The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-08

Old Time Enemies Are Friends
This Year.
MURDOCH. ALLEN AND BRISTOVv
Years of Rivalry and Hatred
Into the Melting Pot.
Bull Moose Has Enlisted Signs
of Mystery.

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Politics has often developed some
strange conditions and situations, but
the manner in which candidates Will pe
opposed to each other in the coming
far as Kansas political affairs are con-
cerned. Some Of the bosom friends OF
yesterday are 20 pose in the political
limelight as most bitter enemies, while
men who have for years displayed po-
litical enmity and hatred toward eacn
other are suddenly to become boon
companions and most intimate asso-
ciates.
1t IL often thus In a political cam
paign. But in the 1914 campaign In
Kansas-so far as the Republican and
Progressive parties are concerned at
least-the old adage that politics
makes strange bed-fellows" will be-
come q settled fact.
Take the case OF Bristow and Allen
For years they were business asso-
ciates in Ottawa before the senior SEN
ator went to Salina and Allen moved to
Wichita The men have for years been
most intimate friends and the night was
never too dark nor the weather too
cold for either to hasten to the others
aid and assistance. But now. look at
It. Allen is sticking to the last REM
nants Of the Bull Moose cause and may
become it's candidate for governor.
Bristow has deserted the cause and
slipped back into the Republican party
just before curfew rang. And now the
two men on opposite sides of the fence
are making faces at each other.
Then there is the case of Allen and
Observation-Disclosures rivals in Wichita.
They have said mean things about
each other and used up all the choice
words in the dictionary to express their
sentiments. Once M1rdock's paper car
tooned Allen as a jackal-hyena digging
open the graves of Wichita ceme-
terry for carrion. Now look at them.
They are he leaders OF the Bull Moose
cause in Kansas and in a speech in
Kansas City the other night, Murdock
smiled and bowed and scraped and
told the Second district Progressives
that there was no more able guberna-
torial standard bearer than his old en-
emy and rival, Henry J. Allen.
Case OF Capper.
The strange case of Arthur Capper is
also mentioned in connection with the
new alignment. Since the day that
Walter Roscoe Stubbs entered the pO-
litical game, Capper's publications have
been the Stubbs mouthpiece. They
have fallen in behind William Allen
White and reprinted most Of his edi-
torials and when the Stubbs-White
coWbination wanted to turn the Repub-
ncan party over to Roosevelt and the
Progressives in 1912. Capper seconded
the motion. That was one of the rea-
sons-the principal reason-that Capper
went down with the Bull Moose ship in
the election. Since that time Capper
has done much thinking on his own ac-
count. He has concluded that he will
travel awhile with his old friends and
now they are making faces at each
other. White and Stubbs have sorrow-
fully said goodbye to the Topeka pub
Usher by throwing q brick at him and
Capper has retaliated by printing Bull
Moose news ninth page, next Lydia
Pinkham advertising.
Return Of Bristow.
There is also the return of Bristow to
the Republican fold-Bristow, who wan
dered ava, from the regular Repub-
lican organization when it needed his
assistance. Now, should Bristow be
nominated in the Republican primaries,
he will be the standard bearer of Ches-
the nomination in 1908, and his cause
will be championed by Senator Charles
Curtis s-perhape-and by Dave Mulvane
and Mort Albaugh and George Clark
and ]. 8. Dean. And Bristow's friends
from the day he entered politics-White,
Stubbs. Murdock and Allen-will be
throwing cobble stones at the harmon
ICED progressive Republican candidate.
And that IL one of the features OF the
highly entertaining campaign which il
to be staged in Kansas this year.
Parrot Is Boosted.
Fred PARROT Of Clay Center is the
probable successor to Charles Kagey
Of Beloit as president of the Kansas
Day club at its election of officers in
Topeka, January 20. Parrot Is q pro-
gressive Republican and has for a
number Of years been active in Fifth
district fht0 fiUn0 PQFPnff
is the only probable candidate in the
race and it is likely that he will be
elected without opposition.
Would Nominate C0dding.
Hoping to lead a few more Pro-
gressives back into the Republican
fold, q boom has been started for ].
<. Coddins for attorney general E.
sponsible for the Codding boomlet. For
some time 1t has been rumored that
Codding was feeling his way back to
the Republican party. He forgot the
date Of the Bull Moose meeting in
Topeka recently and 1t IL claimed that
the former penitentiary warden has
severed his political relations. with
Stubbs- te-Bristow and Allen.
Might Nominate Miller.
Republicans in the Fifth district are
boosting A. Q. Miller, editor Of the
Belleville Telescope, a. ~ candidate
4 for state printer to succeed w. c. Aus
| tin. Miller IL one Of the old line Re-
was an ardent and enthusiastic Taft
| supporter in the 1912 campaign and
| is one of the most widely known pub
| fishers in the district. While Miller
has not admitted that Ne will enter the
race, he has been strongly. boosted