The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-21
In State Politics
WHITE OBJECTS!
Emporia Editor SEALS" At
torney General on Circulars.
Asks Hopkins to Stop Pamphlet
With Endorsement.
HE is FOR JUSTICE PORTER
And White Wrote Hopkins in
February to This Effect.
Endorsements Also From Clyde
Reed and j. h. COdding.
He is FOR JUSTICE PORTER
BY A. L. sHULTz.

The mere fact that he knows some
one is opposed to him is seemingly n
minor matter when Attorney General
Hopkins complies his campaign en-
airy Mr.. Hopkins received a letter
from William Allen White and was
advised by the Emporia editor that he
would support Justice Silas Porter.
But when Mr.. Hopkins prepared copy
for a recent Hopkins pamphlet he
gave the parlor position to an editorial
which White had written about Hop
kins before the attorney became a
candidate for supreme court judge.
To be sure it is possible that Mr..
Hopkins in his high keyed zeal to
keep the states purity and virtue On
straight forgot that White wasn't for
him. Anyway White had at one time
written a very nice editorial about
erals office. So he may have fig
ured that the rules of ordinary man
to-n1aH dealings didn't mean so very
much in q political campaign. Then,
too, White is a national character and
any Quotation from him is good CAM
paign literature.
There are some 10000 or $4,000
copies of the latest Hopkins pamphlet
according to reports in political cir
Giles. In addition to the White edi-
torial Hopkins published an endorses
ment from Judge Clyde NJ. Reed of
the public utilities commission and a
story printed about himself by a Mis-
souri, newspaper. There is also an en-
dorsement from J. X. Codding.
So with these other endorsements It
minded bit of personal enthusiasm
that prompted the Jse OF Whites en-
del sement.
Letter From White.
Mr. Hopkins hid in his POSSESSION
this letter from MIR. White under date
of February %: ~
My dear Dick:
''I have just learned with surprise
and pain that you are going to run
against Silas Porter. in which case
cannot support you. for I promised
over a year ago would support him.
I presumed, OF course. you would run
against West. But however that may
be, I cannot oppose Silas Porter. and
shall have to support him with all my
enthusiasm"
The Hopkins pamphlets came frc n
the presses less than q week ago.
1t. seems that White saw copy of
the latest circular, however, and wrote
to the attorney general asking him to
recall them-a mild reminder that
the Emporta publisher cannot re-
spond. Under date OF July IA, White
wrote to Hopkins:
My Dear Dick:
II have just run across a circular
issued by your friends in which YOU
quote an editorial in the Gazette en-
dorsing you as a candidate for the
supreme court. That editorial was
written, as you know, before I real
lied that you had elected to run
against Judge Porter-indeed even
before you were a candidate for Of
flee. I wrote you Immediately after
YOU had picked Judge Porter as your
opponent, expressing my obligation to
support him.
'I most earnestly hope you can
withdraw the circulars with my en-.
dorsement as it puts me in the attf-
tude of double-crossing Porter.
81 know you do not wish to do me
an injury, but fear in printing this
editorial, you are injuring me and I
know you will respect my wishes