The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
PRESS FOR A BOLT
Kansas Republican Newspapers
Fight Bull MOOsers.
Cry Against Stubs, Capper,
AkerS and Their Crowd.
HAVE A BIG INFLUENCE
Country WeekIies Have Won
Many Political Battles.
Comments From Widely Quot
ed Papers Over State.

Inc IA hanSdS H0puDuCan press n0l
taken up the cry against the Bull
Moose in Kansas and through the col
umns of some of the most widely quo
ted party papers in the state, is run
ming words Of encouragement for the
crowd leading the bolt on the Progress
sive candidates who names appear on
the Republican state ticket. Against
the Roosevelt electors is the greatest
cry, but many of the staunohest Re-
publican papers OF the state are link
ing Stubbs. Capper, Axers, Austin and
the Progressive congressman with the
Bull Moose crowd and loudly cry for
their political scalps.
Such papers as John s. Gilmore's
F'redonia Citizen. w. E Blackburn's
Anthony Republican, Bert Walkers Os-
borne Farmer, Ewing Herbert's Brown
County World, E. E. Kelley's Toronto
! Republican, Tom Thompson's Howard
| Courant, Ralph Faxon's Garden City
| Telegram-and a score of others-are
| leading the bolt of the Bull Moose in
the Republican column. What does il
mean? Ask the politician. He is
puzzled and worried as you. Never be-
fore has such a condition existed in
| Kansas Even in the old palmy days
when Kansas turned upside down and
elected the Pops from road overseer to
! governor-even in those days II wac
different. The party papers stood VI
and fought the battle of their party
They bled and died for the cause
| But this year the old staunch, tried and
true country press is drawing away and
taking stock with the enemy.
Old politicians will tell you that many
| battles have been won and lost IN
| Kansas through the influence of the
little country weeklies-the same pa
pers that are this year driving tacke
in the political records of some of the
men who have place on the state
| ticket. This is what a few of them
had to say last week about political
conditions in Kansas:
] Osborne Farmer
This layman has always been a
| Republican and he intends to stay
that way But his eyes have been
! opened to the solemn fact that the
stables need cleaning. Also the devil
| has taken up his abode among US
! Now we can't drive the devil back TO
his jungle lair by sprinkling hoiy
water on him. We have lried that
scheme for the past six years. 1t mas
| utterly failed But the 10000 loyal
Republicans in Kansas have yotes that
if properly placed will do A whole lot
of good We know of one mat is go
| ing to be placed in the proper spot.
| We know of 400 more of the same
kind in Osborne county. There may
! be more. The number is increasing
every day. Some may look upon this
as heresy, coming from a staid old pa
| per that flung the Republican banner
| to the breezes since the buffalo grazed
within two blocks of its back door.
| But it isn't heresy. IT is patriotism.
We would rather go forth 20 fight in
| the cause we believe to be just and
fall in battle than to sit like coward
in our tent for fear of losing % cents
worth of busin ess. And we stand forth
| and proclaim that we are just as good
| Republican as any man whose foot
/ ever trod the green sward of the Solo
! Na n
/ ply the fire and sword to cleanse the
/ party of it's parasites, confident that
/ the coming events will endorse our
ways"
| Anthony Republican
'In Vermont and last week at st.
Louis, Colonel Roosevelt declared posi-
| lively and emphatica1ly for Progress
/ sive tickets, separate and dpart rom
either the Republican or the Demo
/ cratic: that above all things the new
party should heed the admonition
| Thou Shalt Not Steal and also, Thou
shalt not bear false witness againss
thy neighbor.' Both of thase quota
tions seem to apply very aptly to the
Roosevelt electors on the Republican
ticket, where they are liars in pretend
| ing to be Republicans and thieves IN
that they rob the Republicans OF the
state of the right to vote Tor presl-
| dent Yet. It will be seen that when
Colonel Roosevelt visits Kansas. as he
will this month, he will reverse him
/ self to the extent OF COTuldiAy ShUuA =
ing the present intolerable condition
and his followers will throw up their
hats and split their throats over It.
PlainviIIe Gazette
"RiII White, national committee
man for the National Progressive
marty with Stubbs and Bristow ana
camper assisting, has booted the cleo
Dhant from the premises and the
Bull Moose roams the range trinm-
phant-
1--WE have the declaration of the
conglomerate Association of Place
Seekers known by courtesy as 'thS
marty council that an honest dtf-
ference Of opinion concerning the
nominee of the Republican party at
Chicago is Not Test of party fealty
Coming from the organizers OF a
new political party, the loyal tart
Republicans are to consider TINS a
generous concession.
after instructing the secretary OF
state not to print the names OF Taft
and Sherman on the ballot. and after
refusing the Taft electors a place on
the ballot II viii be seen that White
and Stubbs and Capper are generous
enough to accord the forty thousand
Taft Republicans the right to vote
for Woodrow Wilson without pre-
judice,
.'If that isn't enough to set a Taft
man Attire its because his vital spark
is dead
"Oh. you forty thousand political
nondescriptsl What you won't do to
Stubbs and Capper and Youngl
Now, men: let's hang one on EN-"
Toronto Republican
"Stubbs discredited by the voters IN
the August primary; Capper who fool