The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-29
KANSAS DAY

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towns came to Topeka largely to hear
the gospel as preached by some man
of national prominence in the party.
This year, tho, the oratory was placed
entirely IN charge of Kansans-may-
be because Kansans know Kansas con-
ditions best and can point a way to
the future more certainly and skill
fully than a leader from another state.
Politics in the Hobbies.
There is much politics in the hotel
Hobbies today. But it concerns meas
ures and policies rather than men.
The governorship is considered in a
passing sort of way with discussions
of such possibilities as Sessions, Brew
ter, Botkin, Morgan, Keene and AL
len. Governor Cappers almost GER
tain plunge into the senatorship, the
proba biity of Charles f. Scott's can
didacy and the tumultuous calm that
greeted the Bristow senatorial an
nouncement-all are subjects of dis
cussion in the little councils in the
rooms and Hobbies of the hotel
Men who would save the state from
wreck and ruin thru a constitutional
convention or who would revolution
lie municipal government thru a one
man administration. are here for the
meeting and to seek converts In fact
the possibility for the calling of con-
stituttonal convention is one of the
live subjects in the days discussion of
politics and it's effect on men and
state affairs. Nor do the men in the
lobby forget to talk of the bone dry
measures before the state legislature
nor the hole which Robert Stone dug
for Governor Capper and his budget
system.
Many of the legislative members are
mixing in the hotel milling With
three weeks of the session out of the
way, they are taking account with the
men from home and are gathering
their first real line on backbone i'm
preston of the 1917 law makers.
Old Timers Here
Scores of the men familiar in Kan
sas politics during the last quarter of
a century are here for the dinner and
love feast. They are the men who
helped organize the Kansas Day club
in the days of sorrow and adversely
days when the Populists ruled the
state and held the jobs and being a
Republican meant anything except
holding jobs in the state house or
court house. These men have fought
the battles of the party thru the years
of plenty and the lean years when the
Republican vote in the state left the
party second in control. Several of
The veterans here for tonights din
ner were among the score of Republi-
cans who organized the club 1T a
meeting IN a local hotel in the early
SOS.
interest IN ciuo AFFAIRS To-Day CEN
tered in the fight for the presidency
for the next year. Scores of friends
Of J.. n. Tincher of Medicine Lodge
came to Topeka to support his can
d. aCJ for the presidency of the club
Last year Tincher was urged as I
candidate, but gave way to DIR. J. w
Graybill, of Newton. Tincher is s
prominent and able lawyer. is a for
mer law partner of Chester 1. Ions
and was a member of the Kansas
delegation to the Republican nationa
convention last year.
Parks Helmick of anute is cis1
urged for the presidency of the Re
publican club. A third candidate l.
NJ Z. Latherwood of Council Grove
Beth men have strong personal fol
.1owings and their friends went into
the fight today with ample claims fol
their success in the election.
Officers Of the club expect to launch