The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
WAS A CANDIDATE HIMSELF
He Couldn't Help Gust Winners
at Same Primary.
FaxOn's Paper Bolts All Bull
Moose Candidates.

Congressman I. d. Young, of the
Sixth district, denies a recent account
of the candidates meeting held N
the office of the secretary of state.
He announces that he did not come
to Topeka with change of heart
concerning the removal OF the Roose-
Welt electors to the Independent col
uran and outlines his position in the
matter. Reporters were excluded from
the meeting to which Mr.. Young re-
fers, yet the facts concerning the
meeting were secured from reIIaDIe
sources and from men on both sides
of the factional controversy In ms
statement Congressman Young says
when Congressman Young was
shown the article in the Topeka State
JonrnaI of Sept. II, entitled Political
Gossip, giving an account of the meet
ing of the state and congressional
candidates and the executive commit
tee of the state Republican comTnlttee
held in Topeka last Monday, in which
the writer of that article, said that,
.CongresSmen Rees and Young came
to Topeka in sackcIoth and ashes ana
openly 'repented of their actions IN
voting against the Stone resolution in
the party council, and that they were
penitent and agreed, il they had an
other chance they would vote TO give
the Taft people a chance in the NO
vember election said that such state
ments are absolutely incorrect and
does each of us a grave injustice.
THE facts are that Judge ReeS and
myself before leaving Washington
aGread that since Mr. Roosevelt has
declared repeatedly that he is no long
er Republican, and mas organized
another party, that it would not be
right for electors on the Repub1ctsh
ticket who are pledged to vote for him
If elected, to longer remain thereon
but should resign and take place IN
the Independent column. l then ana
now believe that is what they should
--r-Yr- n hot
action be taken by them at once.
TT is true that all state and con-
zressional candidates voted against the
Stone resolution in the party council,
and as for myself and number OF
such candidates, with whom 1 talked,
we voted against that resolution;
First because it had already peeh
adopted in the state committee, the
onIv organization that had any right
to take Jurisdiction of and act upon
that question, while the party council
could not lawfully or rightfully take
any action whatever on that subject
and second; We further felt tnat 1t
was wholly improper, diScourteouS,
and almost impudent, for any candl-
date to vote for a resolution requesting
any other candidate to get OF the
ticket who had been nominated at the
same primaries and on the same tick
ct that we ourselves had been nomi-
mated.
.eThere was therefore no repen
lance, no sackcloth and no change,but
a consistent courteous course all
aiong, for what would give every Re
publican in Kansas a square deal
Many Kansas Democrats journeyed
~ Kansas City, Kansas, today to at
tend the official opening of the Demo-
cratic campaign in Kansas Governor
Thomas r. Marshall, of Indiana, Dem
ocratic nominee for vice president is
the speaker for the opening event of
the campaign. He speaks at 2:30 this
afternoon.
Marshalls Kansas meeting will be
followed by a half dozen other import
ant speaking engagements by some of
the best speakers to be offered by
the national committee. Champ Clark,
William Jennings Bryan, Senator Gore,
and a number of other widely known
speakers are coming to Kansas in the
next six weeks and will help to make
this state one of the principal scenes
Of battle in the campaign.
Out In Greedy county, petitions are
being circulated in Behalf of Robert
Pringle as an independent candidate
for the legislature. Pringle, who is a
widely known stock grower, will OPP
pose Clement L. Wilson, of Tribune
for the election. Wilson is Republf-
can and was nominated by a large ma
Jority in the recent primaries. Until
this year, PringIe has voted with the
Socialists.
William Allen White, national COM
mitteeman of the Progressive party