The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-18
Every County in State VIII Be
Represented Next Week.
They VIII Push State Wide
Primary in the Discard.
CONVENTION ON WEDNESDAY
Big Fight Among BOurbOnS for
N0ffice of Governor.
Three Likely Candidates and
Several Dark Horses.

Pushing the statewide primary in
the discard, 100 Kansas Democrats
are coming to Topeka next week to
propose state candidates to the pri-
mary voters. to write tentative plat
form and plan to organize for the
November election. Every county in
the state will send a delegation
delegation with endorsement and ere
dentiGls from home Demecrats-to act
for them in selecting a state ticket
and speaking the will of the party in
drafting platform. 1t is the first
Organized party move to entirely ig-
more the statewide primary since the
law was passed in 1908.
Therc is not a Democrat worker in
the state who will not come to To-
peka for the big convention IL II is
possible to be here. There will be
more Bourbon medicine made here
early next week than has been COM
pounded by a Kansas Democrat or
garization in score OF years Some
of the men who did the scene shifting
in the old days of the convention plan
some of them prominent in the old
Populist and Farmers Alliance
nlOvcm ent-will come for the meeting
To Be Held Wednesday.
The state convention win be held
Wednesday. 1t will be preceded Tues
day night by a meeting of the Demo-
crat state committee. The committee
members will discuss finances and or
ganization. The committee meeting
viii likely be held in Representative
hail. Wednesdays convention will he
held in the auditorium.
II is likely that many women will
nave seats in the state convention.
Ihere is also a probability that the
Democrats will give them one or two
places on the state ticket this wear.
altho there are at this time no avowed
candidates for convention endorse
ment.
Big Fight for Governor.
The big fight of the convention will
be for governor. There are three like
" ndidates-HeRderson S. Martin OF
Lawrence, and Leigh Hunt of Rose
dale, avowed candidates.; and Mayor
Herbert ]. Corwine of Topeka, Likely
| dark horse. Martin and Hunt have
been doing the active campaign work.
Martin is seeking the nomination on
platform which declares the govern
ment ought to do something to help
the farmers. Hunt-a colonel in the
recent war-is a new figure in state
politics. He believes the party ought
to take some action regarding the in
| dustrial court and the high taxes
Mayor Corwine is not expected to get
into it unless the convention gets in
| tangle regarding Martin and Hunt.
1t is likely that the Democrats will
put out a fiery platform. They will
swat the state administration for high
taxes for junketing, they will charge
that the public utilities commission
has played politics and will doubtless
assert that the industrial court is a
useless and meaningless institution
and should be wiped out. The candi-
date who gets the endorsement of the
convention will go into the primaries
on that platform OF course the con-
vention cannot restrict entrants in the
primaries. But its endorsement will
be a rather positive thing and the
Bourbons have decided to give the idea
at least one fair trial.
To Arrive Here Tuesday.
Many of the Democrats will arrive
Tuesday. Some of the leaders may
come to town Monday. Wednesdays
convention setting will be the big
show of the week. The annual Dem
ocrat banquet win follow the conven-
tion Wednesday night. Congressman
Finis ]. Garrett of Tennessee will be
the principal speaker at the Bourbon
dinner. Other speakers will include:
committeeman; Forrest Luther, Cim-
arron. state chairman; W. A. Ayres.
Wichita, former Eighth district con-
gressman; Dempster o. Potts. Wichita.
president of the dinner club; and Tom
LilIard, we'll known Topeka lawyer.
The dinner will be held at Masonic
temple at $50 o'clock.
Big List of Candidates
There is an army of avoWed and
potential candidates for convention,
end orsement. Some of them are
rather earnest in their demands. They
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