The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
In State Politics
ALLEN NEXT COAT
Belief in Kansas Politics That
Governor Is Doomed"
When VIII He Be "ThroMn"
by X. C. Star Is Question.
MISSOURI PAPERS RECORD
One FavOrite After Another
Has Gone to Scrap Heap.
Capper, Last Created God in
Wilderness Is ~ROlIed.o
MISSOURI PAPERS RECORD
BY A. L. sHULTZ.


Viewing Kansas politics from the
available records of the last twenty
years, there is this week a tendency
TO inquire as to just when the Kansas
City Star may be expected to roll"
Governor Henry ]. Allen. This inter-
est is aroused by virtue of the spec
tacle of the Stars present effort TO de-
stFoy the last of its gods erected in
the wilderness-Senator Arthur Cap
per. That Governor Allen is due to
get his" is established by the po-
littcal dope sheet, which shows that
in twenty years the Star has not re-
NAMED true to one man prominent in
state affairs.
For two decades Kansas has seen
the Star stamp its trade mark all over
state administrations-only to cater
seek to destroy the men who had
bowed to the will OF the Missouri pub
LEGATION. In its effort to give to Kan
sas the same beautiful simon pure
public service that had characterized
municipal government in Kansas City.
the Star has driven its imprint into
the personal platforms and policies of
seekers OF public office. Always there
has been one result-abandonmen
leading to open hostility.
From the days of the famous STAN
ley-Long senatorial fight to the pres
ent time the Star has seemingly played
true to form. 1t has supported a
score of prominent Kansans for high
place, but always it has deserted them
when these men refused to do its bid
ding. Now there is a growing suspi-
cion that out of the present presiden-
tial contest Governor Allen is to be
sacrificed by the Star IL he does not
perform the superhuman feat of de-
liv6 ring to Wood the twenty Kansas
de- 'es who will support Allen, but
bali u the military leader.
wobbIed and Broke.
It was after the Star had trailed
with the Stanley administration, that
it wobbled and then broke from his
organization in the famous Stanley
Long senatorial fight before the state
senate in 1908. That was the winter
when the late Morton Albaugh di-
rected the Long fight from his bed
while confined to his home with a
broken leg. It was in that fight that
the Star aligned itself with scores of
men whom it has later condemned and
held up to scorn and ridicule.
Governor Baileys organization de-
livered the final trading stock which
landed Chester I. Long in the senate
The stars help was effective in thai
fight-even tho the Star threw its old
friend w. f. Stanley, former governor.
Bailey's reward for aiding the star
cause came in 1904. The Star lined
up with the Boss Busters who organ
lied after the 1908 legislative session.
At Wichita Bailey was denied re-
nomination. The Star loudly heralded
its triumph over its former friend and
urged the state to welcome the new
force in politics when z. w. Hoch was
given the gubernatorial nomination.
HOch Wouldn't Jump.
Hoch was unable to remain in the
good graces of the Star during even
his first term. When j. Ralph Bur
toms seat in the United States senate
was made vacant, the Star demanded
the appointment of Walter Rose,