holder in the Republican league of
four years ago.
That is the situation to date Pos
sibly Fourth district Republicans will
instruct against Mulvane. Yet no ac-
ton of the Fourth district convention
today can destroy control of the TWEEN
ty delegates to Chicago for the stand
patters.
Standpatters Win All.
IN view of the action of the Second.
Sixth and Eighth district conventions,
Mulvane personally may be out OF the
running Whether control of the sit
uatiOn has been lost by men who have
nj Friendly with the Mnl-
vane faction in Kansas politics, is
quite another thing. Shrewd politi-
clans are slow to concede that the old
crowd in the party will not have
something to say about a national
committeeman in view of the fact that
their friends and associates have won
all the places on the delegation. May
be after all it is the voice of Jacob
and the hand of Esau. Maybe after
all the victory for which the reform
wing of the party has made such a
stubborn fight is but hollow success.
A look at the delegations from the
six districts shows none of the famil-
lar names of men who followed false
prophets in former campaigns. The
twelve delegates selected in the First,
Second Third, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth
districts are men who have kept their
party affiliations straight through
every battle. For reasons of expe-
diency some of these delegates will
support
asserted, will they support a man who
has not been somewhere in the inner
councils of the old guard and Mulvane
and his friends have the names of
most of the eligibles in this class.
May Be Burrow or Stanley.
Viewed from district convention in
structions, the fight may now be be-
tween Burrow and Stanley. Both of
the men, though, are warriors who
have trained with Mn1Vane in
battle. Both men counselled and con-
ferred with Mulvane during the fight
on Roosevelt, Stubs. Capper and the
Progressives in 1912 and 1914. Stan
ley was in almost daily communication
with Mulvane during the 1912 fight.
If reports are true, Burrow helped
finance the campaign which put the
Stubs machine in the scrap heap and
elected George H. Hodges over Arthur
Capper in the governorship contest
Now there is talk of a new elimina-
ton process that will put all of the
three candidates out of the running
But in the selection of a new man for
national committeeman. it may be diff
ficult to secure the support of the
twelve standpat delegates for a man
who is positively unfriendly to the
Mulvane faction.
The names of delegates and alter
mates chosen Tuesday follow:
Second District.
Charles H. Tucker, Lawrence, and
John o. Morse, Mound City; alter
mates, Sennett Kirk, Garnett, and c.
w. Jones, Olathe.
Third District.
W. S. Kirkpatrick, Independence,
and A. H. Denton, Arkansas City; al
ternates, D. H. Fisher, Chanute, and
Daniel Spooner Mulberry.
Fifth District.
Ross Fulton, Marysville, and Fred
w. Sturges, jr., Concordia; alternates,
L. D. Spencer, Barnes, and Fred r.
kirkpatrick, Salina.
Sixth District.
Emmett George, Mankato, and Ike
Purcell, Wakeeney; alternates, F. n.
Lockard. Sherman county and E. A.
Swezey of Lincoln county.
Eighth District.
J. B. Adams, Ell Dorado, and Ezra
Branine. Wellington; alternate F. G.
Ferguson, Wellington and Warren
Brown, Augusta.