The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-02
O. w. Dawson, Bull MOOser,
Sees Only Roosevelt.
Is Convinced the Colonel Will
Be Nominee at Chicago.
PREPAREDNESS ISSUE TO DO II
Declares Rough Rider Is Strong
in the East.
Benton PrOclaims His Neutral
ity in the Delegate Fight.

Roosevelt will be the Republican
nominee for president at the Chicago
convention and the Progressives Will
return to the fold. That is the opin-
ion advanced in Topeka by O. w.
Dawson. mayor of Great Bend and
Progressive congressional nominee in
the Seventh district in 1914. Dawson
is yet strong for the Bull Moose cause,
but with T. r. running-Well, that is
som ething else.
1t is Roosevelt's stand for prepar-
edness, Dawson declares, that will
make the nominee in Chicago in June.
The rough riders strength in the east
is finding its way to Kansas, the Great
national convention is held, Roosevelt
will be the one best bet before the Re
publican leaders.
| Il frankly admit I can't see any
thing but Roosevelt for the Republi-
cans this year" said Dawson in To-
| peka today. His stand on prepared
ness is making him a power in the
east and the eastern view is taking
| hold in Kansas. I believe there has
/ been a great change in sentiment in
| this state in the last two or three
months regardless of Governor Cap
per's peace speeches. The average
person is for preparedness and Roose-
welt who represents the eastern idea,
will in my judgment represent the
Kansas idea before June.
|
for real harmony. I think the atti-
tude of eastern standpatters concern
ing his prospects makes him a logical
candidate and there is no reason why
the two parties should not unite on
him..
Dawson reaffirmed his progressive
ideas in Topeka. He said he would
go to Emporia March "a and would
help frame the Bull Moose program
for Kansas. The Progressive state
| committee meets at that time.
1.-The action of the Progressives in
Kansas will depend on the action OF
the Republican state convention in
/ Topeka was the warning which
Dawson held out to the conservatives.
IF the standpatters want the aid OF
the Progressives, they must display
some Progressive tendencies
Benton Is Out of 1t.
please say in your paper this af-
ternoon that 1 am taking no part in
the fight for national committeeman.
That was the telegram which Otis
L. Benton of Oberlin sent to the State
Journal. Benton is a candidate for
the Republican congressional nomiI;-
alton in the Sixth district. Political
leaders had lined Benton with the
Mulvane crowd in the fight for nation
al committeeman. The Oberlin bank
er. however, declares that he will take
no hand in the fight.
|
contest for Republican national com
mitteeman, political dopesters saw an
excellent opportunity for Benton tC
square a few old accounts. BurroN
was said to have bitterly opposed Ben
ton when he announced his candidacy
for congress in the big northwest dis
trict. Bitter feeling which resulted
from the defeat of Burrow for con-
gresS during the Norton convention
is said to have started the trouble.
( Recently Max Anderson, Benton's
opponent in the fight for the congress
sional nomination, took up the anti
Mu1vane cause. AS a result of figh
in Mitchell county, Anderson's home
an anti-Mulvane delegation was
selected. That move virtually check
ed the matter up to Benton. But Ben
ton has followed the policy adopted
by DR.. John B. Dykes of Mankato, anG
has gone to cover. Dykes, mentioned
as a possible candidate for commit
teeman, declared that he would moi
stay in the race. Now Benton, LISTED
as the avowed enemy of Burrow, ha:
Joined the neutrals.