The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-05
UHlLO l1IlIu ] u y
Kansas Day Club Officers Reply
to Critics.
Meet in Topeka and Issue. an
Address.
IT WAS OPEN TO ALL.
Say That Meeting Didn't Bar
Any Republican.
Club Will Always BE Found
Working for Party.
T WAS OPEN TO ALL.

A majority of the officers of the Kan
sas Day club met today in Topeka and
drafted reply to the denunciation of
the clubs meeting on the afternoon of
January 20, by square deal papers and
leaders over the state. In this reply the
club officers take the ground that they
were elected without solicitation or
campaign tactics by majority of the
Republicans present at the regular club
meeting. They declare that the meet
ing was open to all Republicans in
the state Who desired to attend. They
say that the cries of wolf" packed
convention railroad attorneys" etc,
are the same as those uttered by the
Populists in the early nineties. f
Thos ,Wagstaff, president; Henry
Morrison, secretary, and Vice Presidents
Johnson of the First district, Clarence
Price of the Third, Clyde Miller of the
Fourth, Preston Coleman of the Sixth
and Ralph Faxon of the Seventh were
present at today's meeting of the club
when the following authorized state
nent was made in regard to the meet
ing of January 20:
The officers of the Kansas Day club
authorize the following statement to be
made to the Republicans of Kansas:
Since the election of the officers of
the club at its annual meeting. held in
fopeka last Saturday. certain neWspa-
perS in this state, as well as in Mis-
souri,, both editoriauy and otherwise,
have charged the officers elected and
those who supported them OF being
creatures or tools of corporations, rail-
road hirelings and in fact allege that
the election of the officers of the club
was brought about by crafty politicians
and undesirable factors in the Repub-
lican party Of Kansas. But for the
possible harm to the party and the club
in this state that might follow if these
unfair and unwarranted attacks were
unanswered by the officers elected the
same would be permitted to go unno-
ticed.
Conducted in Interest of Party.
THE club has always been conducted
in the interest of the Republican party.
1t was founded or organized for that
purpose and no other. To charge that
its present management is the result Of
a packed house, SO to speak, or that the
influence of the club will be used to
weaken the position of the party before
the people of Kansas, are but the ut
terances of certain politicians and their
political newspaper organs. whose mis-
sion in political life is not to promote
the interest of the party and thereby
foster, promote and cherish it's cardinal
principles, but to cry fraud, wolf,
CRATER and kindred other epithets
against those who have the interest of
the party at heart and dare to appear
and vote their convictions in the open.
Unfair Attempts to Besmirch Club.
Such unfair attempts to besmirch
the officers of this club and those who
elected them to say the least cheapens
the political situation in Kansas and
lessons the respect once had for the
men and newspapers making or pub
fishing these unfair and unwarranted
attacks. No fair minded citizen or self