The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-04
AWAIT HIS ANSWER
Kansas Wants to Hear Ff0m
Senator Harding.
Republican Nominee Comes to
Kansas Saturday.
MANY kANSbNS TO HEAR HIM
Speaks at Kansas City, Wichita
and Arkansas City.
Most Important Event of the
Prediction Campaign.
MANY KANSbhS TO HEAR HIM
BY A. L. SHULTz.

| d "A Sf1Ob1Z.
Kansas is waiting for Sen. Warren
G. Hardings answer to Governor Cox's
attack. The Republican senatorial
nominee comes to Kansas Saturday
following big meeting in Kansas City
friday night Kansas political OBJ
| servers will follow the Harding
speeches in the west very closely in
order to judge effects of invasions by
the two presidential candidates.
Expect Big Crowds. e.
| Many thousand Kansans are ex-
peeted to hear Senator Harding in
Kansas City. Wichita and Arkansas
CITY. H. II. Motter, state chairman,
will try to handle the Kansas crowd
for the Harding meeting. But his an
pncation for 1000 reservations has
failed to produce the seats. Motter.
however, continues hopeful.
| Several hundred Shawnee county
republicans will doubtless attend the
meeting. Arrangements are now be-
/ ing made for a special train which
Will leave Topeka Friday afternoon
ana return after the senator concludes
MS speech. Republicans in Mont
gomery, Atchison and Labette counties
sibilities.
Most Important OF Campaign.
The coming of Senator Harding IN
Kansas City will proba bly, be the most
| important event in the e-election
campaign Last week Governor Cox
made an effective speech in the state.
Yet republicans have pointed out that
IN many details Cox was sly and eva
sive and that his answers to questions
were eraftily handled and really didn't
| always answer Now there is a de-
| mand that Senator Harding meet the
Cox speech in flat and square state-
ment
|
| Harding's statement as to the LIQUOR
issue is probably - greatest concern
in Kansas. Usua$ coz answ ere 4
queries as to his own stand by asking
why the Republican press in dry states
supported candidate who owned an
tho. Cox charged that of thirty-feur
votes cast by Harding on the liauor
| question while In the senate. only
three of them were on the dry side.
| Following the Kansas City meeting,
Senator Harding will go to wichita Tor
morning meeting. He speaks in Ar
Kansas City at noon. He is trayeiine
| by special train.
| Roosevelt Comes Tuesday.
FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt, Demoorat
nominee for vice president, comes to
me state tuesday for speeches in the
fFst, Second and Fifth districts Z A
| NUMBER OF prominent Kansas Denlo-
Gratis as well as candidates for state
effiee will accompany Roosevelt on his
trip west on the Union Pacific to Sa-
| lima.
The Roosevelt itinerary calls for a
speech IN Lawrence, at 10 o'clock Tues
day morning. A rear platform speech
VIII be made in Topeka, the train stop
| PING twenty minutes for the talk.
Otner snort talks will be made in Man
haitian. junction City and Abilene. A
night speech will conclude the candi-
| IN 70 r.
ter Colorado Wednesday.
Allen Into the Seventh.
Governor Allen is speaking today in
| Greensburg. Pratt and Medicine
Lodge. He will talk Tuesday in An
thony and Harper, with a night speech
oelore the Wichita Press club. Last
week the governor campaigned in the
| sixth district. where he travelled 4e2
| miles and made twenty-five speeches.
II. H Motter, state chairman, accom-
panied the governor on his northwest
ern trip. Large crowds. enthusiS en-,
and every indication of an enormous
republican success in November fea-
tured the Sixth district meetings.
White Flags Cox.
| He Won't Do" Is the caption over
an editorial in William Allen White
Emporia Gazette. The editorial refers
to Governor Cox, whom the Emporia
ealter eharacterizes as @shifty. shallow
|
the Cox defeat spells goodbye to the
Democrat party and will leave the
party in the hands of a crowd that
has neither morals nor aeumen.'
/ Farewell Bump From White.
This the farewell bump which White
| gives Cox:
James Cox, the Democratic canai-
date for president. does not measure
up to the American standard; for near
| ~ three months he has been standing
in the spotlight of publicity, and he
has disappointed his friends and parti-
sans and more or less disguised those
who had ne interest in him. He has
been tried in the balance and found
wanting He is shifty, shallow and
\ unsernpulous. He represents about all
the political standards of the big city
f, bosses who nominated him, hoping to
Secure the modification of the prohibit
tory law. He is Sometimes clever, but
never convincing. And his campaign
is wasting away. He will carry, fewer
northern states than Taft did. And
his defeat will leave the organization
of the Democratic party in the hands
Of a crowd that has neither morals
ner aeumen. After the defeat, Cox
cannot Fehabilitate it; and Wilson will
not have the physical strength to try.
/ The Republican party has been
given new lease of life. 1t would
seem tie be wise for every American
whe feels the desire to participate eff
feetiveiy and forrishteeus causes in
] American politics, to get his standing
in the Republican party straight and
unequivocai. Then after the. election
he can have a voice in directing the
| tendency of the party in power It
may be hard job to turn the Re-
publican party forward; but .cox's can
I dtdacy has made it a much harder job
to breathe life into the Democratic
party Cox won't do-except that he
has done one thing he has done the
Democratic party to DEATH
EDITOR MURDER CASE TO TRIAL.