The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-22
ALL DEALS FAILED
BurrOw-BriStOW-Bailey Crowd
Couldn't Swing "Big Four"
SaOff MOrUon Smith, VILLA m 6
Scott Morgan Smith w iIliams
Combination Too Strong.
FRED STANLEY IN EASY VICTORY
Wichita Man Will Be Named
National Committeeman.
Eight Men Were in Race as
Delegates to Chicago.


Combinations and deals for votes
for the Burrow-B ristow-B Bailey fol-
| lowing in the state convention were
not sufficiently strong to swing a
majority of the delegates and the
Scott Morgan Williams-Smith combi-
nation won the places on the Big
Four The convention elected Charles
F. Scott, lola; w Y. Morgan, Hutch
! inson; AL F. williams. Columbus, ana
T. D. Smith, Hiawatha, on the first
ballot.
elimination of the fight for con-
troll of the delegates at large to the
Republican national convention meant
another smash up for the Bristow ma
chine. This time BriStow was backed
and aided and abetted by J. R. Bur-
row, candidate for national commit
| teeman, and Burrow banking influ-
ences. That the slate might catch
both progressives and conservatives
Willis j. Bailey of Atchison, former
governor, was pushed into the run
ming. The combination failed to hold.
Scores of Bailey former friends and
political associates voted against him
in the convention because of the line
up in the national committeeman
fight.
All for Stanley.
Results of the Republican state
convention mean the certain election
of Fred Stanley of Wichita as nation
al committeeman. j. r. BurroW and
his friends claimed a number of dis
puted delegates to Chicago and
through control of the state conven-
ton, hoped to win the election None
of the four men elected is friendly to
BurroW in his committeeman fight
Elrick Cole of Great Bend presided
during the convention and Drew Nc
Laughlin of Hiawatha was chairman.
Both men were elected without oppo-
sition. Then the delegates forgot
| harmony and began to look for trou-
BILE.
Fight on Bailey.
When E. Z. Mullaney. campaign
manager for Burrow, offered motion
that Bailey be given privileges of the
floor, the move started a fight. Bailey
finally won the floor, but said nothing
that Intensified the fractional feeling
among delegates. He declared he had
been Republican through prosperity
and adversely, and was always in good
standing with his party. His creden-
tails, he said, were sufficient to war
rant his making a speech before a
state convention. That was as far as
Bailey went in any move which threat
ened to arouse opposition delegates.
Before the convention many of
Bailey's former friends had urged him
to stay out of the fight. But he in
sisted that his name go before the
delegates In the election, some of
Bailey's warmest personal friends in
the state voted against him.
| With Bristow it was different. Bris-
tow first threatened to get il, then in
Dictated he might get out For "a
hours before the convention the stand
patters in the convention were fearful
! lest the former United States SEN
ator might not give them a chance to
/ a nf a
delegates showed that Bristow was
badly beaten and the convention lead
ers were anxious to reaffirm the de-
cision of the Republican voters who
in August, 1914 declined to endorse
the Bristow record in Washington.
Eight Candidates.
Eight candidates went before the
convention. They were: Charles f.
Scott, lola w. Y. Morgan, Hutchin-
son; AL F.. Williams Columbus; T. D.
Smith, Hiawatha; Willis J. Bailey,
Atchison; Joseph L. Bristow, Roy Nc
Hanna, Clay Center. The candidates
finished the fight in the order given.
Offers of compromise and at
tempted deals and combinations in
the handling of delegations failed so
far as results to the Bristow-Bailey-
Burrow slate were concerned They
were unable to land one delegate. In
the Sixth district efforts were made
to force a gag rule under a unit sys-
tenn that would bind the delegates to
support Bailey, Bristow and McAdams.
The plans failed except in few of the
smaller counties of the northwest
country. Friends of both Otis L. Ben
ton and Max Anderson, Sixth district
congressional candidates, aided in the
move to deliver the district.
Without Instructions.
Delegates to the national convention
were sent without instructions either
as to presidential candidates or candi-
dates for national committeeman
Fred Stanley of Wichita, however, is
assumed to have big majority of the
delegates and will be the next national
committeeman to succeed himself
Because w. Y. Morgan of Hutchin-
son would not support the BurroW
slate, he was under fire in the conven.
ton by the Observation-Disclosures
machine. Morgan had led the figh
on d. w. Mulvane for committeeman
When Mulvane stated that he was no
a candidate. Morgan lined up behind
Scott and Williams. Both men were
opposed to Burrow. Morgan alsC
made clear that he would not suppor
Burrow. So the Burrow organizator
, directed an unsuccessful fight on the
popular Hutchinson man.
Alternates to the Big Four member,
of the Kansas delegation to Chicago
are: Mrs. Sidney Breese, Cotton
wood Falls; E. 3. Jewett, Wichita
NJ L. V. Turner, Pratt; and the Rev
j. r. Ransom, Kansas City.
The resolutions adopted by the con
, VentiOn appear in full on Dapa 2