The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-20
CONVENTION NOTES
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q have gone into this fight to win
and 1 am going to win it," declared T.
D. Smith of Hiawatha. 81 have the
support of the First district and
enough strength in other sections of
the state to put me across" Smith
was endorsed by the First district con-
Vention in Atchison.
w Y Morgan, lieutenant governor,
has been spending several days in To-
peka He is for a harmony program
one that will give a Roosevelt sup
porter of 1912 a place on the delega-
ton. In this connection Morgan
favors either Hanna or Bristow. He
declared today that with Mulvane
out of the fight, there would prob
ably be no heated contests before the
convention
E. B. Jewett of Wichita, former
warden of the state penitentiary, came
to Topeka Sunday evening with the
Sedgwick county delegation
T.. T. Kelly of Paola, who last week
lost his fight for delegate to the ma
tional convention from the Second
district. is in Topeka as a delegate
to the state convention. Kelly is
happy even in the face of his defeat
cago. Just landed a contract for
sixteen blocks of paving and our COM
pany has just struck another big oil
we'll, so 1 don't know why I should be
sad" Kelly told friends at the Nation
al hotel
AL F. williams of Columbus came
to town early Sunday morning and
spent fifteen hours in the hotel lobby
talking to delegates. Williams, who
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has the support of most of the big
eastern counties.
Clyde Commons of Liberal, county
attorney of Seward county. is in To-
peka with his county delegation. He
will this year be a candidate to sue
coed Congressman Jouett Shouse in
the state senate.
A number of state officials spent
Sunday evening with the delegates in
the hotels. Today business in the
state house was virtually suspended
while state officials and heads of de-
partments talked with the delegates
concerning the issues of the campaign
and the probable action of the conven-
ton in Topeka Tuesday.
Frank Organ, candidate for state
auditor, was one of the really busy
men in the pre-cOnventiOn crowd.
d
quaintance, and is today taking adj
vantage of the opportunity to urge his
candidacy on the men who came to
Topeka to select delegates to the ma
tional convention.
Phil Kelley of White Cloud, Doni-
phan county, has probably attended
more state conventions than any man
who will tomorrow sit in the conven-
ton in Topeka. For "A years Kelley
has not missed a state convention and
in every instance was delegate from
Doniphan county.
KeIley's first convention was in 1872
when Thomas A. Osborn was first
nominated for governor. Since that
time Kelley has had vote in every
state convention.
Those were in the old days of Jim
Snoddy. Col. Dan Anthony. Congress
man Phillips, James Leggett and Char
ley Miller said Kelley. 81 worked
with all of them and there were some
warm sessions in the old days. That
was away back in the days when Ben
Simpson, Farmer A. w. Smith. and Cy
Leland were getting their start in the
game. Some mighty smart politics was
played in those conventions, let me tell
you 1t was a mighty different situa-
ton from the one today"
In addition to his record for state
conventions, Kelley has missed but
few of the national conventions in
more than a quarter of a century. He
was a doorkeeper in the St. Louis con-
vention when Mckinley was nominat-
ed in 1896 and was also doorkeeper in
the convention which nominated
Blaine He saw the famous Grant
Garfield fight and has been a specta-
tor in every important national con-
vention in years.
My health won't let me go to the
Chicago convention this year." Kelley
said Fact is, should not be here,
but it's an awful temptation when you
haven't missed a convention in A
years"
Kelley has lived in Kansas 81 years.
He has spent so years of the time in
White Cloud.
Resolutions to be adopted in the
state convention will probably deal
with a general outline of the party's
attitude toward the national admins
tration's position in respect to foreign
policies. 1t is anticipated that they
will condemn the handling of the
Mexican situation and will wallop the
Bourbon tariff program. Endorse
ments of the state administration and
of Senator Curtis and Cohgressmen
Campbell and Anthony are quite GER
tain. National suffrage and national
prohibition will also be endorsed, it is