The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
Taft League Clubs Make Head
way in Eighth.
Fight Murdoch in Strongest
Progressive District.
STUBS SPOKE IN WICHITA
Washburn Students Demand
Fidelity to Taft.
Senator BristOw Is Campaign
ing for Rees.

In resolutions aQOpleQ tIlS WSSh,
J members of the Harvey county Re
publican club have laid their plans to
! openly oppose Victor Murdoch for
congress and to bolt all Bull Moose
candidates for state office. While their
action is not an open or binding bolt
of any of the Progressives, yet the alb
solution plank in the Republican plat
form is uSeu as a basis for excuSlng
any Republican who bolts any nomi-
nee who is not a supporter of Pres1-
dent Taft.
/ only recently has the Harvey coun-
: ty Republican club begun a cam
paign which threatens to make trouble
for Stubs, Capper, Austin, Akers and
especiallv victor Murdoch in the
I Eighth district. Murdoch is consld-
cred more strongly intrenched than
any of the Progressive congressman
from Kansas. But the factional trou-
BILE in the Republican party is each
day drawing the line more tightly
around the candidates for state Of
flee and each candidate is being viewed
BY the individual voter on basis or
his fidelity to the Progressives or to
President Taft And now the Harvey
county Republicans in meeting III
Newton lay down the bars and declare
that each voter shall be his own Judge
and failure to support any candldate
who is not a supporter of President
Taft shall not be considered a test of
party fealty.
Harvey county is not alone in the
revolt in the Eighth district But
Ter county is one of the real scenes
of battle and the lines have been so
closely drawn that political leaders de-
clare that the action of Sedgwlck
county Murdock's home, Will set
tie the congressional controversy
in the Eighth. With this situa-
ton in what has been considered
the most Progressive COMPRESSION
al district in Kansas, SedgWlch1
county will see some lively pol1t1cal
~ o1n Of H.
paign. The county is claimed TOT
Murdock by a good majority. That
claim is made by the Bull MOOSE
leaders. On the other hand the Regu-
lars are positive that John l. saunders
will carry the county
The action of the Harvey county Re-
pubiicans was however the first real
step toward an open fight on the CT J.
yressive candidates in the Eighth dis
trict. After commencing the admins
tration of Taft, the Harvey county Ike
prblicans resolved as follows
eve believe the Republican party 10
be national party, with each stare
Republican organization constituting an
we view with regret the fact that the
sO-called state Republican committee,
and a number of the So-called Republl-
can state. senatorial and congressional
candidates refuse to support the Repu'-
lican nominees for president and vice
president and to endorse the principles
OF the Republican national platform;
and applying the standard of republl-
capism established by the recent state
marty council we believe that there il |
room for differences of opinion as to the
republicanism of those candidates who
so refuse to support the party's ia
ticral candidates and platform and We
decline to make the support of Sucn |
candidates a test of party fea'ry |
and leave such course to be followed by |
each voter as his conscience shall die
tate.'
Austin Hays member OF the Re- |
publican central committee in Ford |
county. declares that a large MAORI |
ty of the old soldiers in the home at |
Fort Dodge will support Stubs for |
United States senator. Curtis receiv- |
ed 80 more votes in the soldiers home |
in the August primaries than did Gov |
ernor Stubs. This fact, however. is
of little consequence in the view which |
Hays takes of the present situation. |
He says that practically all of the men |
who supported Curtis will vote for
Stubs in November and that Thomp- |
soldier votes.
''Now, 1 live in the soldiers home |
of Kansas, at Fort Dodge, and 1 want /
to say that it is probably the best
place to become acquainted with the
sentiment of the old soldiers writes
Hays. I'm the primary Mr.. Stubs
was beaten by Mr.. Curtis just SIS votes
in the home The old soldiers who
vote for Mr.. Curtis will not vote for
the Democratic candidate by any
means and no Republican old soldier
will vote against Governor Stubs un-
less he is some old political hack or is
piqued at Stubbs. This home will give
Governor Stubbs a good majority. The
old soldiers know that Governor Stubs
is no traitor, and the interview will
not accomplish what it seeks, and is
doubtless the result of prejudice. Gov