The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-20
WRITES GOVERNOR
p. T.. Zimmerman Asks His
Stand on NOn-Partisans.
He Says All Organizers Do Not
Take /. w. w. Oath.

Those league organizers who are
not :. w. VS. but who are merely
Red-card Socialists, quite naturally
have not taken the I. w. W. oath,
and far be it from me to say any
thing more to their discredit than
that they are organizers for the Nom
Partisan. league This is the state
ment of P. E. Zimmerman. leader of
the Kansas fight against the acquisf-
ton of political power by the Nom
Partisan league, in a letter to the
editor of the State Journal asserting
that he never said in any speech that
''all Non-Partisan league organizers
ere required to take the I. w. W.
OATH III
In bis letter to the State Journal,
Zimmerman states that he fully APP
preeiates the difficulty of differenti-
ating between the l. W. W. and the
both are so closely associated under
the banner of the Hun-Partisan
league"
At the sa4ne time this letter was
written to the State Journal thinner
man wrote a letter to Governor Ar
thur Capper asking just what stand
Capper was taking to suppress the
Non-Partisan league and inauiring as
to whether Capper had gone into the
investigation of the league as re-
quested by the government. thinner
man offered to lay at the disposal of
at his command for the purpose of
the investigation. The letter to Cap
per is dated March IS, 1918, and is
addressed to Governor Arthur Cap
per- The letter says:
Letter to Capper.
Gov. Arthur Capper, Topeka, Kansas.
For the past three years, the writer has
figuratisely been voice a crying fte In the re
lar Kansas into full realization of the
character Of a most un-American propa,
ganda that is now doing business ana
fiourishing in practically every part OF TINS
state And it is only within the past few
months that my most intimate mat 1rlehos
Today, the leading public men ana pup
fishers are begging me for the informa-
ton they once spurned, and l am fairly
showed Under with invitations to, speak on
the subject to assemblages, patriotic ana
otherwise
nv request for a summers leave of absence
in order that l may put in all or my time
until the fall election warning the farmers
of Kansas as to the insfdious character of
the so-calIed Non-Partisan league. and l
propose to go into practically every county
in the state on such mission
With me, it is purely a labor of love, or
patriotism and for that reason l feel en-
titled to the active and aggressive SUPPORT n
publisher in Kansas for the work am
doing will rebound to the benefit or every
patriotic citizen. candidate and publisher
in the state. An transversely. it Will make
untenab1e, the position of any candidate or
publisher who is unpatriotic, or VINO
will stoop so low as to accept iownle ay
favor or who even gives Townleyism aid
or comfort thru silent assent:
An almost unanimous majority of the
public men of Kansas are already lined up
on the patriotic side of this question and
only two Kansas papers tone is the Appeal
to Reason) have taken the downward step;
There is no neutrality. Are you with us +.
Are your publications with US? VIII you
Join US wide open?" Your reply is await
ed with keen anticipation. Very truly yours,
p f. ZIMMERMAN.