The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-21
OFF FOR FRISCO
Kansas Car Leaves Topeka for
Democratic Convention.
With McAdOO Out, Cox Has
SunflOwer Majority.
BY A. L. SHULTZ.


Kansas Democrats are headed to-
ward the big west and their national
convention in San Francisco. The
home state delegates left this morning
on a special car on the second section
of the Santa Fe California Limited.
Accompanying the delegates are
number of the party chieftains and
several Kansas City and Topeka news
paper men.
Interest as to the course of the Kan
sas delegation is multiplied thru the
uncertainty which faces the national
gathering at Frisco. With McAdoo a
probable contender. the state delega-
CATION was clearly ready to give ma
| jority vote to him or to stay with him
solidly under the unit rule. McAdoo's
removal of himself thru a telegram to
Jouett Shouse of Kinsley puts new
| interest in the situation and leaves
much doubt and speculation as to the
final action of the Kansas twenty.
Cox Majority Likely.
Glass NAV become the residuary
| legatee of McAdoo, but 1t is doubtful.
Some of the McAdoo supporters are
| expected to go to Cox as second choice.
Cox was a contender with McAdoo Tor
| the sunfiower state vote from the
start Now that McAdoo is out of 1t,
the dope-one week in advance OF the
| convention-pointst to probable sa1e
majority for the Ohioan. The fact
that both Governor Cox and Senator
Harding, the Republican nominee, are
from the same state-and that state
listed as pivotal-tends to develop the
Cox claim to votes.
| should Champ Clark be brought be-
| fore the convention, he Is almost GER
F, tain to obtain number OF Kansas
votes. No expressions have been maot
bv the delegates as to the action ol
| r. ty, President WllSO1
seeks a third term.
Left to personal preferences. j
Ham Lewis of Illinois might ge'
some Kansas votes. He won raVoi
when he spoke before the state con
| vention in wichita.
Two Kansas v. p. Possibilities.
| The trip to Frisco will be one of po-
1;tical medicine making All of the
plans for the coming state campaign
| in Kansas will be cooked and the party
| chiefs will come home prepared to give
/ the state a high grade meal OF allur'
! ing speeches and attractive issues
| Kansas concern in the big show or
the Pacific coast is not limited. tho
to the mere action of the state deiega-
ton and its vote for the presidential
candidates Nor is interest entirely II
the platform and the program Tor q
red hot campaign at home.
Two Kansans have developed as vice
presidential possibilities. OF course Il
may all become another Chicago
tragedy. But Just at this time George
H. Hodges. of Olathe, former governor
and Jouett Shouse, of Kinsley. assis
tant secretarysof the treasury. are con
sidered Both are powers in the'l
party in the state. and nomination o.
either would give a personal elemeh
to the national ticket that would aic
in the Bourbon fight for control OF tn
electoral vote.
Vacation Trip, Too.
Conditions developing in Frisco mex
week will determine definitely whethe
the names of Shouse and Hodges will
go before the convention. The Hodge
boom is said to have been started froI
Washington. The call for Shous
started from Kentucky. his forme
home. In the nine years Shouse ha.
been in Kansas he has been in pubii
service almost constantly-first a
state senator, then congress from tn
Seventh district and later assistan
secretary of the United States treas
ury.
The Kansas crowd will spend a da,
at Grand canyon and will stop severa
hours in Los Angeles. Delegates. part,
workers and news writers now hurry
ing to the convention will return owe
varied routes. The convention meet
next Monday, June 2S. Except in cas-
of a repetition of the spectacular Bal
timore fight in 1912, the show vii
doubtless be over Thursday or Frida
of the next week. A tie-up in seiec
ton of nominee might hold the con
, vention in session the entire week
Members of the Kansas delegatio
are expected to support Bryan in hi
fight against a wet-or even a midi
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