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


printer under the pi esent system and
has made an ex client record. Wheth-
er he will actually be candidate
when the time comes, tho, is quite
another matter. Ye- there is no ques-
ton as to the attitude of his Third
district friends
List Henry ]. Allen of Wichita
among the also probable. Allen car
lied the Bull Moose banner in the
Prosl essive goverE"rship fight IN
1914. Last year, tho. he walked INTO
the Republican camp and made a tight
for Hughes and the state ticket. lie
is one of the strongest men in the
progressiN e ranks in the party and as
pubic speaker Stai.dS at the TOD
among Kansas Republicans. But s.,e
ProgressiVes were almost compelled
to secure special act of congress to
push Allen into the fight three Years
ago and one guess is as good as an
other in specializing as to the things
the Wichita editor will do in 1918.
Friends of ]. T. Botkin, secretary
| OF state, are talking quite seriously
| about his candidacy for governor. Up
10 inns ume Botkln has bowed and
| thanked his friends for their generous
boosts. But no statement has he
MADE He is an undying enemy of the
| primary In its present form and is
Republican of the most determined
and positive type. Nor is he without
a Following in the ranks of his party
in the state.
| Place should also be provided for
| Mayor j. E. House. Sometime ago a
quite determined little boomlet was
launched for the Topeka mayor. He
smiled when the boom was launched
and said nothing. He has spent his
time industriously conducting his cam
paign for second term as mayor and
if he really harbors governship ambi-
| lions, he is keeping his ambition on
ice until after the spring election. The
entrance of House in the gubernator-
lal contests would cause a pretty mud
die in the office of the Capper publ
cations, where Mayor House writes
terse paragraphs that do not always
| agree with the utterances and teach
ings of the governor. Scores of Kan
sas newspaper men in Topeka last
| week found occasion to visit the may
| or's office and assure him that if he
| really entered the fight, they knew
where he could secure considerable
voluntary newspaper support.
The fight over the presidency of the
Kansas Day club practically was set
| tied during the noon hour when Parks
Helmick of Chanute, withdrew. Thai
left the field to J. N. Tincher of Medi-
cine Lodge, anu M hedIneFWOOu Ol
Council Grove. The friends of Hell
mick are friendly to Tincher and Hell
mick's withdrawal pointed to Tin
cher'S election.
Grange influence put Senator Frank
Pomeroy of Jackson county, into the
race as a candidate for the -Republi.
can nomination for lieutenant Cover.
nor this afternoon. Pomeroy said he
wasn't doing any talking about it bu
numerous friends at the Nationa
hotel and elsewhere were talking fol
him.
Pomeroy has been a member of tn,
grange every since he has been elig
ible. One Holton man declared toda,
; that Pomeroy Joined the grange thu
same year he was born. Anyway i
, is the grange influence that is push
ing his candidacy. 1t has been talk
ed in oranges over the state and ap
parently agreed upon.
| Senator Pomeroy served severa
terms as representative from jackson
. county in the house. He has had con
! siderable experience in Legislative
, matters and has developed consider
able skill in political matters. He i
one of the most active members of tn