The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-03
CURRENT COMMENT.


ital had an interview in the New
York Tribune of Sunday which has !
some good horse sense in it.
The State Journal accordingly, for |
the benefit of it's many readers in To- /
peka and Kansas, takes pleasure in /
reproducing on another page of this
issue part of the interview in ques-
ton.
For instance: Governor" Capper. |
as we propose to call him until after
he is sworn in as senator. which may
be tomorrow, said:
1.-The buffeting the league of ma
thing for President Wilson; n good
thing for the advocates at the Paris
conference of the plan for a COM
pact between the great nations that
shall make future great wars impos-
sible.'
Will the Republican senators Borah
and Poindexter please put that in
their pipes and smoke it. the filling
being furnished by the Republican
senator-elect Arthur Capper of Kan
sas? Does Arthur really mean it will
| be a good thing for the president?
He endorses Taft's plan and Taft en-
dorses Wilson's fundamentals.
/ He continues: 1.-The Republicans
during the last two years have been
led by Theodore Roosevelt because
| Roosevelt was right. Had he lived no
| other name would have been suggest
ed for president by Republicans. His
life and views abides with us. We
must go forward all the time-not too
fast so to trip and faIl-but for
ward. that was Roosevelt's way"
T. r. was for the league of ma
tions and so expressed himself in his
last editorial utterances.
Those expressions from my es-
teemed Topeka contemporary are
after my own heart. We don't always
agree with Arthur Capper and his
/ Topeka Capital. but we do agree with
him upon many things. These are
matters we both believe are for the
good of the country, for the good of
the state and for the good of Topeka.
Here is another thing we agree
with Arthur Capper on and which is
to be found in his interview in the
New York Tribune:
/ Neither Townleyism, I. w. w'ism
or Bolshevism is taking root in Kan
sas"
= All. there, Governor Capper. Town
leyism is taking root in Kansas. at
least in one spot in Kansas, in the
Chamber of Commerce of the city of
4 Topeka. A man named Stevic of the
Topeka Chamber of Commerce is a
| n LET 1Nir
Townleys Nonpartisan league. Ste
vic's associates in printing the alleged
organ of union labor of Topeka are a
man named Trap, a director of the
Chamber of Commerce. and another
man named Brown. who wanted to
run for mayor of Topeka, but the bet
ter element of the union labor men
would not stand for him and don't
stand for him.
These men do not represent the la
Dor union strength in Topeka but
they pretend to.
People who read the two papers
, printed by these three men say that
+ either one or both of them are poi
. soning the minds of Topeka people
> against the construction of the new
"
and are scattering this poison by clip
pings from these papers sent to
Marysville, Kan, and probably to
other points where there are subscrib-
, ers to the North American hotel stock.
When will the Chamber of Commerce
, cleanse its club, devote itself to con-
structive work instead of destructive
! and when will it stop it's prominent
members, or at least one of its direc-
tors. from scattering vile language
over Topeka and Kansas about repu-
= table Topeka people and Topeka
, projects?
VIII the reader who is in doubt
about the people of this country being
favorable to the league of nations ad-
vocated by former President Taft and
President Wilson learn that Borah
y and Poindexter, Republican senator's
and Reed. Democratic senator, do not
. now voice the sentiment of this coun-
{ try? Will the reader please notice
in another column the news story
l. that 100000 tickets have been asked
: for. for admission to the Wilson-Taft
Il meeting in New York Tuesday night
in the great Metropolitan opera
: house. which. however. can admit
} only 5000 of the 100000? Read the
: State Journal for full reports of this
important meeting.
) There IS one thing we cannot quite
IS understand about Arthur Capper; he
n permits his newspaper to print adver-
= tisements about the stock of a second
n ten-story hotel here when the hote
IS company has not even secured the
q right to sell any stock, because the
l. blue sky board believed that having
y granted the right to sell stock to tbs