The Topeka state journal., 1922-01-27
Preliminary GubernatoriaI Can
nOnading in Topeka Tonight.
Big Guns Arrive for Kansas
Day Front Line Positions.
HARMONY OR A BAD SPLIT
Mulvane and Allen Crowds Not
in Good HumOr Today.
Industrial Court Might Go
Down if Democrats Win.
BY A. L. sHULTZ.

BY A L. SHULTZ.
The first heavy artillery in the pre-
liminary gubernatorial cannonading
will be moved to front line positions
in the National hotel lobby tonight.
There will be much heavy firing dur
ing the next three days-with grand
finale for the preliminary campaign
opening in the food and talk session OF
the Kansas Day club at Masonic tenn
pie Monday night
Men who are doing the heavy roles
in the Republican campaign will be in
the best chairs in the hotel lobby
Saturday will bring the first big ar
rival of real top notch talent from
out in the state. There isn't a county
in the state that will not send a dele
CATION to the Republican dinner this
year. Most of the counties will send
a favorite son or two with ambitions
to succeed to the governorship.
Harmony talk increases as the num-
ber of party workers is enlarged But
the tendency to say it with flowers
is largely vocal A good many fellows
will come to the sO-called love feast
with a determination to do II with an
alley apple. They are filled with pa
triotism-and yeeps about the high
taxes-but their desire for getting to-
gether is predicated on 81 desire to get
| together in their own back yard and
with some of their own playmates-
There isn't any sort of conversation
about le old crowd accepting anyone
who has played close and rubbed ell
| bows with Governor Allen, ct al. Nor
does the state administration ambition
for harmony reach out to the point
! of grabbing up a compromise guher-
! natorial candidate who went to Chi
| cago and shouted for Dave Mulvane
| in 1924
On the faces of conditions as thew
| exist at the beginning of the party
| pew-w WOW. the standpatters have the
inside track. The old crowd of hard
boiled Republicans who Joined the late
Morton Albaugh is developing the
Allen boom for governor four years
ago. has wandered back to the original
stamping grounds
To Get Administration.
There is a tendency on the part of
the old crowd to get behind W. F.
| Lambertson or some persons who is
fatty and clearly opposed to the state
house organization. The old crowd
would much prefer Senator Francis &
Price. but there isn't bit of certainty
| that he will get in. If he should run.
ne might be real harmony posi-
bility Governor Allen offered the vet
eran fighting senator from Clark coun-
| ty places on the public utilities com
time he declined. Now. IL he should
decide to get in, he might bring the
| two crowds together.
But that is just a possibility. The
administration first choice is Reed or
! Motor or Bailey or even Hopkins.
Neither of these men would be ac-
cepted by the old warrior They are
as distasteful to the standpat wing of
| the party IS Lambertson could posi-
bly, be to the sensitive nostrils of Will
! liam Allen White.
| Yet the responsibility of getting to-
gether is rather up TO the administrst-
/ tion--which gives the Kansas Day
gathering all the more color and ac-
ton. Someone from the state house
must sing the harmony solo.
Court Big Issue.
| Governor Aliens Industrial court is
the big measure for consideration. If
the party fails to win the governor
ship next November organized labor
in the nation VIII declare the action .
| decision of the state against the labor
! tribunal. The Industrial court is the
Thing nearest Governor Aliens heart
The old crowd Joined in the demand
/ for the industrial court law. is favor
able to its purpose and provisions.
but claims its use for alleged political
purposes. Some of their leaders have
! complained a bit as to high taxes and
Increased cost of forward looking stats
4
Most of these men-according to
the wise men who are on the job early
ARE willing to help save the court
land the e ection. But it isn't likely
they will rush madly thru the hotel
Hobbies trying to solve the state ad-
lministrations problems. IL the ad-
lministration has a first class solution
it looks as tho the old crowd viii look
it over and give it consideration.
There are a lot Of optimistic souls
who see evidences OF harmony in the
Kansas Day gathering. Their dreams
may come true. But today as Old
Bill Snort journeys toward Topeka to
tell the fellers what the folks are
saying out in the short grass country.
the chances for peace and war are
about equally divided.
The situation means much for the
Kansas Day club treasury. It means
that perhaps the biggest crowd that
ever attended the Republican dinner
in the thirty-one years OF the organ
ization, will try to jam into Masonic
temple Monday night. fill their sys-
TENS with roast turkey. cranberry
sauce and oratorical inspiration.