The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-29

the Saline-Ottawa county district in
the coming primaries Litowicn mas
been active in the affairs of the party
in Saline county for number OF years
and is regarded as one of the strong
est available candidates for the sena-
torship. He has been attending the
meetings of the State Bar association
and will attend tonight's banquet.
Wearing his characteristic red tie
and asserting the loyalty of the Tnlro
district for the Republican cause, Setn
I G. Wells of Erie arrived early Tor tne
banquet. Wells is editor of the Erie
Record and an original Burton for
president booster.
] All of the state officials were in
the crowd which milled today in the
| lobby of the National hotel RepuDll-
can headquarters. Among the state OF
ficers in the crowd were: Governor
| Capper, s. NJ. Brewster, attorney gen
eral; J. T. Botkin, secretary or state
Earl Akers, treasurer; w. E DAVIS
auditor; L. T. Hussey, fire marshal.
and Justices Porter, Mason, West and
Burch.
Dell Travis, former state fish and
game warden came with the crowd OF
delegates from Wichita. In the party
were also: Fred Stanley, national
candidate: Judge Thomas Wilson, con-
/ gressional candidate, and J. IL stew
art former state senate and candidate
| for delegate to the national conven-
ton from the Eighth district.
1t is long step toward party har-
mony when Fred Fl. Quincy, former
state senator from Saline county,
comes to meeting of the Kansas Day
club. Yet Quincy is here this year
The Salina banker will not admit 1t,
but net in four years has ne attended
a Republican dinner in Topeka.
Senator Vinton StiIlings. of Leavcn-
worth county is here with the Leav-
enworth county delegation. Stiliings
will again be a candidate for the sem
ate, he declared. other members of
che Leavenworth delegation are Rep
resentative Ben Endres and w. II.
Biddle managing editor of the Leav-
enworth Times.
Senator Ben S. Paulen came with a
delegation of a half dozen fighting
Wilson county Republicans. Paulen
is a candidate for second term as
state senator from the Neosho- Wilson
county district. He made an excellent
record in the 1913-15 sessions and
with a Republican upper house would
doubtless be a mcst valuable man for
his district.
John C. Nicholson. of Newton, for
mer fiscal agent, is here for the state
convention. as is also Ezra Branine
of the Harvey county seat. Branine
was a candidate for congress in 1914
81 wish Senator Frank Price would
! come to town and set at rest that re-
port that he will be a candidate for
justice of the supreme court" said j.
w. Bergman of Ashland. According
to the Clark county banker, Senator
: Price will again be candidate for the
! senate. He has never considered the
supreme court matter, Bergman de-
l clares.
= James r. Plumb of Emporia. a
Kansas Day visitor, is the probable
= candidate for the Republican sena-
: torial nomination in the Lyon-Green-
wood county district. Plumb, it is
claimed, will be given the senatorial
nomination without opposition.
r John Simmons of Hutchinson, CON
2 gressional candidate IN the Seventh dis
trict stayed for both the bar meeting
s and the Republican banquet. He was
l the Republican congressional nominee
= in his district in 1914. This year he is
2 opposed by Frank Russell of Lacrosse.
= IF 1 win the nomination this year, 1
can defeat CONGRESSMAN Shouse for
the election was Simmons's confident
= statement in Topeka today.
Two Greenwood county candidates
for congress- Howard J. Hodgson OF
: Eureka and Howard F. Martindale of
{ Madison, are here to attend the ban
5 quet. Both are making active cam
paigns for the nomination. Charles
e. Moore of Eureka, candidate for
delegate to the national conventions:
: and Ed Melbourne and George Gilman
of Madison are also in the Greenwood
| county crowd.