The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21
Democrats Now Throwing
Down Newspaper Barrage.
Brand Political Stories in the
Governors Paper.
mud TACTICS" ARE CHARGED
Campaign Dope Seeks To Break
Up the BourbOns.
Denial That Appointments
Have All Gone to Party.

W. c. Lansdon, Democratic candi-
date for governor, took his place in
the front rank firing line of the Cap
per-Thompson fight today and laid
down a barrage that he believes will
give the Republicans chance to look
for new leaning post. Lansdon
opened up his big guns for the purpose
of labelling an article that appeared
in Governor Cappers paper Sunday
morning campaign lie"
The article in the morning paper
was carried under Kansas City date
line and represented Lansdon as pro-
testing that the state Democratic tick
ct is being neglected by the campaign
managers, who are accused OF deVot-
ing all Of their time and energies to
Senator Thompson's interests. In an
interview given out this afternoon
Lansdon said:
'Since the influenza epidemic has knock
ed out my speaking engagements, nave
been working in the Democratic headquar-
tiers here in Topeka assisting T haa n 1ne
been neglected in any way; Whoever wrote
that article did it fol- the sole purpose
ar ri1 from some senator THOMPSON eu and the
Democratic congressman. l denounce such
tactics AZ dirty campaign. The Democrats
are charged with dirt singing. The only
dirty material that we have sent out is
what has been clipped from Capper's pa
pers OF year and two years ago. we
anything that We have given to the voters
More "Nfud Tactics"
Managers of the Democratic head
quarters also branded as mud tao
tics'' an article in a Kansas City news
paper Sunday in which was stated
that the managers practically admit.
such an admission would be made is
simply too ridiculous to talk about,
they said, and that it was a fake"
story is shown by the fact that no
names were mentioned in the article.
Guy Taylor, of the pension depart
ment at Washington, who was in head
quarters today, also registered a pro-
test to a political story in Sunday
mornings Capital under Washington
date line in which it was asserted that
all OF the appointments of importance
are and have been going to the Demo-
Gratis.
1.-THE article looked like a Walter
johnson article with his name left OF, +"
Taylor said when complaint is made
important war appointments by the
administration, the kfckers seem to
forget that the biggest men in the Re-
publican party have been called upon
to serve the country.
Capper's War Record.
mo less a parsonage than William
Howard Taft, former president of the
United States, is chairman Of the war
labor board and also chairman of the
central committee of the Red Cross
war council. which latter place enti-
ties him to the rank OF major general
in the army. Then there is Charles E.
Hughes late Republican nominee for
president, and rs such titular head of
the Republican party, who has been
called into service to investigate the
airplane situation. And there is
Charles M. Schwab. director general Of
the Emergency Fleet corporation;
william Phillips of Massachusetts,, as
sistant secretary of state; Lester w.
Woolsey of New York. solicitor for the
department; and a number of other
Republicans who hold appointments
given them by the Democratic adj
ministration.
Even If the Wilson administration
had failed to appoint a single Repub-
1ican to an important post, the Re
publican leaders of Kansas would have
little grounds for complaint because
Governor Capper certainly has not
made any non-partisan record to
speak of in the war appointments he
has made in the state"