The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-14
Against State Committee ReSO-
luton by DOlley.
Chairman Called Meeting to
Appoint Taft Electors.
He HELD rs PROXIES
And Passed Resolutions Not
Provided IN the Call.
George Clark Makes Protest for
Taft People.

New and additional trouble has beer
heaped on the head Of J. N Dol y
chairman of the Republican state cen
tai committee for his action in secur-
ing proxies for last Saturdays meetins
OF the committee to ill vacancies il
the electoral column and il this meet
ing using his proxies for the passage d
a resolution which declared that thf
support of the national head of the
ticket is not a test of party fealty
George A. Clark, in a statement today
declares that Dolley's action was tho
highest treachery to the party and
members of the committee, many OF
whom voted against he absolutlon
r'ank in the party platform
When it was known :h2t the Vacan-
cies in the Republican electoral column
were to be filed by the state committee,
DOlley sent letters to II members
urging them to send him their proxies
In his letter he recited this is the only
r.atter of business to e before the
committee at this meeting" With this
letter he secured IS proxies Only two
men appeared at the meeting to vote
against Dolley's resolution which car
RED the chairman's vote and that Of
the IS proxies. There two men. T. G.
Hopkins and Thomas Botkin, protested
against the adoption Of the resolution
which Dolley had prepared But il was
adopted by a vote of 70 to ?. The mem
home -nd sent their proxies to Dol
ley were not advised of the plan to pass
the absolutiOn resolution at the meeting
and some of these same members are
said to have fought that plank in the
Platform most bitterly when it was
proposed in the party cornell.
Promptly on the hour Dolley called
himself to order He Gle Charles
Gibbs as secretary and voted his proxies
fer Gibbs. Next he read his resolutions,
moved and seconded their adoption and
secured their passage With the proxies
o. the men at home. THEN the new
Taft electors were certifi I'd to the secre-
tsry of state and DoIley's meeting was
adjourned on his own motion.
Now, DOlley's action promises to Gre
ate as much disturbance in the ranks
of Kansas Republicans as did the de-
feat of the Stone resolution in the
party council or the refusal of the Pro-
gressive nominees to withdraw to the
Independent column with the RoOse-
welt electors.
In his letter to the committeeman,
Dolley said:
A meeting of the state committee
is hereby called for Saturday after
noon. October u. for the purpose of
naming electors 10 fill the vacancies
caused by the designations Of the
Roosevelt electors from the Republic
can ticket. Mr.. Fred Stanley, the ma
tional committeeman, suggests that the
original Taft electors be named. This
is the only matter of business to come
before the committee at this meet
ing, and if you cannot be present
please send me your proxy, if you
have not already done So"
From this call, DOlley received IS
proxies None of the members of the
regular committee came to Topeka to
attend the meeting, but two members
sent proxies to men other than the
chairman. After calling the meeting
to order and making and seconding all
the motions and securing their adop-
tion, Dolley offered bis resolution
which concludes:
BE it further resolved. that such
action by the Republican state central
committee shall not be interpreted as
being in any way contrary to that
declaration of the Kansas Republican
platform of 112, which says: 'Believ-
ing at the same time there is room
for differences of opinion as to the
fairness of the nomination of the
pres idcntial candidate at the Chicago
convention, decline to make the
support of such nominee a test of par
ty feaity, leaving such course to be
followed by each voter as his con-
science shall dictate"
1t was this resolution which brought
forth the wrath of the Taft Republi- /
cans. In discussing Dolley's action in I