Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-07
CAPPER FOR
GOVERNOR

II
| An ambition to serve my native
state as l believe the men and wo-
men who live in it would have it
served, prompts this announcement
of my candidacy for the Republican
| nomination for governor.
AS / see it, a somewhat herculean
task awaits the next governor OF Kan
sas if he lives up to his oath OF office,
one that is vital to the best interests
of the people of Kansas and the polit-
| ical progress of the state, matter
| in which all true Kansans are now in
terested as never before.
Its time to apply common business
sense to our public service. The
spoils system has already made two
men necessary to do one mans work
Wherever it exists it is steadily plllng
M the public debt as if there were
no such thing as reckoning day
The cost of government goes Tar De-
yond its benefits and is steadily IN
creasing, and while under our system
of taxation the burden is heaviest on
the man least able to bear it, real
merit system, a clean, sensible bust
/
the long list of expenditures which
make higher and higher taxes, Will
do more to bring efficiency out of
misrule in Kansas, and will do more
TO bring efficiency in Kansas, and
will do. more to give the people a
dollar-for- dollar value for their tax
money than all the political wind
tanning we have ever had in the
state.
| / believe thesgreat issue in Kansas
this yeav is-the removal of the evils
of the vicious spoils system from the
penal, reformatory, charitable and
educational institutions of this state
and the establishing of more
economical states business. The
states welfare and the peoples good
is the business of the state govern
ment, not the apportioning out OF
Jobs to pay political debts. To fill
these institutions with place-hunting
nolitical incompetents as rewards fol
campaign services is more than
betraval of public trust, it is crime
against humanity
} Our great need in Kansas at thi!
time is not more party politics, but ;
real merit system: not poor, veal
, pretense of law, but an honest &C
] so plain, so strong, that no partisan
+. official or political fixer, nor gang o
D fixers, will dare to evade it,
j / rejoice that in Kansas what
e called the progressive spirit is becom
e ing dominant in all the parties.
o find my own faith in it has grow
e stronger instead of diminishing
b that / have the keenest sympath
t and hope for the new movements c
r the time, which promise so niue
1 for the betterment, prosperity an
) happiness of struggling humanity.
q have faith that Kansas will contlnu
d to lead in studying and solving tn
d great social and economic question
: upon which all future progress rests
/ and it is only just to say that almos
every step in the great work OF mai
ing Kansas the strong, justice lovlDs
law-respecting, pre-eminently pre-
gressive commonwealth that 1T Ia
! been due to the intelligence, courae
:. ana progressiveness of the Reput
lican party as a party. / have been
Republican all my life and L sha
: continue a Republican in politics
!, faith because 1 believe that it is b
means of and through the Repubi
can party that the great problems
popular government; the problems
economic justice and social righteou
= ness and human happiness can
:, most surely, most sanely, most just
and most quickly and easily solved
- 1 am firmly convinced that the thir
party movement recently begun
| this state is serious mistake becaus
- it can accomplish nothing excel
possibly the perpetuation of DEM
o. cratic misrule in Kansas. Yet ii
L Republican party could not for or
N moment have my support did | M
y conscientiously believe that it wi
lie continue to be the same courageou
e straightforward, aggressive organic
IL tion as party of the people that fl
Or many years it has been in Kansa
&c and that it will go forward fully pr
pared to meet the greatest emergenc
to respond promptly to the will
the people, and do battle for tho
a. policies which will ultimately esta
NJ lish efficiency, honesty and righteou
ne ness in the administration of Il
state government.