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Against the well-intentioned advice of nearly every Kansas GOPolitico, he announced his intention of making his sixth campaign for the Senate. "Young Bill" White, son of Emporia's late sage, was sure he knew why: Alf Landon had put him up to it to bleed votes from Capper's rival in the primary and Landon's archfoe, ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel. White said so in an Emporia Gazette editorial. In a tearful statement, Capper replied that Young Bill was mistaken; the decision to run was "mine and mine alone...
...minutes later he was a politician again. Tall, handsome Harry Darby, G.O.P. national committeeman in Kansas, came up and gave him the inside on how Alf Landon had been given a drubbing at the Republican state convention in Wichita. (Roberts dabbles little in Missouri politics but-because the Star is the biggest paper in Kansas-he is Kansas' top GOPower...
Boom & Byline. In a political year, almost every man is a politician of sorts. But most men merely play at it. Roy Roberts devotes a great part of his skill, energy and time to it. He almost lost his amateur standing in 1936, when he guided Alf Landon into the worst debacle the Republican Party ever suffered. But in 1948 he made most of the 14-carat professionals look tarnished. He was closest to the biggest political story of the year-the Eisenhower boom...
...Roberts-Darby group had won 13 of the state's 19 delegates to the national convention, and would doubtless force stubborn Alf Landon out as delegation chairman. It meant that Darby-who is for Dewey on the first ballot-would make the decisions of the Kansas delegation at Philadelphia in June. Roberts, who has a reasonably tough hide, used to wince at reminders of his 1936 fiasco with Landon. Now, enjoying his role as a friendly enemy of Alf's, he pushed his belly back from his desk and nodded: "Fine. Fine...
Last week 38 Biggleswade unionists went on strike against Wells and Winch, claimed they had cut deliveries to the brewery's 370 pubs by one-third. With three weeks still to go before Easter, Alf's sporting friend offered to pay off the bet and forget the whole business. But Alf, taking his turn on the picket line, turned the offer down cold. "After all," he said, and his fellow strikers agreed, "it's the principle of the thing. A man has a right to grow a beard any time he wants...