The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-06
GubernatoriaIs Campaign Man.
ayers Now Under Way.
"Henry" To Be Doomed Every
Hour Until Primaries.
", ], BAILEY FEELS CONFIDENT
Declares Kansas Already Has
Determined on Choice.
Plan Now Is To Make the Elec-
ton Unanimous.

Henry J. Aliens campaign man
ayers today began the organization OF
the state for the Wichita editor TOT
| governor. The Allen campaign is TO
be boosted every hour until the aug
ust primaries Men in charge OF the
Allen ex-governor fight will meet IN
Topeka Friday and will arrange TO
open headquarters at once.
Willis ]. Bailey of Atchison, former
governor and directing manager or the
state organization, declared Kansas
/ had already determined on the cleo
/ ton of governor who understood the
war situation and the responsibility OF
the state Bailey and his associates
viii keep sacred their promise TO
make tue Allen campaign while Allen
is in France. For that reason the
state orga nization-using Bailey's own
expression-will seek to make it as
nearly unanimous as possible.
/ Members of the Allen campaign
committee were named today by Bal
ley The three men named on the
committee will direct the work of or
i ganiza-ion in the state and will be as
ISOLATED with Governor Bailey in his
management Of the Allen campaign.
Members of the committee include
Fred e. Stanley. Wichita, Republican
| nationa. committeeman; Clyde NJ.
Reed. publisher Parsons Daily Sun;
| anG Harvey J. Penny of Hays, one of
the strongest Republican workers in
the Sixth district.
Open Headquarters Here.
I Arrangements will be made at Fri
/ days meeting to Immediately open
Allen headquarters in Topeka. Offices
will also be maintained in Wichita,
Aliens home town. 1t is probable
headquarters will be opened not later
| than next Monday. Selection of a sec
rotary VIII be made at the meeting of
i the campaign committee in Topeka
Friday.
Clyde Miller, Republican nominee
for congress in the Fourth district
last year and one of the ardent AL
| len supporters in the present cam
paign, has been mentioned for secre-
! tary. A number of his friends have
urged him for the place. Miller's
heavy insurance work and his inter-
ests in the big Miller ranch in Lyon
! county, may not permit him to take
over the new work. A number of AL
| len workers have also urged various
members of the campaign committee
as secretary. Miss Ada Wagner, nine
years private stenographer to the late
Morton Albaugh, will be associated
with the work at state headquarters.
Miss Wagner wrote the hundreds of
Allen appeals which Albaugh sent to
friends in all sections of the state a
short time before his death.
| Bailey Is Optimistic
Bailey was today most optimistic
| concerning the results of the cam
| paign. But the former governor and
prominent Atchison banker won't
| stop until every county in the state is
organized for Allen.
kansas is for Henry ]. Allen for
governor" Mr.. Bailey declared, "and
1 there is no doubt of his nominat ton,
i but we could not be true to ourselves
and to the promise we made when we
! asked Mr.. Allen to be a candidate I'M
j less every friend of his buckled into
1 the work with all his might to make
1 the vote near unanimous as pos
/ sible
kansas has its mind made up. We
! are all for a governor at this time to
meet the demand of the hour; a man
i who understands the war situation, and
i the great responsibilities of the state
and of the individual citizens in meet
ing that need. Henry J. Allen is the
man pre- eminently fitted for the
task. 7 am for him personally be-
1 cause OF this very reason. He is the
| kansan to whom our eyes naturally
turn in this hour. All the past diff
4 ferences of political opinion as to
! regularity and party strife are in
Significant as compared to the impor-
lance Of electlng man like Henry AL
leI as governor. Moreover, when the
administration, he is especially quail
fled to direct the state in the deter
m1nat1on of such important questions
as shall undoubtedly come up. The
governors of the different states will
nave greater responsibilities upor
them than ever before and Kansas will
need JUS such an able, fearless. clear
and forceful man as Mr.. Allen in the
governors chair"