The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-13
Sixth District Nesus Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots.

set up her claims for istinction, she
having June roses in bloom the day
of the election. They were perfectly
formed, and sweet scented. Another
claim of the household is that they
were blooming in honor of the next
president-elect. Warren G. Harding.
It was luck for Hays B. White. the
Sixth district congressman, that the
campaign is over. He has a big field
of corn on his Jewell county farm,
near Mankato, that needs husking.
Having been acquainted with him for
upwards of half a century, your cor
respondent knows that he is at work
on the farm. He made a fine cam
paign for reelection. and while there
never was any doubt of the result, he
visited all of his district, made telling
speeches, and getting better acquaint-
ed with the people and their interests
He is a thoro farmer and stockman,
having followed both from boyhood to
10 T''G0d. He is one of the hard
workers in congress. His splendid
the people are satisfied. He will be
on hand when congress convenes. and
he will keep on in his good work.
Mrs. Emma B. Alrich denies the
runor that she is going to leave Cav
ker City and the Sixth district to make
her home in the eastern part of the
state. She has lived there close to
forty years, and nearly all these years
she was the associate editor of the
Record, her husband, E. 3. Alrich,
passing on a few years ago. She is
one of the three women in the Sixth
district who served the w. r. c. as its
department president. Denying the
rumors that she is leaving her town to
make her home in another part of the
state, she writes to the Sixth district
department in The State Journal: Il
fnIindad fha Kansas WOm0n'S Press
association in 1890, and was the first
and only newspaper woman in the
state to take steps to bring the news
paper women together, and have them
recognized as such. We had repre-
sentatives in the National Editorial
association several years until the
State association recognized us, and
asked us to unite with them, for they
| had come to the conclusion that we
were a factor to be reckoned with
| The many friends of Mrs. Alrich in the
/ Sixth district will be pleased to hear
she will remain in Cawker City.
Now that the election is over, the
votes counted. and Hays b. White has
been returned to congress by an IN
creased majority in the Sixth district,
/ it may not be out of place to speak
| of the race Otis l.. Benton, of Deca-
! tur county, made for the same place
| in 1916. Kansas has staged many
I
is not probable that in any congress
sional district in this or any other
state has there ever been such a
] drive as that made for Benton. He
| was in the campaign day and night.
Nearly all the Republican papers in
! the district were for Benton for con-
/ gress- He went down in the Wilson
avalanche with others because he
kept us out of war" His nomination
was easily secured, but when it came
| to the election he, like the national
and state Republican tickets, suffer-
, ed in the Sixth. Benton left nothing
undone in the matter of publicity. He
/ employed D. o. McCray of Topeka.
| one of the states oldest and best
known newspaper men, as his ch1er
publicity manager. For nearly a
wear he devoted much of his time in
preparina special stories which ap-
I peared in nearly all of the local news
papers of the Sixth district These
I related to his leadership in the settle
ment and building up of northwestern
! Kansas. and his record as dependa-
BILE Republican and fine standing in
Washington in one of the departments,
1t was a publicity campaign which
! he put on that never Jagged from
i beginning to end. During that cam
! paign this writer met McCray in sew
! eral counties of the district where he
went to sense public sentiment and
to be able to meet the claims of the
opposition In talks with him since
he has said that he could feel a Re-
publican slipping all along the line
following the primary election. and
that this slump encompassed Charles
E. Hughes and other candidates IN
that district
OF all the splendid stories about
pioneer life in Kansas written by
Margaret Hill McCarter, Of Topeka