The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-12
PRAISES GOVERNOR ALLEN
But Chicago Tribune EditorialIy
Flags Senator Capper.

Praising Governor Allen and criti-
cising most severely Senator Capper.
the Chicago Tribune in an editorial
declares Kansas shares heavily in the
resp onsinlilty for war scandals" The
Trtbune's condemnation of Kansas
public men is directed against Senator
Capper, Congressman Anthony and
others who failed to take a firm stand
on the war issue in 1916.
"Capper's course, corrupting the
common sense of the people of Kan
sas, helped to keep Hughes from the
presidency, but it put Capper in the
senate" says the Tribune. Governor
Allen is presented as the reverse of
the Capper type. In it's editorial, the
Tribune said:
THE CASE OF KANSAS.
Gov. Allen of Kansas, speaking in Lans-
lures during and after the war repre-
sented q carnival of extravaganza which
was accompanied by no honest effort TO
obtain for the government an honest re-
turn"
He spoke of the expenditures on south
ern ports and rivers which ships could not
which no nitrate was obtained, on tanks
which did not reach Europe, etc. He
criticized President Wilson for going to
Europe and for the oriental encourage and
glories of the going
We agree that his indictments were true
bilis-6ut the grand jury should not come
the nation when the issue was: Shall this
nation say it is not afraid to fight for its
successfully? Kansas and California-twc
states successfully and heavily carried by
Republicans on local issues and sur.
war" and to I'VE won't fight or prepare
to fight
Kansas was under the influence of such
men as Capper, Anthony, etc, pacifists
politicians and Journalists. Cappers
course, corrupting the common sense Of the
people of Kansas, helped to keep Hughes
from the presidency, but it put Capper in
the senate.
When the United States had a chance to
declare by an election that it was not
afraid and that it would be ready, it was
made TO seem timid and afraid in the eyes
OF Europe and it took again the govern
ment which kept it weak.
Gov. Allen knows, and Kansas should be
made to know, that if q nation makes no
preparation until 1T has declared war ii
must waste money.
There is no alternative. 1t must waste
money and it must sacrifice lives. When
Kansas declared in 1916 for Wilson. pacif-
proud to fight, it declared for the most
wastefu1 kind of war.
II the administration. beginning in April
1917. had pursued the wisest most eco.
nomical, thoroly patriotic policies possible
to men, there would have been, considering
its previous record, inevitable waste Of
millions of money and thousands of lives
1t was too late then to avoid 1t.
Naturally, money went into southern
pork barrels Is this Mr. Anen's first &C
| quaintance with the political tendencies Of
the Democratic party? OF course the tank.
| did not get to Europe.
1t is matter of history that Kansas
/ troops in the Argonne suffered more ter
| ribly than any others because they wer,
| inefficiently led and incompletely trained
| 1t was all part of the unprepaednes,
which Kansas supported.
Kansas shares heavily in the responsi
| biity for war scandals
Gov. Allen himself is the reverse of tn,
/ Capper type. We hope he converts hi,
own state. so that it does not vote another
! pacifist and internationalist into tn,
presidency and the nationa unprcparet
/ into another war.