The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-14

and Hoch and all the sheep
that went away will again be in the
fold"
AS the meeting was breaking up it
was huFriedly decided to have another
on Kansas Day. January 20. 1t was
argued that a crowd could be secured
on that day, and the meeting will be
called at 4:30 in the afternoon.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The resolutions adopted by the boss
buster meeting, which Chairman Stubs
referred to as their Declaration of In
dependence, were as follows:
Resolved. That we hereby approve
and indorse the administration of Theo-
dore Roosevelt and point with pride to
him as the highest type of American
citizenship His public and private life
is stainless, his courage, integrity and
unflinching fidelity to civic righteous
ness have inspired the whole people to
higher ideals of public life. and a more
thorough discharge of official duty.
Therefore, we hereby unanimously
pledge ourselves to his support and de-
mand his nomination for president of
the United States.
Believing that the Republicans of
Kansas are in favor of just and upright
government, we, assembled to consider
the best interests of our party. endorse
the principles declared by our courage
Gus president, Theodore Roosevelt, who
says: No crime calls for Sterner repro
baton than the crime of the cOrruD-
seeks to corrupt him. The bride giver
and the bride taker are equally guilty
Both alike sin against the primary law
of the states safety All questions of
difference in party policy sink into in
significance when the people of this
country are brought face to face with
a question like this, which lies at the
root of honest and decent government.
I'VE declare that the machine meth
DDS of the present state administration
are such as to conduce to the corrup-
ton, bribery and evils in the public
service so strongly condemned by Pres
ident Roosevelt. These methods are
calculated to destroy public confidence,
to corrupt legislation, to make impos-
sible an efficient public service, and if
not rebuked by the party within itself
will inevitably lead to the reputation
of the party by the people at the polls.
These conditions have been pertinently
expressed by that intrepid and admir-
able Republican, E. w. Hoch, who says:
But the movement is not personal
1t is vastly more than that. 1t Is a
movement widespread and intense and
impersOnal in its character. I believe
that the hearts of a great majority of
the people Of the state beat in unison
with it. It is not inspired by any man,
or in the interest Of any man. 1t grows
out of unwise leadership; of unfair
standards of Republicanism; of faction
al intolerance; of the multiplicity of
useless offices; of extrava gance in pub
lie expenditures; of enormous increase
of the burdens Of taxation; of the inter-
ference of coordinate branches of the
state government with the functions Of
each other; of the traficking in public
trusts to subserVe private and factional
ends. In a word, it is a eliminating
protest against the skull and cross bones
in politics. In the general desire to
right these wrong and correct these
abuses share most cordially and fully.
With the spirit of this movement, which
would wrest our beloved party from the
domination of leaders who care more for
faction than they do for the party or
the state, I am in hearty sympathy
The Republicans of Kansas want a
man for governor who has the same
high aims and purposes as those pos
sessed by President Theodore Roosevelt.
They demand a man for that high office
who holds honesty and sterling integ-
rity above pelf, Doodle and public plum
der; they demand a man who believes
in the right, and who possesses the
moral courage to drive out unrighteOuS-
ness in the administration of public of
flee and enthrone righteousness in the
place thereof; they demand a man for
governor who is big enough and cour-
ageous enough to bow to no boss ex-
cept the people of the state of Kansas,
and who worships at no shrine except
the shrine of conscience. They want to
nominate a man for governor, whose
name on the ticket will be an assurance
to the people of the state that the time
of corruption, Doodle and boSSism is for
ever at an end.
I'VE believe that in the Hon. E w.
Hoch Kansas will have a governor who
can rise above the practice of factional
politics, who will conduct the affairs of
his department with the dignity COM
mensurate with the greatness of the of
flee, and who will discharge his oonsti-
tutional duties with an eye single to the
needs of the people.
I'VE hereby declare him to be our
choice for the nomination for the office
Of governor and ask all good Republi-
cans to go to the primaries and assist
in sending delegates to the state con-
vention favorable to his nomination"
THOSE WHO WE'RE THERE.
1t was impossible, of course, to OBJ
tain a complete roster of those present
at the meeting. A good many of those
in attendance claimed to be there only
from curiosity and took no part save
as spectators. They would not respond
even when the names of their counties
were called. Among those who were in
the crowd, by counties, were the fol-
lowing, representing AZ of the los coun-
ties in the state:
Anderson-John A. Rankin.
Atchison-W. T. P. Donald, L. NJ
PIummer, S. H. Fletcher, C. H. Young.
Baritone. Swartz.
Bourbon-John H Order, w. R
Waggoner. J. H. Richards
! Butler-T. B. Murdoch, S.. H. Bran
don, Bruce Leydig, Fremont Leidy.
| Comanche-C. F. Biddle.
! Cloud-Gomer T. Davies, w. w
Caldwell.
Chase-Mat Mcdonald.
Cowley-W. ]. Wilson.
Clay-D. c. Fraser, A. E. Need
LEONARD Pfster.
Cherokee-R. w. Blue, E. B. Scher-
merhorn.
Douglas-O. E. Learnard w. R
Stubs, o. G. Richards. Charles Pilla
ID Dickinson-s. S. Smith, H. T. Morgan
w. N. Hawley.
Greenwood-Geo. E. Tucker, ]. w
Geary-Geo. w. Mcknight, w. S
Roark, w. H. Mackey.
Jefferson-C. N. Brooks, A. B. Brown
! NJ a WILSON j n. Johnson.