The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-12
Writer Complains of Editorials
in the Capper Papers.
Nine OF THEM CRITICISE ROOT
Not One in Defense of Repub-
licanism, He Says.
They TEEN With the Advocacy
OF PerniciOuS Doctrines.

brand OF party patriotism CiSpla yed by
the state executive warranted the sus-
picion and distrust of the Republican
voters Deans statement is in direct
reply to Governor Capper's answer to
the original Dean-Clark charges that
the governors Republicanism needed
read justing-
Answering the governors state
ment, Dean declares that a series OF
nine editorials recently appeared in
the Capper publications criticisinS
Senator Root and other national lead
ers- Not one of the various Capper
publications has. within the last six
months offered a single vigorous de-
Tense of any Republican measure nor
for the Republican party" complains
Dean
Replying to the Capper statement,
Dean says
Deans Reply.
Governor Capper's interview pub
Hshed in the State Journal bears on
its face unmistakabIe evidence of
having been written by the same hand
that wrote the socialistic and anti
Republican editorials which have so
exasperated the Republicans of the
state The author of this interview
shows no disposition to offend the
socialists, anarchists, and the I'M
classified enemies of good govern
meut, generally, by denying the
charges contained in my interview to
tons constantly TEEN with editorial
advocacy of the pernicious doctrines
of these malcontents- An adrOit at
tempt is made, however. TO evade the
issue by assuming that 1 had taken
OffenSe at the exercise of the IN
doubted privilege which belongs to
every partisan newspaper. of discuss
ing beforehand the merits of the pro-
posed party candidates. and of regis
tering such criticisms as seem reason
able and just
I regard it not only as the privilege.
but as the duty. of a high class news
paper TO pursue such policy No
Republican would take offense at his
party organ for any such reason Our
grievance is that Mr.. Capper is not
publishing a Republican newspaper.
but on the contrary, Is publishing
paper, scarcely a lap behind the APP
peal to Reason, in the advocacy of So
ciaIism and the whole calanitous
propaganda of unrest and revolution
The preconvention CRITICISMS to
which Mr. Capper refers in his inter-
view. are in reality thinly disguised
attacks upon Republican principles
and history. For instance, in one of
the nine vicious editorial assaults on
Senator Root made within the last
few months. reference is made to the
time when Mckinley reigued and
Hanna ruled Senator Root is prob
ably the greatest living advocate of
epubIicanisTn- The great men of all
parties cneerfu1Iy concede his intel
IectuaI superiority, the purity of bis
personal character. and his unim-
peachabIe patriotism As a cabinet
member and United States senator, he
has been a commanding figure in the
last three Republican administrations
In another editorial, the Capital
quotes apprOvingly, the following
He (Root) is the guide and philOso-
pher of the resurrecred but not regen-
Grated Republican party
Republican Leaders Denounced
I might go on indefinitely citing
similar extracts from the columns OF
the Capital, but the foregoing are suf-
ficient to illustrate the deep seated
antagonisn not only against the Re
publican leaders but against the par
ty itself
In the columns of the Capital dur
ing the last few weeks. Senator Root
Senator Weeks, ex-Vice President
Fair banks, and many other great Re
publican leaders, have been denounc-
ed as the tools of Wall street inter
interests" and who Will If chosen do
their masters bidding" Mythical
meetings of leading Republicans have
been announced and described as con
ferences of reacuonary Republican
leaders" All thorough going Rcpub-
leans have been denounced over and
over again as .-reactionary," a word
coined by the enemies OF the Repu bill
can party and USED only Dy those VINO
consider the worn out political
theories of the middle ages as prefer
q bic to the invioIabIe principles of self
government expressed in our national
constitution In fact, all the old pop
uIiStic and sOcialiStic vocabulary of
vituperation and abuse is brought into
action with the deliberate design of
destroying the confidence of the peO-
pie in the integrity and patriotism of
the Republican party and its leaders.
II is the same line of vilIainous SLAM
der employed by Stubs and others of
his kind in their efforts 10 do the par
~ as much injury as possible before
they deserted it
II will do Mr. Capper no good to as
Sert that he is Republican and in
tends to remain a Republican. SO long
tic and revolutionary poison through
the columns of his newspapers and
continues TO scott at the history,
achievements and leadership of the
PARTY No Republican would refer TO
the splendid administration OF Presi-
dent Mckinley as the time when Nc
KinIey reigned and Hanna ruled No
to the great Republican party of today
as the -'resurrected but not regener-
ate Repu bIican party"
II Mr. Capper believes that the lead
ers OF the party are mere tools of
Wall street interests. and that II elect
ed they will serve their master rather
than the best interests of the republic
alton is made every Republican
should forget his anti-convention pre-
ference and give loyal support to the
nominee That is what the Capital
Will do. and what I intend to do
Does Mr.. Capper intend 10 support q