The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-30
Campaign Orators To Be
Turned Loose Then.
/ Voters viii Be BOmbarded
With Party "PIanks."
CAPPER ON A MOTOR TOUR
Governor Will Travel 1000
Miles in Two Weeks.
Democrats Have Plenty of Tai
ent to Take Care of Week.

Every section of Kansas is to be
STORM center for campaign orators
who are to be turned loose on the state
next week Both Republican and
Democrat state committees today an
nounced speaking dates for next week
and no section of the state is to escape
the vote hunters.
Governor Capper Will, next week,
begin a two weeks automobile tour of
the Fifth. Sixth and Seventh districts.
He will travel 1000 miles on his trip,
which is to be the most extensive and
spectacular campaign trip staged i'll
the state in the same period of time.
With the announcement by Charles
H. Sessions, Republican, state chair
man, of dates for Governor Capper
and other campaign orators, Hubert
Lardner chairman of the Democrat
committee. announced dates for w. ].
Bryan. The Commoner comes TO the
state October and 10, for nine
speeches in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth districts. Both state COM
mittees will make the western ter
ritory the battle ground next month.
1t is in the western half of the state
that the Democrat congressman seem
to hold the greatest strength. But
fight in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and
Eighth districts, does not mean that
the territory comprising the Second
and Fourth districts-both Democratic
under 1914 returns-win be over
looked.
Wilson Won't Come.
Efforts of the Kansas Democrats
to bring President Wilson to Kansas
in October failed today when final
announcement was sent to Chairman
Lardner by Vance Mccormick, nation
al chairman of the Democrat COM
mittee The president will visit Omaha.
in october. In view of his visit to
Kansas in February, however, he de-
clined to come to the state Tor
speeches in Kansas City and Wichita.
Republican speakers announced to-
day are: Henry D. Estabrook. New
York; Senator George w Norris. Ne
| braska; Congressman Louis c. Cram
/ ton, Michigan; Ira c. Copley, Illinois;
Governor Capper, Topeka; Charles f.
/ Scott, lola; Henry j. Allen, Wichita;
/ Mrs. W. A. McCarter Topeka; Otis l..
/ Benton, Oberlin; John S. Simmons,
Hutchinson. Benton and Simmons are
the only congressional candidates who
have announced their dates for next
week.
Democrat Speakers.
Dates were announced by the DEM
/ ocrat state committee today for: w.
J. Bryan. Nebraska; Senator Ollie
| James, Kentucky, w. c. Lansdon, Sa-
! lima; Henderson S. Martin, Marion; ].
/ ID. Botkin, Winfield; Congressman
Rufus Hardy, Texas.
! Chairman Sessions announced the
: following Republican dates:
/ Henry ID. IsStabrook, New York
Monday, lola. afternoon; Chanute,
night. Tuesday. Junction City, night.
! United States Senator Georg w.
Norris, of Monday, Gar
nett. afternoon: Kansas City, Kan,
night Tuesday, Herington, afternoon;
! Marion, night. Wednesday, Salina,
/ afternoon: Mcpherson. night.
| Congressman Louis c. Cramton, of
| Michigan - Tuesday, Garden City:
| Wednesday, Larned; Thursday. Great
! Bend; Friday, Sterling; Saturday,
| Hutchinson, and several other towns
! in Reno county.
! Congressman Ira c. Copley, of Hi
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