The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-31
Details Arranged for Hughes
Meeting in Topeka.
Nine Other Talks Will Be Made
on Union Pacific.
THEY'LL Be WAITING FOR HIM
Reception of $4,000 at Capitol
When Nominee Arrives.
He Is Here at 2:47 and Leaves
at $3.50 Friday.

All details for the big Hughes meet
irg in Topeka Friday had been worked
out today and local committees an
nounced that with favorable weather
conditions, the opening of the Repub-
lican campaign here would be one of
the feature political events in several
years. Governor Hughes will speak
forty minutes here. He will make nine
ether short talks in the state during
the day.
Governor Capper and Fred E. STAN
ley, Republican rational committee
man, will leave tonight for Hays,
where they will meet the Hughes
party early Friday morning. Eight
stops will be made before the train ar
rives in Topeka from Denver and at
each stopping point between Hays and
Topeka, Hughes will make q few re-
marks. In Salina and several other
towns he will make ten minute talks
When the Hughes train arrives in
Topeka at 2:47 Friday afternoon over
the Union Pacific, the Republican
presidential nominee will be given
real Kansas reception. 1t is probable
that $4,000 men and women will at
tend the meeting at the state house, IL
weather conditions permit automobile
parties to reach Topeka. Hundreds
of women will participate in the re-
ception for Hughes and his wife.
Sunflowers and Flags.
Scores of cars driven by Topeka and
| Kansas women will be parked in Ninth
| street under a special. arrangement.
| Each of the women driving a car will
| will carry big yellow sunflowers and
flags. Following the passage of the
Hughes party, the women will march
| to the state house. Special reserva-
| tions have been made for them.
Arrangements had been completed
today for special decorations on office
| buildings, stores and residences in
honor of the presidential candidate.
| Charles 1. Martin, adjutant general,
and Harvey Parsons, chief of police.
have made special arrangements for
handling the crowds
| Governor Hughes will speak from
the north steps of the state house. A
band concert at o'clock will pre-
| cede.fthe speaking and efforts will
be made to locate the crowd before
| the arrival of the Hughes train.
| The first Hughes speech in Kansas
will be five minute talk at Hays, Ellis
county, early Friday morning. Other
| stops en- route to Topeka will include:
Russell, Wilson. Ellsworth, Salina
| Abilene, Junction City and Manhattan
| Following the Topeka meeting, a spe-
cial train will carry the Hughes party
| to Kansas City for a night meeting
| The train will stop ten minutes in
Lawrence and Hughes will make his
| tenth speech of the day in Kansas.
Charles Sessions, chairman of the
| Republican state committee, an
nounced today that special commit
tee had been named to meet the
Hughes party in Manhattan. Friday
afternoon. The committee is COM
posed of Governor and Mrs. Arthur
Capper, Mrs. ]. S. West Senator
James A. Troutman, John CLANCY
chairman of the Shawnee county com
mittee, J. N. Doiley, Scott Hopkins
Frank p. MacLennan and W. R
Stubbs of Lawrence. The party will
meet Governor Hughes in Manhattan
at 1:i5 Friday afternoon. Chairman
Sessions will accompany the Hughes
party to Kansas City, where he will
attend dinner in Hughes's honor
Friday night. He will remain for the
meeting in Convention hall.