The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-15
HITS AT JACKSON
Stitch Accuses Attorney General
of Juggling.
Charges Primary Ruling Was
Onblushing as Vicious.
REWARD TO BE GIVEN.
Prosecution Awaits Democrats
FlOpping" for Primary.
One Hundred Dollars Offered for
Each Proven Guilty.


staff for Governor" campaign, today
issued a statement that Democrats
who vote the Republican ticket in the
primary will be prosecuted. Stitch Of
fers 500 for each Democrat proven
guilty of perjury, and accuses Attorney
General Fred S. Jackson of juggling.
His open letter is as follows:
ITO the Republicans of Kansas:
The governor of this state who has
paraded himself before the people for
more than year as an enforcer of
law, and the attorney general whose
duty it is to interpret the law and warn
citizens against it's violation, are now
plotting to nullify law in as shameless
manner as was ever known in this
or any other state. 1 charge specifical-
~ that every utterance of Governor
Stubbs in this campaign and every Off
clal act is an indirect appeal for
Democratic votes in the primary cleo
ton. And 1 charge Attorney General
jackson with attempting to nullify
this law through a recent opinion rem
dered which is as unblushing as it is
shameless and vicious.
Republicans of Kansas, are you GO
ing to permit the open violation of the
primary election law on the I'd of
August? Will you by your silence per-
nit these two men at the head of the
executive and judicial departments of
our state government to carry out their
well laid plot to steal Republican
nominations through Democratic
votes? Under our primary election
law, the Democrat who calls for and
receives and votes a Republican bal
lot over challenge that he is not
member of and has not affiliated with
the Republican party in the past,
commits a crime punishable by fine
and Imprisonment. Such challenged
voter, If he persists on casting an IL
legal ballot, must take an oath that he
affiliated a n ~ f,OC
ballot he is voting. This ballot be-
comes of record and will be used in
convicting him of the crime of per-
jury.
Appeals to Republicans.
81 appeal to the loyal Republicans of
Kansas to go to the polls on primary
election day and see to it that Demo-
Gratis have no part in making the nomi-z
nations of our party, and especially TO
prevent the shame and disgrace of
wholesale perjury in the election
booths A Democrat. any voter who
has signed the petition of a Democrat.
and that other class of Democrats who
prate about being Independent voters
cannot, under the primary election law.
vote a Republican ballot. If, after
their right to vote such ballot is chal-
lenged, they insist and swear falsely in
order to help out Stubbs, Jackson or
any other candidate sailing under false
colors, they will be prosecuted to the
| full limit of the law. And every cleo
ton Judge who becomes a party to this
shameless violation of law, and who
| aids and abets such violators in his Of
! fetal capacity, becomes equally guilty
and subjects himself to a fine and i'm
| prisonment.
ITO the end that we may. have an
honest and fair primary election free
! from the charge of perjury and corrup-
| ton, 1 offer in behalf of the Wagstaff
Republican committee a reward of 500
| for the prosecution and conviction of
every Democrat who swears in and
casts Republican ballot. 1 earnestly
appeal to every Republican in Kansas
| to aid in protecting the sanctity of the
ballot, a duty you can perform for your
party, for the good name of Kansas,
| for decency and law. by seeing to 1t
that Republicans are present at every
voting place to challenge illegal voters.
"a great man has recently spoken
upon this question. Theodore Roose-
| Welt who stands for party integrity and
| orga --ization in recent issue OF the
| Outlook says:
| "sUnder our system of party govern
ment. therefore, the voters should be
| guaranteed the right to determine
within the ranks Of their respective
the parties will be, no less than the
right to choose between the candidates
when the candidates are presented
| them. There is no desire to break
down the responsibility of party organ
! izatfon under duly constituted party
| leadership, but there is desire 10
/ make this responsibility real and to
/ give the members of the party the
right to say whom they desire to ex-
| ecute this leadership
ssyViu Governor Stubbs say to the
| Republican voters of Kansas that he
| endorses these statements from former
| President Roosevelt. and will he join
me in this appeal for Republican nomi-
nations by Republican votes? 1 de-
I'n,and in the name of the Republicans
| of Kansas that Governor Stubbs state
| whether or not he is in favor of Sc
| lecting the nominee for governor with
in the Republican party, and in COM
| pliance with the plain provisions OF
| law which he helped to frame.
Opinion of Two Years Ago.
1.-TWO years ago Attorney General
1 Jackson was asked for an opinion
| touching the rights of voters in a pri-
/ mary election. He rendered an opinion
in which he said:
The time will not come until the
November election for a citizen to ex-
ercise his right ito vote as he sees fit.
ON primary day no Democrat will be
permitted to interfere with the nomina-
4 tion of Republican candidates for any
office great or small; and no Repub-
lcan Will be permitted to interfere with
the nomination of any Democrat for any
Office great or small
IF q Democrat call for Republican
primary ballot on August he should
be challenged on the ground that he is
} rot a Republican, and that it was nons
Of his business, on August at least
| whom the Republicans might nominate
and he should be refused a Republican
ballot on the ground that he is not &
Republican
"'In other words, although the righ
J of citizenship carries with it the righ
to vote, that means the right 10 vot'
at the general elections at which pub
I lie officers are chosen. But on primary
dav the rights of the seYeral pQlitica