The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
SEES ONLY ALLEN
Chas. F. Scott Declares No
Other Candidate Big Enough.
Could Lead Republicans With
Dignity Next Fall.
ADVISES AGAINST ANY RISK
In lola Register Backs Third
Term for Governor.
Declares Conditions at Present
Time Are Crucial.
ADVISES AGAINST ANY RISK

lola, Kan, Feb. 17.-Deciaring that
of all the candidates in the race for
the Republican gubernatoriaI nomina-
ton, Governor Allen alone has an is
sue Of dignity and Importance to the
state, Charles F. Scott, in an editorial
in the lola Daily Register last night
says under the captain Allen for Gov
ernOr":
The. Register hopes that Henry J.
Allen will be a candidate for governor,
and if he is II Will give him itsSunani-
nous and undivided support. A few
days ago this paper expressed the
opinion that the only issue of any per-
manent Importance in this years
campaign here in Kansas, is the in
dustriaI court law That Iaw-was en-
acted two years ago at a special ses-
sion Of the state legislature TO meet
a great emergency, and 1t met the
emergency
Worked Under Trying Conditions.
Under its authority the coal strike
which threatened to cause the suspeH-
sion of many industries and to en-
danger the health and possibly the
lives of thousands of people, was
broken
1.-THE people of the state hailed the
law with satisfaction and the Iegisla-
ture enacted it by q unanimous vote,
Democrats uniting with Republicans
in its support
But now the emergency which
brought the law into being is past and
the enemies of the law are beginning
TO make themselves heard.
From the first the law had its enc
mics. and who are ehey2 Reds, an
archists. radical labor leaders. Social
lists, Nonpartisan Leaguers, commun-
lists, Russian Bolsheviki-an that evil
brood OF laW-brea kers, 4aW-haterS, dis
loyalists, revolutionists. the like of
whom have for a generation cowed
and terrified and tyTannized the Pitts
burg coal district
Naturally Radicals Opposed.
From the beginning, these men
fought the law and they continue still
to fight it. They have not obeyed it,
a. good citizens obey law so long as
it Is the law whether they approve it
or not-but they have disobeyed it and
have sought 10 annul it, not by the
processes of orderly government, but
by the methods Of the anarchist and
the outlaw.
But the candidates whose an
nouncements have. appeared thus far.
apparently feel no resentment of this
sort
"On the contrary, they seem TO have
been cowed by the clamor against the
law
so far as the Register has observed
have spoken for the law while most of
them are outspoken against it.
The Kansas supreme court has de-
clared the industrial relations law to
be constitutional This Judgment is in
little danger of being reversed by the
supreme court of the United States.
Should Give Court Real Test.
with the constitutionality of the
law affirmed, Kansas would be recre-
ant to its record If it failed to keep
the law on its statute books until it
had been fairly and fully tested
kansas Republicans, particularly,
having enacted a law which has chaI-
lenged the attention of the whole
world and has received more favor
able comment than any statute ever
devised for the peaceful settlement of
| Industrial disputes. certainly would
/ fall far short of their duty to their
Estate and to their own organization if
ithey should now nominate a candi-
.date who either is openly opposed to
Ehe law or regards it with indifference.
THE one man available as a candi-
Hate who could go into the campaign
with q clear record on this great Ques-
ton is Henry J. Allen.
{ 1T is up TO the Republican party
to accept the challenge, nominate
Governor Allen and go TO the people
On q real issue -