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the other at Kansas City, Kans..
both earning properties.
He had a knack Of picking men
to run his enterprises and edit his
publications. Marco Morrow was
his right-hand man. He brought
him from . Chicago advertising
agency in 1906. He took Ray
Yarnell from the telegraph desk
|of the Capital to edit his maya
zines.
Only One Political Defeat.
Mr.. Capper's only political de-
feat was hts first campaign for
Governor of Kansas, and he lost
that by only IS votes. That was
in 1912, the Bull Moose year. There
was no Bull Moose Party in
Kansas. William Allen White and
other Kansas supporters Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt captured the regu-
lar Republican organization by
nominating Mr.. Capper for the
governorship. George Clark, an
Old Guard Republican leader,
came out for the Democratic
nominee. George H. Hodges. The
Old Guard managed to throw
enuogh votes to Mr.. Hodges to
elect him.
Two years later. he beat Mr..
Hodges by $4,000 votes. In 1916,
President Woodrow Wilson carried
Kansas, but Mr.. Capper was re-
elected Governor.
Won Senate Seat in 1918.
In 1918, he won his seat in the
Senate by defeating Senator w,
H. Thompson. a Democrat.
He was no isolationist. He was
for membership in the League OF
Nations. with reservations He
voted for the World Court. He
voted to override President Cool
idge's veto Of the soldier bonus
| After his first six-year term. he
carried Kansas in 1924 by 245. 600
In 1880. he defeated former Gov
Jonathan M. Davis, Democrat, by
1875, 900. although the Democrats
again captured the governorship
in that year.
In 1896, the year that every
State except Maine and Vermont
went down before the Roosevelt
landslide. Senator Capper won in
Kansas. He defeated Omar
Ketchum, now Washington repre-
sentative of the Veterans Of For
eign Wars, by 10000. In 1912, he
won again, in q walk.
The Kansas readers Of his
papers and magazines did moi
think Of Senator Capper as q
Republican. They considered him
simply as a good man, and they
were for him.
Often Crossed Party Line.
He left the Republican reserva-
ton at any time he considered
that the welfare Of the farmer lay
outside the party line. He was fol
the disputed McNary Haugen
plan for export debentures. He
voted for the original Agricultural
Adjustment Administration and
its later substitute.
He was against the business
interests when they confiicted
with the farmer. He was the
author Of the Grain Futures Act
designed to curb speculation In
the grain markets.
He was politically and person
ally dry. In his last years in the
Senate, he was actively sponsoring
q bill to curb liquor advertising In
publications.
Senator Capper was coming to
the end Of his fifth term in the
Senate. He was the oldest Re-
publican and second Oldest SEN
ator in years Of service. Senator
Mcclellan. Democrat. Of Tennes-
see, entered the Senate two years
before him.
He was born just after the
end Of the Civil War, July IA
1865, in Garnett, Kans., a viii
Ilage his father, farmer and
merchant. helped establish. He
was given printing press as q
child. Later he used to spend
afternoons. when high school hao
|let out, setting type on the Gar
nett weekly paper.
i He married Florence Crawford
daughter Of Samuel j. Crawford
'IKansas' third Governor. She died
/ in 1895. They had no children.