The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Arthur Capper Gives Reasons
for His Stand for L. r.
Is Supporting Record of Kan
SaS Delegation at Chicago.
COMES OUT FAIR AND SQUARE
Does Not Propose to Scum
shoe" to GOvernOrship.
Senator Hodges Friends Are
Active in His Interest.

In a statement that hits straight
4 from the shoulder Arthur Capper
| candidate for the Republican noml-
| nation for governor meets the issues
| in the present campaign in square
| toed manner and openly declares his
| allegiance to the Roosevelt electors
His statement meets the issues just
| as they are presented to the Kansas
voter and to eveW candidate for state
office. He makes no effort to side
step any of the EN- EMBARRASSING ques-
tions and gives a candid. fair and con-
vincing argument for the stand he
has taken. He says he is supporting
the record made by the Kansas dele
cation at Chicago.
The Capper announcement followed
a flood of inSinuationS that the To-
peka, man was trying to straddIe the
fence and evade an alignment with
either the Taft or Roosevelt candi-
dates. Those statements are prompt
ly nailed as false and Capper's posi-
ton is made clear to every voter in
the state.
Capper's statement and declaration
for the Roosevelt electors is as fol-
lows:
1T has been stated in several news
papers that am supporting President
Taft. which is incorrect. The only
statement from me on this question,
was on June %, when 1 said that L
was opposed to the organization of a
new progressive party in Kansas for
in this state is already thoroughly FRO
gressive and a third party is unneces-
sary.
81 am a Republican and shall abide
by the action of the represe ntatives of
NV party in this state. We sent our
delegate s to Chicago to represent Kan
SaS and to name a candidate for preS1-
dent. They have reported back to the
Republicans of Kansas that the ma
tional committee illegally and disbon-
eStly made up the convention roll, that
the supporters of President TAFT CD
tanned control of tho convention
through fraud, that they themselves
refused to participate in the proceed
ings and that a nomination by that
convention is not binding upon any
Republican. This report now goes to
the Republicans of Kansas. The party
holds it's regular primary election in
August at which time the presidential
electors will be nominated.
Nine of the ten Kansas members
of the electoral college who had al
ready been regularly and formally
nominated by the state and district
conventions are avowed progressives.
Naturally, they are expected to in
dorse the action of Kansas progressive
delegates in Chicago and decline to
recognize the nomination there made
But there was still time to nominate
other Republican electors and the
action of the Chicago convention was
binding upon them. lost no time in
naming Republicans who could be de-
pended upon to stand by the Chicago
nominee.
'It seems to me that this puts the
whole matter up to the Individual
members Of the Republican party. It's
a case Of party referendum. The ac-
ton of our representatives in Chicago
is before US and now we have an op-
portunity in August to say what we
think about it.
"And it seems to me that as Repub-
TF,1r,y
as it Is, with a supreme belief in the
right of the members of the party to