The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03

power of the emperor of the Panama
zone and the Philippines. And we are
going to set up the incarnation of brave,
blunt. honest old Andrew Jackson, to
the end that the rascals who, while
masquerading in the Sleeps clothing
of civil service reform. have made the
departments to reek with all manner of
official corruption, until they stink to
high heaven. until the rascals shall feel
the henchmen's ak, lest the stencil shall
bring down the judgment of Sodom and
lGomorrah upon this government In the
name of Andrew Jackson and true to
his memory we will get the good old
IJacksonian religion and turn the rascals
out.
The Kansas Pie Hunters.
And then there is that holier than
thou crowd of Kansas pie hunters and
grafters in the Republican party who
In a wild frenzy of zeal for the good
people and the honor of the Republican
party organized a voting trust called
| the Boss Busters in the name of the
| people with Parson Hoch, Jerusalem
Stubbs, Rump Convention Kelly, and
Get Rich Quick Burton. as the sole vot-
| ing trustees. These noble patriots, i'll
order to obscure the stigma of Burton,
1 the character of Kelly. and the lootings
of the senate, in which they had full
stop thief and in the din befuddled
| the political atmosphere of Kansas to
such an extent that they drove Bailey
/ from the governors chair. What can
we expect from their get right quick
and Jerusalem show consciences. Do
we want that gang and their associ-
ateS, who, while hypocritically wearing
the long face, aye, and the long coat
of the pious aesthetic, extend the long
and grimy fingers of gambling greed in
TO our pockets as they tax and dis
burse our funds? Do We want this ag-
gregation to speculate on the funds of
the state? Do we want to f1nancier for
them wild cat investments of every
kind? Do we want to intrust to their
To no
cause of education and enlightenment in
this state, the great school fund? No.
We want no more comic opera scenes
on the stage of Kansas politics, where
the villains with the spoils and loot
ings bursting from their pockets rush
across the stage yelling stop thief in
order to divert attention from their own
black record and hide their own rotten
ness. We want no more of the pot call
ing the kettle black. The people of the
great state of Kansas have no time to
wash the dirty linen of the Republican
party. They have not the patience to
listen to the Populations and aff1davits
of the Burton people in which they seek
to prove that their brethren of the
tory of purgatories. Neither will they
listen to the very spicy evidence offered
by the Bailey crowd that no decent or
just man abides with Burton. They will
in November next mark both pot and |
kettle black and put them on the back
shelf damaged and worthless goods.
Says They Will Win.
Gentlemen, of the convention, We are !
bound to win. My right arm, which |
has been coming in contact with the /
during the last SO hours. testifies to it.
You, gentlemen, have been to Demo- |
cratic conventions in this state that |
you would have to rake with fine tooth |
comb to find a candidate. Not so here.
The array of patriots would credit to a
Democratic convention in that soulful /
old moSsback state of Texas, and am
confident that these candidates point to
the lode star of success, and that each
candidate marks state of dissatisfac-
ton and unrest in his community and
the aggregate must give to the ticket
you nominate today a handsome ma
jority in November.
Let us be just, moderate and con-
sentative in our dealings with the fac
tors of success that lie at our hands.
Let us give all plans looking to sue
cess patient hearing and considera-
ton, marking we'll the virtues of each
plan offered, and with that good sense
and clear judgment that has ever dis
the Democrats of Kansas,
act up to our understanding without
bias or prejudice, and 1 am sure that
success will alight on our banner in |
and with that splendid
KanSan whose name is a synonym for
honest, sensible administration of
public affairs, that able and just judge
whom the people of Kansas without
to party have named for gov
ernOr and whose nomination in the
field and the workshops of the state
we meet to ratify today. With Judge
David Dale, of Wichita, as our STAN
state ticket that will command the
confidence of the farmer, the mer-
chant and the stockman, we will come
into our inheritance in this great state.
Good Word for Parker.
With a man called from the quiet
Of the judicial forum to lay aside the
robes of his great office. and leave the
simple home life of a true and loving
American; with a man thoroughly i'm
bued with the spirit of AmericaniSm:
with a man bitterly opposed to the
spirit of dictatorship; with a man
who has a thorough knowledge of the
laws and institutions of his country, a
Just conception of the balance of !
government established by our fore
fathers as the only safeguard of our
liberty; with a man who is the exact
opposite in every respect of Teddy the
Terrible, who with cannons strapped
10 the right of him, with cannonS
strapped to the left of him, volleys !
apd thunders up and down the path
way of the nations proclaiming to the 1
world that he is the It, the great
II, greater than the United States of
America, for he is the great dictator
Of the United States of the world, !.
he Panama zone and the Philippines; !
with such a man against such a man,
We must win.
THE curtains are about to drop on I
his three years performance of vau-
lev1lle pyrOtechnics on the American
stage, and when the curatin is raised
or the next act the Goddess of Lib
.rty will have uncovered her face and
Will smile on us without shame, the q
constitution will be again enthroned, !
he congress and supreme court will I
lgain have resumed their normal 4
functions and in the presidential chair {
will sit, by the grace of the American G
people and the wisdom of an allwiSe l