The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

| Our candidate must appear TO the
best element in all parties. and give
ministration. If it should be best tc
| nominate either of the gentlemen whu
has announced his candidacy, then
| most certainly 7 do not desire to in
| terfere.
I'VE want to win not to honor the
| Individual, but to benefit the people.
In this contest we must be aggres-
| sive and not on the defensive. We
all know that the Republicans have
given us enough material to make an
aggressive campaign, If We do not
have to stop to defend our record"
| At a meeting of Shawnee county
farmers Saturday at the Roosevelt
headquarters in the Mills building 1t
was decided to make q fight before the
county, committee next Saturday after
noon for a county primary to select
delegates to the county convention. All
\ the farmers present went on record for
a primary.
Congressmen Rees of the Fifth and
Young of the Sixth district have at last
come out of their shells on the primary
question. They will not oppose 1t, they
say. Then they retired into their shells
again.
1t is a fact that Congressman Jack
son of the Fourth district is the only
one of the six insurgent congressman
of the last session who is true to the
faith. And by true is meant a sup
porter of Roosevelt against the admin
istration. which is the insurgent decla-
ration of faith. Alex Mitchell is dead
and a Democrat fills his place. Judge
Rees has not taken a stand on the
presidential nomination and neither has
Congressman Young. Ed Madison is
dead and his place is filed by a Demo-
crat Victor Murdoch, who held the
limelight for year as the most ram
pant of the progressives, has been
standing in the wings now for the past
three months. His preference for presi-
dent is not known. So, where there
were six dependable Kansas insurgents
in congress a little more than year
ago there is only one now.
The Fort Scott Republican is auth
GRITTY for the statement that there will
be split in the Republican forces of
Bourbon county over the convention
and primary plan. The county com
mittee is evenly divided on the prop
osition-the Roosevelt men standing
for a primary and the Taft men for a
convention. The county committee, at
a recent meeting, called a primary.
Now the Taft men threaten to call a
convention. If both sides persist it
will result in two sets of delegates
from Bourbon county being sent to
the state convention. The Republican
says:
There is a prospect of a split in
the Bourbon county Republican or
ganization- It is being minated by
certain Taft leaders here that a coun-
ty convention will be held instead of
the primaries called by the, county
elected to the state convention at In
dependence to contest the delegates
elected by the committee upon in
structions from the primary election.
fc eTo OLE
quent meeting of the county commit
tee may develop that the Taft follow
ers are in the majority in that COM
mittee and might render nugatory the
it of the authority of the committee.
The question Of control of the county
committee becomes one of great i'm
portance at this time. A we'll posted
Taft man said today that the commit
tee is just about evenly divided be-
tween Taft men and Roosevelt or La
Toilette progreSsives He believed
that the Taft men might control at a
being called Dy the nti-primary men
who are the Taft men-that the pri-
mary was called by the votes of only
eight out of a total of twenty-six COM
mitteemen- The TAFT men had prox-
les enough to the committee meeting
to defeat the primary, but they didn't
have votes enough to get their proxies
counted"
Arthur Capper, candidate for COVER
nor, is conducting a mail order cam
paign for the Office. One of his form
letters is given below as sent to Cliff
ton:
The Topeka Capital. Arthur Capper, |
Publisher.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 26, 1912. |
Mr.. H. E. Potter, Clifton, Kan.
Dear Sir:-I am a candidate for gov |
ernor and am writing this to say to |
you, personally, that I shall be ex- |
tremely pleased if you can consistently |
give me your vote and your support |
know you always take a lively inter- |
est in politics, and though it is some |
time until the primary I thought 1t |
best to write now to say that I would |
like very much to count you one of my |
friends
ter into the issues which confront us. |
can only say to you that I stand |
pledged to a BUSINESS administration |
and by that 1 mean an administra- |
ton that will look after the business |
of the STATE, first, last and all the |
time, honestly, fearlessly and with JUS |
tice to all.
1 look upon the affairs of Kansas |
as a business proposition. Every cIti- |
zen, every taxpayer is g. stakeholder
in this business organization-and
every citizen is Interested in a bust |
ness-like conduct of public affairs. l I
pledge you that il elected will bring |
to the executive Office all the interest, |
all the ability and all the energy that
I devote to my personal business. /
am under obligations to no special IN
terestS, no BOSSES no factions, no in
dividuals. I wear no mans collar-if
elected I shall be the Governor. Ny |
hands are not tied, ana win not be.
1 give you my word that if elected
governor, as 1 believe I shall be, I
Of hi
with an eye single to the best inter-
orte of the WHO'D T raanInla. I shall do L