The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP
w. A. White Revises His Hand
Picked Slate.
Too Many PrOgresSiveS i'm Sec
Ond District for Congress.
BILL SAPP is CONFIDENT
Democrat Committeeman Plans
on Republican Fight.
Warning to Voters on Losing
Their Ballots.

Their BaIlOtSe
William Allen Whites list of hand
picked candidates has been revised and
/ now includes all of the three Republic
| can candidates for congress in the Sec
ond district The second slate by White
was distributed this week. 1t endorses
| Brady Crider and Enright in the Sec
| ond district, but says never a word
! concerning the candidacy of John s.
Dawson or his loyalty to the progress
sive cause.
Whites original slate almost created
a political riot in the Second district.
1t endorsed only ]. l.. Brady, the Law
renee publisher, in the field OF three
CO ndidates for congress. When John
| H. Order, of Fort Scott. and E. A En-
right, of Kansas City. read that list of
tried and trusted reformers, they re
belled and denounced the cause. Order
| had always Travelled with the simon
pure progressives and when Orders
name was left off the list. il accom-
| pliShed almost every purpose except to
promote harmony. In his campaign
| speeches, Order scalded White and the
progressives in general He insisted
| that he himself was progressive, should
/ have been given a place on the White
/ list and the fact that he is for Taft
should not be used as evidence against
| him. White began to hear from the
! Second district. Then came a new let
| ter in which White said that all of the
| Second district candidates We're pro-
| pressiVe.
Even this bit of diplomacy didn't
! help. It only aroused the ire of Brady,
who until that time had defended
Roosevelt, Stubs, White and the pro-
gressive machine. He Immediately
called White over the telephone and
! told him just what he thought of the
situation. So White sent Brady this
telegram: Understand I am quoted as
sa ying all Second district candidates
Orders circular indicates he is not for
Roosevelt. Enright neither. The Kan
Sas test in this campaign seems to me
is vote on Roosevelt. I understand you
are the only Second district candidate
openly and unequivocally supporting
Roosevelt"
That eased Bradys mind bit. Then
he went to Allen county where he en-
countered Order cross fire and learn
ed that the Fort Scott man had dis
tributed 1000 circulars in the county
quoting White as endorsing all of the
Second district contestants.
Copies of the second edition of hand
picked candidates endorsed by the pro-
gressiye movement, does not bear the
names of John S. Dawson, attorney
general The name of Samuel Griffin,
of Medicine Lodge, who is Dawson's OBJ
ponent is on the list. AT the Roose-
VET headquarters last week, it was con-
ceded that Dawson was first class
progressive and that he will probably
be endorsed with Griffin later in the
campaign Now the second bunch of
literature is being circulated and Daw- !
son is left to conduct his own campaign
and pay his own postage bills
Colonel William F.. Sapp of GaIena. |
democratic national committeeman |
from Kansas, was in Topeka a few
Yesterday
10 see anything except big Democrat
ic victory in November. 1t doesn't |
make much difference about the nomi-
nee, Sapp contends it's a Democratic
year and all the time he talked about
the political row in Kansas, the Ga
lena statesman seemed to struggle to I
suppress yell of joy.
1t S our year to WIN - said the ever
confident colonel, as he smiled under
the high silk hat that follows Colonel |
Sapp summer, fall winter and spring
IT'S SO sure l Just want to yell" And
as the Galena man leaned back in his
chair and opened his mouth the visit
or thought he meant to yell right there
in the hotel lobby. But he didn't.
Gosh" said Sapp, cit does ne
good to see the Republicans scrap
ping among themselves. Say, but it's
a dandy fight they have started, isn't |
it? And it is doing everything except
helping them in the November cleo
ton. L haven't any idea how big our
majority will be this year, but it will |
be enough" and again Sapp's mouth |
flew open like the opening of some |
dense dungeon and the visitor started |
to suggest that the colonel shouldn't |
create a disturbance before the hotel
guests.
Guess I better not yell yet. had
II" suggested Sapp. But, say. I
sure want to-"
1t was suggested to sapp that per-
haps there was not as much harmony |
and good cheer in the Democratic |
ranks as there might be since the M
tional convention. Possibly, it was
Der.
ooh. now don't let that worry you
said Sapp, who was never known 20
surrender before the votes are count |
Why. we can give the Republicans a |
ton of harmony and beat them under |
the wire with a handicap. Sure we
can. Just put this down and call nv
attention to it in November-we will |
elect the United States senator. gov |
ernor a legislature and most of the /
state ticket. and Wilson will carry this |
state by such a majority that it will /
make someone's head ache. Put that /
down and remember it.
Colonel Sapp was certainly conf |
dent But he didn't want to claim too
much Anyway. his train was about |
due and he had to get his grip and |
hasten to Kansas City.
just remember what I told You.
said Sapp, as he pulled the big silk !
stove pipe hat down close to his ears
and raced to the elevator. Fh1s Is
our year to win-and we will win"
The Concordia Blade is after Walter i
Roscoe Stubbs' scalp in Cloud county. 1
At Stubs door the Blade lays the de- |
feat of the Caldwell bill for a branch |
normal school in Concordia and the
Blade urges all faithful friends of home
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