Editing Kansas Republican Party (section)

=====The factions=====
Source:<ref>Leaders of Reform, Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916, Robert Sherman La Forte, University of Kansas Press, 1974.</ref>

There were several factions in the Republican Party that competed for power. During the 1900 and 1902 elections the two main factions were the "Machine," "Bosses," or "Old Crowd", of Cy Leland, Mort Albaugh, and future U.S. Senator [[Chester Long]], which fought for control with the "Young Crowd", which also called itself the "Boss Busters," of future U.S. Senator [[Joseph R. Burton]], David Mulvane, and future U.S. Senator and Vice President [[Charles Curtis]].<ref>R. Alton Lee, Joseph Ralph Burton and the "Ill-Fated" Senate Seat of Kansas, A Journal of the central Plains 32 (Winter 2009-2010): 246–65</ref> In the 1904 election, [[Walter Stubbs]], future Governor, was elected to the state House and joined the Boss Buster faction.

In 1906, when faction leader U.S. Senator Joseph Burton was convicted and forced to resign, his faction broke in two. One group, including [[Charles Curtis]], joined the machine faction and together became known as the [[Standpatter Republican|stand-patters]] or "regulars." The other group became the progressives, strong supporters of President Roosevelt, often called Square Dealers and included future Governors [[Edward Hoch]] and [[Walter Stubbs]], U.S. Senator [[Joseph L. Bristow|Joseph Bristow]], Congressmen [[Edmond Madison]] and [[Victor Murdock]], and journalists like [[William Allen White]].

In the 1908 and 1910 elections, the Progressives and Standpatters intensely competed for power and election issues become more intertwined with national politics. The primary election process, first used in 1908, allowed progressives to take over, ousting U.S. Senator [[Chester Long]] in 1908, and defeating four standpatter congressmen in the 1910 primary elections. The rivalry became so intense that in the 1912 election, Progressives and Standpatters split over presidential electors and the Republican candidates were swept from power by the democrats. In 1913, some progressives, including [[William Allen White]], [[Henry Justin Allen|Henry Allen]], and [[Victor Murdock]] formed a separate Progressive Party. Other progressives like U.S. Senator [[Joseph L. Bristow|Joseph Bristow]] and future Goveronor and U.S. Senator [[Arthur Capper]] refuse to break with the Republican Party. In the 1914 election the Progressive candidates lost across the board to Republican candidates who returned to power throughout Kansas. Younger members who later rose to prominence included governor and presidential candidate [[Alf Landon]] and governor and U.S. Senator [[Clyde Reed]].

Progressives sought to solve problems that flowed from the new industrialized order, targeting giant corporations and corrupt political bosses who they felt had stolen America from its people. They viewed government intervention on behalf of the people as their primary tool of reform. They sought to use government power to limit the concentrated economic power of large business monopolies like the railroads and Standard Oil. They pushed for more direct grassroots involvement in government, favoring, for instance, primary elections over convention-nominated candidates to minimize the influence of political bosses, recall elections, lobbyist reform, campaign finance reporting, and civil service reform to reduce political patronage. They generally favored the use of government power to improve public morality favoring, for instance, strict prohibition, banning cigarettes, and restricting dancing. They tried to use government power to improve public health by implementing modern scientific techniques. Last, they adopted scientific management techniques from business to modernize government to make it more efficient and effective.

A third group of Republicans were grassroots organizations that focused on contemporary social issues like prohibition, [[Carrie Nation]] and her hatchet attacks on saloons were emblematic of this group, or woman's suffrage. In 1912, with the support of all parts of the Republican Party, and partially as a way to strengthen the prohibition movement, the Kansas Constitution was amended to give women the right to vote.