Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-11-07

to accept a Republican nomination
for Governor because, He knows
that as the Republican candidate, a |
Progressive candidate would be in |
the WELD against him and he would !
have no chance Of winning. The To |
peka Capital has gone over to the
stand-patters but that viii not pne-
vent a full state ticket being put I'M
to the field by the Progressive"
The Lecompton Sun, a Progressive
paper, says:
The Sun wishes to protest very
much against the unfair treatment
that Arthur Capper, through the Cap
ital, has accorded the Progressive par
Ity since the election. During the
Campaign Mr.. Capper claimed to be-
aeVe In all those principles Of the
Progressive party that make the
line Of demarkation between the re-
dictionary and the progressive. After
being defeated by the treachery Of
the CurtisMulVane-De Dean Clark crowd
ne at once began to flint with the
reactionaries, who had stabbed him
and the other progressive Repubi--
cans in the back, and ignoring those
who had stood by him.
1T is evident that he would again
hike to make the race for governor,
hoping for election as a vindication
Of last years defeat and is willing
to compromise the Progressives by
urging them to go back to the Re
publican party for the spoils.
"Mr. Capper must decide on which
ticket he will run. If, as a Progress
sive, good; but if, as a Republican,
he must look to Curtis, Mulvane,
Clark, Dean, Scott and the other
reactimaries who conspired to de-
feat him, for the Progressives real.
lie that it be but trying to serve
God and Mammon for the Progress
sives to go back to the Republican
party. He is not the only man in
the new party who is big enough to
run for governor. There is Jackson,
Ingalls, and Brady; all good strong
men, all victims OF the same treach-
cry that defeated Capper; and yet
all have kept the faith.
William Allen White gives positive
assurance that Bnistow is going to
run for reelection as United States
Senator on the Progressive ticket,
and White undoubtedly knows what
he is talking about.
Bnistow is wise to the combination
to nominate Capper for governor and
Curtis for senator on the G. o. P.
ticket and has decided, so the story
runs, to take the Progressive nomi-
nation. It is also stated on good au-
thority that Sheffield Ingalls, will be
the Progressive candidate for Coy
ernor.
When Bill Whites attention was
called to the fact that this would
mean the election of the Democratic
candidates, Mr.. White said: IF the
Progressives by voting the Progres-
sive ticket keep the Democrats in
office, whom the stand atters put
there, who is to blame? Who start
ed it?
Thus the war goes merriy on.
-x-x-
One of the funniest "bone head
stunts ever pulled off by the cub"
reporters who are engineering the
harmony movement from the press
room in the Capital building, was
pulled off last week when the story
was sent out that Secretary of State
Sessions would become the harmony
chairman of the G. o. P. State Cen
, trail Committee, providing Dave Mul.
vane would resign as member Of the
. Shawnee County Central Commit
. tee for the ward in which Sessions
& lives. If MuNane would do this, II
G would be taken as a sign that the
O Mulyane, Curtis, Clark, Dean, Scott
+ bunch of reactimaries were willing
to retire from the party Leadership
!. and hand the Grand Old Party oven
to the comprOmisers, or at least Il
!. withdraw behind the scenes where
v they could play Just as important
\ part in the party councils without an
gering certain oversensitive Progress
d stves by occupying prominent seat'
% on the stage.
!. The trouble with this beautiful
h story is that Dave Mulvane is not G
~ member Of either the Shawnee Coun
. ty, nor the State Republican Contra
Committee, and now the cubs art
trying to find out which one of then
is to blame for letting this bone
y head story get by.