The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
PLAN A BIG MEET
Kansas Democrats All Ready
for Convention Wednesday.
Every County To Be Repre-
scented in Love Feast.
UNIT RULE ONE OF THE ISSUES
Shawnee County Delegates Will
Not Observe 1t.
Will Probably Ask for Repeal of
Industrial Law.
UNIT RULE ONE OF THE ISSUES
DEMOCRAT PROGRAM.

DEMOCRAT PROGRAM.
500 o'clock tonight:
Meeting state central committee, repre-
sentative hall.
Wednesday:
Hoo a. m. State convention to write
tentative state platform and recon-
congressional offices.
6:15 p. m. Banquet Democrat dinner club,
Masonic temple.
Kansas Democrats = loaded with
platform planks, enthusiasm and ideas
| for running the state campaign-are
coming to Topeka on every train to-
day for Wednesdays state convention
and annual love feast. Tonight every
county in the state will be represented
in the Bourbon milling in the Throop
hotel. When the party workers start
home after Wednesday nights dinner,
definite plans will have been worked
out for the November ballot battle.
There isn't a Democrat war horse
in the state who can possibly come to
Topeka who will not sit in Wednes-
days convention as a delegate or pro-
vide ideas from the side lines. 1t is
the first real state convention of a
dominant polistical party since 1906.
The plan of the Democrats to strike
boldly in opposition to the statewide
primary plan has met with enthusi-
Democrats will begin their organiza-
ton work Wednesday. They hope to
be organizing out in the precincts
while the Republicans are applying
salve to factional wounds and trying
to look pleasant after their biennial
August primary riot.
Many Young Men Enter.
Many of the younger men of the
Democrat party are rubbing elbows
with the old guard today. They will
sit in the state convention and are
likely to have a big party in assum-
ing leadership. Forrest Luther of
Cimarron, state chairman, is one of the
young men in state politics and will
convene Wednesdays convention.
Kansas Democrat women are also
to have a place in the convention. A
number of counties have placed wo-
men on their delegations. 1t is likely
| that one or two places on the state
ticket will be given the newer voters.
The advance dope sheet, tho, does not
show any women on the list of active
candidates for state office.
In the hotel lobby tonight will be
many of the men who have been
prominent in Kansas public and po-
litical affairs during the last quarter
of century. Some of these men were
powers during the old convention
days. There are many things they can
tell the younger generation about or
ganization plans. In consequence the
wise old workers are certain to have
/ a big place IN Shaping OIL lne
paign plans and putting together of
the state platform planks.
The real fight before the conven-
ton will be the selection of a COVER
norship candidate. Friends of Hen
derson S. Martin of Lawrence and
Col. Leigh Hunt of Rosedale came to
town early. Both claimed they would
win convention end orsement. While
they are busy milling among the dele
gates, there IS much dark horse COM
ment.
Many Possible Candidates.
Proposals for outside candidates in
clude such men as Mayor Herbert J.
Corwine of Topeka, Mayor Harry B.
Burton of Kansas City, Maurice Nc
! Auliffe of Salina, W. F. Benson, Wich-
! ita. and Jonathan NJ. Davis, Bronson.
None of these men are expected to get
into it unless there should be a dead
| lock.
Enforcement of the unit rule in
Wednesdays convention is one of the
issues which had not been settled to
satisfaction of all delegates who came
early for the convention. Shawnee
/ county voted not to observe the unit
rule in voting. But the state con-
vention will make it's own rules re-
garding voting plans. Democrat ma
tional convention follow the old rule,
but recent state conventions to select
delegates to national conventions, have
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