The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-20

and designs of Mr. Roosevelt, the pres
ident is on the popular side and the SEN
atorial ca bal on the wrong side What
ever may be the desire of the consDir-
ing senators to prevent the nomination
of Mr.. Roosevelt in 1904, they would not,
dare to take their case before the peo-
pie with any other candidate.
1.-THE victory Of what we may call the
Roosevelt element in the Kansas con-.
vention would be repeated in the I.e-
publican state convention Of every
state in the Union If the issue was
squarely and frankly presented as 1t
was in Kansas. Mr.. Burton was routed
because the people are with the prest-
dent. and not with the cabal.
"A very important and suggestive les
son is taught by this fact, because it
must now be apparent to every one.
perhaps to the president himself, that II
he called the country to his side in his
effort to secure fair play and justice to
Cuba he would long ago have won in
the contest, just as Grover Cleveland
won in 1893 in his effort to secure the
repeal of the Sherman Silver law. Mr..
Cleveland had the voice Of the people
and the press of the country with him.
and the senatorial cOnsDirators were
defeated.
Mr. Roosevelt himself is now facing
practical defeat on the Cuban question
because he has not gone to the country
with his grievance. He might have
stirred up the people from the Atlantic
to the Rocky mountains in merely show
ing to them that a struggle was being
made against him for political reasons.
and in aid of a purely selfish interest
only the independent press have
been on his side The Democratic news
papers have been divided: the RepubH-
can press has thought it to be its duty,
in the main, to cover up the differences
of opinion prevailing within the party,
and in insisting upon it that harmony
prevailed where discord really sreigned.
Mr.. Roosevelt, desiring to preserve har-
mony in the party, and to prevent such
a catastrophe as happiness to the Dem
Ocratic party from Mr.. CleVeland'S war
upon the silver law, has refrained from
doing what he first threatened to do in
order to accomplish what he said il
his message was demanded by every
consideration of national honor.
If he had issue a special message to
the house when he said that he would
he would have had a larger relief than
20 per cent for q year, which was what
ne finally got; while if he had sent a
message to the senate he would have
have had a still greater relief measure
before the Cuban republic set up gov
ernment for itself. What he is going to
get now, if he is going to get anything,
will De of no practical benefit to the
Cubans. In other words. the admins
tration is defeated in its efforts to i'm
prove the friendly relations between Gu
ba and the United States
THE pity of the situation is greatly
! aggravated by the evident possibility,
| demonstrated by the action of the Kan
sas convention, Of easily winning the
country to the side of the presidents
policy if the country had been called.
| Theodore Roosevelt is going to be nomi-
mated in 1904 in answer to popular
demand. or he is going to be beaten by
the machine politicians.
*'As matters stand today there is no
one with a ghost Of a show against him,
but how long is such enthusiasm as
prevails among the Kansas people to
continue, and does that enthusiasm ex-
tend everywhere, and are the people OF
all the states so well informed and so
deeply interested in the issue. between
the politicians and the PRESIDENT"