The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-26
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The one thing that occupies the
greatest attention of the members Of
| the Republican council is the plan to
| bolt the Bull Moose candidates on the
| state ticket This movement has
gained ground the last week and there
is an indication that the Boss Buster
meeting in Topeka tomorrow after
noon will be well attended by Kansas
Republicans from almost every coun-
ty in the state. 1t is the probable
strength of this new movement that
| causes alarm among the Progressive
workers. Among the Regulars, the
men who stand for Taft and Sherman
| without the slightest apology the
| new movement is welcomed with
open arms and a firm belief that while
Kansas may not give Taft a majority
in the coming election; it will also re-
fuse to give a majority to Roosevelt
or to the Progressive candidates. on
the state ticket. And it is with these
hopes and these fears bedded deep
in their hearts, that Kansas Repubii-
cans await the decision the 500 men
who meet tomorrow to shape the
course of the coming campaign.
National Committeeman Fred E..
Stanley may not arrive in Topeka until
late tonight or some time tomorrow.
He has assured the Taft leaders in
kansas that he will attend the party
council, but at noon today none of
the Regulars in Topeka had received
word as TO the time of mis- arriv H.
The Regulars also await the arrival of
Congressman Campbell and Anthony.
While the opponents of the Bull
Moose movement are arriving slowly,
the Progressives have come to Topeka
on almost every train today. Almost
unanimously these Progressives plead
for harmony and good Fellowship.
They want it at any cost they declare
but insist that they would prefer to
go home without a party platform
than to offer their people document
that endorsed Taft and Sherman. They
offer to hold up a Roosevelt endorse
ment as a compromise. So there you
are. No harmony conferences are be-
ing held by the warning factions and
none are called.
While the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis are at war concerning the
things they will say in their platforms
and the men who viii have charge of
their state campaign, the Socialists
will quietly meet in the council cham
bers at the city hall and build a state
platform of their own. The Shawnee
county Socialists met Saturday after
noon at AIS Kansas avenue and elect
ed o. F. Olmstead chairman and c.
E. Fink secretary of the county COM
mittee. In many of the counties Of
the state, local tickets have been put
in the field this year and the Socialist
party council in Topeka tomorrow Will
be larger than at any time since the
adoption of the new system of plat
form building.
The meeting tonight of the Demo-
cratic State Editorial association
brought many prominent Kansas pub
fishers to Topeka today. These men
will attend the meeting at the Throop
hotel tonight and will remain in To-
peka for the party council on Tues
day. 1t is with a new hope and con-
fidence of an approaching victory that
the Democratic publishers come TO
Topeka today and their hopes will find
a place in the speeches at tonight's
meeting.
The Plainyille Gazette, one OF the
oldest papers in Rocks county, has
announced that in the future the pub.
LEGATION will be independently Repub-
lican in it's support of candidates for
national. state and county offices. In fol-
lowing this policy, the Gazette will
support William Howard Taft for the
presidency; Senator George H. Hodges
for governor; John r. ConnelIey for
congress in the Sixth district; and
James R. Malone as state senator from
the Fortieth district Henry Sutor, a
Republican, will be supported by the
Gazette if he declares against Stubbs.
Should Stutor decline to make this de-
claration, the Gazette will support the
Democratic nominee. 1--WE have decid-
ed to take this stand,'' says the Ga
zette, rather than suffer the political
strangulation now in prospect for any
Republican paper with convictions in
fiicted by the Progressives of the state"