The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28

HOod, arthur GaIpeF, Dy MS own - NJ
try and efforts, has built up IN -
pcEa a business that takes rank amoilS
the greatest publishing concerns III ei'e
United States.
Builds New Printing House.
Another writer for an eastern mag
with Mr CapPer and to get line on
the methods he has employed IN ms
successful career. Discussing the nllS
building which houses the Capper pup
locations, be said:
pied exclusively by the Capper Publlca-
lions, and in many respects Is one OF tne s
most complete newspaper plants IN Tue
country. 1t is five stories high, a9XiSO
feet, absolutely fireproof, built OF Beo-
ford stone. terra Gotta, steel anu con
crete; equipped with every convenience
of a modem publishing plant; rest room,
shower baths restaurant, assembly room,
equipment was 1855, coo. The different de-
partmentS are equipped with tnOTouSHis
modern facilities for handling the WoIk.
On the basement floor are 10 ldlsS
presses, all run by electric power, lncluu-
ing large $4,000 Cottrell magazine press
with d capacity for turning out "a pages
and a cover in colors at the rate OF t,VVV
copies an hour. over 10000 people from
all over Kansas and from all over the
United States visit this wonderful pulia-
ing every year and are shown through
Mr.. Capper's great newspaper plant
An annual event in the Capper fanny
is tie reunion held a the close OF the
year by the 600 or more employees Of the
several Capper Publications inns army
of men and women, the majority o.
whom are housed in the splendid Capltal
building, look forward to tins event Win
unusual interest 1t is the coming to-
gether of a faithful and loyal band OF
workers who delight to pay tribute to an
employer whose chief concern is their
happiness and well-being- The annual
reunions of the 'Capper Family, for that
is the term applied to these employees,
take the form of masqqerade ana aol,.l d
and songs by different members me
city Auditorium is the only assembly
room in Topeka large enough TO COM
fortably care for this large and constant
~ increasing family.
Allied With Insurgents.
Mr.. Capper has been frankly al
lied with what is known as the pro-
gressiVes' or insurgents He believes
that the party organization must be
kept clear of all entangling alliances
with special interests of whatsoever
kind He recognizes Republican vot-
ers have made it plain that Kansas
Republication is progressive Repub-
licanism. Mr.. Capper believes that
Kansas is irrevocably committed to
progressive political measures
mo other Republican in Kansas
has given of his time and talents IN
the positions named, and in the ad-
vocacy of the progressive political
measures to which the party stands
committed, more freely and e1fectlNe-
ly than Arthur Capper. This is the
first time he has ever been a candl-
date for any office.
THE 'Capper Publications have re-
Elected consistently the political ideals
for which Mr.. Capper has stood, and
which he believes to be the ideals of
the great majority of his party. THESE
publications, eight in number, fur-
nish in their successive issues a rec
ord of the continued story OF the
courage and progressive spirit of a
people who have builded, and are
building. a great state on the loun-
datfon of good citizenship, clean gov
eminent morality and temperance.
1T is the simple truth to say that
the Daily Capital, with its statewide
circulation, has been powerful FACTOR
under Mr.. Capper's management, IN
bringing about the present dominance
of progressive RepublicaniSm in Kan
sas While the position of the Capltal
has been Enthusiastically and uncoJa-
Drou1isingIy progressive it has at the
same time been remarkably 1alr IN
handling political news and in its edi-
torial policy
\ Daring Newspaper Feat.
perhaps the most daring feat ever
attempted by any publisher was az
con1plished by Arthur Capper in 1903,
when. almost over night, he trans
formed the Mail and Breeze, then a
successful political and pictorial news
weekly into Farmers Mail and Breeze.
now the leading farm and live stock
iournal of Kansas 1t is not known
that he consulted anybody about 1t oe-
forehand, but when he did 1t he rem
dered a most important service TO the
state. Western farm papers at that
time were as dry as dust, without
many readers or much influence. ana
the farmers of Kansas had no widely
circulated trade journal representing
their important calling. It was not a
promising situation for potentlads
great agricultural state.
..Tn a class of nearly 500 agricultural
publications Farmers Mail and Breeze
now ranks as one OF the II leaHiIs
journals of its kind in the Onlteo
States. Mr.. Capper has been the sole
proprietor of the Mail and Breeze FOL
Is years. 1t has more than 1000
subscribers. and probably three times
publisher a personal friend. On more
than one rural route in Kansas it goes
into every home, and it is particularly
appreciated for its sincere and out
spoken discussion of public questions
affecting Kansas and the people as {
whole.
some of the other ssFifty-Six-''
MIR. Capper publishes other farm
papers than Farmers Mail and Breeze
though they are not so We'll known II
Kansas These other agricultural pa
pers are Missouri Valley Farmer,
monthly of general circulation, Whlcf
he purchased from Charles NJ Shel2cT
in 1905 and which now has over 800
| 600 subscribers; Nebraska Farm jour
nal. semi-monthly, and Missouri
! Ruralist, a weekly, published in Kan
sas City and combining its efforts to the
great state of Missouri. The Kansas
Weekly C,apital, the weekly edition 0,
the Daily Capital, with 100000 circu-
| lation. goes chiefly into farm homes
.The Capper farm papers are widely
recognized as second to no other pa
pers of their class in the entire coun
try
.sMr. Capper has for several years
been a member of the board of regents
] of the Kansas State Agricultural col
Iege and is now president of th'
/ board
THE BOY FROM EMPORIA.
| About the time that young Cappe.