The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-10
BOUND TO BOLT.
Prohibition Republicans Won't
Vote For Leedy or Morrill,.
So They Are Going to Have a
Ticket
OFTHEIR OWNEST OWN.
A Big Protest Against the Ig-
nOring
Of the Old Anti-SalOOn Republi-
can Element
OFTHEIROW OWN.
Seems About to Crystalize on
Some Well known Man.

Secretary Stephens of the State Tenn
perance union was asked today what
there was in the report concerning the
union of all temperance people on a
separate candidate for governor. He
said:
"A union of all the temperance forces
of the state is proposed. Whether or
not it will succeed is another question.
It is definitely known that members of
the executive committees of both Pro-
hibitiOn parties are favorable to such a
movement, and some of them are work
ing very actively to bring it about.
Mrs. @. A RippeY of this city,
member of the National party COM
mittee, is one of the most Jealous ad-
vOcates of the wholesale fusion propo-
sition. She says there are any num-
Der of members of the two leading par
ties who claim they have been disfran-
chised by the nomination of Morrill, and
Leedy. AS matters now stand they
will vote for neither of these gentlemen,
and they do not care to cast their bal
lot for either Hurley or DOuthard, but
if some good strong man of favorable
and state wide reputation could be Sc
cured to run on both these tickets and
at the same time be sufficiently inde-
pendent so as to draw from the ether
parties he would poll an immense vote.
Lee Humbert, the chairman of the
National party committee, has S1gn1-
fed his willingness to use his influence
for union of forces, provided some sat
isfactOry agreement can be reached
WlLn the 1EOu1D1llOu party IOlAS. Il
is thought that J. w. Sidwell and Rev.
Richard Wake also favor the PROPOSE
ton.
MANY of the leading members of the
W. c T. U. of the city and county have
been seen and they almost unanimously
favor the movement
Among the younger Republicans the
proposition also meets with hearty ap-
prOvaI. One club composed of ten
young men, all Republicans, have sig
nif1ed their unanimous determination
to scratch the head of the ticket and
vote for an independent candidate if a
good man is put in the field.
What attitude will the state tenn
perance union take toward the indepen-
dent movement"
1.-The state temperance union is alb
sOlutely nOn-partisan; as an organiza-
tion it is neither for nor against the
movement, and if at any time it
should decide to favor the movement
it would do so from nOn-partsan
standpoint, and simply because the
movement is a protest against what it
regards as the most Oatb-defying, law
nullifying administration the state ever
had.
when I became connected with the
union I found many Republicans
afraid to support it for fear it was be-
ing secretly run in favor of the third
party, and third party people were
afraid the Republicans had the inside
track, and I made up my mind what
little influence I might possess would
be used in making it in fact what it
professed to be-nOn- partisan, and
that that fact should be known public
ly If as an organization it opposes a
man it does so because it regards
his influence as detrimental to the best
interests of temperance, and likewise if
it favOrs man it does so regardless of
the party to which he belongs, and be
cause it deems him an earnest friend of
that which it itself advocates"
What position do the officers and
members of the executive committee,
as individuals, take on this question:
"On what question:?
''Win any of them vote for Governor
MorrilI?"
Il think you had better see them per-
sonalIy Perhaps they can tell you
some things in a little palmer English
than I might tell you. They are of age;
let them speak for themselves. How
ever, l think I may tell you that very
few of even those who are Republicans
are averse to the movement proposed
and 1 think most of them would be
glad to see it, that is if the right kind
of a man were agreed upOn-some such
a man as Hatfield, or Col. Lewis, or
Pickering, or R. H. HammOns of Bald
win I think almost any of these men
would be generally acceptable"
Would not a union of forces work in
Leedy's interest?'
"As far as the enforcement of law
is concerned, it is doubtful whether
there would be any choice between
Leedy and Morrill, MorrilPs disgrace
full deal at Wichita and his weakened
vacillating policy makes him as unac-
ceptabIe to the o. NJ. B. as to US He
might make them all sorts of prom
ises and then inside of six months, if
public sentiment should demand the en-
forcement of the law, he would go back
on every one of his promises, that is,
judging the future by the past. OF
course Leedy is said to be a reSu bmiS-
sionist, but I do not know that that is
much worse than being a notification
ist.
But, see here, you must understand
that the prime object of such move
ment would not be to help Leedy. It
is a protest. They tell us, OF two evils,
choose the least but I tell you that if
reasonable and unscriptural doctrine as
that we will never have anything else
but two evils to choose between
think that it is high time here in Kan
sas that of two evils We choose neither
There are actually some preachers
know that would keep on choosing be
tween two evils until after while one
of the evils they choose will be the
accursed soul and body destroying
wide open saloon. Personally, I am
not responsible for either one of these
evils, and I don't propose to hold my
nose and swallow any nauseating mess
that The politicians have fixed up for
me. Understand, I am not now speak
ing for the State Temperance union or
as its secretary, but simply as a citizen
loyal to all the highest interests of the
country, as my best judgment dictates,
and accountable to a higher power for
my influence and my use of the bal
lot
"On January l. 1892, when Lieutenant