The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Rev. Jerry BOtkin Is Address
ing s'Men Only Meetings.
He Is Fighting Capper-DOlley
Claims 10000 Majority.

| Kansas for the defeat or arthur zap
per, Republican nominee for governor.
| Feminine grace and beauty are elim1-
mated from the Botlxin meetings that
| the speaker may get right down to
! plain, simple statements about the
advertising matter that appeared some
| years ago in Capper's '57 varieties" OF
| Kansas publications.
Already Botkin has spoken in 20
counties and he has spent but two
| weeks in the fight. Before election he
| expects to visit almost every county
| in the state. He is making an especial
appeal to members of the clergy TO
physicians and to the farmers in MS
fight on the Topeka publisher. And
| Botkin's speeches seem to produce
results.
Two weeks ago the Democratic
| state committee compiled a large
amount of the questionable advertis-
! ing matter that has appeared IN the
| Capper publications. This matter is
denied the privilege of the mails, SO
! 10000 copies of the pamphlet were
| placed in the hands of campaign speak
| ers or sent to local workers in every
county in Kansas. Botkin, himself a
minister, assumed the burden OF
spreading the gospel and his text is
each day taken from the contents or
those pamphlets.
In each town that Botkin visits, he
| makes a short political speech in which
| cratic state ticket. Then he explains
that there are some delicate matters
to be considered and he invites the
ladies in the audience to kindly leave
the hall that he may have free ana
untrammelled use of his vocabulary IN
discussing the Capper advertising.
With the women and children elim1na-
ted, Botkin WadeS into the contents
of the little folder, reads an editorial
by Henry J. Allen, who is now sup
l. = ,n%r dol
race, and checks the matter SquareIy
up to the voter to decide whether the
publisher of this matter is the candi-
date whom the people really desire to
place in the governors chair. AFTER
the meeting, a few hundred copies OF
the folder are placed with the party
workers in the district and Botkin
journeys to the next town.
Botkin has already spoken in the fol-
lowing counties: Saline, Ellsworth,
Russell, Ellis, Trego, Cove, Thomas,
Sherman, Republic, Nenaha, Decatur,
Norton, Phillips, Smith, Jewell, Os-
borne, Mitchell, Ottawa, Clay and
Brown. Tomorrow Botkin enters Lyon
and Greenwood counties and will spend
a week in the Fourth district.
Il want every voter in the state to
have a copy of this pamphlet and to
understand it's meaning" said Botkin.
IF I can get this out among the
farmers there will be no question about
the results. Since going into this
fight I have been the subject Of many
bitter and unfair personal attacks IN
the newspapers friendly to Mr.. Capper,
but I believe that 1 am doing the
right thing and I am sure that Capper
should not and will not be elected.
Chairman J. N. Dolley of the Re
publican state committee believes
that the Republican ticket will be
elected by majorities of from 10000
to $4,000. He declares that Stubs
and Capper will get many Democratic
votes and that the fractional differ
ences in the Republican party have
been bridged and that the ticket is
in better shape than at any time since
the primaries.
Il think Superintendent Fairchild
was right when he said the ticket
would win by 10000" declared Dol
ley. He was very conservative and
I will say a trifle low in his predic-
ton. Stubs and Capper are both
gaining strength and I am sure that
the entire state ticket is in excellent
shape"
Dudley DooIittle. Democratic nomi-
nee for congress in the Fourth dis
trict, spent last week campaigning in
Greenwood county. He was accom-
panied by William M. Price, Demo-
cratic senatorial nominee from the
Twenty-fourth district; and the two
men filled a number of speaking dates
in the county.
Col w. P. sapp, Democratic ma
tionaI committeeman, declares that a
report of the Hodges meeting in Ca
lena, his home town, is false and
misleading. Hodges is quoted as say
ing, ST had the pleasure of voting at
one time for Colonel Sapp for United
States senator, and I regret that he is
not our nominee for United States
senator today. I would like to help
elect broad and true man"
Sapp was present when Hodges
made his speech and he heard every
word of it.
Hodges did pay me a compliment !
by saying that he once voted for me |
for United States senator. But that |
was in a former campaign and the |
which he is charged with |
making was never uttered and is false |
and misleading. The Republicans and |
the Bull Moosers seem to |
think because they have a row in their |
own party that they can stir up trou- |
BILE in the Democratic party. But they
than at any time in years and these |
to mislead the voters will not |
help in the November election"
Sapp came to Topeka yesterday |
son meeting. He did not try to con-
ceal his wrath when he read the re-
port of Hodges meeting in Galena.
An effort is being made by the |
Kansas Progressives to secure Judge |
Ben Lindsay of Denver and Miss Jane |
of Chicago for speeches in |
Topeka sometime during the cam |
paign. They will speak in Kansas !
City November 4, and it is believed |
that arrangements can be made for /
speeches in Topeka the same day.
FOUNDERS 0F MAYETTAI