The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-28
COUNTRY PRESS
Editorials From Many Kansas
Papers on Campaign.
They Believe All Bull Moose
Candidates Should withdraw.

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country press is clamoring for the
Withdrawal from the Republican tick
ct of all Bull Moose candidates for
state and congressional offices. They
refuse to stop the fight because Will
lam Allen White withdrew the Bull
Moose electors from the Republican
ticket-or has promised to do it-and
they demand that all candidates who
will support the Roosevelt electors
must follow them out of the Republi-
can column.
At the headquarters of the Republi-
can league, it is claimed that more
than sixty Republican papers are now
fighting the Bull Moose candidates on
the state ticket. Such a condition has
not prevailed in Kansas in years and
among politicians the bolt of these pa
perS is considered one of the most
serious conditions in the present cam
paigr.
This is the way some of the Kansas
papers viewed the situation in their
recent issue:
IF Colonel Roosevelt can carry
| Kansas as the Third party candidate
| the other Third party candidates can
also carry the state and they should
| get over IN the Independent column
with him. 1T isn't fair in them to de-
ceive Republicans by pretending to be
Republicans. They are Third party
men without the honesty of their lead
er, Colonel Roosevelt, who fatty says
he wants nothing more to do with the
Republican party. Move over, boys.
Get IN your 1n1rQ party stall IL you De-
long there. World.
1.-The Enterprise receives a nice big
sheet of editorial matter from the Re
publican state committee each week
with a request that it be printed. but
so far we have failed to find a good
word in any of it for President Taft
and the national Republican platform.
1t is devoted almost entirely to Stubs
and Capper Whenever Chairman
Dolley comes out good and strong for
Taft and Sherman the Enterprise will
print some OF Dolley's praise of Cap
per and Stubs. That looks fair,
doesn't it ?"-Alma Enterprise.
''The unantmity of the Progressive
press of Kansas about the rightness
of the moving of the Roosevelt cleo
tors from the Republican column,
when the word came from Boss White,
after the organization of forty thou
sand Republicans had been effected,
is amusing to say the least. -kioWa
Signal.
eff Stubbs and Capper expect the
support of the Republican party, then
they themselves should be supporting
the Republican ticket from top to
influence to defeat President Taft and /
the Republican party and are in favor |
of the third party as they say they |
are, then they should get over on the |
third party ticket and give the Re |
publicans a chance in their places
Eskridge Tribune.
eff Mr.. Stubs is real honest and |
really and truly believes in majority |
rule, why doesn't he come boldly out
and say, I cannot accept the RepuDll-
can nomination for senator, as Mr..
Curtis received 1,216 more votes than
1 did and the people must rule Nay!
Nay! Mr.. Stubs believes in the 'peo-
pie rule "a government by the ma
iority,' etc, just so long as 1t doesn't
conflict with his ambition to be United
States senator. What won't Stubs dc
to crafty this ambition. '-Lebo star
Thirteen Kansas candidates, claim
ing themselves to be Republicans when
in fact they are not such. voted in
the party council to steal the name.
emblem and column of the Republican
party. Just for that, these 13 men
with Stubs and Arthur Capper at theh
head, forfeited all right to claim the
Republicans who do not vote for them
boilers. Garden City Telegram
THE truth, of course, is that this
determination on the part OF Mf.
White. and the third termerS to aban-
don their attempt to steal the cleo
toral vote of the state is not prompted
in any degree whatever by consclen-
tious scruples against theft, as they
try to make it appear, or by the fear
of the Lord which has been put into
their hearts by the organization of the
Kansas Republican Party league. In
Is days through the efforts of this
organization. 10000 Kansas Republi-
cans had declared their intention to
vote against every state and congress
sional candidate who was in any way
particeps criminis to the attempt to
steal the name and place of the Re
publican party. It was the pressure
of that most conspicuous ract. and not
the pricking of conscience, as every
body knows, that brought Mr. White
to the conclusion that what he has