Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-17
NEWSPAPER MEN ARE POPULAR IN
 STATE OF KANSAS
Tanner Goes to U. $. Senate from Kansas-Allen
 Is Governor.

Tokepa, Kan, Nov. 16.--The cleo ,;on of Governor Arthur Capper tc thu ,o, Tinted States Senate and Henry T Allen to the chair of governor con- .;nues the long succession of news. raner men to the highest offices with f ;n the gift of the people of the state of Kansas. Both these men have folowed the newspaper business eX- aIuevely and each has achieved shc. cpss building up their present new > naner plants from concerns of ve. y modest proportions at the time they acquired them.
 Goyernor Capper's publication plant ,s one of the largest in the west, his npvspaper, the Topeka Daily Capital heing only one of eight publications he nuts out, the balance being most g farm periodicals generally circui- ated in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Bach of these publi- cations was built up under Governor capper's ownership.
 Not until 1911 did Governor Cap par get tactively into politics. In that year he became a candidate for governor, but was defeated for the nomination. Four years later, how ever, he landed both the nomination. and the office and is now completing ! his second term as the states chief ] executive.
 Governor Capper was born at Gar l T,,1xy i hn / of MT. and Mrs. Herbert Capper. He spent his boyhood in Garnett, gradu- ating at the Garnett high school. Fol lowing his schooling, he immediately took up the printers trade at the age of IS, as compositor in the Tope | ka Daily Capital The ordinary prin- ter acquainted with the first duties of boy in a printing office thus re- cognizes the fact that the newly elected Kansas senator began his business career in the humble capa city of 'printer's devil" After learn ing the printers trade, MT. Capper took up the editorial side of the busi- ness, first as reporter, next as city editor, Washington correspondent and in 1892 only eight years after he bacame an employe of the Capi hl he became it's proprietor. His various other publications have been added one at a time, since.
 Governor Capper married Florence Crawford of Topeka, on December 1, 1892. The governors residence on Topeka Avenue and his newspaper plant are among the finest buildings m the city. The governor is dl- reetor in the Farmers National Bank and the Prudential Trust Company. Ooth Of this city. He has served as president of the board of regents of lne State Agricultural College and of !ne Kansas Good Roads Association; member of the State Historical Poclety, the Elks, Odd Fellows. Mod efn Woodmen. and of the Topeka country Club and Chamber of Com merce.
 Henry Justin Allen, editor of the nlchlta Beacon, has been known in aansas newspaper circles for more nan twenty years. His newspaper sleer began as editor of the Man a''an Nationalist in 1894. Prior to aoVlng to Wichita, where he bought ap ae afternoon paper, the Beacon. Mr. ellen was editor of a number of ansas newspapers, including the alowa Herald. The Beacon pros sied under Mir. Aliens management au ne built a ten story building for s newspaper home. the greater DOT Un Of 1t, of course, being rented foc general offices.
 MT. Allen was born in Warren vunty, Pa., September 12, 1868. He aS educated at Washburn College, OpeKa, and at Baker University, .auwin' from which he has receiv- .ne honorary degree of Master of '": lie married Elsie J. Nauzman.
 0'.cievllle, Kans., October 19, 1893
 a. Alleh was secretary of the late V,s.aor "s., Stanley during his tenure
 O,,lce and during the existence of
 u.. .iosresslve party in Kansas MT. ts.a ea became one of it's leaders Ste and national
 ,a A.leii IS now on his second war a'e ran. mission in France. He first " uA, u,t taere in 1917 with William AL I ,,,.t Mnite of Emporia on a Red Cross l1laa l1Iles.on, and again this year Mr. hs returned and Organized for
 american Red Cross in France
 q, Ao,ile s: service branch, of which he
 us alfector. Later at his request s,v,s sas transferred to the Y. M. c. A
 s sss, e which have kept him near
 ro.n .n'snting front among the Am
 scn1;, saH soldiers much of the time. A
 aisnS isr feature of MT. Aliens "cam.
 be sa was that he was absent from es.on s,ate t. throughout the campaign
 eYa ao "1 both primary and genera
 @ na'n During the entire perioc
 ads ds''aer ; wrote political letter ol
 lsct;o'aa sH a political speech urging his
 Hs oa a TOT the office of governor.
 or nos. sapects to return home the lat
 p'f' or this month.
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