The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-13
CRY IS HARMONY
All Factions in Republican Party
Urged to Unite.
Choose Man Acceptable to Both
Factions for Governor.
DROP SENATE FIGHT
Stubs and Curtis Will Be Left
to Themselves.
do Your Own Fighting" Will
Be Party's Orders.

-Ihe RepuDIlcan leaders continue TO
talk harmony and plan for peace. They
argue that the factions must get to-
gether in order to save the state to the
party next year. The latest is the
absolute divorce of the senatorial cam
paign from the state campaign. The
fight for the senatorship between Gov
ernor Stubs and Senator Curtis is to
be dog-at-dog affair and all the fac
lions lying around lose can rise up and
smite each other and use the knife
and the club and the fang. The win
ner of this free-for-all can put
the November election free OF all in
cum ORANGES whatever.
The fight for the goVernorship, how
ever, is to be a different affair. That
affair is to be conducted under flag
OF truce and evening dress and kid
gloves will be the proper things to
wear. Then the state will be saved
for the Republicans who have to live
here. while the senatorship, which is
Washington matter, can be won or
falling on the cottage and burying the
old fireplace in the ruins.
Hands OF Senate Fight.
Hands off in the senatorship strug-
gle is to be the slogan, while the state
ticket is saved. A truce is eighteen
A solid front against the Democrats.
The situation demands nothing less
than this.
There can be no truce between
Stubs and Curtis. That fight must be
carried on to a finish with every fac
ton in the party enlisted, no kind of
weapons barred and no rules in force.
The state leaders will watch the fray
from afar, praying only to be left out
and may the best man win.
But there is a chance to agree on a
candidate for governor, slim chance,
but still possible. This done, and no
bitter contest in the primary, the state
ticket, composed of progressives and
regulars in equal proportions, will be
saved, and that is sensible and prac-
teal politics for fact. 1t is as much
to the interest of the regulars as the
progressives to patch up this truce.
A state office held by a regular of
the regulars is not a thing to be light
ly thrown away. Let us have peace.
But can peace be seduced from its
hiding place if the progressives are to
name the head of the ticket? Why
not a regular for governor for a
change? Or man who has not been
a bitter partisan? Dolley and Dick
Hopkins and Arthur Capper have
been spoken of by the progressives.
J. NJ. Nation, C. E. Denton and Char
lie Scott by the regulars. Henry Allen,
the Wichita editor, has also been men
toned as the most acceptable man to
both factions. John Dawson is no
longer progressive of the radical
type. These two are good campaign
ers and could more than hold their
own against Hodges.
To Agree on Governor.
But why talk of men? They do say
that candidate will be agreed upon
by the factions. A progressive who
will be acceptable to all the members
of the Kansas delegation at Washing
ton, including Curtis, Campbell and
fAnthony. One who will be accepted
by Mort Albaugh and David Mulvane
and the other regular leaders. By
acceptable is not meant love and af-
| lection, but rather quietude in place
of open hostility. A man a point OF
two short of the boiling place. That
| is enough to win by.
There are wise leaders who think
this program will go through, doubt
full as it looks from this distance. A
primary without a contest, that is the
thing. The senatorial primary will
furnish enough fighting for the state
to more than offset the loss of a row
over the governorship. The plan
sounds good. Maybe it will go
through. The only trouble is finding
that man. And they say he has been
found.