The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-16


on a partisan basis. William Allen
White in Emporia Gazette.
That was the meat of the EEporia
editors comment on the appointnIn{e:h nt
by the wage commission OF MISS
Lenna BreSette as secretary since
the appointment of Bristow, Mercer,
Tod, Jackson, keene and the saVlhS
called upor the PrOgre SsiveS to VII
ness that Governor Capper has risen
above political alienments, given the
ProgresSives the jobs and SHOWN MS
Independence
It was because of this condition
that a threat 20 resurrect the Repub-
Hcan lea que recently came from the
offices of j. S Dean and George A.
Clark The threat didn't land many
conservatives in office, but 1t resulted
in an upheavaI in the editorial trend
of the Capper publications that was
observed by every political reader III
Kansas Since that time the policy
of passing the patronage to the Pro
gressives has been UNCHANGED, but
old line Republicans rubbed their
hands iovouSly when they read Cap
per editorials pointing tC the admir- :
able traits of Senator Root the
learned remarks of Taft and the
shafts that were handed to Roose-
welt
Thus the plan of harmony has been
moulded in Kansas program that
gives to the ProgreSSiVeS the jobs ana
an editorial policy that is considerate
and at times almost kindly toward
conservative leaders. 1t isn't just the
sound, practical. consistent policy that
some of the leaders desired For the
conserva tives it doesn't mean JOBS
with which to oil the wheels of the
organization. For the Progressives It
doesn't exactly indicate fearless
deep rooted conviction behind the APP
pointments and a fighting spirit that
makes crusaders. But each faction in
turn is receiving something that can
be termed recognition and thus real
harmony is made pOssible-if not quite
certain.
May Have Had q Tip.
a few weeks ago George A Clark
remarked in an interview that Cover
nor Capper would soon appoint a real
conservat tive to some minor office and
point to his independence Possibly
Clark had an advance tip If not ne
was wizard in doping political flu
lures.
Only the other day the governor APP
pointed w. H. Haskell election COM
missioner in Kansas City. 1t was
urged that old line Republicans had
been recognized by appointment to Of
flee But it didn't fool the real OBJ
servers in the conservative camp They
knew that Haskell had been appoint
ed not as an act of independence, not
rs a recognition of the old crowd, not
from a desire to divide the patronage.
They knew that Haskell had been APP
10 MS CdnQlQaCy IOT
the wardenship of the state prison.
Thus Haskells local job is checked
against the wardenship saved for
Codding-an organizer of the Pro-
gressive party in Kansas A Hodges
appointee is pushed across the board
and Bristow who fought and bled for
the Progressives until the wind left
their sails, is given a $4,000 place. Joe
Mercer, a Progressive through two
state campaigns, goes back to the job
he left when Stubs left the governors
chair. Fred S. Jackson, who made a
crusade for the ProgreSSiVeS in 1912,
and defied the conservatives in the
party council. is returned to a public
job Tod, another of the Progress
sive type, was given a job, looked it
over, decided it was Improbable and
declined. Keene, who fought for all
of the reform measures on the Pro-
gressive program, is an attache of the
state administration. Miss Lenna
Bresette, Democrat, a Hodges ap-
pointee, a woman of unusual ability,
Is reappointed. And from Whites
typewriter comes the editorial that
Will cheer the disappointed conserva-
t1ves in every section of the state:
The truth is that few of Governor
Cappers appointments have been
political"