The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-21
Kansas Politicians Hear Thun-
der of Taxpayers League.
Republicans Will Bring Rain
coats to Topeka Kansas Day.
A GREAT DAY FOR BILL SNORT
He'll Toast His Shins With
Plenty of Company Here.
Gossip of State Politics as
Gathered by State Journal.
BY A. L. SHULTZ.


Apparently there isn't a real, gem
uine 32nd degree Republican in Kan
sas who hasn't chalked up plans for
Club dinner and it's preceding festivi-
ties and hostilities. The banquet of
groceries and reason this year prom
ises to bring a near record crowd to
the meeting. 1t will be one Of the
finest opportunities of the year for the
party worker to meet a fellow war
rior in Room 564 or join in the mutual
medicine mixing and brick bat tossing
in the hotel lobbies
In view of the approaching cam
paign the Kansas Day Club gathering
this year holds more promise of
mingled joy and sorrow and fear than
any political assembly in this state
in many months. With the prospect
of some 90 to 80 candidates of every
faction, brand and creed known to the
party and with the black and threat
eninG thunder cloud of the Taxpayers
League in the west, it isn't a situation
of true promise. Even in the old days
the party leadership might we'll have
viewed with some alarm %ith the
absence of either party leadership or
or organization as at the present
thanking you very much for the bless
alarm promises to become rather
mad scramble to cover.
The wise men of the party have
been doing a lot of serious talking
lately To be sure the old crowds
haven't exchanged corsage bouquets
since the Chicago convention, but
there is a sort of community of in
! terest that always comes to the sur
t face IN a crisis. So remembering the
George B. Snow vote of two years ago,
there is growing tendency to accept
the present situation as a sufficient
! crisis to warrant serious. sane and
solemn discussion of the problems OF
the campaign.
Call For Mr.. Snort
This is the sort of season when Old
Bill Snort comes in from the tumble
weed belt and gets an audience. Old
Bill has heard a rumbling and a
grumbling. He knows ominous
sounds when he hears 'em. And Bill
/ Snort will have more invitations tc
draw an easy chair up around the
radiators :n the National hotel and
toast his shins than he has had foI
| a long, long time.
1t was old Bill Snort who came t.
town twenty years ago with the grass
roots dope that the railroads and tht
machine politicians had gone too ia"
Because the leader didn't listen to Bill
/ and back off bit, the primary came
! on. Now Bill is coming to town with
Information that hades will have tC
be liquidated if something isn't done
about this tax matter.
/ Because the word is already here
{ there is a rather certain prospect thai
! the Kansas Day club milling will re-
suit in a big demand for a state con-
vention to be held sometime this
spring. The Democrats have decided
to try out the. convention plan in ar
effort to suggest some nominees tC
voters in the primaries next August
Now it is very likely that the Repub
licans will follow suit.
A Get Together Program.
Just now there is a prospect tina
the question of restoring party organI
zation and securing party leadership
will receive far more consideration
from the visitors than the question o.
individual candidates for the COVER
norship. Of course every candidate
will be here with his followers ant
4 boosters. But the dominant feature
of the meeting doesn't promise to b'
cementing of sentiment for a particu
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