The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-09

good, hard, common sense to stumble
into the same pit.
THE free silver men will make a
clean sweep in the election of congress
men in Kansas this year. Curtis and
Broderick had some show of being re-
turned but their votes against the Tel
Ter resolution will result in their defeat.
No Mckinley gOld-standard candidate
can be elected in Kansas.
mo. did not attend the meeting of
the State Temperance union. The trou-
bic with that organization is that for
years it has been a Republican side
show. It's resolutions at its annual
convention are always all right, but
when the old deacOns reach the polls
they always stand by the old party
just once more 1t matters not how
cowardly it may be in dealing with the
joints.
zone of the most severe and vet lust
criticisms that can be imposed upon the
party administrations of late years is
their subserviency to the gang of pro-
IeSSlOnal criminals who are permitted
to run joints and gambling dens in open
and defiant violation of the laws of the
state. This rum rebellion is a disgrace
TO the state and ought to be crushed,
ana could be crushed but for the fact
that the enforcement of the law is put
into the hands of those who are in fun
sympathy with the jOintists and don't
There is no Disgusting the fact that
the responsibility for this condition of
things rests largely with the appoint
ing power.
1T is not true that honest. loyal men
who will do their whole duty, cannot be
found There are plenty of good ma
terial which would rigidIy enforce the
law, but the trouble is men of that
kind can't be used to manipulate pri-
naries and elect delegates to nominal
ing conventions.
The people have patiently stood a
great deal of this kind of politics but
they'll become aroused after a little
while, and there will be some political
funerals, and it won't be the loyal law
abiding element that will furnish the
cOrpSeS"
why are you opposed to resubnis-
sion?"
Simply because those who are in
sympathy or in league with the present
rebellion against the constitution and
laws, are the ones who are actively
clamoring for it When they have laid
down their arms and shown a resDact
for the will of the people by obeying the
laws for few years, then, but not until
then, will I for one consent to resub-
mission.
What would have been thought of
submitting the question of the dissolu-
ton OF the union to vote when the
south was in open rebellion against the
constitutional laws2
while I think Mckinley at heart is
man. By weak, I mean a sort of putty
man, who, unfortunately for the cOun-
try, is being moulded and directed by
the most dangerous elements in poll
tics. He has gone back on his past rec
ord on the money question. Instead Of
standing up and battling fearless1y for
the common people, he has become the
plant tool of mOnOpOlies and trusts He
is doing today just what in his Toledo
speech in 1891 he severely condemned
Cleveland for doing.
But there is one consolation; the SEN
ate stands in the way of carrying out
his gold standard schemes. And the
people will send a lower house to Wash
ingtOn next fall that will be in har-
mony with the senate and a free coin
age bill will be sent to Mckinley and if
he vetoes it, a man will succeed him
who will sign one just like it
I'VE hear a great deal just now about
so cent dollars. want to PROFOUND a
few questions to our goIdbue friends
''First-Is it the stamp of the gov
eminent or the bullion upon which the
stamp is placed that fixes the value of
our money!
'Second-Was there ever any lack of
parity, or can there ever be between