The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-07
Kansas No Longer Sends Whis-
ker Decorated Delegations.
Republicans From State This
Year Represent Real Money.
CONTROL MILLIONS
Time Was When Cartoonists
Were joyful Over Jayhawkers.
Convention Prices in Chicago
Fail to Scare Modern Kansans.
BY a. l. SHrLTz-

Chicago. June 6.-There must GER
tainly be joy in the hearts of Chi
cagoans because of the coming to
town of the Kansas delegation for the
Republican national convention. or
the twenty delegates to the conven-
ton, twelve are directly or indirectly
Identified with the banking game.
Banks with which they are associated
are estimated to represent assets in
excess of one hundred million dollars.
This is the year of years for the
natlonSd convention profit hogs. AL
ways thru the years of president max
ing, the hotels and eating houses have
collected toll from the delegates and
the rooters. But this year the prices
have taken new altitude flights.
Rooms which ordinarily rent for SO,
81 and IS a day now command a reve-
nue. of $40, s12. SIS and even $40 and
$25 a day. With the possible excep-
ton of the La Sale the Chicago ho-
tells seem TO have Joined in the COM
monty accepted loot of visiting pocket
books.
But the Kansas delegation should
worry. The rediscounts in Kansas
just now are rather large. But there
are millions upon millions of dollars
worth of unmarketed grain at home
and new crop is almost ready for
the harvest. OF course room rent and
groceries are expensive in Chicago
when the Kansas millionaires come to
town to help select the next president
of these United States?
Old Days Are Gone.
Time was when Kansas sent a dele
cation adorned with whiskers and en-
dowed with a crouch and a demand
to kicA the everlasting dayIights out
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street. Those were the days of the
Kansas sorrow songs-the days when
every farm carried a mortgage and
when every farmer owed more than
he could pay or felt that in justice
he should be asked to pay. Those
were the days when the big town car
ttoonistS laid in wait for the coming OF
the Kansas delegation. The sunflower
fellows were always a joy land a re-
freshing afternoon for the funny chaps
on the newspapers. They gave the
paragraphers a new hope and vision.
The old days have gone. The hick
farmer has passed. In the lobby OF
the Congress hotel today the Kansas
delegate talks finance and politics
with the delegate from New England
and the Kansan is possibly a bit the
smartest dresser and in a majority OF
cases holds the greatest financial rat
ing.
When the present delegation to Chi
cago was named the lawyer was
pushed aside, the newspaper man was
almost ignored and Kansas sent her
men who know business and financial
conditions. Few states sent delega-
tons which could command greater
financial ratings than the Kansans.
It's 500, 900, 900 Delegation.
Sitting in the lobby of the Congress
crowd of Kansans talked of the
standing and influence of the dele
gates from home. Estimates were
made as to the wealth of the banking
institutions in which the delegates are
interested. One banker who Joined
the crowd supplemented some figures
and admitted that in his opinion the
total asests of banks in which the dele