The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
lust as Though He Really Be-
l Iieved 1t, Says Abbot
90 PER CENT OF OK. FOR 7. R
Weeks Claims Strength in Kan
/ sas and Oklahoma.
<They Have the Talk, but We
Have the Delegates"
nv wuLIs J. ABBOT.

Chicago. May 27.-The advance
s-nard which seems to have been
kicked from the old guard of the Re
hnbIican aspirants for the presidency
have arrived
George H. Moses. delegate-at-large
from New Hampshire and CORNER
zainister to Greece, opened headauar-
ters for Senator Weeks at the Con-
kress hotel. The senator h1mse1,
who is a delegate, will arrive May 81
MIR Moses gushed with eloquence as
bid the famous rock with water "heh
the original Moses sTnote It
Ont of Favorite Son Glass?
senator Weeks is no longer in the
kavorite son class" Mr.. Moses said
<.T5e is now a. national candidate. His
candidacy really originated in the
kgest-in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahonla
and on the Pacific coast, Where MI
hWeeIs made several speeches some
Kline ago.
4 ..The west liked his ideas on pre-
baredness and business-on both OF
which he is an authority, having been
an American naval officer and now
heine A successful business man Mr.
NUeeIs IS admired by men of all
parties among members of congress
and his strength will grow from the
start of the convention. He has ms
oyvn state and most of New England
behind him, IN aQulllOh To the SupPOl
he will get in the west.
If Oklahoma originated the Weeks
candidacy it has speedily forgotten II,
for today 95 per cent of the Republ-
cans and pretty nearly as many DEM
ocrats in that state are for Roosevelt
Who's for Root?
! Immediately adjacent to the Weeks
headquarters, Charles NJ. Pepper, well
known in Washington, opened head
quarters for Elihu Root. Mr.. Pepper
soffered no predictions, leaving the
pleasing task of booming his candi-
idate to ex-Congressman John W.
Dwight, who has been touring the
west in the Root interest and has just
iarrived here. Until Mr.. Dwight shall
istir up some sentiment for Root, that
fZentleman'S canvass in the west must
iproceed in the silent, confidential
fashion it now maintains. Public SEN
atiment is entirely quiescent as to Root
tand discussion of his name usually
takes the form of applauding his in
Atellectual ability and proclaiming his
political impossibility.
Headquarters for Sherman and
Fairbanks are already open, though
THE chief figure in charge of the In
diana mems campaign, Jim Hemen-
way, has not yet arrived. He is ex-
pected tomorrow, together with a
zseoup of Ohio politicians who will
a1pen headquarters for Burton.
Poo-Poo Hughes and Il. *.
Each newcomer proclaims the GER.
vain nomination of his favorite son, az
positively as though he believed it
Zach is profoundly oblivious of the
TACT that Hobbies echo the name OF
Aughes and Roosevelt only. When at.
ltention is called to this fact the re.
fponse is They have the talk, but We
nave the delegates
80 There is much discussion of the in
@creasing delicacy of the position OF
stnstice Hughes. His pretense of ig
Horance of the very practical work be.
ing done for him by Frank Hitchcock
sHnd the scandal of the huge sums o.
money being expended in a campaign
FOR the political advancement of
l1nember of the supreme court are no
fEelished by thoughtful people, The
Eepinion is often expressed that since
aHughes is to be a candidate and tt
employ all the expedients of a machin,
candidate, he should retire from tn,
Bench at once.
This view is so widely taken tina
politicians here are hourly expectin,
some expression from the justice.