The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-21
WILL FIGHT FOR IT
Kansas Progressive Republic
ans Want Recognition.
If They Don't Land Big Places
They'll Declare War.
WHITE OUTLINING CAMPAIGN
Looks Like Stubs Again for
United States Senator.
IS Arthur and Joe Do Not Have
Spirit" He Says.

Kansas progressive Republicans will
win the big places on the Republican
ticket next year or fight. That is the
ultimatum of William Allen White OF
Emporia, former Progressive National
committeeman for this state.
Whites clear cut statement of the
future in Kansas politics spells trou-
BILE. He declares the men who went
with the Progressives are coming back
to control the party or to fight. He
makes it clear, too, that the former
Progressives prefer to fight. In a
forecast which he has made for the
future, White predicts that just one
Republican of absolute progressive
leaning will be a candidate for each
job. White does not include the SEN
atorial fight in his reckoning he as
serts that Governor Capper and j.
L. Bristow have their eyes glued on
offices and have forsaken the crusade.
In his office in Emporia, White is
outlining a campaign program for the
Progressives of yesterday. If his pro-
gram is adopted, the old crowd in the
party can step aside or prepare for
not recognized, White asserts, there
will be merry trouble in the Novem-
Der 1918 election.
They're Ready For Fight.
.'You can set this down for a fact,
White told a visitor to his office
There will be just one progressive
candidate for governor and one fol
congress in each district. By one,
mean one. No more. No less. They
will be men of true progressive type
as the line was drawn in 1912. They
will be men who are not married tC
lobs and if progressives don't win
there will be a fight in November that
I will Il 1an
know most of the old progressives
would rather fight than eat or hold
jobs"
''Will Stubs be in the race for the
United States senate?' White was
asked.
II don't know. but it looks much
like it, said the Emporian. You
can bet on one thing, though. There
will be a real true progressive of the
1912 stripe in that race-and only
one"
Then White said a strange and pc
culiar thing. Whether it was an in
timation or an indication that the
progressives of the state feel that Cap
per and Bristow are no longer of their
crowd. is matter that must be de-
termined by future events
by saying there will be just one
progressive in the race" said White
Il don't pretend to speak for Arthur
or Joe. They do not have the spirit
They are looking to jobs and we don't
pretend to control their course
just "One'' for Governor.
"One thing is sure. tho-and you
can put this down for a fact-there
will be just one real progressive ir
the fight for governor, for congress
in each district and for every state
office. And I mean just one. There
won't be any jockeying back and forth
There won't be any wnip-sawing Il
We don't win, there VIII be a merry
time in November. and you know
! how dearly the prosressives of the
| true stripe love trouble"
| White is not going to st. Louis t.
attend the Progressive national con
ference. Just now the Emporia war
fior is listed as one of I'VE Republi
cans" and he is carrying a scalpins
| knife in each hand. Yet it is a wait
/ ing game White is playing. He die
not come to Topeka during the Iegis
| lature, has not attended a legisla tiv,
| session since his grilling ct the hands
| of the senate during the Leahy in
vestigation of 1911. But White i
marking time, he declared, and Their,
are strange, mysterious spots on tn,
! moon