The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-14
BOURBONS IN CITY
Kansas Democratic Leaders
Meet Behind Closed Doors.
Selecting Full State Ticket for
Coming Elections.
HODGES TO RUN FOR SENATE
George B. Ross Mentioned as
GubernatOriaI Candidate.
Strong Sentiment Expressed for
Cox for President.

| Kansas Democratic leaders today
! held a session behind closed doors at
| 10 East Sixth street for the purpose
coming election. Probable candidates
were discussed during the morning
/ hours. At noon the Democrats ad-
! journed until o'clock when the po-
litica1 situation was to undergo an
other discussion and a state ticket
| drafted as far as possible.
| In many instances, men proposed
as candidates have not been consulted
! and full ticket may not be completed
for several days to come, according to
! information from Democrats who at
| tended the convention.
Talk of George B. Ross.
Jonathan Davis. Bourbon county, Is
a candidate for governor no matter
what happens. Davis has filed his
nomination papers. George B. Ross,
former state grain inspector, also was
spoken of as candidate. o. T. Wood.
| United States marshal, has enjoyed
considerable publicity thru articles
saying he might be a candidate.
Friends of Wood today nipped his
candidacy saying che knew when he
| had a good thing in the marshaPs
| office.
! Ex-Governor George H. Hodges of
! Olathe will be a candidate for United
States senator. A number of promi-
nent Democrats stated today that let
| ters had been received from Hodges
announcing his determination to enter
politics again by running for the sem
ate.
O'NeiI for Attorney General.
For minor state officers, there ap-
! parently is a dearth of Democrats who
want to make the race. Ralph T.
! O'Neil Topeka attorney is looked
/ iGjp nd a a f.
! torney general. J. V. Colville, county
superintendent of Sedgwick county. is
! willing to run against Miss Eliza beth
Wooster for state superintendent of
| public instruction
| Getting a candidate to run against
| Dan Anthony for congress in the First
district is another difficult task. Tom
Noxcey, Atchison. who is mentioned
every two years as a promising scandi-
| date, seems to be contehted to busy
| himself in the practice of law.
c. E Bowman, Kansas City. Kan,
attorney, promises to be the Democrat
ic congressional hope in the Second
district. He has an enviable service
record, was in France twenty months,
and enthusiastic Bourbons say he was
the first Wyandotte county man to
reach France.
/ Three Corncred Fight.
| In the Third district, where the Ia
| Dor element is strong, it was reported
that a three-cornered fight among
| labor, Democracy and Republicanism
promised The labor people have
nominated John D. burlington as a
candidate for congress. Phil Camp
bell, of course, will run on the Repub-
/ lican ticket, and a strong Democrat is
wanted in faint hope that the three
cornered fight will presage a Bourbon
victory.
| w. w. Austin, Cottonwood Falls. is
the Fourth district candidate for con-
| gress Thomas johnson, an ex-serv-
| Ice man, is a candidate for congress
in the Fifth district. Miles Mulroy
and Sen. James Malone are reported to
, be locking horns for the honor of the