The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-29
1T Is Offered by Regulars to
PrOgressiveS.
Kansas Day Club Leaders for
Solid Party.
STANLEY HAS RESOLUTIONS
They Bury Past and Build for
Future.
VIII the Progressives Accept
First Advanced

Just before the opening of the busi-
ness session of the Kansas Day club
at Security hall this afternoon, Re
publican National Committeeman
Fred E. Stanley declared he would
offer a resolution intended to restore
harmony among the warning factions
of the Republican party. There is a
strong indication that Stanley's reso-
luton will be adopted.
Not until he had conferred with a
score of the wise political leaders of
the state, did Stanley determine to
step into the breach with an olive
branch for the Progressives. His po-
sition as national committeeman,
named in a convention controlled en-
tirely by the Progressive wing OF the
Republican party and his subsequent
stand for Taft and the Republican
nominees and party principles, places
the young Wichita lawyer in posi-
ton not unfriendly with both fac
tions Now he proposes to bring to-
gether the Progressives and the Regu-
lars to fight the Democrats in 1914.
Stanley's resolution is coated with
kind words for the Progress1ves. 1t
urges that the events of the recent
campaign be forgotten and that in the
future the test of true Republicanism
in Kansas be measured alone py party
fealty. Many of the men firmly
aligned with the Regulars in the re-
cent fight, declare they will support
the Stanley resolution and urge its
adoption as the solution to the pres
ent factional troubles in the party
Stanley'S Resolution.
The resolution to be offered by
Stanley with the approval of many of
the Republican Regulars reads:
1.-The time is ripe for the Repubi-
cans of Kansas to take thought for
the future. The net result of the re-
cent factional differences in the party
has been to turn the state and nation
over to the uncertain and precarious
leadership of the Democrats, and to
replace thousands of Republican Off
Gals with Democratic successors. Moth
ing more than this has been accom-
plished, and no true Republican, be he
of conservative or progressive persua-
sion, can point with pride to such
result. ----.---------
THE Republican party of Kansas is
now has been in the past, and will
be in the future the real progressive
party and there are thousands of its
members who temporarily left during
the late unpleasantness who are not
willing to give up their birthright in
the party, but rather looked forward
to greater achievements through the
party, and the placing of it's owner
again in the foreground of the great
organization for efficient and progress
sive government where it has always
been.
1.-The Republican party of Kansas is
an open forum to it's members. Its
future is in their hands. They can
make of it what they will. Its plat
forms and candidates are for them to
and it's only demand upon
them is loyalty to the party.
mo member will be criticised on
account of past affiliations or present
opinions. Its leadership will fall upon
those who render it the most valiant
service.
Therefore it is now resolved by
the Kansas Day club that this is the
basis of Republican harmony, that all
who will may come; that party feal-
ty in the future is the only test of Re-
that no recrimination
will be recognized or permitted; that
the future platforms and candidates
will be chosen by the free choice of
the members of the party; that the
party will not be guided by personal
amin osity, but by those who have the
purest motives for the welfare of the
party.
cit is further resolved, that we rec
ognize the need of a reapportionment
of delegates to Republican national
convention. and we favor redistribu
ton of such delegates in a manner
equitable to all the voters of the
party.
eve request our national commit
teeman to use his influence to speedily
adjust the representations of the sew
eral states so that the same may be
as nearly as possible, really represen- |
.ative to the Republican vote of the |
nation
Regulars control the club organi- |