The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-23
e. ID. McKeever Issues "Pam.
phIeteer No. 2" Today.
Further Reveals Newspaper
Rings Activities" in State.
VOTE AGAINST THREE men
Morgan, Hopkins and Griffith
Are His Victims.
Points Out Injustices Heaped
Upon Judge Porter.

Z. d. McKeever, prominent Repub- |
lean lawyer of Topeka, who is calling !
upon his party this year to "clean
house" in Kansas in order that the |
party may be stronger for the next
national campaign, today issued an
other pamphlet in which he called
upon the people to elect a legislature
that will SO amend the primary law
that 1t will be impossible for minori- !
ties to dominate in the selection of
candidates and impossible for mem
bers of one party TO help select the
candidates of another party.
Mckeever makes an attack upon
the alleged newspaper ring methods
that were used in the Republican pri
mary to aid r. ]. Hopkins to defeat
for denomination Justice Silas Porter
of the supreme court, and he calls
upon the Republican voters to vote
against the Republican candidates for
governor, attorney general and posi-
ton No. 1 on the supreme court.
My advice is that the best service
the voters can do the Republican
party this fall is to vote against three
candidates forced upon the party"
McKeever said. "They are the can
didates for governor, Justice of SUI
preme court No. 1, and attorney gen
eral. Two of them, it will be remem-
bered were nominated by about one
fourth of the two hundred thousand
votes cast, and the third gained his
nomination under false pretenses.
Suggests a Law.
"At the next session of the 1egisla-
ture, a law should be passed that
would prevent minority nominees, and
also make it impossible for members
of other parties either to nominate
Republican candidates or run on the
Republican ticket. While the law, as
amended would probably provide for
local primaries, it should provide for
a state party convention th9t would
have the right to pass upon the ques-
ton of whether a candidate was a
Republican and otherwise a fit person
for the party to support. With such
a law, the party two years hence could
present a ticket that would represent
the entire party and be a tower of
strength to the national ticket which
will need all the support that a united
and harmonious state organization
can give"
In calling upon the voters to cast
their ballots to defeat Hopkins, Nc
Keever said:
about two or three days prior to
the statewide primary, the Kansas
City, Mo, Star and the Wichita Bea-
con in the interest of their serviie can
didate for the supreme court, Mr.
Hopkins started a campaign of mis-
representation against
Porter. who was Mr.. HopkinsS oppo-
nent. This propaganda was started
when it was too late for Judge Porter
10 answer or explain it. These arti-
eles had exactly the effect the news
paper trust intended, they accused
Porter of being "a bit damp and
they drove thousands of voters to
Hopkins. The worst of it was that
they were published with deliberate
Knowledge on the part of Hopkins and
owl
had been one of the staunchest friends
of the prohibitory law on the su-
preme bench"
'sIn his declaration that the Republt-
can party in Kansas is dominated by
a newspaper ring headed by the
star, the Topeka lawyer says:
Il doubt if the Republicans of this
state are much longer going to per-
nit a paper which is thoroly discred-
tied at home among it's neighbors to
Kansas"
Tells Of BItz Activities.
In pointing out the influences ex-
erted in politics by I. NJ. Blitz of To-
peka, and his close association with
Senator Capper, Senator Curtis and
Congressman Anthony, McKeever
says:
Topeka has a rising statesman in
the person of one 1. NJ. Blitz, who is
forging to the front as a rival of Mr..
Mulvane and Mr.. Dolley as a leader
and political manager. He now claims
10 be Mr.. Anthony's manager in this
city and is proudly showing a letter
from the congressman thanking him
for his good work in the primary in
Mr.. Anthony's behalf Blitz is well
and widely known in Topeka and else
where.
81. NJ. Blitz> has not done much yet
in the way of constructive statesman
ship but seems to be regarded by our
senators and First district congress-
man as conner He has three large
golden balls in front of his place of
business, and incidentally deals in
second hand phonograpn records. He
made his debut in politics by getting
control of a little Police Judge in the
City of Topeka, and secured a monop-
oily of furnishing bonds for a proper
consideration to those who were so
unfortunate as to be charged with
crime before that tribunal.
early in the spring Mr.. Blitz be-
came dissatisfied with his limited in
fluence in city politics. and expanded,
50 to speak, into national realms-the
Daily Capital, which recorded many
of his daily 4rahsactions. announced
that he had gone to New York and
washington, and at the natter city had
circumference of a political character
with Mr.. Anthony and the two sena-
tors. We know what he was doing in
New York because the same report
stated that he had brought home from
that city $4,000 photograph records,
but it will probably never be known
by an anxious constituency what he
was doing in Washington except
comforting with the two senators
and Congressman Anthony. 1 have
no doubt that he was the recipient of
marked attention from these states
men, and that they secured an audi
ence with him for President Harding.
The conference with these distin-
guished gentlemen and the purchase
of this great number or records ap-
parently made Mr.. Biftz feel quite
sure of himself, for when he came
home he announced, again using the
columns of the Capital. that persons
in politics should see him before going
far as he controlled the films in many
picture shows and could benefit or
injure a candidate by the powerful
agency of the screen.