The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27
RE FAIR.

| IF,rom Today's IL O'Clock Edition.1
one of the greatest things in the
world is fairness.
It Is the spirit which universally APP
peals to all people and policies OF good
repute. 1t is the handmaiden OF
| righteousness-in morals or in politics.
In things, measures or methods that
are wrong or i'll, fairness or a square
deal has no place.
Men of all factions or parties resent
| that which is unfair
The greatest thing that is before tne
Republican party council today Is tne
adoption, if possible, of a means ny
which on the national ticket 20 Fan
sas Republican shall be dfsfranchlseo'
and that there shall be no masquerad-
ing under false colors or emblenrs-
To put the presidential electors who
declare they will, vote for Roosevelt
under the Taft and Sherman heading
is manifestly and positively immoral.
Colonel Roosevelt himself, in view OF
bis oft repeated expressions and ac-
tons for a square deal, could not sane
ton This. To put the electors under
the name of the Republican national
TICKET is practically the same thing.
THE conferences of the Kansas FRO
eressive Republicans Immediately be-
fore +oday's meeting of the party
council show a marked change in ear
lier views and a wide spread feellng
now that to put Roosevelt electors
under Taft heading would DC
erievous wrong and monumental
bIunder a proposition so grossly I'M
fair that 1t would tend to defeat the
Republican state ticket, because me
candidates on the state ticket IN the
nar+v council, would be held respon-
sible for the deception.
Colonel Roosevelt is a national can
didate running against Republican
nominee. Why should he or his
friends ask that there be any decep-
tion for that is what it IS, OF TINS
sortp Roosevelt can well afford. anu
e disnosed. to stand on his own merits
ord the merits and platform OF ms
- nartv. the Progressive party
mich is opposing the Republican
party. ..+
.,oa,an+ of the Republican party Will
insist upon a platform of principles IN
line with the Progressive party shoulo
,.o+ change the situation so far as the
NATIONAL ticket is concerned
rhere are thousands of Kansas Re-
,,,bpcaps who wish to vote for Roose-
xelt and who viii vote for him. There
orc other thousands who wish to vote
for Taft. Each should be given an
or,or+unitv to vote for his own choic
- would seem to be the fair thing
+ra+ there should e on the Kansas
ballot this fall ten electors who should
- designated as Republican or Taft
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for Taft, and ten electors who should
he designated as Progressive or Roose~
volt or Independent electors who shall
he pledged to vote for Roosevelt
That sort of a disposition of the
present complications would appeal to
the spirit of fairness and probably
cause the withdrawal of the various
suits pending before the courts.
The problem is a big one, broad
one. 1t is before the wise men in To-
peka today for solution
After the above was printed, and just
after noon today, few minutes before
the first meeting of the party council,
the Republican State Committee, with
twenty Progressives voting therefor,
adopted a resolution requesting that
the Roosevelt electors withdraw from
the Republican electoral ticket and be
placed as Roosevelt electors in the In
dependent column, and asking the sub
stitution of Taft electors under the
names of the Republican ticket and
Taft and Sherman.
This certainly indicates a commend
able spirit of fairness. From the favor
which the resolution was received. it is
almost assured that a similar resolution
will be adopted by the party council