The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31
Clarence True Wilson Declines
to Run for Presidency.
Asks Withdrawal of His Name
From Nebraska Ticket.
SHOUSE is FOR ]. E. WAGNER
Congressman FavOrs Larned
Man for National Committee.
DR.. MiIIigan May Return to
Senate This Year.

Clarence True Wilson of Topeka.
will not be candidate for the presi-
dency on the Prohibition ticket. In
telegram today to Deets Pickett, re-
search secretary of the temperance so
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church, Wilson declares he has not
filed nominating petitions in Nebraska
nor other states. He will not engage
in the campaign as candidate, and
will seek the withdrawal of his name
from ballots in Nebraska.
Several days ago news dispatches
from Lincoln, Neb., stated that appli-
cation had been made with the secre-
tary of state for the placing of the
name of Clarence True Wilson of To-
peka on the ballots as candidate for
the presidency. Through this action
Wilson's name was to have gone be-
fore Nebraska voters in the presi-
Dental preference primaries. The
Wilson petitions sought to secure his
nomination on the Prohibition ticket.
Wilson is Topeka man and is
widely known among temperance
leaders of the nation. He is general
secretary of the temperance society of
the Methodist Episcopal church and
is now in the east in the interest of the
temperance cause. From New York,
Wilson sent to Pickett the following
telegram concerning his candidacy.
Contradict report of presidential
candidacy Have not filed in Ne
to the use of my name for any office
other than the one l now hold. Please
have name Withdrawn in Nebraska
and correct newspaper reports as far
as possible"
Pickett will at once direct the re-
moval of Wilson's name from the
presidential preference ballots in Ne
braska. So far as is known in To-
peka, Wilson's name has not been GER
titled in other states, In any event,
it was asserted today, the Topeka man
will not be a candidate for the presi-
dency on the dry ticket.
Shouse for Wagner.
Congressman Jouett Shouse of the
seventh district, has written a letter
favoring John E. Wagner of Larned
for Democratic national committee
man. Wagner is in the race as a har
mony candidate against w. F. Sapp
and J. w. Orr. Now he is pushing
ment from his home congressman.
Contrary to the rule governing the
election of a national committeeman
of the Republican party, the Demo-
Gratis will elect at the state conven-
ton Delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention choose the national
committeeman for their party. The
Bourbons, however, decide the matter
at their state convention in Hutchin-
son April II. All delegates to the
state convention VIII nave a voice III
the national committeeman fight.
DIR. ]. A. Milligan of Garnett may
be back in the state senate next win
ter. 1t is probable that he will be
nominated without opposition in the
Linn-Anderson county district and his
return to the state senate is regarded
as certain by persons in touch with
conditions in the Seventh senatorial
district.
DR.. Milligan served in the state SEN
ate during the sessions of 19O9-11. He
was the author of the bill providing
for the creation of the state tubercu-
losis sanitarium. He fought for his
measure during two sessions of the
legislature and it was due almost en-
tirely to his personal efforts that the
institution at Norton was established.
DR.. Milligan is now a member of the
board of managers of the sanitarium.
In his fight for election next fall,
DR.. Milligan will probably oppose
Senator Noah L. Bowman of Garrett.
Bowman is a Democrat. His break
with the Hodges administration in the
1913 session. however, left him in an
embarrassing position with his own
party and may be the cause of much
trouble in the campaign next fall