The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
Largest Jayhawker Delegation
in History to Chicago.
Every Well Known Republican
and Moose Leader Will Go.
WOMEN WILL LOOK ON, TOO
Fair Kansans Will Participate
in the Big Parade.
Committeeman Swamped With
Demand for Tickets.

Probably 500 Kansans will GO to
Chicag in June-a majority of them
with more or less vain hope that
they will be able to land tickets from
some imaginary or unknown sources
and attend the Republican and Pro-
gressive national conventions. 1t will
probably be the biggest crowd Kansas
ever sent to a convention city. AL
most every well known Republican
and Progressive leader in the
state will go to the convention and
several hundred citizens and patriots
from the ranks will add materially to
the number of KanSanS who will try
to see the big show.
Beginning with the middle of next
week Kansas politicians will begin
their pilgrimage to the scene of polit-
ica1 activities. Nearly all of the po-
ltical leaders secured hotel reserva-
tons weeks ago.. The sightseeing
crowd, however, was less thoughtful.
Many of them will wait until their ar
rival in Chicago before they look for
sleeping quarters. All of which will
probably mean that Kansas will con-
tribute her share of pilgrims who will
seek sleep and rest in chairs in the no.
tel 1obbies.
Fred B. Stanley of Wichita. Repub-
lican national committeeman for this
state, has been swamped with de-
mands for tickets to the Republican
national convention. He has recorded
requests from several hundred Kan
sas men and women who desire to see
the big show and it is probable that
a majority of them will be disappoint-
ed, as the demand for tickets is far in
excess of the allotment. Interest in
the presidential fight has attracted
both men and women from every dis
trict in the state.
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The big suffrage demonstration in
Chicago. during convention week is at
tracing many suffrage workers from
this state A majority of the women
who expect to participate in the parade
have also made demand on delegates
or on the national committeman for
tickets
Demands for tickets is not confined
to the Republican convention. William
Allen White. Progressive national
committeeman, is also having trouble.
First the state increased her number
of delegates from thirteen to thirty
four. All of them have declared they
will go to the convention. Most of
the alternates are also going. They
are assured tickets and there is no
desire to miss the Bull Moose circus,
when a faithful who has landed a
delegate or alternate's job is assured a
good seat.
Nearly all of the members of the
Republican delegation to Chicago will
make their headquarters at the Grand
Pacific hotel Reservations for fifteen
of the twenty delegates have been
made at this hotel. The official head
quarters of the Republican delegation
from Kansas, however, will be main
tained at the Auditorium hotel.
Progressives will establish head
quarters in the LaSalle hotel. Nearly
the entire hotel was leased by George
w. Perkins and will be the official
headquarters of the Bull Moosers dur
ing their convention.
So intense is the interest in the ma
tional conventions, that almost every
Kansas politician who can possibly
arrange his affairs will attend Fred
B. Stanley, present national commit
teeman, and D. w. Mulvane of To-
peka. former national committeeman,
will leave early next week for Chicago
Mulvane will stay at the Congress as
will Governor Capper, who expects to
leave for the convention a few days
before the official opening June 7.
A number of the state officials may
accompany the Kansas crowd. w. E.
Davis state auditor, and Earl Akers
state treasurer, are planning to attend.
J. T. Botkin, secretary of state may
go.
One of the men most widely known
in Kansas politics is Morton Albaugh
of Topeka. Albaugh is a recognized
political wizard but in all his years
of activity in the game. he has never
seen a national convention. This year.
however, he is finding it difficult to
resist the temptation and AIbaugh
may be among the crowd at the big
show.
Nearly all of the political writer's
for Kansas newspapers will attend
both the Progressive and Republican
and will 90 tO ST ouiS
for the Democratic convention which
opens June IA. In addition to the
reservations at press tables for regu-
lar political writer's, spaces will be
reserved for William Allen White
Henry J. Allen and several other well
known writers of the state who will
do" the presidential fight for syndi-
Gates or publications which have di-
rectly engaged their services