The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-09
'tPeople, Not Politicians" +"
Jonathan M. Davis
'tDidn t Get Enough Votes "
William Y. Morgan
'Discontent for Sacrif1ce'
Gov. Henry J. ALE
Three Leading Lights in Tuesdays Election Explain Rea
SON for Great Surprise-"Man Who Has Grease on His
Face Put Me Over" Says Davis-"A Man in Politics
Must Expect Defeat" Says w. Y Morgan-'Discontent
Looking for Sacrifice" Says Governor Allen

of the results. Talking to The State
Journal from his newspaper office in
Hutchinson today the defeated Re
publican candidate for governor was
disposed to be calm and complacent
about resultS-at least as calm and
complacent as a defeated candidate
can be forty hours after the election.
What did it?"
Its a bad thing to holler when
you're licked" came back the reply.
'It isn't being good sport. 1 just
didn't get enough votes-a very OBJ
vious thing"
was it the Ku Klux Klan, the anti
Industrial court, taxation or Governor
Aliens speech at Great Bend?'
Really it was just lack of votes"
and Morgan laughed into the mouth
piece of the phone as he added, don't
you know?"
But haven't you some explana-
tion?"
"A candidate always explains when
Maybe some day I'll want to dig up
some of the things and talk a bit. But
not now. Davis has won. am send
ing him letter of congratulations"
DO you blame the Klan?" persist
ed The State Journal.
"I don't know enough about the
thing to talk and this isn't my day to
talk. 1 am trying to be a good sport.
expect to stay in politics a while
longer and every fellow in politics has
to get a whipping now and then"
What will you do next?"
We'll, I expect to be in Topeka to-
night for few hours and am getting
ready to go down to Lawrence for the
the newspaper game real hard next
week"
FROM GOV. H. j. ALLEN
ut was general discomfort looking
for sacrifice"
Today Governor Allen offers the
world his opinion of the results as he
views the wreckage and crawlS out to
Join the survivors 1t was the dis
turbed feeling among the voters, the
combination of ills both real and
imaginary, the governor asserts, that
caused the tearing down of mountain
high Republican majorities and the
erection of Democrat governor and
two Democrat congressman.
Some express the opinion that my
attack on the Ku KIux Klan was in
strumental in the Democratic victory
Governor Allen said as he answered
queries regarding reasons for the
landslide. Il do not agree whit that
opinion" continued the governor, "be-
cause many normally Republican
counties in which there are no Khan
organizations were carried by Davis.
"A lot of other theories are coming
forth, too,' said the governor, but
these do not take into onsideration
that Democrat victories were not re-
stricted to Kansas-in fact Kansas
showed a stronger Republican vote
than most of the Republican states.
The turn in sentiment was due to a
combination of circumstances. You
may quote my opinion as just this: 1t
was discomfort looking for a sacri-
fice.'"
Governor Allen will not abandon
his fight on the Klan. He stated to-
day that he had directed the attorney
general to continue Investigations and
asserted that he proposed to carry on
his campaign against the invisible en-
pire until the end of his term as
governor.