The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-31
STRONG in FAITH
Earl Akers Quit Own Campaign
-=- to Work for Il. R. .s----
When Bill White Called Treas
urer Candidate Got Busy.

Running for office is a new stunt for
Earl Akers, the progressive Republi-
can candidate for state treasurer. He
has held office, that's true, when he Wam
chief clerk of the Kansas house last
session, but he was selected for that
position without opposition from the
Republican side and he was appointed
executive clerk to Governor Stubbs
without solicitation of any sort.
He had no idea of becoming a candl-
date for state treasurer until friends
commenced to insist that he was the
logical progressive to make the race
For some time after the newspapers
begun to talk him as likely candidate
he stood back and refused to make the
race, but eventually the demand be-
came so strong that he recons1dereo
and entered the contest.
Akers has conducted a rather re-
markable campaign. 1t has been full
of hustle and ginger, but absolutely
devoid of personality insofar as MS
competitor for the nomination goes His
opposition had been a candidate Tor
almost a year and a half when Akers
entered the race Akers realized that
he must do a wonderful lot of things
in a remarkably short time. in order
to tell the voters over Kansas that he
was a candidate, expecting to be NOM
mated. He has visited in almost nan
the counties of the state personally
and he has written and rewritten every
Republican whose name he could secure
in every county. He has made speeches
in numerous places and he has sent
out advertising by the ton
Just when William Allen White was
ready to open his Kansas headquarters
to make the fight for the Roosevelt
electors and the Republican progressive
candidates for state and congressional
offices, Akers was going his best He
was out in the state visiting various
places and operating an advertising
headquarters here at Topeka and at
language, had 200 pounds of steam
aboard and using every pound OF IT,
White Called on Him.
But White wanted him in his fight
and he told Akers so-he insisted that
Akers should come in on the roao,
give up his own personal campaign ana
help make the fight for the RooseVeI
electors. Akers did it-stopped right
in the middle of his own operations ana
threw his whole soul and all of his
vieor into the Roosevelt fight, because
he accepted the demand as his duty.
Since accepting the management OF
the Topeka headquarters Akers hasn
done a single thing toward advancing
his own individual interests He has
given every minute of his time and
every ounce of his energy to the cam
paign of educating the progressive
voters of Kansas who the RooseVelt
electors are and how to vote for them
in each county, owing to the peculiar
ity of the law that jumbles them diff
ferently in all counties about the state.
If Akers' interests are being cared
for by friends he doesn't know it, but
the possible fact that maybe they're
being neglected and forgotten has no
depressing effect upon him. 1t is his
notion that there was a work for him
to do just when he should do it and
he is booming merrily along, trusting
in the Lord and keeping his powder
dry. depending upon what he has al
ready done to carry him to victory or
fall short of it.
Will Be a Game Loser.
And if Akers is lost in the shuttle; il