The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-10
Editors Sit Behind
 Convention Scenes
LandOn Boom for Nomination Is Striking Example of
 WOrk-White, Allen, Capper in Foreground

1 up to the neck. The others are ob- serving or reporting. It is the acc tivity of the former group, aston- ishingyl large, which is as striking as any other phase of the conven- ton and possibly indicative of 8 new trend in American politics.
 To give you the picture, briefly:
 The Landon boom was bcgun by publishers and editors of Kansas and Kansas City, Mo-, who have now come to Cleveland in swarrns. The editorial pre-convention board of strategy has been helping run the Landon end of the convention, aided by that celebrated elderly trio of Kansas journalists, William Allen White, Henry J. Allen, and Senator Arthur Capper.
 Even the Landon floor leader, Congressman Joseph w. Martin, Jr., turns out to be the publisher of the Evening Chronicle in North Attleboro, Mass. Knox in Vigorous Fight
 Col. Frank Knox, the most vig- orous of all the contenders for nomination, is, as everybody knows, the successful publisher of the big Chicago Daily News. His manager is former Senator George Higgins Moses, still Q newspaperman and former publisher of Q newspaper ln Concord, N. H.
 Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the darkest and biggest of all the 1936 dark horses, is publisher of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald, which he edited until he went to the Senate. Active at Cleveland in his behalf was Publisher A. L. Mil- Ter of the Battle Creek Enquirer News and the Lansing State Jour. mai in Michigan.
 And finally there is Frank E. Gannett, one of Americas out standing newspaper publishers, running mate of Senator William E. Borah. He publishes 20 news papers in IA cities in New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Connecti- cut.
 Knight Is Active
 Also active in the Borah cam paign was Publisher John S. Knight of the Akron Beacon-J Journal, who lost in his race for delegate to the convention.
 But it's the Kansas boys who stand out as the most numerous, most effective members of the big Journalistic army on the firing line in Cleveland.
 Those most widely known to the nation who figure importantly in the convention are the disc and beloved William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, a strong pro- gressive influence as Kansas mem- bers of the platform committee; former Governor Senator Henry J. Allen of the Topeka State Journal head of the Kansas delegation, who did important work on the Landon platform; and Senator Ar. thur Capper of the Topeka Capi. tai and other Capper publications. Other Kansans on Job
 Charles H. Sessions, editor of the Topeka Capital, first broke" tho story that Landon had balanced the Kansas budget. and Dutch" Schultz, one of the most widely ac- quainted newspapermen in Amer lea and for 25 years political edi- tor of the Topeka State Journal, was an important adviser to Man ager John D. M. Hamilton in the Landon campaign.
 The newspapermen who made the country London conscious" are still another set.
 Last October small group met in Kansas City to organize a Lan- don movement. Present were Oscar s. Stauffer, head of the Stauffer newspapers; John P. Harris, CO., publisher with his brother Sidney of the Ottowa Herald, the Hutch inson Herald and News, and the Chanute Tribune; Fred Harris, his lawyer-uncle; Editor Fred w. BrinkerhoR of Stauffer's Pittsburg Headlight and Sun; and Roy Rob- erts and Lacey Haines of the big Kansas City Star.
 Stauffer became head of the Landon for President committee. As publisher of the Grand Island Daily Independent in Nebraska, the MaryviIle Daily Forum in Missouri, and the Shawnee Morning and Evening Star in Oklahimo, as well as three newspapers in Kansas the Arkansas Daily Traveller at Arkansas City the Pittsburg Head light and Sun. and the Daily Re- porter of Independence infiu- ence spread well outside the state at the outset.