The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-28


sess unusual executive ability and
courage in Governor Black. A protec-
tive tariff, sound mOney-the gold stan
dard the retirement of the government
sues are just as important as ever. IN
til three months ago to succeed we
would have had to satisfy the voters
of the sOundneSS and wisdom of our
position on these questions The
cardinal principles of Republican policy
will be the platform of this canvass
and of future ones But at this juncture
the people have temporarily put every
thing else aside and are applying their
whole thought to the war with Spain
and its consequences. We believe that
they think and will vote that our war
with Spain was just and righteous. We
cannot yet say that American con-
stituencies have settled convictions on
territorial expansion and the govern
ment of distant islands and alien races.
We can say that Republican opinion
glories in our victories and follows the
flag.
ssThe restless logic of events over
comes all other considerations and i'm
pels me to present the name of, as it
will persuade you to nominate as our
candidate for governor Of the state of
New York, Colonel Theodore RoOse-
Welt. If he were only the hero of
brilliant charge on the battlefield. and
there was nothing else which fitted him
for this high place, would not put him
in nomination. But Colonel Roosevelt
public service for ten years. He was a
soldier three months. 1t is not time
which tells with an executive mind and
restless energy like RooseYelts, but
opportunity. Give him the chance and
he leads ovictory. He has held two
positions which generally ruin the hold
er of them with politicians and the I'M
thinking. One was civil service COM
missioner and the other police commits
sioner of New York city. So long as the
public did not understand him there
was plenty of lurid language and gnash-
ing of teeth. The people are always
lust in the end. Let them know every
thing that can be said about man
and see all that the searchhght or pup-
Hcity will reveal and their verdict IS the
truth When the smoke mad cleared
away from the batteries of abuse they
saw the untouched and unframed ng-
ure of a public spirited broad mlnde1
and cOura geOuS officer, who UNDERSTOOD
official responsibility to mean the per
Torrance without fear or favor OF the
work he had promised to do ana oped-
fence to the laws he had sworn 10 sup
port. The missiles from those DatIeILeS
flew bv him as innOcuOuSly as dlQ the
bullets from the Spanish MauserS on
the hill of San Juan. General CraIl L
said when president, that the only way
to secure the repea4 OF an oo OIL 1900 80
law is to enforce it, and that to refuse
to obey it is to bring all law into CON
tempt Roosevelt adored General S1raLl'
He did not make any OF these IaWs'
They were the WOIk u DOlAA AeCk
can and Democratic legislatures. II
Roosevelt had been governor many OF
them would have died by his veto.
- ssVVhen he became assistant secretary OF
+7,s 49, he was in a sphere more con-
genial to his genius and ablhtleS. ne -
q better soldier than he is policeman
fife ON the plains has broadened his VS.
ion and fnvigorated his youth. success
mi Excursions into the literature of the
ranch and the hunting for big game had
ODened up for him the present resources
and boundIess possibilities of the United
states He was fortunately under the
most accomplished, able. generous ana m m
man would have been jealous of his dyna-
nitic bundle of brains nerves, eheISy
and initiative, but our distinguished sec
retarv gave full scope to his brilliant as
sistant. The country owes n99cn ~ IN tiL
for the efficiency and splen1lqq co IIGIIiiSlt
has always put his knife deep IN the naval
appropriations he VIII hol ~, ~ - ~ 60
more The navy department has always
been compelled 70 enforce on tile n3Ie+
manders of its nen-Of-War Ihat tIIIey Au ISi
be very careful of coal and powder. Inc
permanent staff said to RooseHelt one ne
day: Dewey IS Wastlng an uL Ne $3.50 $3.50,
amount of powder in firing, his Dig guns
Let him shoot away SAID the 64isr Tang IL
for If there had been no war some
quiry into the extravaganza OF the navy
department in burning up the properly
might have rested the congo l non -
a congressional committee. But the vase
was magnificent economy in producing the
superb marksmanshlp OF llS {, S utilleds O41
our warships at Manila and Santlaso-
1.-The wife OF a CdDlIl6l OAA4NGA-. AoAN
announced that he had determined to re-
some of the ladies' in the administration
circle thought it was their duty to re-
R0nsaife Won von have six children, the
Youngest a few months old, and the eldest
is full of young men who have no such
responsibilities, and are eager to enlist,
YOU have no right to leave the burden up
on y4ur nv MOI of that family Rooseveit's
Roosevelt answer L have
done as much as anyone to bring on TINS
war, because 1 believed It must come, ana
the sooner the better, and now that war
is declared I have no right to ask others
to DO the lighting and stay at home my
1.-THE regiment of rough riders was an
original American suggestion, TO demon
}s, q life The same great qualities
are found under the SLOUGH hat of the
cowboy and the elegant imporIed tie or
the gilded New York youth. Thelr man man
the east; their manhood is the same.
summer cuba officers had opportunities
Witch n we're not possible for the men. But
the rough riders endured no hardships nor
dangers which were not shared by their
colonel He helped them dig bitches; he
stood beside them in the deadly dampness
of the trenches. No hOOred tent Tor MIN
If his comrades must sleep on the ground
and under the sky. In that world-famed
charge of the rough riders through the
hail Of shot IN the Hill of San Juan, their
coIorel was a hundred feet in advance.
The bullets WhiStling by him We're RAPID
" thinning the ranks of these desperate 4
lighters The colonel trips and falls and
the line waivers. but in a moment ne IS up
again waving his sword, climbing and
shouting. He bears a charmed life He
clips the barb wire fence and plunges
yelling: Come on. boys: come on,
we viii lick hi out of them The moral
force of that daring coWed and aWed the
Spaniards, and they fed from their forti-
fed heights and Santiago was ours To
lick hi out of them is the fury of the
lighting It expressed the titanic rage of
Washington at the treachery of Lee and
turned the tide at Monmouth. 1t pierced
like bullets the fears of the fleeing sol
dfers and sent them flying to the front
and victory when Sheridan rode madly up
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