The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-26
Harvard Professor Comes Out
for Kansas Governor.
Refers to Him as The "MOst
TypicaHy American
KNOWS THE LABOR SITUATION
And He Comes From Most In
telligent, Progressive State.
Allen Took Massachusetts by
Storm in Coolidge Campaign.

Especial to The State JVurnaiJ
Cambridge. Mass, Feb. a6.-Prof
Thomas Nixon Carver. professor of
political economy at Harvard. today
in an interview declared for Governor
Henry J. Allen of Kansas for the next
president of the United States Pro-
fessor Carver classes Governor Allen
as the one man in public service with
out personal endeavor and manipula-
tion. and who has a true grasp of the
labor situation as well as a clear
headed vision of the purpose of Amer
lean government. He refers to KAN
sas as most typically American"
Governor Allen won much popular
ity in Massachusetts last fall when
he delivered a number of speeches for
Governor Coolidge in his campaign for
reelection. Not until after the Kan
sas governor returned to his home
state, tho, and actively and personally
took over the operation of the coal
, mines, did the down east vision in
clude Governor Allen among the list
of national possibilities. His calling
of a special session of the state legis-
lature, tho and passage OF the indus
, trial court enactment attracted nation
wide interest. Now Professor Carver
urged that the Kansas governor be
advanced to the presidency because of
his record and freedom OF compromise
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France safe from political influence.
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Governor Allen is the only officer
in the United States to be elected to
an important public office without
having sought it, Professor Carver
said in defining his support of the
Kansas executive "HefWas nominated
/ the Red Cross and did not lift a fin
ger to secure the nomination or cleo
ton.
But more important than that"
continued Professor Carver. sis the
/ fact that he is the only man in public
1 life who has shown a real grasp of the
labor situation. He alone has had the
courage to handle 1t In constructive
way. Governor Allen comes from the
most typically American state. the
/ most intelligent on the whole-and
/ the most progressive.
! He represents the central corps of
! Americanism, which being inter-
! preted means the belief in the ability
of the yerage man to look after him
J self. distrust of the power of the
mob. whether organized or not. a
/ profound belief in representative gov
ernment and willingness to support
| it with all ones power and resources.
! At the same time he has a belief that
+ the government should know its place
and keep il.
More than anything else Ameri-
, canism means a belief in the geo.
graphical state without class con-
, sciousness or antagonism within the
state. 1t means allegiance to this
geogra phical group rather than to
any class group whether religious, oc-
! cupation. radical or linguistic.
'It is that robust self reliant and
energetic but neighboriy attitude that
regards all huma nifty within reach as
neighbors and fellow citizens. which
in the ain desires to be let alone, and
whose neighborliness consists In the
Willingness to let us neighbors alone.
except in a time Of need. The great
agricultural population of the middle
west are the great exponents of this
I America nism. American traditions
. and ideals are today the dominant
, elements in their citizenship. If the
country is to be saved from the gem
eral Generalization of the present day,
it will be saved by this popuiation
and not by the urban population with
their narrow class consciousness and
antognism. their splenitic attitude
and petty quarrels. And there is no
man who so completely embodies this
broad and constructive spirit of ma
tionalism as Governor Allen"
Many newspapers are now out in the
open fighting for the nomination of
Governor Allen for the presidency.
The state publishers have generally
endorsed his labor court bill and his
course in the coal strike. Many pa
pers are now carrying display lines
across the top Of their parlor pages
announcing their slogan Governor
Allen of Kansas for President" The
interview of Professor Carver Is only
another testimonial from the east as
to the interest in neighboring states
and their views of the Kansas execu-
tive. Kansas will send an uninstruct-
ed delegation to Chicago-twenty men
who will work and fight and stay
awake nights for the nomination Of
Allen. For in Kansas. as thruout the
nation. there is a belief that the next
PRESIDENTIAL nominee will be chosen in
Chicago-not in state and district con-
ventions and by dope makers.