The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-29
TELL OF SHAWNEE
Republican Sacrificed Lambert
son to Beat Stubs.
This Resulted in Election of
Davis, Committee Says.

A certain faction of the Republican
party sacrificed Lambertson in order
to beat Stubs, and it was the protest
of the voters against this move that
resulted in Jonathan Davis carrying
Shawnee county. it was asserted today
in a statement issued by the executive
committee of the Shawnee county Re-
publican committee, replying to the
question: What was the matter with
Shawnee county in the recent cleo
ton ?"
The national committee, the state
ment asserts, must be reorganized and
men placed at it's head who are in
sympathy with the farming and agri-
cultural interests, rather than big bust
ness and the financial interests of the
east.
The Committees Statement.
The statement follows:
The question is being asked: What
was the matter with Shawnee county
in the recent election, that it gave the
publican state and county tickets, with
the exception of governor, and gave
Jonathan Davis, the Democratic can
didate for governor. a majority The
same question might be asked of many
other counties of the state, including
Mr.. Morgan's own county. recent
editorial in the Kansas City Star says:
Shawnee county needs sweetening.
Kansas, it would know the reasons as
we Kansans know it. If Shawnee
county had given Morgan vote in
proportion to the number of votes that
his home county gave him, it would
have increased Davis's vote in Shaw
nee county 200 per cent.
Registered a Protest.
1.-The Republicans of Shawnee
county and of Kansas registered their
protest on election day to the unholy
alliance that was contaminated a very
few days before the primary. A GER
tain faction of the Republican party
which was managing Mr.. Lambert
sons campaign, awoke to the fact that
Stubs was the leading candidate and
would win unless something desper-
ate was done. This same faction, that
has always fought Stubs and any
progressive advancement of the Re
publican party in Kansas or in the
ration, entered into a deal with Mr..
Morgan's campaign managers, selling
their candidate out to the Morgan
forces and thus sacrificing Lambert
son for the purpose of beating Stubs,
which they accomplished thru their
manipulations.
The Republicans of Shawnee coun-
ty and of Kansas resented this very
strongly and if lot of hard work had
not been done for Mr.. Morgan in
Shawnee county and many of the 9TH
er counties, there would have been
these counties than there was
Urge Reorganization III Nation.
THE present organization of the
Republican party nationally and in
some of the states is not in sympathy
with the sentiment of the Republic
cans in the nation and states. The
national committee must be reorgan-
lied to conform with the sentiment
of Republican voters. and men placed
at the executive head of the commit
tee who are in sympathy with the
great agricultural and farming inter
ests of the state and nation, and in
sympathy with the common people,
and not in sympathy first with the big
business and financial interests of the
east as the present executive officers
are.
IN. A. HUTCHINSON,
wv. w. PAGE,
"A. w. LINDSAY,
FIRED P. METZGER,
WILLIAM FULTON,
&C. H. PEEBLER.
81. A. SILLIMAN,
JAMES HARE
Members of the executive committee
of the Shawnee county Republican
committee"