The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-21
PLEA FOR HARMONY.
BelIeviIIe Telescope Wants Republic
cans to Get Together.

the harmony talk among Republicans
is getting stronger than ever and it is
being insisted that the next Republican
candidate for governor be man on
whom both factions of the party can
unite and that the platform be one OF
real Republicanism and not contain all
the 1SmS OF every member nor neglect
some OF the cardinal principals of the
party. Many Republican newspapers,
both of the progressive and the regu-
, lar stripe and many good Republicans
| from both factions have been urging
harmony with a big H as they see
visions of Democratic success next
year. H. c. Sticher is one of the edi-
tors of the Belleville Telescope. He is
also private secretary to r. R. Rees,
congressman from the Fifth district.
Here is what the Telescope says about
a recipe for Republicans:
In the humble opinion of the Teles-
cope the Republican candidate for gov
ernor of Kansas, in the next campaign.
should come out upon platform upon
which all Republicans can stand. 1t is
the Telescopes further opinion that
there is not one more good fractional
fight in the party.
Do Kansas Republicans think more
of perpetuating the Republican party
in power in this state, of returning
Republican congressman, and carrying
the state for Republican president,
than they do of trying to realize divi-
dends on all their fractional assets. of
getting all their political hobbies either
enacted into law or crammed into the
party platform? Is it more essential to
save the party intact in this state in
the next campaign, and leave some
of the issues temporarily unsolved, than
it is to lose both the party and the
issues by unnecessarily and unwiSely
perpetuating factionalism, with the in
evitable result that the state house
and the legislature will have an over
production of Democrats, the congress
sional delegation will be politically
spotted and the presidential electors
will cast their vote for the Democratic
candidate for president.
Such a situation would certainly not
be to the credit of Republicans, nor
would it result in the carrying out of
Republican policies.
The Republican candidate for gov
ernor should get upon a platform fair,
broad, liberal, progressive, but not rev.
dictionary, a platform upon which all
colors and shades of Republicans can
consistently stand. Let bygones be by
cones bury the past, face the future
with hope and optimism, open wide the
door that all Republicans may feel well
come.
A Republican candidate for governor
in whom the people have confidence.
who will come out on a broad gagged,
liberal platform. can get the support
of Kansas Republicans, and in no other
state be saved intact.
The party will also go onto the rocks
unless mature judgment and delibera-
ton prevails in constructing the party
platform.
A party platform should not contain
all the things that every individual
member of the party believes; it is not
the place for every shade or color of
Republican to unload his creed or doc
trine. A party platform should contain
the important and essential principles
of the party, the settled policies upon
which the party can agree, and should
not contain the unsolved and unsettled
policies upon which the party cannot
agree and upon which there has been
no fixed expression or official declara-
ton.
Party policies and party progress are
matters of evolution, brought about by
crystalized public sentiment and it is
no reflection upon the integrity of any
political organization if some of the
disputed policies or hopes of ambitious
partisans, are temporarily unsolved,
and remain for a more definite and
positive public sentiment to point the
way.