The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
BOARD FOR CHI
Great Political Migration to
Start Next Week.
Kansas g. O. p. Packing Grips,
Borrowing Poker Funds.
STAGE SET FOR CONVENTION
Big Boys Already Are on
Ground Mixing the Medicine.
"JuSt Let Henry Speak," Is
Kansans' Prayer.
STAGE SET FOR CONVENTION
BY A. L. sHULTz.

kansas RepuDl1canS are packing
their handbags and wondering if they
will really find some place to sleep in
Chicago and whether Dave or Fred or
! Henry or Bill or Frank will be able
/ to land them a ticket to the national
! convention. The national convention
/ is the big political show of the year
and every aggressive Kansas Repub-
lcan who can possibly get to Chicago
expects to be there. Several of the
| leaders are already on the job. The
! big crowd will start next week.
/ Strong prospects of a deadlock in
the convention make most interesting
the preliminary skirmishing in the
hotel lebbies. This year the dope
sters and medicine makers are right
/ in their element They may forecast
and make predictions to anyone and
| everyone who will listen. And always
| the dopester may be right, if the con-
vention merely takes the necessary
| course deadlock, an early decision,
or the withdrawal or entrance of soPne
favorite son.
MY Kingdom for a Room"
With the Allen ompers debate out
of the way, the real interest in Kansas
politics is the Chicago meeting to
| name nominees for president and vice
president. For each ticket available
| for the Kansas delegation, it is gen
.
plicants.
/ The fact that the system of legalized
convention week larceny is to be re-
sumed in Chicago doesn't affect the
| Kansas interest in the least. OF course
there is an occasional grumble be-
cause sleeping quarters in the loop will
cost ten to fifteen good iron men a
/ day. Most of these rooms will accom-
modate only four or five hand penny
ante game. too. Nor is there an as
lou Of eli for rt1aT
the room rent. But there is always
that hope eternal-maybe tomorrow
the luxurious tenant may get his two
good hands on a ticket to the conven-
tior and see at least a portion of the
show.
Just Let Allen Speak"
Because the Allen-Gompers debate
was a. no decision affair, seemingly
tended to drive home a decision fol-
lowing the oratorical contest. En-
lthusiastie Kansans, however, are not
the least bit discouraged. They be-
lieve the demand for a flat answer
of the industrial court problem will
result in a call for a speech by the
Kansas governor some time during
the big Chicago talkfest. And it is
the desire of every Kansan to BE
somewhere in the hall when this OPP
portunity for Allen to talk really
comes-if it ever does That speech
may lead to a presidential or vice
presidential nomination, they say.
At least a half dozen men active in
Kansas politics are now in Chicago
watching the contests and taking a
quiet hand in the dope making. Early
next week the number will be aug
tmented to a hundred. After Wednes-
day the early arrivals for the conven-
ton will doubtless total 100 a day,
with the big crowds of spectators
heading for. the loop district Saturday
land Sunday.
The wise men in politics. however,
will be on the job ahead of the big
noise makers. They realize that the
real preliminary work and the deep
sea planning of convention managers
will occur long before the gavel falls
in the coliseum.
/ Kansas headquarters will be main
tanned at the Auditorium hotel. Forty
rooms were reserved for the state
delegation and these quarters were
taken weeks ago. The man or wo-
man who has not made connections
with sleeping quarters should go to
Chicago prepared to camp in the park.
And the Kansan who doesn't know
whence may come his convention
ticket should stay at home and wait
for the first run of convention pic
lures in the movies.
Kansans to Organize June Z.
Organization of the Kansas delega-
ton and election of officers will occur
advance of the opening of the conven-
ton. Most of the Kansas delegates
will reach Chicago several days in ad-
vance OF this meeting. The meeting
will name a national committeeman
delegation chairman and Kansas men,
bers of the various convention COM
mittees.
Many of the Kansans who journeyed
to New York for the Allen-Gompers
debate will return to Chicago next
week and file on standing room space
in the Congress hotel lobby where pre-
! convention activities are warmest
Governor Allen will arrive in Chicago
Thursday, according to present plans
He will stay at the Congress. David
w. Mulvane of Topeka, former ma
tional committeeman and doped tc
win the job over Fred E. Stanley this
year, returned to Chicago several days
ago He has been in close touch with
national affairs and will remain in tbs
convention city until after the bis
show.
The Kansas allotment of tickets l:
small. Again, if you haven't arranged
for your seat and a place to lay YOU
tired head il may be we'll to give the