The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-04
rs Gaining Much Favor Among
the Faithful.
ALLEN AND BRISTOW LIKE IT
1t Will Give Wichita Editor
Easy Path Back.
And May Help the Senator Back
to Washington.


lev-Jackson plan to send Hughes
delegation to the Republican national
convention and permit the Progress
siVes tosreturn to the party ranks as
leaders Is making progress. In &C
cordance with the plan worked out in
advance Henry ). Allen of Wichita,
has endorsed the scheme. Now the
Hughes boom is travelling so rapidly
that Joseph j.. Bristow feels certain
of success in his fight for an instruct
ed delegation and a reservation when
the four delegates at large are named.
According to the report which has
found its way to Kansas from Wash
ington, the scheme for an instructed
Hughes delegation was framed" in
Washington Both w. Y. Morgan,
lieutenant governor. and Henry ]. AL
len, Progressive gubernatorial candi-
3 date were in Washington during the
( meeting of the Republican national
committee. For some months Allen
had hunted a safe route back to the
Republican party. Every Republican
leader in the state knew of Aliens
desire. So of course it was but natural
that Morgan and Allen should talk it
over.
u. Hughes Boom Is Launched.
.Gg After the convention, Morgan came
to Topeka and launched the boom for
an instructed Hughes delegation. I'm
mediately the policy was endorsed by
Capper, Dolley, Bristow and Jackson
and who crept back to the party be-
fore the 1914 election. They urged a
Hughes delegation by all means.
Hughes is strong in Kansas and these
~ men knew 1t. OF course Hughes has
not as yet intimated that he wanted
: or would accept nomination. Above
all, his friends had not desired that
he be embarrassed by ironclad in
Structed delegations. But these mat
ters were of small concern. A Hughes
a rnp Fnd n a Cl1T n
in Kansas. Besides it was an easy
way for the Progressives to return to
the Republican party as leaders.
They would Immediately take charge
OF the delegation, would arouse the
swomen's clubs by urging that one or
two of the new voters have places on
sfhe delegation and-presto. The
events of two campaigns would be
wiped out. The Progressives would be
back in the drivers seat in the Re-
spublican party and Kansas men who
. fought the battles against the Pro-
gressives would go to Allen and White
and Stubs and Bristow and Murdoch
and jackson for advice and comfort.
It Looked Easy.
1t was a program that looked so soft
: aHd easy and simple that it could not
fail. So when Morgan returned from
Washington, he came to Topeka and
Il his remarks about Hughes delega-
ton were given wide publicity. In the
meantime Alien naQ gone 10
his home in Wichita. He had talked TIC
no one. He sat quietly by and for a
few days read the remarks of the men
who found their way safely back to
the Republican party. There was no
longer any doubt about it. Allen and
White and Murdoch and Stubs and
Sartin could now return with the
name of Hughes on their banners. Not
only could they return, but they could
become leaders. They would go to the
wise the leaders of yesterday and If
the leaders did not like it, they would
brand them as standpatters and order
them out of their own party-in the
name of reform.
BristoW Liked It.
Then there was another idea that
was being nursed on the waves of a
Hughes boom. 1t was Bristow's de-
termination for an instructed delega-
ton and the winning of a technical
point over Senator Curtis Bristow and
already abandoned his Cummins
crusade and he was ready for enlist
rrent in the Hughes ranks as soon as
ment that Allen and his associates
were ready to return. With the Pro
gressives behind him, Bristow saw q
new ray of hope in his senatorial am
billions and an almost certain place as
one of the big four to the nationa,
convention.
ut will undoubtedly be a popular
program" says Allen in commenting
on the Hughes plan in his Wichita
Beacon. while there is some uncer-
Mainly as to the acceptance of Justice
Hughes of the nomination, a delega.
stfon selected behind a man like Justice
Hughes. would be an open minded
delegation of typical Kansans who, il
they could not get Hughes, would wan
a progressive type and progressive
program"
That is the basis on which the
Hughes fight is to be made in Kansas
If Hughes will not accept. then some
one whom Allen ana the former Pro.
gressive party leaders will approve
All of which means that the old line
Republicans of the state will hesitate
long time before placing an approva
on the new brand of harmony as of
fered them in Kansas.
.i FARMERS TOOK COURSES.