The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-17
POLITICAL GOSSIP
SpOnSler Puts Kansas Primary
Law in the Lead.
In List of All Sins and In
Equities of the World.
DR.. EVA HARDING ANNOUNCES
First Woman Candidate for
Congress in Her District.
Stands on a Platform of Her
Own Building.
DR.. EVA HARDING ANNOUNCES

AL Sponsler. president of the Hutch
inson fair, and an original booster for
the statewide primary law. now
wants the law repealed He has cata-
logued all The sins and iniquities of
this world. At the top of the list he
has placed the Kansas primary. Ills
zeal in securing the passage Of the
act was as nothing compared with his
ardor in desiring to wipe che measure
off the statute books.
Just now Sponsler is walking hand
in hand with Frank l. Martin, Of
Hutchinson. in his opposition to a
presidential preference primary and
the need of county conventions to Sc
lect delegates to the state convention.
Both Sponslcr and Martin were the
original friends of the primary. But
now SpOnsler IS willing to devote con-
sidera BILE loose time ard any amount
OF energy if he thought the Legislature
would upset the present nominating
system.
II am willing to atone for my mis-
take in working for the primary,
Sponsler told a group of Topeka
friends. IF there is anything l ca n
do to repeal the law. you can count
on my doing it. That law has de-
stroycd party organization, party
leadership and interest in party poll
tics and public affairs. IS for the
the nominations in a statewide pri-
mary. Look at the fine showing the
state didn't make in the enactment or
the non-partisIn judiciary act Com
pare the defeat of the late Judge Ben
son with the near nomination of
man once tried for his 1arity. But
that isn't all There IS no party or
ganization, no party team work and
the voter makes a random guess and
no one is responsible for MS mistakes
or errors"
Efforts to repeal the primary law
were threatened during the 1915 leg
islature by Frank l. Travis of Allen
COUNTY The administration forces,
however, curbed Travis desire to
bump the primary act by selecting
him as party whip and the bill was
never offered.
Up to Governor Capper-
Recently Governor Capper gave out
an interview in which he urged that
the board of control seek to place the
inmates of the Atchison state orphans
home in private homes. Atchison peo-
Die did not take kindly to the gov
erHor's suggestion. The idea of re
ducing the number of inmates of the
institution was not pleasing-b besides,
Atchison people take a kindly interest
in the home and the children.
The Atchison Globe says that the
nome might spare a few children for
the governor if he desired TO adopt
them nder the heading Tome
Across, Governor the Globe says:
Governor Capper lives in one of
the largest houses in the state and Mr..
and Mrs. Capper have no children.
There isn't any doubt that a home like
theirs would be better for an orphan
than an institutional home. How
many children from the state or
phans home will the governor
adopt?"
DIR. Eva Harding Announces.
Formal announcement of her candi-
dacy for congress in the First district
was made today by DR.. Eva Harding
of Topeka. she is the first woman in
this district to seek congressional NOM
ination. DIR. Harding will be a candi-
date before the Democratic primaries
next August
In her declaration of principles, the
Topeka woman urges national prOhi-
bition, national suffrage. mothers pen
sions, old age pensions, rural credits