The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
G. o. P. Nomination as Uncer-
tain Today as Week Ago.
Accepted Dope Points to Low
den or Dark Horse.
ALLEN NEAR equine" TOP
Political Lightning May Strike
Kansan After Speech.
Ii Wood Slips, Voting May
Swing Early to Allen.
BY A. L. SHULTZ.


Estate journal Staff Correspondent
Chicago, June 10.-On the eve of
the balloting at the national Republic
can convention, conditions are as I'M
certain as week ago. 1t looks like
Lowden or a dark horse. That is the
generally accepted dope. 1t is the
ticket which Dave Mulvane brought
home from a down-east trip a month
ago. Everyone didn't accept Null
vane's card at that time. There is
| still much reason for doubt and many
chances for a change. But the real
wise men who talk convention things
really worth while are riding on the
same ticket with the Topekan-Low-
| den or an outsider.
Kansans Standing on Edge.
Kansans are today standing on edge.
Fred E. Stanley was this morning
swamped with a demand for tickets
for the big meeting The Kansas in
terest in the proceedings is greater
than displayed in any former Rspub-
lican national gathering.
| Incidentally the national interest in
| the nominating speeches is possibly
keener than at any time in years. OF
the men and women who will talk to
the big meeting. interest in no indi-
vidual orator compares with the in
terest which surrounds Henry Aliens
| speech nominating Gen. Leonard
! Wood
There is the dope sheet that out Of
| the convention tangle Henry Allen
may come out winner-certainly the
vice presidential nominee. But it all
depends on whether Wood can win.
Allen refuses fatty to consider the Of
fers and suggestions of help or pro-
| posals for deals-at least until it IS
finally determined that his own can
didate cannot have the plum.
Governor Aliens Speech.
Governor Aliens speech placing
General Wood before the convention
will be something more than a defense
| of the military uniform-it is to stand
| out as a tribute to the men who have
offered their lives that American lib
erty and freedom might endure. 1t is
| just one of the many fights in which
| the Kansas governor has INDUCED
since he came to Chica go-the nation
| al committeeman scrap from his own
state. the demand fora platform plank
that pledges protection to the public in
| time of industrial stress-and now the
climax in the nomination of Wood
| Out of it all may come the nomina-
| ton of the Kansas governor. who is
near the top of dark horse favorites.
Yet the governor himself is shying
away.
! Silent on Vice Presidency.
Governor Allen isn't discussing his
| vice presidential chances. He has
| told his friends that he doesn't want
| to be placed in the attitude of declin-
| ing an honor before 1t is offered. On
1 the other hand he has made it clear
| that he does not wish to be put in the
position of seeking either place.
| There is feeling that if the Wood
thing slips that the swing will come
early to Allen The Kansans are
grabbing UP every valuable ticket.
They will seek to do something akin
to wrecking a section of the Coliseum
in displaying their enthusiasm for
| the governor.
Under the present plan, Governor
Allen will remain with the delegation
thru a portion if not all of the voting.
IOnce the tide sets in for the governor
If it ever does"the Kansans are
planning to give the delegates a show
| which will cause them to remember
for many days their trip to the 1920
convention.
Lightning May Strike.
| These things are all based q
Istreak of lightning from the political
Iskies. But the chance that lightning
Twill hit Allen is seemingly almost az
Igood as tho it will hit anyone of g
dozen other men.
| Among the men who coolly and de-
IliberateIy figure politics from the
iham and eggs side of the game, Aller
is possible only as a very. very darl
Ihorse. The general tendency among
one of the present outsiders. In thai
event Dave Mulvane of Topeka will
have little difficulty in maintaining hi
REPUTATION as the wise man of polite:
lin his own home state.
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