The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
Standpat Republican Warriors
Dig Up the Ratchet.
George A. Clark Endorses the
Position of j. s. Dean.
SAYS SOME THINGS HIMSELF
Ready to Take Trail in Pursuit
of Bull Moose.
Declares Republican League
Still i'm Working Order.

Should old-line Republicans of
Kansas deem wise the reorganization
of the Republican league of 1912,
such a move can and will be made.
That is the frank, flat statement to-
day of George A. Clark, secretary of
the league. Clark endorses the stand
of J. S. Dean, president of the league,
and declares he is willing to take any
action that reflects the position and
stand of the members of the league
of three years ago
To continue in his present course,
Governor Capper can but expect to
eliminate the oId-line Republicans of
the state, declares Clark, Not for one
minute, says the former secretary of
state, will the conservative Republic
ans stand Cor an abuse of their ma
tional leaders by the governors pub
locations. In his office in the New
England building today Clark stated
that he had hoped for more harmony
and love in Republican ranks in Kan
sas But now that the Capper publ
cations have taken their stand in OPP
position to the conservative national
leaders of the party, Clark is ready
and willing to open the books of the
league and resume business. He has
in his possession several hundred let
tiers from political workers, which he
declares will Justify further action I'M
less there IS a positive and definite
change of front.
Not What Was Expected.
az have read Mr.. Deans interview
and regret very much that conditions
politically are not what L have OK
pected,'' said Clark. Il had hoped
degree of fairness would be exhibited
and that the process of getting to-
gether would be accomplished Yet
Mr.. Dean reflects the views of thou
sands of Kansas Republicans who vot-
ed for Mr.. Capper in 1914. These
Republicans cannot understand why
Governor Capper almost daily attacks
some national Republican character
whose name is mentioned as possible
presidential candidate and in the same
editorial endorses men whose Repub-
Hcanism is at least questionable.
Does Governor Capper think he
can attack such Republicans as Taft,
Root, Burton, Mann and Fairbanks
this year and get the votes next year
of Kansas republicans who belive in
the same brand of Republicanism?
1.-The records made by the Repub-
lican Party League in the campaign
of 1912, with an enrolment of near
ly $4,000 will show that it was the old
soldiers, their sons and the men who
have voted the Republican ticket since
the organization of the party, swho
voted for Taft. These men believe
most thoroughly in the principles
of the party and it's record.
They have no use politically for
anyone who attempts, as the Bull
Moose party attempted in 1912, to de-
SIfOX [. IneSS are the men VINO Oc-
feated Mr.. Capper in 1912 and elected
him in 1914. If he is elected in 1916,
it will be by votes of these men.
Still Loyal Citizens.
cit is this class of Republicans that
Mr.. Capper's paper is denouncing al
most daily When he told these Re
publcans that he expected to remain
a Republican and publish Repub-
lican paper, they did not expect their
loyalty to the best interests of their
country and to the policies of the Re
publican party as exemplffied by Lin
coin, Grant, Mckinley and other great
leaders, would be questioned. Neither
did they expect the brand of Repub-
lcanism they believed in would be de-
nounced by the governors paper.
They are just loyal to decency and
love for what they think is for the
best interests of their country as any
man who may be tinctured with Bull
MooSeism OF so-called progressivism.
They are just as honest, just as clean,
just honorable in their business
transactions and in their politics as is
the man who is constantly rabble-
rousing about virtues he does not pos
sess-
Because an Office holder gets away
b.-dly is no reason for abuse in his
paper of the political principles of
those who helped elect him under
the promise that he would remain a
Republican and publish a Republican
paper
TeScnIeQ Dy MI. Lean IlnO themselves
in possession of a gold brick, may be
cause for reflection and censure one
of another. But we can console our
selves with the thought that it can't
be worse, may possibly get better, will
not occur again and all things are
righted in time.
Mr.. Dean is still president of the
league. If it lis his judgment that
headquarters shall again be opened, L
will not hesitate to join him in his
efforts for Repub1icanism and 1 am
confident from the tone of letters re-
ceived and views of Republicans with
whom 1 have talked, that will be just
about as busy as 1 was in LELAND
the result will be as satisfactory