The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-22
Sends Out Circular Which Flags
the Governor.
WRITTEN BY WOODS.
Appears However With Mr.. Cap
per's Signature Attached.
May Indicate ''the Parting Of
the Ways"

Is Arthur Capper. insurgent candi-
date for governor, fixing to cut loose
from Governor Stubbs and support
Charlie Curtis for United States sena-
tor? Is he? Or is he just trying to
carry water on both shoulders and
please all factions and meet all COM
ers and align with all angles OF the
political game at once in his search
for votes? 1t is one or the other an
swer for sure to the leading question.
Capper's campaign sheets that he is
sending out at this time over his own
signature signify as plain as print can
show that he is slamming Governor
Stubbs in the interest of his own gub
ernatorial candidacy.
These Capper campaign documents
consist of a big printed sheet contain
ing boosts and praise and flattery
from the pens of the friendly editors
of the state. And the place of honor
on this Capper booster list is accorded
to Lem Woods of Chanute- The
Woods boost for Capper is devoted in
the main to a roast of Stubbs and
the StubbS style of running the state
government Woods urges the world
to vote for Capper for governor and
thus gain the millennium and the
Utopia of all good things in this world
and the world to come. He points to
the advantage of Capper admins
tration over the one now being hand
ed out by Walter Roscoe Stubbs- He
bats his hook for Capper votes by
calling attention to the fact that Cap
per, if elected, would not place dead
beat politicians" on the state payroll
for the purpose of gallivanting over
the state in the interest of politics at
state expense. He criticises the Stubbs
plan of running for United States sem
ator while still governor He prom
ises that Capper will not do this thing
Woods goes on further to show the
s,.7r 7fr4fc "a ffrff
and then paints a contrast of things
to- be as they will be under Capper.
Bill White, of Emporia, has a place
on the Capper campaign sheet, and so
does Bristow of Salina, and other Cap
per boosters, but Lem Woods name
leads all the rest by a city block at
the Top of the column next to pure read
ing matter.
Mr.. Capper signs his name to the
Stubbs toast and sanctions it in the
name of religion and politics Capper
needs the votes and the support IL
it hurts Stubbs, that is too bad, but
not bad enough to suppress publication
in the Capper interest o throw Stubbs,
his loyal and steadfast friend through
many a hard fought campaign, is
grievous thing (and grievously Will
Capper answer it, but to lose the sup
mort of some of Stubbs' enemies Woulu
he a worse thing. So argued Capper
when he sent broadcast that anti
Stubbs and pro-Capper campaign Sheet-
Mr.. Camper is the champion L don
know man of the world when it comes
to question of his signature to doc
uments and advertisements and other
things that help him and his interest
at the expense of his friends, and he
NAV say he does not know about this
signature to the Lem Woods castlga-
ton of Stubbs that is going out over
the state over the Capper signature
He ought to know.
If Stubbs and Capper part company.
it may cost Stubbs the senatorshlp,
but one thing sure, it may also cost
Capper the governorship. Stdbbs may
have his faults, but he has always
stood with bis friends to the end ana
fought his enemies to a finish Stubbs
is not the man to stand for Capper
sending out such articles as the Woods
roast under the guise of campaign liter
ature.
No one at this time knows whether
or not Capper is for Taft or LaFolette
or Roosevelt. Nor whether he is for
Stubbs or Curtis. Nor whether he -
for high or low tariff.