The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-30
HENRY ]. ALLEN

peal for Red Cross subscriptions,
speaking day and night III Kansas
communities. During the next few
months his time as a speaker will be
given to the national defense council
and he will visit many states. He has
already made one eastern trip in the
campaign to arouse the nation as to
the serious side of the war. 1t is the
war problem, not state politics, which
is right now close to the heart of the
widely known kansan.
Aliens Statement
Il am too busy to run for governor
this year, but 1 shall be a candidate
for the Republican nomination next
year" Allen said in Topeka today.
1T strikes me-" said he, that with
the nation marsha1ling every depart
ment of activity for the mighty con-
test in which we are involved. the next
twelve months will be full of useful
work for every man who has any ca
pacity for service.
The campaign year from next fall
will appeal to Kansans as the most
important in our history. The part of
Kansas in the war will be a potential
one AS the center of great produc-
ing territory, we shall be busy with an
intensified program. AS the contrib
utor of several thousand men from
the best manhood of our state, We
sacrifice We shall be called upon
many times to prove our worthtness as
a state of the leadership we have
claimed for ourselves in the nation.
aside from the question of the
states activities in the war, there is
the subject of our internal govern
ment: the demand upon US for bust
nesslike economy producing system
during the days of war taxes will be
very great. The reconstructive days
that follow the war will make lmpcs-
sib1e the continuation of the present
haphazard, happy-go-1ucky procedure
which we have called government IN
the past The war and its conse-
quences will bring us to severAr
scrutiny of waste in taxes and more
hel &c determination to correct this
than we have had in the days of our
long peace in a calm world.
ReorganiZe Government.
II have been urging for several
years that Kansas should re-organize
her government from the township
and county units to the top; that we
should establish for every unit of
government in Kansas, the same set
of businesslike principles that govern
US in the management of commercial
enterprise. No state in the Union is
capable of responding so readily to
modern system as is Kansas, and we
ought to present to the nation a model
of businesslike capacity for govern
ment."
THE months of trial that are to
come will emphasize this need and
out of the more sober days there will
emerge new eagernesS to do our
part; a new desire to take our Kan
sas political system seriously. 1 have
preached much about this and I
should like to be in a position to help
put in practice the modern system we
have needed for many years and
which will be imperatively demanded
in the days that now challenge u.s.
Ran as Progressive.
For many years Henry J. Allen has
been regarded as one of the most able
speakers in the west He was former
Iy a member of the old state board of
charities, and later state printer. In
wing of the party In its support of
Theodore Roosevelt. Following per-
sistent urging by the strong men of
the Progressive party, Allen accepted
the third party nomination for COVER
nor in 1914. In that election Allen
ran far ahead of his ticket.
A year ago when Roosevelt refused
the Progressive nomination and
Charles e. Hughes was nominated by
the Republican convention in Chi
cago, Allen promptly and firmly en-
tered the fight for the election of
Hughes. He entered the fight for
the Republican ticket in the state and
nation and spent several months on
the stump in the interests of the
party.
He is the editor and principal own
er of the Wichita Daily Beacon.