The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-25
ALL BUT THREE IN
Kansas District Conventions
Are Now Nearly Complete.
Two Big Features to Wednes-
days G. o. p. Gatherings.
REED DEFEATED IN THIRD
In Eighth Anti-MiIitary Forces
Override Stanley.
William Allen White Calls Adj
ministratiOn a ''Crime."
REED DEFEATED IN THIRD
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION DELE
EATES

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION DELE
GATES.
Five districts have now held conventions
and selected delegates and alternates to
the Republican national convention. The
delegates. alterns.tes and presidential cleo
tOraI nominees follow:
First district-Deiegates. Frank Pom
eroy. Holton: Frank Roberts. OskalOOsa.
Aternates. fIank =. Grimes, Topeka; John
c. W. Ryan. Watheua.
Third Observation-Disclosures. Wilbur F.
Allen. Channte; Charles y. Hunt. Arkan
sas City. AJtornates. T. 4. CurEow. Pitts
burg; George Turner. Howard. Presi-
Genial eicctor. j. o. TuIloss. sedan.
Fourth distriet-Delegates. William Allen
.tlternatss, Mrs. L. 7. Husscy, Lyndon;
Harry J. Taylor. WabaTrsee. PreSiden-
TIM 'IectOr. Fred Hammond, Burlington.
FIFTH Observation-Disclosures j. b. Lower.
Washington: Col. Fred K. Fitzpatrick. Sn-
Ina Altcrnates. =. q. Miller. BellevilIe:
Mrs. :. r. Scott Harrington. Presidential
elector. MIS-. Matte 7. EimbaIi, Manhattan.
Eighth Observation-Disclosures. James II.
stewart. wichita; George ". kanavel,
Caldwell: Mrs. +. o. johnson. McPherson.
Presidential elector. j. e. adams. FL Dor
ado.
second and Seventh district conventions
will be neld next Monday-Second district
at Olathe; Seventh at Dodge City. The
state convention in SnIinn next Wednesday.
sixth district convention, Deloit, April FL.
BY A. L. SHULTz.
Two. features were prominent in
Wednesdays Republican district con-
Nentions-the merciless beating of the
Clyde NJ. Reed combination in the
Third district and the equally cruel
act of the Eighth district convention in
running an anti-military training reso-
luton over Fred E. Stanley southwest
ern manager of the Wood organization.
Otherwise there was an echo of sweet
harmony and a demonstration of
brotherly love and enthusiasm which
knew little restraint. Eight delegates
to the national convention were named
in conventions in the Third Fourth,
Fifth and Eighth districts
Kansas political interest centered in
the Third district. 1t was here that
Judge Clyde NJ. Reed of the court of
industrial relations had decided to give
Sam Fitzpatrick of Independence a
few practical lessons in astute poll
tics. The Reed plan was to elect Sim
o. Gossard of Independence and Hugh
Powell of Coffeyville and to everlast-
ingly eliminate Wilbur y. Allen of
Chanute. The birds were singing
sweetly when Reed and his associates
recovered from the cyclone which pre-
ceded the Cherryvale convention Cos
sard and Powell had counted noses
and Withdrawn. Fitzpatrick and AL
len were sitting on the moon. The
Eighth district event was an extra.
The big Third district row started
in Topeka the night before the Kan
sas Day club banquet. There was
much martial music and many war
cries from the camp of the Reed
forces. Fitzpatrick, who was a domi-
nant factor in the Allen gubernatorial
fight of 1918. was marked for slaugh-
ter. Most ingeniously Reed placed an
kirkpatrick banner In the Mont
gomery county convention, Fitzpatrick
withdrew and was permitted to select
the state delegation. Powell was Civ
en- the district delegation from the
county.
Reeds fight then conferred on Will
bur Allen and a fight was made to es-
tablish a water proof Gossard- Powell
combination. 1t was this combinat ton
which was dynamited by Fitzpatrick
and his friends a few hours before the