The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-25
HE LOOMS HIGH
That's What the Portland Ore
gOnian Says.
OF Governor Henry ]. Allen of
Kansas.
is PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER
PRESIDENTIAL
Says the Papers Washington
Correspondent.
Exponent and Interpreter of
Roosevelt Policies.

According to Washington dis
patch, Governor Henry Allen. of Kan
sas. looms high on the party horizon
as available timber for the Republican
nomination for the presidency.
This is in accordance with an i'm
portant dispatch printed with big
Oregonian of January 81, received by
the State Journal today.
The Oregonian's correspondent says
that the Kansas governors inaugural
address adds to his fame; that he
brings popular issues to the front, re-
lating unpreparedness and insufficient
support given our soldiers at the front
reciting the story that his campaign
for governor ran itself while he was a
worker to aid men on the battle front
in France.
The article credits Allen with hav-
ing been closely in touch with ColoneI
Roosevelt and classes him as an inter-
prefer and exponent of Roosevelt 5
principles. -
The following is the story:
"A new candidate for the RepuLH-
can presidential nomination with
diversity Of strong points looms high
and bright OH the political horizon.
" neither he has thought of him
self as a possibility or not is not
known, but if Henry j. Allen had been
cherishing the ambition to make him
self strong in the national campaign
two years hence better kickoff than
his boom received at the occasion of
his inauguration as governor of Kan
sas a few days ago would not have
been possible.
He discussed what in these times,
how that the war is over, is the most
popular issue, nancy, was there gross
alismanagement. were Americas SOL
dier boys mistreated and We're need
less lives sacrificed?
Nomination Runs Itself.
! "Governo% Allen was near the front
thruout the most of the fighting
period after the United States entered
the war. He was there for the Y.
M. G. A. and as a Red Cross worker.
in this connection he saw his duty to
his country first and remained in
France turnout the campaign for
Nomination and election. letting his
political fortunes take care of them
Selves.
The voters of Kansas did not for
get him, however, because he was not
home to tell them about himself.
They nominated him overwhelmingly
as the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor in his absence and elected him
by a majority which, a percentage
basis. was the largest margin ever
given to a candidate for governor by
the state.
His inaugural address pointed out
Weaknesses and abuses in the war
management as they came to his at
tentfon in a first-hand study at the
front He said that the American
people who had to remain at home
were never apprised of the real facts
and that they were lulled into sense
of false security when American boys
were being killed in swarms by the
Germans because our own troops were
short of artillery defenses and air
plane equipment. Reports of the
United States troops dominating the
air in their own sector, he said, were
false and that it was merely a not
cir domination.
Address Cablcd to Europe.
But what was more important Gov
ernor Allen said something that got him
into the newspapers, making the only
inaugural address which so far this
year has been carried to all parts OF
the country by the press associations
and cabled to Europe
! THE prominence which his speech
received in the newspapers was not
altogether due to what he said but
partly to the fact that Henry ]. Aller
WAS a national figure before he was
Nominated for governor of Kansas He
mas been editor of the Wichita Bea-
CON for many years and as a publicist
ranks with William Allen White and
the late Alfred Henry Lewis.
He was for time correspondent Of
the Kansas City Star here in Wash
sngton, devotng his attention solely tC
political topics and made some friend
ships while here that will make il
difficult for him to keep out of prin
'henceforth if. as governor he say:
anything of interest to the public a
large.
Harm to Other Booms Seen.
when the press report of his in
auSural address appeared in Washing
ton a Republican statesman who hat
been living in a we'll lightning-roddeC
atmosphere for some time. was one o
the first to acknowledge that the new
governor of Kansas was in position t,
do tremendous harm to other ambi
tious presidential booms.
HE pointed out that Allen occupies