The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

everyone with a plumbers kit and an
idea that there is something loose
about the government, has been urged
to participate under the CALL There
viii be lots of free and untrammeled
oratory, a pitcher of ice water and
everyone who can register a thrill or
push a new fad to the front ought TO
have better than an even chance for
a place on the state ticket.
First New Party Call.
The Coughlin convention is the first
genuine. open and above board new
party call in Kansas in several years.
Viewing surface conditions and guess
ing several days in advance of the
meeting there should be something
like a hundred or more ardent advo-
Gates OF a new deal in politics who
will attend he meeting That esu-
mate Of course should not include the
home town contribution of people who
drop in merely because they haven't
much Of anything in particular to do
that day.
In political circles the new party
meeting isn't giving anyone a dimes
worth of serious concern 1t follows
on the heels Of several years endeavor
to put the Nonpartisan League on the
map in Kan~as. So far as being
factor in the state campaign may be
Concerned. the Coughlin uprising is as
important as a Russian love message
in the Genoa conference
Under the convention call each
county is entitled to send one dele
gate fer each I 200 votes cast for
seems altogether too generous. Just
now il seems likely that fewer than
twenty five counties will send dele
gates and the high water mark for &C
credited new party representatives is
100 to $50. The party proposes not
only to Immediately open for business,
but to rent q typewriter, write a plat
form and conclude its speeches with
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A Different Matter.
The Col. Leigh Hunt affair is quite
a different matter Some Democrats
of promin ence ann standing in state
affairs will attend the party for, the
Rainbow Division officer in Topeka
next Wednesday night. Col. Hunt
rated as a millionaire contractor
was one of the most popular officers In
the overseas service.
In state politics. tho, Col. Hunt is
an unknown quantity. He has never
been a candidate for office. His inter
est in public affairs never caused him
to get into the middle of a free-for-all
campaign. So the fellows who have
been on the fighting line in party poll
tics haven't met up with the Rosedale
celoneL
So Wednesday night a group OF
chaps who fought over there and some
fellows who haze come to form quite
a high respect for the army officer,
boom a little start Col Hunt is out
against Henderson s. Martin and iona
than NJ. Davis-veterans OF a score OF
political campaigns in the state The
situation affords opportunity for pic
turesque fight in the Bourbon camp.
II this Col. Hunt party gets away
to a fair start Wednesday night he
may develop into quite a lively. man |
sized candidate before the August pri- !
maries. Just now It looks as tho he Is |
going into the fight with some rather !
clever. well trained campaigners be-
hind him. What is more the Hunt /
headquarters won't need to lose time 4
looking for an angel to pay the rent /
and telephone bills and keep the head |
quarters open So maybe it will be a /
fairly good idea to keep an eye on this /
Hunt gubernatoria1 boom.