The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-16
i In State Politics
TO SAVE SPROUL
Third District Republicans
Show Real Loyalty.
VIII support a Candidate Who
lIs Tore Down Party.
CAMPBELL'S FRIENDS DOING IT
Bear Cats of Former Days Are
h ''Playing the Game"
Union Labor Is FIOcking to
s# Democrat Standard.
CAMPBELL'S FRIENDS DOING IT
BY A. L. SHULTZ.


' Party loyalty and zeal to maintain
q record for party regularity are fac
ators which promise to save w. II.
Sproul in the Third district congress
sional fight The loyalty and spirit
of party regularity are on the part of
Third district Republican newspaper
men. After being kicked and cuffed
UP and down the district during the
. pre- primary campaign, they have
Taken Congressman Phil p. CampbelPs
defeat philosophically and are united
in their support of Sproul.
lhi,. II Sproul goes to congress to sue
3, seed Campbell-and down in the
x iTshird district there is a growing faith
+ that he is going to win-he can
thank the men and women who were
victims of his red fire and vitriol cam
e paign of last summer. Sprouts
chances have grown nightly in the
e last two weeks. Three weeks ago he
was fading out of the picture. Today
he is doing the driving.
Phil Campbells friends are the peo-
pie who are making possible Sprouts
election. Old warriors in the south
east section-men who fight like bear
cats in party disturbances-are now
playing the game of party regularity
and will give Sproul their united sup
port November I. There We're a half
dozen prize and select reasonsf for
members of the old guard carrying a
butcher knife when they went visiting
in the Third district. Sprouts pri-
mary fight had not only opened the
old cores but developed new ones. In
apparent childish glee he had gone
thru the district arouSing antagon-
isms and hatreds that are seldom for
gotten in a day. Then the day fol-
lowing the primary he faced the task
of uniting the forces he sought to
Divide.
4 Radical Appeal.
Sprouts primary appeal was to the
radical He condemned the old crowd
in his speeches and flayed the Repub
lican press. He charged that a news
paper trust existed and it was bought
and paid for with postOffice patron
age. Those things don't tend to de-
Velop fine spirit of harmony and
brotherly love. But the situation the
cay after the primary IN event of his
nomination seemingly never occurred
to Eproul. Now after lodging pitfalls
Dug with his own spade, Sproul is
coming out of the woods But his
coming out is due to a party spirit of
the newspaper men and regular Re-
prul cans OF the distrct-only in a
Sr:; II way. if at all. because OF
SPROUTS political acumen.
Following the primaries it was esti-
mated that 1000 to 5000 Democrats
sIOls strikers-went into the Republi-
II primaries to vote for Sproul. In
his campaign SprouI had condemned
tse Industrial court. His speeches
seem ngly caught every radical in the
GiS riot.
in the last few weeks Phil Camp
bells old friends have been the back
bono of Sprouts organization in the
district. The radicals to whom Sproul
appealed in July ana who supported
him in August are now swinging be-
hind Charles Stephens, the Democrat
nominee, and will doubtless vote for
him in November.
Tho Old Spirit There.
= Then out of the muddle and mess
which came as a result of SprouT g
own fine political handiwork, came
the evidence of the real Republican
Republican newspaper men held a
Injecting and banquet a Parsons. They
sent Sproul an invitation to attend.
They seated him at the banquet table
and he shared speaking honors with
billy Morgan. the partys governor
ship nominee. When the two princl-
pal speakers had talked the pub
aaishers themselves declared their al
Iegiance to Sproul. They are for him
to the ditch.
50 That banquet was a strange affair
fin these days when the primary makes
party responsibility a matter to be
Carried Lightly by the voter. Those
news men told Sproul that they haC
been for Phil Campbell right up I'M
I'll the last minute of the primary
campaign. But Campbell had lost
Now they were for Sproul. There
was never reference to unkind and
unfair things which Sproul said and