The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
DOLLEY FINDS HIM,
Says Arthur Capper Is the Man for
Governor.

I J. N. rDolley, chairman of the Repub
hcan state committee, has come for
ward and launched a boom for Arthur
Capper, the Topeka newspaper publish
er, for the party nomination for COVER
nor in 1912. Mr.. Dolley advances many
reasons to show why Mr.. Capper should
be the logical choice of his party next
campaign, one of them being that he
is a Kansan native born.
In taking this step the state chair
man declares that he would rather see
the party win the next state campaign
than to have any personal preference
for office placed above party good. Mr..
Dolley has been talked of for governor
make the race. Asked about this mat
ter today, Mr.. Dolley said:
I am in favor of any good man for
the place, man whose candidacy
would have a tendency to heal faction
in the party and bring success in the
next campaign. would not place my
candidacy above party good. I sincere
~ offer Mr.. Capper as the logical man
for the place. l shall insist that some
good and acceptable man be given fair
consideration for the nomination and
I shall oppose any scheme of picking
the nominee by party bosses
The Capper entry in the gubernator-
ial race makes it a free-for-aH. J. M
Nation. G. E. Denton, Charles Scott,
Henry Allen and ]. N. Dolley are the
contestants heretofore spoken of in
political circles as men who would have
to be considered in making a choice.
Mr.. Dolley is quoted in the Kansas
City Journal of Sunday in regard to
the Capper boom as follows:
LAS chairman of the party in two
of the hardest fought campaigns in the
history of Kansas, l know something
of the immense influence he welded
personally as well as through his
papers, and the effect it had in the de-
termination of results. He was amonst
the most dependable factors in the
campaigns 1 was connected with.
cannot conceive of a man who would
fit better into the present situation
in Republican politics in this state. He
has been always fair He has the re-
spect of all parties and factions eff
parties and his life is such that he can
not but have the confidence of every
good man in either party.
II believe the people of Kansas de-
! sire to continue business man in the
office of governor. There is no better
business man in the state than Mr..
Capper. We have all watched his pro-
gress from a poor boy to the head IF
the biggest publishing enterprise of the
state. Fifteen years ago in the midst
| of the worst times America has seen
in my memory he began with nothing
and now has four or five hundred peo-
pie on his pay roll and is scoring a
! OuSln6SS SuCCcSS THAI II tile RL1QS anu
admiration of every business man in
this state. He is highly regarded eoy
! the newspaper men of Kansas.
There is one other thing about Mr..
Capper which makes him an ideal can
didate and that is. he was born in
Kansas, and would be the first native
governor of the state. And having
| been reared here in our own state and
ameng ourselves and having an under
standing of the sentiments and anbi-
| tions of Kansas he could be relied upon
to make a governor who would by his
administration of affairs instill in US
a greater love for our state. For these
reasons am for Capper, first. last and
all the time
The Democrats, in the meantime. are
not idle. For their big feast on Feb
ruary % they plan to announce tho
| boom of State Senator George Hodges
| of Olathe for the United States senate;
| James Orr of Atchison, now member
/ of the house of representatives, for
governor: State Senator Fred Robert
son for justice of the supreme court,
and A. B. Carney. representative from
| Cloud county. for superintendent OF
| public instruction.