The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-19
Shawnee Republicans Name
Delegates to State Meeting.
Pass Resolutions Calculated to
Heal Wounds.
The DELEGATES ARE NAMED
County Leaders Who Will At
tend State Convention.
I'll. G.. Larimer, Chairman, and
DIR. A. S. Embry, Secretary.

Regular and Progressive Republi-
cans shared alike today in the naming
of Shawnee county delegates to the
state wide harmony meeting in Topeka
June 8. There was but small crowd
in attendance at the meeting in the
National hotel this afternoon, but the
spirit of harmony was the one key
note of the meeting.
Resolutions pointing to the work of
the Republican party in the state and
nation in past years, were adopted by
the men who attended today's caucus.
Representative Robert Stone and At
torney General John S. Dawson con-
tributed to the get together movement
by their declarations that future fac
tiOnal warfare was child play and fol-
ly. AS a LaFolIette Republican, Daw-
son declared that Republicans of the
LaFollette brand have always stood for
progressive measures and for harmony
and welcomed the new move in Kan
SaS.
About so people sat in today's eau
Gus. Among all of the men there was
and to forget the factional fight in the
1912 campaign. Each man seemed
willing to forget the past and to con-
cede ground to the opposition in the
nope Oh d reunited party. 1ndC SER
timent was advocated in the remarks
of the men who addressed the caucus
and met hearty approval.
Harry G. Larimer presided as chair
man and DIR. "A. S. Embree was secre-
tary- Representative Robert Stone
read the caucus call and in a short
speech declared that harmony could
be secured only through concession on
behalf of followers of both factions
and urged that the work of the Re-
publican party in the state legislature
and congress showed a record for pro-
gressive measures which both factions
could and should endorse. While COM
mittees were busy writing resolutions
and selecting delegates and alternates
to the state convention, Attorney Gen.
eFai Dawson addressed the caucus ard
made a harmony talk that met with
hearty applause. Col. 'Curley'' Harri-
son followed Dawson and like Dawson
urged that the Republican party fac
tionalists should get together. Judge
E. F. Foote did not believe there was
occasion for dissatisfaction in the Re-
publican party and thought there was
no sane reason for trouble in the ranks
of the party at this time. Judge Foote
urged that the sore spots of the last
campaign should be healed and that
the party should get together for the
coming battle. Foote followed Col.
Harrison in addressing the caucus and
added to the harmony pleas which were
offered while the committees were
A committee composed of Represen-
tative Robert Stone, Captain c. H.
Titus and Eri Hansford prepared and
offered the following resolutions which
were adopted:
1--WE. the Republicans of Shawnee
acknowledging fealty to the
principles of good government, express
ing our belief that those principles have
always shaped the achievements of the
rank and file of the great political Or
ganiza ton of which we are members,
declaring our conviction that no other
party as ever been able to sustain
popular government, and to legislate
for, and administer such a government
in behalf of all the people of this re-
public, deploring the fact that factional
led to our defeats in the
election campaigns of 1912; and each of
us desiring that his vote and influence
shall count for its full value in the
of the future in both state
and nation, urging you to put aside
all personal and factfonal feeling, ask
you to meet with us in convention
in Topeka on the third day of June,
1918, upon the following declaration of
faith:
First, we are Republicans We owe
no allegiance to any man or set of
men. We are not Taft men, we are
not La Toilette men, we are not Cum
MINIS men. we are neither Stand-Pat or
Bull Moose. Our leaders of tomor-
row are amongst the rank and file of
today and they must subordinate their
personal ambition and preferments to
the success of the Republican party, the
party of good government, free gov
ernment and Progressive government
Second. We, and men OF our
faith and purpose, fought and won
the greatest war in all history in be-
half of progress, freedom and hu-
man rights. After that war, we and
men of our faith reconstructed the
shattered Union, seized every resource
that truth and wisdom laid to our
hands to build up our national faith
suit that out of Sc years of admins
tration the whole people entrusted the
fortunes of the republic to US for 4S
years, turning fruitlesSly to Democ-
racy for help when we were torn
asunder by factional strife in 1884,
and again with the same result when
rendered desperate by their own pri-
vate business folly in 1892
Trust Regulations.
ITO those forty-eight years marked
by railroad and trust regulation and
control and the great amendments
to the constitution securing freedom,
civil rights, the right to tax incomes,
ators by popular vote belong the ad-
of Lincoln and Taft,
Grant and Roosevelt, Hayes and Nc
Garfield and Harrison, Repub-
licans all, each a synonym for nation
al honor, national prosperity and ma
tional progress
Third In Kansas we have within
the last eight years, while in control
of the entire government, legislative
executive and judicial. made a record