The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

ed his editorial brethren by leading
them to believe that he was Taft
Republican; jackson, who was elect
cd congressman two years ago as
Republican and then voted on all i'm
portant measures with the Democrats;
Bristow. who wanted a $4,000 a year
job with little to do on the Panama
these are the men who propose to ols-
franchise more than 10000 Republican
voters in the state of Kansas Nay
more. thev propose to compel them to
vote for electors who will support
Roosevelt.
This act of the Stubbs-Capper-
-Bristow gang, morally con,
sdered, is nothing less than pol1tlcai
piracy.
THE fight is now a fight for princi-
pie on the part of all true Republicans.
The issue is no longer in doubt IL
will be a fight to the finish Inc
Stubbs-Capper-J ckSon- Bristow crowd
are welcome to whatever victory they
may win. Unless we mistake the tenn
per of the true Republicans of the stat
the line of cleavage will not only snow
as between Taft and Roosevelt, but II
win be easily traced through both state
and county politics in the November
election.
THE Republican is for Taft and Taft
Republicans"
Marshall County News.
There were So, 900 Republicans in Kan
sas who did not turn out at all at the
primaries. They will attend the cleo
ton in November and they Will marx
their ballots in way that will sur
prise the fellows who think they own
the state and have contracted to de-
lever it to Theodore Roosevelt. They
will be on hand in November and their
vites will prevent the delivery. IheS
will do more than that. Their votes
will prevent the election of candidates
tod in he council
giving the Republican electors a place
on the ballot and who voted in favor
of placing third party electors in tho
Taft column under the Republican
eagle That action will be branded as
A violation of the comma ndment thai
saws Thou shalt not steal and thI
participants will be pronounced guilty.
NTankato Monitor.
There should be no glory nor credit
for the fellow who hides behind the
bushes while the battle is raging. This
layman is everla stingly for Taft and
sherman and the true Repuohcan
ticket. He is against the Bull Moose
party in Kansas and its political jug
glery and grand larceny. He is for
busting this Juggernaut car OF the
unholy gang that DISTINGUISHES him
and then tries to make him like it. He
will always lift his voice in defense
and in behalf of the true Republican
party and it's honest followers and
will consider it a proud day for him
when he can have some small hand
in putting to rout the gang of politi- |
cal bushwhackers and tyrants now in
Testing our fair land"
Brown County World.
Nearly every candidate for Office on
the Republican state ticket is a Third |
party man. The platform is Third |
party platform. The candidates say
they are for Roosevelt, the Third par |
- r1aka Tor daT1t he ale
tors are for Roosevelt. Now in all |
fairness why should Republican |
feel under any obligations to support |
this Third party ticket-a ticket COM |
posed of men who are pretending to |
be Republicans merely to get Repub- |
lican votes. At heart they are Third /
party men. They openly say that if |
the Third party men did not control |
the Republican party in Kansas they |
would not be with the Republican |
party. We hold that no Republican |
is under any sort of obligation to |
support anyone of these candidates /
any more than if so many Democrats /
had got in control of the Repu blican |
party and selected the Republican Of |
ficers. We talk about the people ruI- |
ing. They seldom do. The people do |
what the leaders tell them to do. The /
leaders in power are leading them
away from the Republican party. 1t |
is time Republicans who love their
party and party principles-the men
who don't want to leave the party for
a Third party-knew the truth, as Mr.
White puts it, for that is the case.
There is no Republican party in kan
sas now. 1t is a Third party ticket
and principles that Republicans are
asked to support. Some may support
it, Some will not. No Republican
is boiling who refuses to support a
Third party ticket, for Roosevelt, the
Third party leader, SAYS he wants
nothing to do with Republicans
Wilson County Citizen.
Loyal Republican voters do noti
Owe party fealty to Stubs for U. S.