The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Charles Scott Uses Kansas
Case for Example.
Asks Roosevelt Questions
About Disfranchisement.
EYE OF EAST ON KANSAS
Politicians and Press Go Into
Every Detail of the Case.
Senator Curtis Bolts Stubbs for
Z. S. Senator.

Politicians and the big metropali-
tan newspapers in the eastern cities
are watching with an eager eye the
presidential row in Kansas according
to Charles F. Scott, publicity agent Tor
the Republican national committee IN
Chicago. Scott is also using the
Kansas situation to embarrass Col.
Roosevelt, who recently declareu 'AeA
the Progressives have a right TO Voee
for whoever they may desire II Is
1,,a,,sa the Kansas Taft men cannon
cote "for whoever they man oeslIe,
that the Kansan is urging ho0sS V CT
to withdraw his electoral canolU ~ %
from the Republican ticket IN Illis
state. ,t+;oa1 eft
Scott today views the pohtlcai ST.
nation in the following language.
ar ia not too much to say thaI III
a political way the SITUATION ~ -
extracting attention throughout <i1
entire country. The Chicago ana New
York papers gave much space 70 llSa
reports of the meeting OF the sS9e&
Committee and the party councu al
rro1alxs last week, and it is noLcedOlG
that whatever editorial comment aPI
reared was in emphatic olsapPl we
of the action taken by the 1F1enuS u
the third term candidate. So rar as
observed-and through clipping ou
T-aa11<s 7 have access to the columns y
every important newspaper cas- -
Ivest-there has not appeared outSlue
of Kansas a single Woro u tbir1
fion or commentator. me III i =
term newspapers evidently recosnlEe
fhe inter indefensibility OF PIopo -
zion TO run Roosevelt electors ~ 10
coIurnu of a party which 6oosSNoAl
H;rosaIF has denounced as musk OF
-vbirh he has repeatedly declared IL u
his intention to destroy 1noeeo,, nc
any human being can be FOUND %illl nm.
90
to champion proposiIilTIn ~ - one
IDENTIFY deceptive and dishonest Is t TIie
of +he most amazing things ABOUT thlS
most amazing campaign x1o-
ssTn a speech at Brattleboro, YER
mont. last Saturday, Col. RooseVelt
dano1,nced with his usual vehemence
so17,o predatory rich man VINO hdu
been coercing his employees ana de-
clared We all have right 10 vote as
Wa wish 1t occurred to me that TINS
ceTared a good opportunity to call the
onIo-1a1,e attention to the fact that in
some parts of the country some OF US
were likely to be deprived of that right
through the activity of his parusan5,
and / therefore ventured to send MIN
the following telegram; 1910
Chicago, Sept /, 1917.
"' Theodore Roosevelt,
oyster Bay, New York.
The Associated Press quotes you as
saying in Vermont yesterday we an
have right to vote as We WISH IN
Roosevelt electors shall go under the
name and emblem of the Republican
party If that is done no man IN Kan
sas can vote for Taft, while thousands
who think they are doing SO when they
make their mark in the circle at the
head of the Republican column, as they
have been accustomed to doing, will be
defrauded of their votes. A word from
you to Mr.. White would place both your
electors and Taft's on the official ballot
cot
belong and give all our citizens an OPP
portunity to vote for the candidate of
their choice Don't you think you ought
to speak that word? Do you want votes
cast for you by mistake and under false
representation? Do you not think that
in Kansas as well as in Vermont I'VE
have a right to vote as we wish?'
strangely enough l have not as
vet received reply. Is it possible
that the champion of justice in Yer
mont will let himself be placed in
the attitude of countenancing not only
injustice but false representation and
fraud in Kansas
I notice that Senator Bristow is
quoted as saying, What I can not un-
derstand is why the Taft men put up
that set of Taft electors if they did
not propose to abide by the result
of the primary if they were licked.
The senator might easily have been
enlightened if he had appealed to Mr.
siderable pains to announce prior to
the primary that if the Roosevelt men
were licked they did not propose
to abide by the result of the primary
but would promptly circulate petit
tions to have the names of their cleo
tors placed in the Independent col
umn. The senator might have learned,
If he had consulted the principles that
ordinarily govern men in matters
which involve political honor, that the
Taft electors were filed under the i'm
preston that men who were unwilling
to vote for Taft would decline to re-
main upon ticket where every moral
obligation and the unbrol1en precedent
of hundred years would compel
them to do that thing.
But the colonel is certainly saying
some queer things these days. One
day, for example, he declared that no
contribution to his campaign fund in
1904 was made by the steel trust al
though Andrew Carnegie, he said
might personally have sent in some
funds The next lay, when confront
ed with the receipt of his treasurer
for $40, 600, from the steel trust he
admitted that such a contribution
must have been made. but if it were
made, 1T was probably entirely prop
err. Just why he should devote 49,
600 words on one day to denying that
he had ever received campaign con-
tributions from one trust, when on the
day following he finds himself able
to say that a donation from another
trust was "a perfectly proper one he
does not make clear, yet it must oc-
cur to the average reader that a con-
tribution from Standard Oil might be
just as pure and patriotic as one from
the steel trust, even if the latter had
received important favor from the ad-
mfnistration, which had been denied
to the former"
United States Senator Charles Cur
tbs has openly bolted Governor Stubbs.
who defeated him for the nomination
in the recent state wide primaries, and
declares that he will support no man
for office who is a Bull Moose follow