The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12


legal right in the Republican primary
under the decision of Jackson who is
now representing the Roosevelt intel
ests in the contest cases.
w. A. Whites Affidavit.
Then came the reading of William
Allen Whites affidavit taken in his
Office in Emperia Tuesday of this
week. In part Whites affidavit read:
DO you belong to the Republican
or Progressive party?
ct belong to the Progressive party
nationally; there is no Progressive
party organization in Kansas, hence
am acting and voting and in every way
afhliating with the Republicans; II is,
however, only fair to say that II the
Kansas election law would permit the
Progr essives to put up a Kansas ticket
under the party name with the party
emblem I should be working, voting
and aftiliating with the Progresslves IN
the state as we'll as in the national
organization"
"Were you not the choice of ma
jority of the members OF the delega-
ton to the Republican national con-
vention in Chicago for national com
Initteeman, and did you not advise the
members of the delegation that you
| could not accept such Office because
you might not be able TO support the
nominee of the convention for presi-
dent? ?"
yes"
Are you not the national commit
teeman in Kansas of the Progressive
party? If so, when were you elected
and by whom?"
Yes. I was elected by the Kansas
delegation to the Progressive national
convention August o.
do you consider it fair or honest
to deceive the Republican voters of
Kansas by having candidates for cleo
1 tors on the Republican ticket who
have declared that they will support
the Progressive candidate for presi-
dent?'
81 cannot see how any one would be
| deceived. The whole matter has been
j subject to the widest publicity. EV-
| eryone knows that eight electors are
| for Roosevelt and two for Taft, and sc
| long as this information is practically
universal, it seems to me that it is not
material where those electors stand on
the ballot. But it is of some impor-
| lance that the result of the primary
should prevail. Personally wish
that the law would permit the Pro
gressives to go into their own ticket
under their own name and emblem
| But the law does not permit 1t, and 1t
seems to me only fair for the two
wings of the Republican party in
Kansas to live in the old house few
months longer decently and in order,
until a legal separation may be OBJ
| tained."
Are you not trying to obtain sup
port for your candidate under false
| pretenseS when you decline to run your
| electors as Progressive electors but in
| sist on their names appearing under
the names of Taft and Sherman, the
Republican candidates for president
and vice PRESIDENT"
mo. The wide publicity given to this
situation, it seems to me, makes 1t I'M
possible for any voter to be deceived IN
the slightest as to the actual facts in the
case If, however, Taft's name was to
head the Republican ticket, there wouiG
be an Inference that the electors should
vote for Taft. In that event, should ad-
wise the electors to withdraw from under
Taft's name, that there might not be the
slightest chance for any man to vote for
those electors under misrepresentation
as to the facts"
Are you supporting the Republican
state ticket because you are Republican,
or solely because certain Progressives are
on that ticket, and you are too late under
the law to get your party emblem on t-Ae
ticket?"
THAT is it exactly. I am supporting the
Republican state ticket solely mat
ter of political expediency. The Repuo-
lican state platform this year-and to-
eight years past, has been standing -or
all the Progressive party stands for ma
tionally. My support of the Republican
party this year in Kansas is given simply
because that is the only organization
which has adopted the Progressive party
program, and has nominated for state and
legislative offices, men who are support
ing the Progressive party nationally