The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-03
KANSAS TO Give
HUGHES 8 VOTES
IN FIRST BALLOT
Six of Remaining for Root and
Four for Weeks.
Twentieth Will Go to New
Yorker, Is Belief.
THE FEELING AGAINST COLONEL
Not Love for Hughes That
Has Influenced Vote.
Dave MuIvane of Topeka Sits
on Lid at Chicago.
Twentieth Will Go to New
Yorker, Is Belief.
THE FEELING AGAINST COLONEL
Not Love for Hughes That
Has Influenced Vote.

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since the Republican state convention.
| inside dope as to the alignment of
Kansas delegates became known here
| today. An authoritative poll of the
twenty delegates from Kansas will
| probably give Hughes nine votes on
| the first ballot. Six of the remaining
! votes are regarded as certain for Root
with four for Weeks. The twentieth
| delegate is uncertain as to Root or
Weeks. but is expected to support the
| New Yorker on the first ballot.
| Claims of Hughes supporters in
Kansas to the effect that they would
| be able to deliver two-thirds of the
Kansas delegation to Justice Hugh-s
| on the first ballot were shattered in
| the dope sheet which today became
the official document in the record
of uninstructed delegates. While Just
ice Hughes will lead the field in the
fight for control of the delegation, he
will fall one vote short of an even
break on the delegation and two votes
short of majority. Except in event
| of swing to the supreme court just
ice after the early balloting, it is not
believed that Hughes will at any time
receive more than ten of the twenty
votes.
Drive En- to Hughes.
| An alignment which would drive
the aKnsas delegates to Hughes is ex-
| pected to be perfected only in event
| party leaders in the convention feel
| that all anti-Rooseve1t forces must
| be centered early in the battle IL an
| effort to block Roosevelt's nomina-
| ton. In that event all anti-Roosevelt
| delegates would be herded together
| in an effort to beat the colonel. The
standpat crowd which claims abso-
| lutte control of the convention through
| uninstructed delegates, assert their
willingness to accept Hughes in pref
erence to Roosevelt. 1t is not love for
| Hughes. It is political feeling against
| the colonel. They overlooked Gov
| ernor Capper's action as progressive
and forgave him, but it's harder to
| forget Roosevelt.
Spurn Compromise.
! Leaders in the Progressive camp as
sert they will spurn all offers of a
compromise. 1t is the same spirit
which marked the Progressives state
convention in Topeka ten days ago.
| The Mulvane party leaders merely
smile at any suggestion that Roosevelt
| might at any stage of the fight receive
| help from Kansas. The delegation is
stampede-proof, they assert 1t may
divide as to Weeks or Root and refuse
to unite on Hughes. But Roosevelt,
| Nay, Gertrude.
| Nine for Hughes.
Nine men in the delegation from
Kansas who are expected to support
Hughes on the first ballot are: w. Y.
| Morgan, lieutenant governor, Hutch
inson; Charles Tucker, Lawrence;
| John o. Morse, Mound City; J. J.
| Rhodes, Council Grove; E. F. Fulton,
| Marysville; Emmett George, Mankato;
I. E. Purcell, Wakeeney; L. J. Petty
john, Dodge City, and Ezra Branine,
Newton.
Six and probably seven votes are re-
garded as certain for Root when the
delegates cast their first ballot late
next week. The Kansans regarded as
most certainly in the Root column are:
Al F. Williams, Columbus; S. F. Fitz-
patrick, Independence; A. H Denton,
Arkansas City; Fred Sturgis, Con-
cordia; ]. N. Tfncher, Medicine Lodge,
and ]. B. Adams, ElDorado. Charles
| E. Moore of Eureka, is listed as un-
certain as to Root or Weeks, but is
expected to vote for Root on the first
ballot. With Moore in the ranks, Root
would be insured seven votes in the
delegation. Otherwise, Root would
check in with six delegates and Weeks
of Massachusetts would have five votes
to his credit.
Charles F. Scott. lola; r. D. Smith
Hiawatha; w. D. Casey, Atchison; and
Ira K Wells, Seneca, are placed in the
Weeks column under the dope sheet
The Weeks delegates are expected to
go to Root if the former Massachusetts
senator is out of it after the early bal
loting.
Two for Weeks.
Two members of the Big Four
Scott and Smith-are in the Weeks
column, with Morgan for Hughes and
Williams for Weeks. Both members
of the First district delegation are for
Weeks, while delegates from the Sec
ond and Sixth districts are expected to
vote solfdly for Hughes. Both dele
gates from the Third district are listed
for Root, while delegates from other
districts are divided.
II D. w. Mulvane of Topeka, former
national committeeman for Kansas, is
sitting on the lid at the Congress hotel
Mulvane is one of the really big men
in the councils of the old guard. He
served on the committee which four
years ago voted to unseat the Roose-
Welt delegates. In spite of the fight
which was made on Mulvane in the
congressional district conventions last
spring, the Topeka mans strength
with the Kansas delegation is some
thing for leaders to conjure with.
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