The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
Are COngeniaI Companions and
Should Not Separate.
MARTIN HITS CAPPER HARD
Says Stand on Inheritance Tax
Law Is Inconsistent.
Gov. Marshall Talked Kansas
Issues in His Speech.

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dates leave the Republican ticket, ].
rs. Dean, president of the Republican
league, insists that all Progressive can
didates must follow them 1t is con-
genial company. Dean insists, and the
organization should not be divided.
Then, too, Dean quotes that Follow
song which was sung at the Bull
Moose convention with religious fer
Vor.
Dean declares that the Progressives
will take advantage of the ruling made
by Secretary of State Charles Sessions.
I'm which he declared that the names
of Taft and Sherman will head the
ticket, and that the Bull Moosers will
thus try to gracefully dodge an en-
barrassing issue. But what will RooSe-
welt do? That is the question that
Dean raises in his discussion of the
political situation in Kansas; and the
Topeka lawyer sees trouble ahead
for the Progressives. In an interview
given today, Dean looks at the situa-
ton in this manner:
No Compromise, Says Dean.
"I notice by the press reports that
the Bull Moose leaders are consider
ing proposition to voluntarily with
draw the Roosevelt electors from the
Republican ticket. on behalf of the
members of the Republican Party
league of Kansas. I suggest that these
same leaders voluntarily withdraw
the Bull Moose candidates from the
state ticket. There must be no mis-
take relative to the issue in Kansas.
Every man on the Republican state
and congressional tickets must open
ly and unreservedly support President
Taft, who heads the Republican ticket.
or he must follow Mr.. Roosevelt's
electors into the Independent column.
Under the law, the Roosevelt cleo
tors and the Bull Moosers on the
state ticket can have their names
placed upon the official ballot in the
Independent column by petition at any
time before September 26. Mr.. White
stated in his deposition given before
the contest board on last Thursday
that he would consider it a deception
for the Roosevelt electors to remain
on the Republican ticket in the event
that the secretary of state certifies
the names of Taft and Sherman as
candidates for president and vice
president on that ticket on the official
ballot At the time ATr. White made
this statement he knew full well, as
he has known ever since the day OF
the party council, that the secretary
of state will certify the names of
Taft and Sherman as candidates for
president and vice president on the
Republican official ballot. The sec
retary of state gave notice to the par
ty council on August 27 that he would
do so, and Mr.. White has the best
legal advice to the effect that no
power on earth can prevent the sec
retary of state from so doing.
All PrOgreSSiVeS Must Go.
'It might be further stated, that
Fred S. Jackson also stated that if
the names of Taft and Sherman ap-
pear at the head of the Republican
ticket on the official ballot, it would
be a deception and fraud to print the
names of the Roosevelt electors be-
low the names of Taft and Sherman.
Now, it would be just as great a de-
ception and fraud for the Bull Moos-
ers-Stubbs. Capper, Jackson, Muir
dock, Brady. Rees, Young and others
to permit their names to remain on
the official ballot under the names Of
Taft and Sherman when they are not
supporting Taft and Sherman, as it
would be for the Roosevelt electors
to permit their names to remain on
the official Republican ballot.
"Mr. Roosevelt did not place a state
ticket in the field in Kansas because
he understood that he had captured
the Republican organization in Kan
sas bodily There must be no mis-
understanding as to whether he has
captured the Republican organization
bodily
What Will Roosevelt Do?
Now, if Mr.. RooseveIt's electors are
taken off from the Republican ticket
and placed in the Independent column
on the official ballot Mr. Roosevelt
will doubtless want these Bull Moosers
(now masquerading as Republicans)
to take off their mask, get out of the
Republican column and join him as
independent candidates on the official
ballot In order to do this they will
have to have their petitions ready
by September 26. just the same as the
candidates. for electors. 1 sincerely
trust that these worthless will not
double cross their chief by carrying
his electors into the independent col
umn and then trying to excuse them
selves to him for not going over there
also under the plea that It is too late
for them to get out their petitions.
Let the whole Bull Moose outfit stay
together. 1t would be a great pity to
separate such congenial companions.
Quotes That Follow song.
MANY of these Bull Moosers attend
ed the Chicago convention when Mr..
Roosevelt was nominated. Press re-
ports of that gathering state that the
whole convention was worked up to a
sort of religious ferYor during which
they sang the following hymn.
Follow. follow
We will follow Roosevelt;
Anywhere he leads US
w will follow on"
Certainly these valiant soldiers of
the new crusade will not falter when
their leaders calls"
Chairman Henderson Martin, of the
state committee, today is
sued his second chapter of reviews OF
the records Of Republican state candi-
dates when he lifted the scalp of Ar
thur Capper because Of his inconsist-
encv on the inheritance tax law. The
tax document is just one
of several clubs that Martin viii use
on the Republican gubernatorial nomi-
nee. He is already preparing a review
Of the Topekan's stand on other public