The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
DEAN is AROUSED.
The White Interview on County Chair
men Excites Taft Leader.

President J. s. Dean of the Repub-
iican lea que. threw another broadside
into the camp of the Bull Mooser's fol-
lowers when he issued a statement
revealing the plan of the Progressive
leaders to steal the Republican party
in Kansas. Dean quotes from an in
terview which William Allen White
gave the Brooklyn Eagle and refers to
statements of the Progressive leaders
in the state to show that fraud and
deception is being perpetrated on the
Republican voters in this state.
In his latest attack on the policies
and tactics of the Kansas Bull Moose
chieftains, Dean reviews the matter In
this language:
Mr.. Brainard of the Brooklyn Eagle
discloses the most shameless duplicity
on the part of a large number of Re
publican county chairman, that ever
disgraced American politics-provided
Mr.. White is telling the truth. Mr..
Rrainard came to Kansas to interview
Mr. White on the political situation on
Kansas One of the questions he ask
ed Mr. White as reported in the press
dispatches was:
. Have you a committee in this
state with which you are working?
Mr.. White replied: More than seven
chairmen of the present Republican
county central committees are with
US, and I am working with them.
Where a county chairman is against
us. l appoint a provisional county
chairman and he works with me and
with the county committee if he can.
IF Taft is beaten these, which are now
with us, will go over one. two, three,
into the Progressive party
A Treacherous Conspiracy.
I'm other words these Republican
Iieutenants, instructed by the party
with subordinate commands in the
battle we are now waging for politi-
cal supremacy, are treacherously con-
spring with the enemy and only wait
ing for a favorable opportunity to cross
over into the enemy's camp. Is this
not the ne plus ultra of political in
fanny? And these are the men who
have kept up such a deafening howl
about unfairness and fraud on the
part of the Republican national COM
mittee and convention-the men who
profess the gospel of square deal"
and loudly proclaim as their watch
work thou shalt not steaL'' Surely
the practice of hypocrisy has been de-
veloped into science by these disciples
of Machiavelli.
There is no room for doubt in re-
gard to the treacherous character or
conduct of these men. Mr.. White
represents a third party-a party far
more antagonistic to Republican prin-
ciples than the Democratic party, If
Mr.. White in an editorial in his own
paper on September goth, said:
- There are three parties-three
ma ority parties in Kansas: The Pro-
gressive party, which under the law
can not get its name nor emblem nor
individual place on the ballot; the
Republican party. which is divided
into two factions, and the Democratic
party There can not be and there
should not be harmony between the
parties
..Of course there can be no har-
mony between them. It's a fight for
and a survival of the fit
test
Whenever the Heutenants of one
work and conspire with leaders of an
other it's just plain treachery-no
other words express so well the in
fanny of such conduct
In his speech at Jackson. Tenn, on
26, reported in the Topeka
Capital on the 27th) Mr.. Roosevelt
said he wished to emphasize the fact