The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
The TAFT LEAGUE
Its Officers Make Reply to Bull
Moose Newspapers.
Call Them Triplets in Treason
and Defend Own Course.

The Republican League. through its
president. ]. s. Dean, today answered
the charges Of the Topeka Capital and
the Kansas City Star, III which the
officers of the league were charged
with playing the same brand of poll
tics that was practiced in the palmy
days of Copeland county. Dean stops
to remind the trainers of these stories
that the Bull Moose leaders have in
their camp such men as Cyrus Leland,
Jim Simpson. Mike Sutton and others
famous in the days when charges were
freely made that the Copeland hotel
was the seat of Kansas legislation.
Answering the charges against the
Republican Lea que, Dean declares:
Mr. Capper's Bull Moose organ,
The Topeka Capital, together with the
Kansas City Times and the Star, per
sonal organs of the Bull Moose ma
tionaI committeeman fer Missouri,
have paused in their furious assault
on the Republican party and its ma
tional candidates long enough to turn
their fire on the Republican Party
League, the only organization in Kan
sas supporting the cause of Republi-
canisn The Capital republishes long
winded articles from the Times and
the Star quotes from the Capital The
political harmony existing between
these newsPapers-the rival Bull
Moose triplets-is significant
Evidence of Strength.
1.-The very fact that the league has
drawn the fire of these Bull Moose or
gans is the strongest kind of evidence
that the splendid organization with its
branches in practically every county
in the state, is doing yeoman service
for the Republican party, and block
ing the game of the Bull Moosers-
The Capital is not fooling anybody by
pretending to be Republican. Its high, !
nj thin dis
guise it wears and are seen of all men. !
Don't it seem funny to see these
Bull Moose candidates and their per
sonal organs invoking the shades OF
the ancient Copeland county in their
desperata effort to shield themselves
from the wrath of the Republicans
whom they have disfranchised ana /,
whose party they have attempted to ]
steal9 BY lar the greater number OF
survivors of that famous habitation of |
political myths are comfortably To- |
Gated in the Bull Moose camp-not- |
ably Leland, Jim Simpson and Mike |
Sutton.
mo gentlemen, you might as well try |
t. make a live issue out of the sub
treasury plan or the free coinage of sill
yer. as the politics of old Copeland |
county. Each of these issues has serve
the turn of the demagogue in the past
but what the Republicans of Kansas
want to know just now is:
''First-What right has Stubs. one
of the founders of the Bull Moose party,
a n organization now engaged in desper-
ate attempt to defeat and destroy the Re
publican party-Stubbs who is support
ing the candidates of the Bull Moose
party and viciously trying TO defeat the
Republican candidate for the presf-
dency-to have his name appear on the
official Republican ballot as a candt-
date for United States senator?
..Second-What right has Mr. Capper,
who is likewise engaged in a vicious
against the head of the Re
pu blican ticket and who is supporting
the candidate and platform Of the Bull
Moose party-to usurp the place on the
official ballot reserved by law for a Re
pu bIican candidate for governor?
''Third-What right has any other
person, whose conduct like that of
Stubs and Capper. incontestably marks
him with the Bull Moose brand, to have
his name printed on the official ballot,
In a place reserved by law for a Repub
lican candidate2
''F'ourth-When the names of the Bull
Moosers are printed on the official bal
lot in the place reserved by law for the
candidates for state offices.
isn't the Republican voter disfranchised
so far as these offices are concerned.
lust the same as he was as to the presi-
Dental Office while the Bull Moose cleo
tors remained on the Republican ticket?
These are the questions the Republi-
ran voters of Kansas are interested in
Just now and no amount of Scurrilous
abuse of the Republican Party League. ,
rs officers or supporters can divert their :
minds from the consideration of these !
questions. ,
There is one other question the Re
pUblicans would like to have answered.
and that is; Why is the so-caned Re {
publican state central committee of {
which Mr.. Dolly is the head, using its
office force in addressing and mailing
tut the literature of the Bull Moose
rarty?'' {