The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-30
Before 1t Happens

1t is the current gossip in Salina to-
day that Senator Arthur Capper has
purchased the Kansas City Journal
and that this is at the bottom of the
fight recently aroused with the Kansas
City Star.
Charles H. Sessions. former state chair
man, and Frank Grimes, former state treas
urer are in charge of the Mulvane head
quarters in the Lamer hotel and are con-
fident their candidate will he named one of
the delegates without anything resembling
fight.
There is enough powder and dynamite
scattered around Salina tonight to blow up
/ the mill. There is the undercurrent of
rebellion and insurrectlon that might start
trouble on the floor with the slightest en-
couragement. Such condition would un-
questiorably inject some dark horse candi-
dates into the running and might disturb
the Big Four dope sheet In way that the
favorite observers would have dlfnculty IN
recalling the strange faces.
/ 1t is not difficult TO find opposition
considerable of ito either Motter. Bailey
d or Watson. with a fight Mulvnne, In
event fight is started any one of the
other three. In all discussions OF the situ-
alton Mulvane has refused to make align
meuts and is said to have told his friends
that he would take no part in any fight.
Nevertheless, there are enough rights pend
ing to keep the convention In trouble for
some time after the meeting is called to
order.
Nor did the news Of a temporary dead
| lock at Dodge City ease the high pressure
under which state convention delegates were
working. The opening of rich, thick vein
of trouble in the Seventh district was
smell of raw meat to the state convention
workers. II there was chance for trouble
! any number of the visitors Monday night
wanted TO get into 1t. Maybe the paciflers
will calm the situation. But there is ten
dency to resurrect the feuds of 1912 and
fron ed n H.
ton Will have little trouble in starting a
disturbance that even harmony speakers
can not stop.
No small amount of the convention trou-
BILE is coming from the Third and Eighth
districts. 1t there that the Reed
Stanley forces were taken to most spec
tacular drubbing last week. The Reed
crowd was beaten numerically when VIII
as delegates from the Third. In the
Eighth district convention a wave of anti
| mitarism rolled over Fred E. Stanley, ma
tional committeeman and Wood manager
for the southwest district. The Newton
convention resolved against universal train
ing and any candidate for president or vice
president who favored such n program.
Several hundred delegates were in the
hotel Hobbies Monday night An equally
large number Of workers arrived on late
night trains or early this morning. Bailey,
Mulvane and Motter each maintained head
quarters in the Lamer hotel. Emerson Ca
rey Of Hutchinson opened quarters in the
hotel this morning.
A number of delegations came to SaIina
in special cars. Most Of these delegations
will leave for home on first trains follow
ing adjournment of the convention.
Salinas ability to entertain big con
yention crowd hung in the balance for an
hour Monday afternoon when the first
army of delegates and visitors arrived
There was not enough hotel space. Reser-
vations had been mixed and muddied frf-
rate homes were later thrown open to ac-
. commodate the crowd.
None of the Seventh district crowd ar
. rived until today. Their interest could not
, be drawn away from the convention al
| Dodge City. Several delegates drove ali
night in order TO arrive in Salina this
morning for the advance milling. Most of
the delegates from the big southwest ccun
try will not arrive until this evening OF
, Wednesday morning.
Sixth district delegates were early on the
} ground and are still coming. Among the
early hosts to the visitors Charles
Danner. Wilson, and Charles Hall and
: Hill City; Charles Kagy. W. II. Haughton
, Beloit: y L. johnson, Norton: nr. III. Is
Dykes; Lebanon; Frank McIvor,, Hoxie
! of others active IN Sixth district affairs
are on the job today.
. willis J. Bailey of Atchison. former gov
ernor and a candidate for a place on the
Big Four, arrived Monday afternoon
} among the prominent First district bank
ers attending the convention. Fred II
and Walter +. Wilson, Washington. are
other we'll known money lenders" who are
mixing political medicine in the hotel lob.
bies.
H. H. Motter, Republican state chairman
and Big -Four candidate. made a real hi
with the visitors. He printed--at his ow.
. expense-2.O00 copies Of the lists of dele.
gates from each Of the counties. The.-
phamphlets were distributed today. 1t j.
tion liz this city that such n record ha.
r been available to the visitors.
: Arrival of ]. L. Bristow in his hom.
town, rather unannounced and unexpected
", today gave rise 70 much speculation a'
10 his course. should he be given a proxy
and seated In he convention. Bristow',
position on military training is well de
fined He is positively against II; ON the
other other hand; W; W Watson of his hom'
/ son entered the race as an original frien(
Of General Wood.
; The law firm of Bureh, Litowitch &
I Royce opened their offices and offere1
typewriter and space to the visiting news
= paper men. did the Salina daily news
papers. Charles Burch. member Of tn.
law firm. is n brother of Justice r. A
t Burch of the K.'nsas supreme court.
+ Should Governor Allen see fit to sit in tn,
convention by virtue Of the use of a proxy
1t would be only to take part in discussion
OF the resolutions. it is believed. Th'
: Kansas governor and Bristow would un
questionably go to the mat on any military
policy proposed before the Delegates Bris
: tow and Governor Allen were former news
e paper associates IN Snlinn and in ottawa
before Governor Allen went 70 wichita t.
I; become editor and publisher Of the wichItf
! Daily Beacon.
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