The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-03
Pill Chasers and Nicotine Fans
May Take an Interest.
HAS DRAG WITH THE FARMERS
Also He Is Not Considered a
Friend of Administration.
Golf Comes Into Kansas Cam
paign for First Time.

/ Now the gutta-percha pill chasers
| and the nicotine fans may have oc-
casion to take lively interest in state
| politics. Senator Alfred Docking
latest gubernatorial possibility from
the tall and uncut district-isn't talk
| ing to the press about his plans-just
yet. But with the primaries a year
away-and with a tendency to let vir-
gin seeds fall where they maybe
presented himself today as the one
and only possibility who doesn't play
golf and whose lips were never de-
/ filed by tobacco.
| In the general political dope sheets
| Senator Docking is listed as the state
! Administration stalking horse in its
campaign to split the farmer vote with
| Representative w. P. Larhbertson of
Brown county. Lambertson is per-
son a non grata in the Allen camp.
Docking has a big drag in Farmers
/ Union ranks. Lambertson has been
| pictured as the Nonpartisan League
candidate.
To Draw Many Farmer Votes.
Last winter Bookings work in> the
senate wasn't exactly in keeping with
! administration policies. He was rated
as against the consolidation bill and
refused to support several Allen meas
| ures. The dope book doesn't give
Docking a slight chance to receive ad-
ministration votes on primary day.
But his ability to draw farmer votes
| from Lambertson may win for him a
| lot of encoura ging words from persons
who may later vote for some person
| in closer touch with the inner circle
! Motter, Reed, Hopkins or even Nor
gan or Huffman.
! At the state house today Senator
Docking was urged to outline his
plans.
'I haven't anything to say either
pro or cor," he replied.
as that because it is too early tc
announce ?"
'T haven't anything to say about
my plans"
run?"
II didn't say I had decided to run
! 'If you run, will it be as farmer
Il could run as the only candidate
who doesn't play golf"
Anything else ?"
'I don't use tobacco, either"
Support from Lucy Page CASTOR.
Possibilities of ardent support from
Miss Wooster as well as from Lucy
| Page CASTOR were mentioned by in
terViewers if Senator Docking sough
the governorship on a mo tobacco
platform. But the senator wouldn'
ladmit he had talked with Miss Woos
ter about his abstinence from use o.
the weed
Would you bring golf into thu
campaign"
I'm not discussing plans-pro Of
con-" he reiterated.
The golf question is rather ticklisf
subject in the state house. Governo
Allen is a golf enthusiast. If Sena
tor Docking hoped for administration
help it would at least be discourteou
to jump onto the COW pasture poo
game as one of the needed state re
forms.
Much Antioch Sentiment.
Then, too, Senator Docking nigh
find his anti-golf sentiments coolly re
ceived by trends of former governors
Senator Arthur Capper is a golf fan
He played during both of his terms a
governor. Governor Hodges-tho
Democrat-was also friendly to tn
. game. Governor Stubbs' big countr
home was built only a short distanc
from the Lawrence country clut
, Willis J. Bailey, former governor
plays frequently. E. w. Hoch is tn
only governor in a score of years wh
hasn't warmed to the game. So Sen
ator Bookings possible platform ma
? fail Of enthusiastic endorsement anon
predecessors and party leaders.