The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
Nominees for Every State and
County Office i'm 1914.
IGNORE The HARMONY CALL
Progressive Leaders Go on Rec.
ord Against TrOutman Plan.
Speeches and Resolutions Mt
Meeting.

After sideStepping for six months the
issue as to whether he would remain
in the Republican party or go with the
new Progressive party in Kansas. J.
N. Dolley, chairman of the state Re-
publican central committee, Monday
afternoon lined up firmly with the new
Third party and declared that there
could be no harmony among followers
of the two parties. Arthur CAMPER
Republican gubernatorial nominee in
1912, did not attend the Progressive
caucus and left open to discussion
whether he will go with the new party
or remain in the Republican ranks.
Will he attend the June harmony meet
ing?
Those features, together with the
fact that there was not a slip in the
program to repudiate any claim of a
reunited Republican party in Kansas
marked the conference of Progressive
leaders at the Commercial club rooms
Monday afternoon. Everyone of the 40
men and women who came to Topeka
opposed the get together plan, as out
lined by Senator James A. Troutman.
The fact. however, that State Chair
man Dolley has landed in the ranks of
the Progressives and repudiates the
party of which he is now state chair
man, was one vitality important feature
of the conference. What will Capper
do? Last fall Capper was branded
The same printed slips that put Stubbs.
ingalls,, Akers, Austin, Jackson, Brady,
Murdock and Finley on the Bull Moose
party list, branded Capper That fact
went far toward the defeat of the To-
peka publisher. Now Dolley, accused
of deserting the party which made him
its official head in the state, is body
and soul with the Progressive move
ment. But where is Capper? VIII
Capper go into the harmony confer
l1S.,
sives? Those are matters which the
Progressives decline to discuss and the
Regular Republicans admit they can
not answer. And Akers, and ingalls, and
Austin. They We're not there.
Telegrams to the Progressives came
from Congressman Victor Murdock in
washington. from William Allen White
in California and from John Madden.
general attorney for the Katy railway
at Parsons. No word of comfort, how
ever, came from United States Senator
Joseph L. Bristow, who recently de-
clared that he had not decided whether
he would be a candidate for renomina-
ton on the Progressive or Republican
ticket.
Many men yideIy known in Kansas
ence. w. r. Stubbs, ]. N. Dolley,
Fred S. Jackson, o. w. Dawson-not
John S. Dawson-Joe Mercer. Fred
Trigg, Cyrus Leland. J. L. Brady, Will
-. A.
nard H. G. Sticher II. S. Martin and a
dozen others-all we'll known in Repub-
lican politics in Kansas-came to To-
peka to grease the track ahead of the
Republican harmony meeting. The
Progressives preferred to talk things
over among themselves. They in
vited the reporters to Ieave-and the
reporters left.
A distinct feature of the meeting
was the speech of Tom McNeal of To-
4NI1 Of 2 11ea acfra crfh
of the new party and why he stood in
its ranks. Its platform, drafted at
Chicago last summer, is the strongest
and best ever promulgated by any
party is it's doctrine. The Progress
sive doctrine is designed to help the
ills of humanity. Its purpose Is to
make the burden of the unfortunate
easier to bear. 1t would wipe out ev-
cry hoveF in the world and hush the
cry for bread everywhere. 1t would
do away with special privilege. 1t
would make every man recognize his
debt to his brother. 1t places many
things above jobs and money and CEN
troll of money.
81 don't know. 7 may be a Populist
or a Socialist or a Progressive. know
1 place these things l have mentioned
above the tariff and the roll call of
postmasters in the scale of importance
by which a party is weighed by the
people that compose party"
Several women sat in the Progress
sive conference. Among them were
Mrs. Lila Day Monroe, Topeka, and
Miss Helen Ecker. Lawrence, secretary
of the Progressive state committee;
Mrs Frank Doster. Mrs. Lillian Mitch
ner, Mrs. f. E. Roudebush, Mrs V.
F.. Roby, Mrs. Whitaker, Mrs. G. ].
Evans. Topeka; and Mrs. L. Corbin.
Lawrence.
A special committee composed of
Fred s. Jackson, w. r. Stubbs Will
Wayman, DR.. Harlan and Mrs. l..
Corbin, drafted the following resolu-
tions which were adopted by the con-
ference:
"Telegrams and reports from leading
Progressives in every part of Kansas
and information brought by the rep