The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-21
Efforts to Eliminate ]. e. Brew
or Fell by Wayside.
Regular Republican in Race for
Lieutenant Governor.
Injurious to Bristow-Capper'
Morgan Movement.
Other Items of Interest to Poll
ticians in Kansas.

Efforts to force J. E. Brewer of
Abilene out Of the race for the Repup-
< 1ican nomination for lieutenant gov
ernor have failed. Tho former Dick
inson county senator has filed MS
nomination papers with the secretary
az state And thus the Bristow-Cap-
per-Morgan combination mas oeen at
least temporarily broken.
Brewers candidacy for lieutenant
governor was greeted by the harmony
promoters with the same W1!d entnus-
iasm that characterized the entrance
OF Charles Curtis IN the unlteo s.a.es
senatorial race after the get-together
workers had laid plans for the Brls.
tow-Capper deal and the breaking OF
the Progressive movement IN Kansas.
Brewer is a regular Republican OF the
most pronounced type. He was CLASH
fled as q member Of the senate
lodge" during the 1907 session OF the
legislature. He believes the Repunh-
can party represents much the same
principles it represented several year
or suffixes to his partisan CONVICTIONS.
He is cast in the same mould as the
men with whom Mr.. CapPer some
months ago said there could De no
harmony Yet withal. Prewer seems
rather proud of his old fashioned he
publican beliefs and his petitions from
40 counties rather indicate that he
isn't entirely alone.
just q Plain Republican.
st am lust q plain Republican," said
Rrewer after filing his nomination pa
pers. "And 1 propose to make the
race without the embarr assing neces-
sity that I am wearing the badge or
brand Of faction or crowo. II haS
never been necessary for me to explain
or diagram my Repubiicanism and
DON'T feel that I will need to do so
this year." .
That is Brewers platform-if he
really has a platform. His entrance
in the race against w. Y. Morgan OF
Hutchinson is regarded as a direct at
tempt to break the BristoW-Capper-
Morgan combination before the pri-
maries rather than at some later stage
of the game. When Brewer announced
his candidacy some weeks ago, 1t dio
not arouse the enthusiasm of the men
who have worked out the scheme Tor
harmony in Kansas. Their plan was
to offer only men who were one-half
ON whom the old crowd in the party
might compromise in the hopes OF
winning an election. Brewer was or
the old crowd in Kansas Republican,
ism. He was not Of the clay OF Whlcn
harmony bricks are made.
So the movement to induce Billy
Morgan of Hutchinson to run. was
launched Capper himself went to
Emporia and held long conference
with Morgan. little later Morgan
came to Topeka and talked to Capper
and state leaders. Then he announced
his candidacy. But that didn't stop
Brewer He had sent out his petitions
and they were being circulated in sew
en- Of the eight congressional districts
Of the state. Now they are filed and
Brewer is a candidate in the primaries.
All of the ten counties in the Fifth
district-Brewer's home--are repre-
districts, except the Eighth. are repre-
scented. One Montgomery
sent a petition signed entirely by wom-
en-. The petitions were Circulated by
. woman. May Christianson Of indie.
pendence, and Mrs. Thomas Wagstaff
and other well known Montgomery
county women signed the petition.
The thirty counties represented in
Brewers petitions are: Russell, Ellis.
Trego. Kingman. Ottawa. Cloud,
washington, Marion, Montgomery.
Usage, Phillips. Sherman. Riley, Dick
inson. Ellsworth. Lincoln. Cove.
Thomas; Osborne Allen. Saline. Mar
Progressives Fight for Sixth.
Miss Alice Carpenter. a national or
Ganizer for the Progressive party, has
closed a ten, days campaign trip
through the larger counties of the
Sixth district. In her campaign to or
Ganize the district for the Bull Moose
cause. Miss Carpenter was accompanied
by Mrs. Eva Merely Murphy of Good
land, Progressive candidate for con-
Gress against John r. Connelley, Dem
ocrat. Both of the women spoke at
the numerous public meetings held in
the belief that the third party would
poll vote in the district that would
surprise the old party leaders.
The entrance of Miss Carpenter in
the state is the first effort of the Pro-
gressives to organize the women for
the new party. Miss Carpenter lives
IN New York. She has been active in
many campaigns and her Sixth district
speeches hewed to the lines and prin-
ciples Of the Progressive party as set
forth in the Chicago platform of 1912.
She declared that both the Republican
and Democratic parties had outlived
their usefulness in Kansas and in the
nation and in true Rooseveltian Ian
tools of the trusts and special privi-
1eges and instruments of evil.
II don't say that I will win. although
am quite hopeful Of election" said
Mrs. Murphy after a recent meeting.
but do say that the Progressive vote
in the Sixth district will fool some
people-and 1t won't be the Progress
sives who will be fooled. either
Mrs. Murphy has stated that she will
visit all of the % counties in the big
Sixth district and expects to make sew
oral speeches in each county.
Price May Run.
II Is reported that 8. c. Price Of Hill
City, will be a Progressive candidate
for q place on the state irrigation
board. Price Is q Graham county law
yer and an able speaker. He has al
ready stated that he will make cam
paign speeches for the Progressive
party in the Sixth district this fall and
Il II now believed that he will be a can
didate on the Bull Moose state ticket
Dan Dyer IL a probable candidate for
the Republican nomination as q mem
Der Of tho irrigation board. He is
: widely known in the Sixth district and
10 q member Of the old crowd in Kan
cas- Republican circles. Until recently
Dyer was postmaster of Smith Center.
He gave way to q Democrat.
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