The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
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j. b. Billiard to Push Prohibition
Before Democrats.
Former Topeka Mayor to Wieh-
ita Loaded With Trouble.
INDUSTRIAL COURT A BONE
Fight on Allen Plan May Be Led
by Sam AmidOn.
Robert Blair, of Topeka, Almost
"Big Four" Certainty.
INDUSTRIAL COURT A BONE

n A. l.. Cf1O H.
Kansas Democrats will grid them
selves for the 1920 presidential fight
next Thursday when they meet in
wichita to select delegates to the
Frisco convention, write resolutions.
discuss candidates and consider battle
plans Two fights-maybe a whole
flock of them-are now in sight
Demon rum in the form of a modifi-
cation Of the prohibitory amendment,
the industrial court and dispute over
personnel of delegates will offer OPP
portunities for a day of trouble.
Some OF the trouble before the
Democrats next week will be taken to
Wichita by the delegates. other trou-
BILE will be offered in neat, innocent
looking packages by interested parties
who are now looking for an oppor-
tunity to aid in making some new
campaign issues. There are whole
flocks of candidates for Big Four
places. The test for men and women
who go to the national convention
may be their willingness to accept
nomination for state or district jobs
In the coming campaign.
Delegates to the convention Will
have an opportunity to vote on resub-
mission resolutions. ]. b. Billiard.
former mayor of Topeka. is going to
the convention with a resolution IA
TO popular vote in the nation. He
also urges in his resolution congress
sional action permitting the manufac-
ture and sale of beer and light wines.
Billiards. resolution ought to be good
for grand battle. 1t stirred up fight
which lost the Democrats the state in
1914 when a resubmiSsion resolution
was offered in the party council.
What About Court?
tha Tar,1o~o@ tro,,I,ro T.
carrying other select brands of sor-
row. There is the industrial court act
for example. The state Federation of
Labor organization will seek to force
a positive stand against the labor
court Officers and leaders in the
state labor organization will meet in
Wichita, Tuesday. They will define
q campaign program. Then they will
take it over to the forum, according
TO reports, and the Bourbon resolutions
committee will be shown just where
TO sign.
Maybe the committee won't sign.
That is where the opportunity for
trouble appears. A refusal TO take up
the fight of organized labor when la
bor needs the Democrat support, may
give labor opportunity to look the
other way when the Democrats need
votes in November. The pacifist crowd
will seek to sidetrack any expression
court. The radicals want a bold, de-
fiant stand. And the two views fur
nish ample opportunity for opening
the old sores which have been slowly
healing since the 1894 war between
the state aud federal administration
crowds. The issue may force a new
alignment in the party if the resolu-
ton is considered on the floor.
To Send One Woman.
The Democrats are certain to send
at least one woman to the national
convention. There is an almost unan-
imous expression for such move. But
the leaders have not agreed as to the
woman who shall be honored. A move
was started for Mrs. Cora G. Lewis OF
ISinsley. But the anti Hodges faction
is solidly against her. Mrs. Franb
Britton of Topeka has been mentioned
She may land if the r. w. Blair can
didacy does not interfere. Mrs. Har-
rison Parkman of Emporia, Mrs. J
H. Hostettler of Belleville and prob
ably other women may be considered
When the Republicans met in Sa