The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

from Montgomery county. Other
prominent Independence Republicans
present are: T. i. Flannelley, former
district judge, and Chester Stevens.
Tom Kelly of Paola, recently ap-
pointed general receiver of Dominican
customs, is saying goodbye to the boys.
Kelly is former state treasurer and
present mayor of Paola. He sails for
San Domingo Friday.
Clarence Price of Fort Scott, clerk
of the United States district court in
his home town, is quite active with the
Second district crowd. Price who is
a right active and able political or
ganizer has a first class boom for
congress.
I Fred Brinkerhoff of the Pittsburs
I Headlight Ms another newspaper man
on the job. He is one of the active
administration editors in the state. Iii
addition to looking after a few guber
material chores for the administra-
| ton. Brinkerhoff is boosting the big
I Third district Republican meeting in
Pittsburg Friday night.
| Sid Knapp of Concordia has been
named as postmaster OF course he
is here attending the postmaster
school-said so himself-but he was
1
with several hundred fellows in the
| hotel lobby.
| Tom Armstrong, deputy United
States marshal, believes there are even
| Republicans who should be watched
i He sat in an easy chair Sunday night
and eulogized the government in
| Washington. When he started home.
| the, someone had seen Armstrong s
| oVercoat first
| Will Towns1ey of Great Bend came
with the Seventh district delegates and
workers to boost the candidacy of his
| brother Charles Townsley for club
| President.
Roy Bailey. editor of the Salina
Daily Journal. is here to talk over the
| political situation and give thanks that
the paper situation isn't quite as bad
as it used to be.
! Senator Charles E. Snyder, Repre-
Sentative Ben F. Endres, w. I BiddIe
| warden of the federal prison. and E.
e. brewster are members of the Leav-
enworsn delegation which came to
town Sunday night. Incidentally Bid
die is making a considerable record as
head of the federal prison.
d. 0, McCray. candidate for secre-
tary of state: "a lot of good folks
Il
dred of them, won't be able to attend
the banquet tonight unless we give
them our tickets. AItho I am a candi-
date for office and want to see the
fun. sohqe one from out of town will
get my two tickets before the day is
over"
Emerson Carey of Hutchinson, ia
/ Their Of the state fair for his home
town, former state senator and gov
M fe- h
Leasure. manager of the Hutchinson
Gazette, is also here. The Gazette
slipped chip under w Y. Morgan's
organization in Hutchinson recently
when IT took the county printing away
from Morgan's Hutchinson News.
| D. w. Mulvane of Topeka Repub-
[ lican national committeeman. seems
| the most disinterested, unconcerned
person attending the Kansas Day club
festivities Yet Mulvane probably
knows more about Developments in
the pre-banquet milling than any
three men who will sit at the banquet
table tonight.
| Oran Layton, secretary of the club.
has been the busiest man in town. He
not only looks after the matter of feed
! ing 700 guests of the club tonight, but
| IS general stage manager and director
of details from sweeping out the hall
to distributing the speeches to press
representatives and providing every
one with comfortable seat when the
I big show starts.
Dan B. Dyer of Smith Center. one
of the characters in Sixth district poll
tics during the last quarter of a cen
fury. is curious as to the time when
the governorship lists will be closed.
Dyer told friends in ting hotel lobby
| that he expected to call an early con-
ventiou TO be attended by himself and