The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-31
IT HAS BEGUN.
Roosevelt and Dale Circulars
Are Out.
Bear No Date and Are Mailed on
Train.
FAIRBANKS IN TOPEKA
His Private Car Will Be Here
All Night.
Will Leave for Marion Early in
Morning.

The first unsigned and mysterious
circulars of the campaign are being cir
culated. In blank envelope with the
postmaTk of *. c. & Denver Railway
Postoffice. Train z, August 3d. the cir
culars are being sent out. There is no
clue as to the senders. Below the print
ed circular is the impression of a rub
Der stamp reading Roosevelt & Dale,
Freemen's club The circular is as
follows:
BE independent
'Partisanship is the most potent evil
of American politics.
The corruption of candidates and po-
litical parties finds security only in the
fact that many voters are not free men,
but, are enslaved by a clinging to party
as wholly unreasoning and foolish as
| the blind bigotry that the Chinaman
evinces for his pigtail.
The crimes of politics rest in the
bigotry, prejudice and bias of the par
| tisan. A free mans ballot is a scratch
ed ballot, nine times out of ten. Party
! name, blatant demogoguery, prejudice,
passion and personified stupidity is the
stock in trade of the partisan paper and
holding to party when its candidates
are unworthy of trust is a brand of
| electoral idiocy-a remnant of feudai-
ism. The country will be immeasura-
bly, improved when each citizen will
| fully and completely realize that he is a
/ unit-independent of all others-and
| absolutely free to judge for himself and
vote as he pleaSeS, regardless of party
| lash or the edict of party priests. The
partisan is ever ready to condone the
public plundering and brazen corrup-
ton of his party or its candidates-the
| Independent never. The officeseeker
and ofhceholder are ever ready to ex-
cuse, defend or even commend the rot
| tenness of his party's candidates, be
| cause of self interest. The great body
of voters, however, are not officehold-
ers nor officeseekers. and they should
vote to chaStize candidates and parties,
of whatever name, which reason tells
| them are unworthy of the support of
American citizenship. Any other course
is un-democratic and un-American.
Examine the present facts as evidenced
by the BurtonS, the KellyS, the Bur-
rows, Bowersocks, etc, as exposed in
the show case of the campaign now on
do this without being biased by party
name or warped by prejudice, and you
will instantly see that the voter who
casts an intelligent vote for President
Roosevelt, who caused Burton's prose-
cution, cannot consistently and ought
upon the Republican state ticket. They
oppose every civic virtue for which
Roosevelt stands
Senator Fairbanks will arrive in To-
peka, over the Rock Island. at s
o'clock tonight Senator Fairbanks
private car will stand on the tracks
at the Rock Island depot until 8
will be attached to the special to Mar
ion, where Senator Fairbanks will
open the national campaign in Kansas
at the same rally when E. w Hoch
opens the state campaign for the Re-
publicans. National Committeeman
Dave Mulvane accompanies Senator
Fairbanks from Chicago here and
Chairman Stubs will meet the party
A Chicago dispatch under date of
August 80 says:
Senator Fairbanks, Republican
candidate for vice president, passed
through Chicago tonight en- route
from New England for Kansas. He
left at 1890 o'clock over the Rock
Island for Marion, where on Thursday
he will open the Kansas campaign
He has arranged to speak at Charles
ton, w. Va, on September 81, when
he will invade the field of his rival for
vice presidential honors. 1t is his in
tention to give the latter part of the
campaign to the west"
The Republican state central COM
mittee has decided not to furnish
speakers as attractions for county
fairs. Carr Taylor, director of the
speakers bureau at the state head |
quarters, has reached that decision.
when a campaign orator is billed
for a street fair or picnic he is sim
ply advertised as one of the drawing !
cards, like the snake-eater, the glass |
eater or the high diver" said Taylor |
today. HE isn't wanted to convert
voters to his party; only to help draw
crowds. And in the exhibition he is |
placed at a disadvantage. The bark
ers for the shows and the organ at
him out. Very few people stop to
listen to him, and what few do can't |
hear half he says on account of the
noise at the other attractions. All |
and I don't blame them. AS long as
1 am chairman of the speakers bu- |
reau, none of them will have to go up |
against any -go-rounds."
Taylor reached this conclusion after /
Frank G.. Dreaming, a Topeka lawyer, |
related his experience at a Comanche /
county picnic a few days ago. Dren- |
ming was sent to the picnic by Taylor
politicians. When he got there, he
found no platform to speak from. |
However, he did find a merrygo- |
round in full operation, and several
other attractions making much noise.
The merry-go-round man refused to
suspend business till Dreaming could |
talk. and Dreaming couldn't go up |
against the merry-go-round, so he
called his speech off. although he had |
spent two days reaching there.
OPENINGS experience has taught
me a lesson early in the campaign,
said Taylor. land 1 have cut out pic
ayers of those concerns can find SPELL
binders who are willing to go up
against the game, it is all right with
me; luck to them. But / won't as
sign speakers for them!
A southern Kansas fair manager
wrote in this morning for a squad of
speakers. He said he would like to
have Senator Long and E. w. Hoch
for one day, Charlie Curtis and Phil
Campbell for another, J. K. CubbiSon
and Eugene Ware for another, Gov
ernor w. E. Stanley and Congressman
Charles Scott for another, and would
appreciate it very much if the state
committee would send Senator Bev-
eridge or Elihu Root for the big day.
He was informed that none of the as