The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-27

sections and localities. There is moth
ing experimental about the government
we ask the people to continue in power,
for our performance in the past, our
proved governmental efficiency is a
guarantee aScto our promises for the
future Our opponents, either openly
OF secretly, according to their several
temperaments, now ask the people 70
trust their present promises in cons1d-
GRAFTON of the fact that they intend to
treat their past promises as null ana
void. We know our own minds and
we have kept of the same mind for
sufficient length of time to give to our
policy conference and sanity. In such a
fundamental matter as the enforcement
of the law we do not have to depend
upon promises, but merely to ask that
our record be taken as an earnest OF
what we shall continue to do. In deal
ing with the great organizations known
as trusts, we do not have to explain
why the laws were not enforced, Dut
to point out that they actually have
been enforced and that legislation has
been enacted to increase the effective
ness of their enforcement. we do not
nave to propose to turn the raScalS
out, for we have shown in very deed
that whenever by diligent investigation
a public official can be found who has
betrayed his trust he will be punished
to the full extent of the law without
regard to whether he was appointed
under a Republican or Democratic
administration. This is the efficient
way to turn the rascals out and to keep
them out, and it has the merit of sin
certify. Moreover the betrayals of trust
in the last seven years have been in
significant in number when compared
with the extent of the public service.
Never has the administration of the
government been on cleaner and
higher level; never has the public work
of the nation been done more honestly
and efficiently.
Unwise to Change.
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the policies which have worked. so
we'll and which are now working SO
well. Prosperity has come at home
The national honor and interest have
been upheld abroad. We have placed
the finances of the nation upon a
sound gold basis. We have done this
with the aid of many who were for
merly our opponents, but who would
neither openly support nor silently
acquiesce in the hereSy of unSound
finance; and we have done it. against
the convinced and violent opposition
of the mass of our present opponents
sound opinions which for the mo-
ment they think it inexpedient to as
sert. We know what we mean when
we speak of an honest and stable
currency. We mean the same thing
from year to year. We do not have
to avoid a definite and conclusive
committal on the most important is
sue which has recently been before
time in the near future be before
them again. Upon the principles
which underlie this issue the con-
victionS of half of our number do not
clash with those of the other half.
So long as the Republican party is
in power the gold standard is settled,
not a matter of temporary political
expediency, not because of shifting
conditions in the production of gold
in certain mining centerS, but in ac-
cordance with what we regard as the
fundamental principles of national
and wisdom.
Under the financial legislation |
which we have enacted there is now
ample circulation for every business |
need; and every dollar of this circula- |
ton is worth a dollar in gold. We |
have reduced the Understanding |
debt and in still larger measure the |
interest on that debt. All of the war |
taxes imposed during the Spanish |
war have been removed with a view |
to relieve the people and to prevent |
the accumulation of an unnecessary :