The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
CASE OF CAPPER
AS Seen by Secretary of Taft
League.
A Man Cannot Serve Two
Masters, Says Clark.
BE JUDGED BY ACTS
Not the Conversation That
Passes His Lips.
Has Aided and Allotted Third
Party, Not MIR. Taft.

George Clark, secretary of the Taft
! league, takes up the case of Arthur
Capper Republican candidate for gov
ernor. where the Kansas City Star left
it. The Star does not regard Mr- cap
FER as the Progressive candidate for
governor Mr.. Clark does not regard
him as the Taft candidate. Clark
argues that by their works shall We
know politicians. He demands that
Capper come out squarely for Taft or
! for Roosevelt.
per's in which he said he was Re-
/ publican and had opposed the organ
/ .zatiOn of a third party in Kansas,
caused all the trouble. The Star took
exceptions to the speech and the TART
leaders were not pleased. MI clark
reviews the matter as follows:
1.-The members of the Republican
Party league are in no wise deceived
" Arthur Capper's plea fol- Repubh-
can votes on the ground that he has
always been a Republican, and that he
opposed the organization of third
party in Kansas, this year. Capper is
Being Judged in the light of his actions,
Tot in the light of his conversation.
He makes a hypocritical assertion of
Republicanism after he has learned
from every quarter of the state that
Kansas Republicans are organizing TO
punish him, along with the other Bull
Moose candidates, for party perfidy.
He will not deceive Kansas Republic
cans by mere lip service to their
mo man in Kansas has had greater
opportunity than Arthur Capper to
serve the Republican party in this
critical campaign. From June to
October no publication under his con-
irol has printed a line or paragraph
m support of the national candidates
CT the Republican party, unless it was
paid for.
I'm the Republican party council
Arthur Capper joined the Bull Moose
leaders in their fight to keep the
Roosevelt electors on the Republican
ticket and thereby disfranch1se the
Republicans of the state by prevent
ing them from casting their ballots
FOR Taft and Sherman, the Republican
candidates for president and vice
president. In the party council, Cap
per cast his vote with the other Bull
Moosers in support of the resolution
instructing the secretary of state TO
violate the law and take the names of
tine Republican candidates for presi-
dent and vice president off the Repub-
lean ticket. The Republicans of Kan
sas who are loyal to their party and
to Taft and Sherman must not forget
these actions of Capper in the party
council. when he makes beiated claim
Of his RepublicaniSm.
mo word of his Republicanism has
late hour, when he has awakened to
realize that he needs Republican votes.
And now he makes claim to Republican
votes because he opposed the organization
pose the organization of a third party
this year. Why? Because he wanted to
be governor.
Arthur Capper knew three months ago
that no candidate of the Bull Moose party
could be elected in Kansas if he stepped
out in the open. He knew that to relin-
quish his connection with the Repub-
lican party was to end his hopes of ele.-
ton to the office of governor. That is
why he opposed the organization of G
third party in Kansas. 1t was not be-
cause he cared a rap about the Repub-
lican party.
HE entered into a conspiracy with
Stubs, White and other Bull Moosers to
turn the Republican party in Kansas over
bodily to the Roosevelt third term parry.
Now that he knows that his conspiracy
has been exposed and defeated he makes
the hypocritical claim that he is a Repub
lican. Yet Arthur Capper continues to
support the only man who today menaces
Republican success in Kansas continues
to support the only man who imperils the
prosperity of nation to crafty his own
personal resentment and ambition. Roose
velt's candidacy alone endangers the sue
cess of Taft and Sherman and the Repub
1ican party in this campaign. Either Taft
or Wilson will be elected. Support OF
Roosevelt can contribute to nothing but
a Democratic victory nationally.
what kind of a Republican is it who