The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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eff such leaders as Scott, Curtis, An
thony, Clark, Dean, Campbell, Trout
man, and others for the regulars. and
Stubs, Allen, Murdoch, Jackson, In
gals and others for the Progressives
would come out square and say they
really were for harmony and agree
publicly to abide a primary result and
work openly for the winners, then
would harmony have something be-
sides talk to make it a reality; but
until something like this is brought
about to bring the leaders together
both in state and nation harmony talk
is buncOmbe.
Last year there were $4,000 votes
cast for Taft, the-regular Republican
candidate for president; 125, 900 votes
for Roosevelt, Progressive, and 140,-
900 votes for Wilson, the Democrat,
in the state. If 1850 progressive
Republicans will leave their party to
vote for an Independent candidate
without state or county tickets behind
him, what might you expect of the
Progressive ticket next year with
solid ticket from top to bottom to sus-
tain it. 1t means $50, 900 of that vote
for the Progressives and at least IS
per cent. of the female vote of the
state added to it and that means sue
cess.
Says ProgreSsiveS Will Win.
with the record made by the DEM
ocrats in state and nation the past
beat them at the polls next year, har-
mony no harmony. The Progress
sives will win in Kansas at the next
election. They have the votes, the
principles, the organization and the en-
thusiasm.
The tariff bill is already beginning
to kick back. The beef tariffs alone
are beginning already to affect the live
stock industry in the state. Within
the past ten days live stock on the
western markets has deprecated from
so cents to 81 per hundred, live
weight. And the reasons for this de-
crease lie in the fact that already sew
eraI million pounds of dressed meats
have been unloaded at several of the
Atlantic Seaboard cities and trainload
after trainload of cattle have been
brought across the northern border
from Canada, all under the terms OF
the new Democratic tariff bill. And
the price of meat from the butcher to
the consumer remains the same. The
Progressive or Republican orators can
take this club alone and beat the Dem
ocrat candidate for congress to death
with it. Surely they can do so in ag-
ricultural Kansas.
Roasts State Administration.
I'm Kansas we will have plenty of Is
sues to beat the Democrats. Governor
but he has failed to make good his cam
paign promises. His promise to reduce
taxes and his failure to do SO will be hard
for him to explain, as he told the people
if they would elect him governor, he
would see to it that the taxes would De
reduced. Yet his legislature spent more
money than the StubbS legislature So
what will his explanation be? In making
his appointments it is true he was handi-
C4pped by having lot of the old moss
hackers over the state who had fought
for the ticket for the past twenty-five
years and they all wanted offices and he
remembered most of them. He has paid
no attention to civil service in the state
penal and charitable institutions. In fact
he has surrendered to the old time Demo-
crat politicians and t4.eir ways. and his
business administration talk did not eX-
tend beyond his campaign. The Demo-
cratic reastworks next year will be as
Iull of holes as a Swiss cheese and the
Progressives will go through them to GER
tain victory.
Arthur Capper ought to come out
square and say he will accept the nom1-
nation for governor on the PIogressiye
would be nominated without opposition
and he would be ele cd by a good ma
jority next fall. There is no question in
my mind but he was elected last year,
but next year he would have too big
majority. to deprive him of the OFFICE He
made a host of friends by the manly way
he took his medicine last fall. L believe
the Kansas voters would like another
chance 70 vote for him.