The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-29
Kansas Day Club See Return of
State to G. o. p. Fold.
Flock of Chicago Candidates
Largest in History.
OPPOSITION TO STATE OFFICERS
At Least Three to Have OppOsi-
tiOn in Primaries.
Annual Banquet at Temple at
$3.50 This Evening.

udy PidnnlHS Dig JuDllee Tor To- |
peka one year hence-a jolIification !
over the redemption of Kansas by the |
Republicans in a presidential cam
pa1gn. Not since 1908 has Kansas |
given her electoral vote to a Repub- |
lican. Plans being worked out in the !
hotel lobbies today do not concern |
state. or even congressional Jobs The
Kansas interest is centered in return
ing Kansas to the Republican fold.
The state will send an uninstructed
delegation to Washington.
Tonight the Republican workers and
the Republican leadership of the state
meet in annual banquet at Masonic
temple. The attendance will be a near
record. Interest in the meeting of
party chieftains was displayed We'd
nesday night when the advance at
tendance was estimated to equal that
of any crowd which in nearly thirty
years has come to Topeka a day in
advance of the big political dinner. i
This state is expected to get into the
presidential fight with a party organ
ization which has been unknown to
the Republicans since the first dis
turbances were in evidence in 1910.
Organization efforts are to be central
lied in the larger towns and counties
of the state and old factions which
split the party in Roosevelt-Taft fight
of 1912 may be brought together for
the November election. That is the
hope and prayer of the leaders who
are directing the pre-conyention plans
in the state.
Delegates Immediate Fight.
Followers of the various candidates
apparently favor the sending of an un-
instructed delegation to the national
convention in Chicago. The fight of
the next few weeks. tho, will be over
the selection of delegates from the
eight congressional districts and in the
state at large. Plans to finance the
campaign in Kansas are already being
worked out and provision has been
made for a contribution to the nation
al organizations. These plans were
discussed Wednesday night at a meet
ing at the Chamber of Commerce.
Not in years has the crop of pros
pecttve delegates been SO great. The
volunteer list far exceeds the offering
of four years ago and may be consid-
erabfy increased before tine state and
district conventions are held.
In two congressional districts+the
First and Eighth-Republican fights
may be staged for nominations. Con-
gresham D. R. Anthony jr., seems to
be the only member of the Kansas
delegation who is assured of trouble in
the August primaries. James C. Da-
Wis, Leavenworth, is in the race against
Anthony and Speaker W. P. Lambert
son of Fairview is a prospective candi-
date for Anthony's job in Washington.
After Ayre's Scalp.
At least three Republicans are after
Congressman w. A. Ayres's scalp in the
Eighth district. Ayres is the one re-
naming Democrat in congress from
Kansas. Lacey NJ. Simpson of Nc
Pherson, chairman of the house ways
and means committee; Judge Richard
S. Bird and A. NJ. Broadie, both of
Wichita, are the Republicans likely to
enter the fight for the Eighth district
Republican nomination
Hotel lODbieS TODAY contain many
! legislators and legislative candidates.
| But the greatest of all is the flock of
aspirants for places on the delegation
to Chicago. Practically all state Off
| cials left their offices today to mill
with the Kansas Day visitors.
| Fight on Three Officers.
Medicine making in the hotels to-
day concerns largely the fight which
is brewing for three state house jobs
supreme court justice, attorney gen.
struction. Other rrouble-outside
heated contests for delegation places
| is incidental.
Conditions as faced by banquet day
visitors practically insure the warm
est sort of fights against three state
house officials seeking reelection.
Justice John S. Dawson's bench on
the supreme court is already being
sought. But today there is every pros
pect of increased opposition.
NSOl u
Gated this afternoon ne would be a
| candidate in event Senator Francis c.
Price of Ashland did not run. Senator
| Price has made no statement
Both James c. F'inlay of Chanute,
| former district judge, and Senator
| Baxter D. McClain of lola are su-
preme court possibilities. Finlay, who
resigned from the bench to enter war
service, is strongly urged by. Third
district friends He is one of the
widely known LAWYERS of Southea stern
Kansas.
/ Friends of Senator McClain urged
his candidacy upon his record in the
upper house and his training a law
YER An effort is also being made to
| induce Senator McClain to enter the
race for attorney general. The anti
! Hopkins following is asserting itself
today and Senator McClain may be
torney general instead of for a place
on the supreme bench.
Study Not In Race.
Opposition to Miss Lorraine E.
/ Wooster state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, sounds much like an
echo from the uprising which came
out of the recent teachers council.
She has not appeared in the lobby
milling. That she is to have opposi-
ton. tho. is generally accepted
Announcement from Atchison today
that Harry P. Study had withdrawn
and would not De canolQate maoe
uncertain the selection of a candidate
to oppose Miss Wooster. Study was
unable arrange with the Atchison
board of education concerning the use
of his time in a campaign. Thru
! friends, tho, Study urged that Supt.
W. o. Steen. of Beloit, or Supt.. c. o.
Smith. of Marysville, be pushed into
the race for the Republican nomina-
, tion for superintendent.
Banquet at $50 O'Clock.
Tonight's feast of food and reason