The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-29
Kansas Day Notes

bic candidate Tor the senate from the
Greenwood-Lyon county district. Sen
nounced his plans regarding a second
term.
Harry Wright of Topeka held the
Clark county proxy in today's COM
mittee meeting. He voted the proxy
until the capital city was eliminated.
Newspaper men and lawyers seem
to predominant N the crowd. Many
of the lawyers will remain for the bar
association meetings Friday Topeka
to the entertainment of visiting pub
fishers.
d. w. Mulvane of Topeka, former
national committeeman and probable
delegate at large to Chicago, has not
missed a banquet since the club was
organized in the sorrow days of the
early eos. James A. Troutman of To-
peka, former lieutenant governor, has
missed just two banquets. On both
occasions he was delivering Kansas
Day speeches before clubs in other
cities.
Political writer's and dopesters will
encounter difficulty in covering the
district conventions. Three conven
for March %. The Third district date
is undecided. The really big fights
are in the Third and Seventh districts
with the battle royal to come in the
state convention at Salina March 81.
Charles Kagy of Beloit is here for
the banquet and the lawyers meet
ings. kagy, who is a candidate for
delegate from the Sixth district. is
busy among the Sixth district visitors.
For the second time f. E. Brook
ems was scheduled today to decline
the nomination for secretary of the
Kansas Day club in favor of Walter
p. CLANCY of Topeka. The gossip cur
rent today was that Brookens agreed
to give Chaney the job again provid-
ing CLANCY would step out next year
and give Brookens his support.
Tom Botkin, former secretary of
state, now IN Wichita, arrived on an
early morning train. Botkin enjoyed
political jobs almost since the day he
stepped out Of knee trousers.
w. O. Rigby. Topeka's Democratic
postmaster, was forlorn looking fig
ure as he stood in the lobby of the
National hotel this morning. Talk
about a lamb in den of lions, that's
myself or any other Democrat in this
hotel today" he said.
Representative whitman of Pratt
county will be a candidate for the
state senate from the i;eno-Pratt-
Kingman district. Not IN years has
Pratt county sent a man 10 Topeka
to represent the district IN the senate
Whitman, with Pratt and Kinsman
county support, believes he will he
able to- secure enough votes N Reno
to win.
u fcl, known Gllin1
lawyer and a member of the firm of
Burch & Litowitch, came a day III
| advance of the Republican dinner. He
will also remain in Topeka fer the
bar association meetings.
Friends of AL F. Williams Of Co
lumbus today launched boom for his
selection on the delegation at large to
the national convention. Williams
was on the Big Four in 1916. A num-
! ber of the Columbus lawyers friends
| from the Third district and over the
state have urged him to seek a second
! election.
/ Charles S. Huffman. lieutenant gov
| ernor, is just naturally present, lie
/ seldom misses a banquet of the Re-
publican Dinner club and when the
| special session of the legislature ad-
| journed, he remained in Topeka for
the banquet Huffman is listed
!
when Governor Allen is thru with his
present job.
T. E. Noland chairman of the Sixth
district committee and secretary to
| Congressman Hays B. White. is here
to confer with the county chairmen
] and workers from Sixth district coun-
ties Noland will attend the banquet
but his chief concern is Sixth district
affairs and conditions.
DOC" GraybilI of Newton came
with the Eighth district crowd. Gray
bill was having much trouble in plac-
ing his convention allegiance In
Wichita or Hutchinson. Several First
district men suggested that he COM
promise and boost for the state con-
vention in Topeka.
! Will Townsley. well known Great
Bend editor, is combining attendance
at a good roads organization meeting
and a visit with the Republican ban
quet crowd.
| Wilbur Allen, Herbert Cavaness and
James c. Finlay head the Neoshc
county delegation. Allen is a candi-
date for delegate from the Third dis
trict, and seems strongly in line foI
one of the two places.
Representative Gibbons of Meade
county remained IN Topeka from Sat
urday until today for the banquet
Gibbons is one of the new but very
popular and promising men in legis-
lative ranks from western Kansas.
Big Hearted JIM Davis of Leav-
enworth, who is one of many who
\ have nibbled at the bait of the First
/. district nomination against Dan An.
thony. is an undertaken. He ha.
printed big diamond shaped campaign
cards and one of his two slogans j:
Bring the Dead Boys Back Home"
If some of the ambitious state sena
torial candidates facing hot campaign.
in their home districts could onl!
! move to the Saline-Ottawa distric
they would be happy men. DowI
there they may be forced to draft ;
man to run. A. V. Anderson, stat
senator from that district, is nov
warden of the federal prison at Leav