The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-21
veil by reclamation. and kansas is

welt by reclamation, and Kansas is
solid in the lead Of that sentiment.
Representative A1iller-I am for Mr..
Roosevelt personally and the delegation
from my district will be for him. I
know of no adverse sentiment existing
in any part of my district. 1 do not in
tend to attempt to dictate in the matter
of naming delegates to the national
convention That is the work of the
state and congressional conventions,
and I am willing to trust this matter
wholly in their hands.
Representative Calderhead-TheF Fifth
district is for Roosevelt and the dele
gates from that district will undoubted-
question about that.
Representative Reeder-I think there
is no doubt whatever that my district
will be for the president for renomina
ton. Personally I am for him, and
have heard very little of any opposition
in Kansas. However, to avoid mistakes
we should be watchfu1 and careful,
and see to it that the delegates who go
to the national convention are for him
in fact as well as in theory. There
ought to be no mistake about 1t.
Representative Murdoch have been
asked many times since came here
what the reason was for the intensity
of Roosevelt'S popularity in Kansas,
and in finding an answer have tried to
analyze that popularity. This is the
way 1 have made up my mind. Kansas
entered a period of descriptive politics
in 1890 The shock of sudden and I'M
expected defeat intensified Republican
partiSanship and organization. On the
other hand the movement, Populism,
absorbed and held in complete solution
Democratic craftsmanship and OrganiZa-
ton. With the breakup of Populism
the normal Republican strength in the
state and corresponding organization
grew apace. On the other hand, the
Democratic party of the state has not
recovered and its organization has
not shown a growing vitality. This
was the condition first apparent in 1900
Mckinley in that year had the Repub-
lican strength of the state. Theodore
Roosevelt succeeded to that strength.
On it he has built a further element of
strength His fearlessness in attacking
corruption and the corruptionists, his
1 initiative force of character, some times
1 assailed down here in the east as i'm
/ pulsiveness and his disdain of the doc
/ trine of inviolability of precedent, and
his determination to be president of all
sections, races and conditions with an
iron and unbending impartiality-al
these qualities reached Kansas early in
his presidential career and met an i'm
mediate response in all the people, re-
CARELESS of their politics. The popularity
of such personality found quick
/ growth in the disorganized condition of
the populist and democratic parties
| The result has been that no one in Kan
sas will reach within several thousand
the vote Roosevelt will receive next No
| Vember. He will lead everybody In
such a condition of partisan and public
sentiment, no open anti-Roosevelt senti-
ment could survive, and no secret anti
! Roosevelt conspiracy could operate
without exposure from a jealousy
watchful public enthusiasm. Roosevelt
will have the Kansas delegation to the
national convention. and the delegation
will have as its charter such an in
struction as for earnest devotion and
enthusiastic resolution of purpose few
public men have ever had the great
honor to inspire.
LESLIE WALLACE