The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-20
Republican Regulars Open
Headquarters for Fight.
Subscriptions Started to Raise
$4,000 for Expenses.
SCRATCH EVERY PROGRESSIVE
Circulars Sent Out Today to
$4,000 Regulars.
Want Them to Vote Against
Stubbs, Capper and Others.

Plans to raise $4,000 by popular
subscriptions for the campaign of the
Republican Party league were
launched today when friends of the
new movement opened headquarters
in the New England building. Fol-
lowing the mass convention in To-
peka next Tuesday, an effort will be
made to enlist $4,000 straight Re-
publican" voters of Kansas, who will
pledge themselves to bolt every Pro-
gressive candidate on the Republican
state ticket in the November election.
Already many letters have been re-
ceived from all portions of the state
and it appears that every county in
the state will be represented at the
boss buster" meeting in Topeka next
week. With the circular letters mailed
to workers in the country districts,
managers of the Regular Republican
campaign are mailing a call to arms,
denouncing the attempt of the Roose-
welt supporters to win the coming
election under false pretenses.
Until the close of the campaign, the
Republican regulars will maintain head
quarters in rooms $500 New England
building. From these rooms the state
will be flooded with literature and the
men in charge of the new state wide
movement will begin a campaign of
education to induce the Kansas Re
publicans to bolt Stubbs, Capper, Ak
ers, Austin, the Progressive congress
sional candidates and all other candi-
dates of similar faith whose names ap-
pear on the November ballot.
In a circular issued today, the Re-
publican League says in part:
1t must be perfectly apparent to
you, and to all loyal Republicans in
ganization in this state has been
seized by the adherents Of another po-
Iitical organization. A bold and out
rageous attempt is being made to turn
over the Republican party in a body to
new and alien organization. Through
the efforts of a man who occupies the
position of national committeeman for
another party, thousands of letters
were sent out to Republican voters of
Kansas prior to the late primary eIsc-
tion, urging the selection of list of
electors in this state to be placed on
the Republican ballot in November,
who have openly declared that if elect
ed they will vote for the candidates
of third party for president and vice
president of the United States, thus
absolutely disfranchising the real Re-
publican voters of Kansas, and making
it impossible for them to vote for Re-
publican candidates for president and
vice president of the United States.
This is the elimination of a series of
reasonable acts committed by al
legged Republicans who have mad
charge or our organization IN Kansas
for the past four years, this dastardly
act of disloyalty to the party, has ex-
hausted the long suffering patience of
the Republicans of this state. We have
stood by and permitted these outrages
to accumulate one after another until
its elimination in this final act of in
fanny The time has now come when
determined action must be taken in
order to preserve the integrity of our
party and prevent, if possible, the
complete disfranchisement of the Re-
publican voters of the state. 1t is self
evident that the present state organi-
zation of the party has determined to
betray, our cause, and by fraud, deceit
and theft. deliver the electoral vote
of Kansas to an alien party. There is
but one course left for the Republi-
cans of Kansas and that is to effect
an organization that will be loyal to
the platform and candidates of the IA
tional Republican party, and that will
Indignantly scourge from the Republi-
can organization every traitor to the
national party. To this end let every
loyal Republican in this state awake
to the Importance of the crisis now i'm
pending, and do his share to preserve
the union and integrity-in fact the
very existence of our party in this
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