The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-05
As CLARK SEES IT
Taft League Secretary Sees in
Capper Speech a VindicatiOn.
Now He Wants Chairman Dol
ley to Tell Where He Stands.

Reviewing the declaration of Arthur
Capper at the Progressive banquet IN
Independence, George A Clark as sec
retary of the Republican League, today
demanded a statement from Chairman
]. N Dolley as to the party with when ne
will cast his lot and insisted on a
wedding out of the state and all county
Republican committees as to the az
filiation of it's members either with the
Republican or new Third parry. The
plunge by Capper into the midst OF
the new party is regarded by Clark as
an absolute vindication of the action
of the Republican League in its insist
ance that the Progressives had no
right to a place on the Republican
state ticket and that Capper, Stubbs
and their Progressive companions
should have accompanied the Roosevelt
electors to the independent column.
The Republican League has already
declared that it will maintain per-
nanent headquarters in Topeka and
will work continuously to strengthen
its present working organization in ev-
cry county in the state With the
present fiat declaration of Capper, the
lines will be more closely drawn than
before and next year promises more
politics in Kansas than is usually har-
vested in an off year in politics
J. s. Dean, president of the league,
is not in the city. This is the Ian
guage in which Clark expressed himself
when asked for statement as to Cap
per's Independence speech:
1.-THE speech made by Arthur Capper
at the Progressive banquet in Indepen-
dence last night is a complete vindica-
tion. if any were needed in the minds
of the loyal Republicans of Kansas, of
the course of the Republican Party
leag que in the recent campaign The
league charged, before election, that
Capper and certain other candidates on
the Republican state and congressional
tickets were conspiring to destroy the
Republican party and to turn its or
eanization over bodily to the Progress
sive party. During the campaign, Cap
per posed as both Republican and
Progressive. He mailed one style of
letter to Republicans, claiming their
support as a member of their party who
intended to remain a Republican, and
another style of letter to ProgreSsives.
Tn q latter style of letters he made the
statement that he favored all the prin-
ciples of the Progressive party, and left
the impression that he was a Progress
sive in all that the term implies.
'eThe league insisted that if Capper
were a Republican he should come out
In the open and so state. 1t believed
that he was identified with Roosevelt,
Bristow William Allen White. Henry
Allen. Perkins and the other Progress
sive leaders in their announced purpose
to destroy the Republican party Cap
per'S right. as Progressive, TO aIlSh
himself with these men is not ques-
toned. but in justice to himself and the
Republican party he should have de-
clared himself Republican and should
have supported the national candidates
and platform of that party, or he
should have openly stated that he was
a Progressive. and should have follow
ed the Roosevelt electors into the in
dependent column
Mr. Capper's speech at Indepen-
dence leaves no doubt as to where ne
now stands. He has declared in "a
vor of the Progressive party and has
thereby proved that the Republican
Party League was warranted in charg-
ing that he but masqueraded as Re
publican to secure an office from
which he might use official power and
prestige to promote the Progressive