The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-24
Real Republicans
Should Control
Republican Party

With the approach of the state and
county primaries which are to be held
Tuesday, August 8, the campaign of
the anti-boss p~retenders for control
of the Republican party seems to be
Fastening to an ignominious and
blissful end. Evidences everywhere
one goes about Kansas iCty indicate
that real Republicans all over town
are fully awake to the hypocraCy of
the anti-boss crowd and are in no
danger of being misled by the empty
arguments and worthless promises
put forward by that crowd to cover
up the %insincerity of their movement.
During this week the leaders of the
party wrecking clan have drummed
the town with desperate persistence
in an effort to induce their people to
come to their meetings and place their
trusting minds under the charm of
their former spe%ll.binders, but from
the size of the audiences that have
responded to their drumming one is
forced to the conclusion that the
mask of reform cannot conceal the
greedy co%untenance of the persistent
office grabbers who are clamoring for
place and power.
The last city campaign was the be-
ginning of the awakening of the peo-
pie: the control of the anti-boss city
committee by that element of the
party which in the past has taken a
toe hold on the public crib and has
refused to give up that hold, when
ever the party has been successful in
the election of a local ticket and the
evident intention to disrupt the par
ty through efficient methods of dis
organization, rather than ~organiza-
ton each have played their part in
bringing about the revolt against the
~pretensions of the sham reformers of
the party leadership. of the anti-boss
crowd was applied when they made
up their slate for county offices.
When their campaign was launched
last winter they announced that the
people henceforth should rule, they
declared against the picking of tick
cts by caucuses, they proclaimed that
office holding should not be made a
business but that capable men should
be encouraged to declare their will
ingness to render public service and
that then the people should freely
choose from among those who offer
ed themselves those who should serve.
And some capable men believed what
they said and being impressed with
their obligation to serve they offered
themselves and then things began to
happen.
1t seems that some of the gentle
men who organized the anti-boss par
ty had other notions regarding nom
nations than those contained in their
declaration of principles. 1t is said
that they organized a clique to con-
troll the nominations and the county
committee, proceeded to distribute
the desirable places among them
selves and then to draft the out
siders out of the contest. The out
siders are consequently not only
awakened but Disguised and many
are returning to the regular party
organization, believing, as they say,
this to be the only course that holds
out hope for Republican victory at
the November election.
One of the gratifying features of
the present primary campaigns is
the return to the regular party or
ganization of large numbers of influ-
entail Negroes who honestly believed
last spring that a reorganization of
the party might be helpful in the
making of a Republican state of Mis-
souri,. The lily-whiteism of the anti
boss crowd has been so evident that
they could not ignore it and they
have refused to be a party to the
elimination of the Negro from the
councils of the Republican party in
Kansas City.
Men who are close observers of
public affairs are predicting that the
regular Republicans will achieve an
overwhelming and decisive victory at
the August primaries. The Sun will
give the regular Republican candi-
dates to its readers next week.