The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26
TIE SCRATCHED TICKET.

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There is a strange apathy in state
politics. The Democrats do not seem tc
be doing much and the Republicans are
lodging the state issues. So far as the
national ticket is concerned, there Is
something doing. There generally is ac-
tiviity in whatever Roosevelt is con-
/ cerned and interested. Mark the con-
trast between the feeling of the peo-
pie toward the state ticket and their
enthusiasm over the national ticket.
Roosevelt will receive. a tremendous
majority i'm Kansas. 1t would not sur
prise the State Journal to see the fig
ures reach hundred thousand. Harri-
son carried Kansas. by eighty thousand /;
Roosevelt should be given not less than
a hundred.
What is the reason for Roosevelt s
great popularity with our people? 1t is
because he does things; does great
things. His actions convince the pub
lie Of his sincerity; of his high motives
and prove his ability to accomplish
things. His whole record in the office
has been one of accomplishment. Not
only Republicans, but thousands of
Democrats and Populists will vote for
first for the good of the whole country.
Too many citizens stand first for
the good of their party.
On the settlement of the great coal
strike, Roosevelt was fearless of any
threats of capital. When deciding the
Miller case he was equally fearless of
any limitations that his action would
antagonize organized labor. In the
Panama case he acted quickly and has
started an important work which has
been delayed and shifted for decades.
The country generally commends his
course.
In the exposure of the postal frauds
he pushed the cases to indictments and
conclusions, even while the evidence
was rejecting upon many of his po-
liticaI friends. Roosevelt is no cow
ard, physical, mental or moral. Good
people love a brave. successful and sin
cere man and that is why he will re-
ceive the overwhelming endorsement
of Kansans in November
Contrast the course of Roosevelt
and the attitude of the masses toward
him with the course of some of the
Republican leaders on the state ticket
and the managers of the Kansas
ticket and the attitude of the people
toward that ticket.
Circumstances have barred complete
enthusiasm over all of the nominal
tons made by the Wichita convention.
There was an alleged big reform
movement on. but the best man on the
old ticket was refused denomination,
and the worst man on the old ticket
was endorsed by denomination. This
put Hoch and Stubs Immediately in
the category of theoretical, rather than
practical reformers.
This paper has for years been an
admirer of Governor Bailey. 1t was
pleased to see him nominated and was
gratified to see him make so good a
governor and is proud of him today
1t regretted to see him denied the
courtesy that had been given to gov
ernors who had been no better than he
has been.
On the other hand, it was a source
of equal regret that a great organiza-
ton like the Republican party of Kan
sas would renominate so bad a man
as T. T. Kelly; a man whom this paper
accused of corruption, and whose cor
ruption was proven. and whose home
county recovered a portion of the
money he had wrongfully taken. The
INepuDncdnS IN power at Ine Wlcnlta
convention knew Kelly was a corrupt
and a bad man. yet in face of the evil
dence they permitted the insult to the
people and to the party by the foisting
of the name on the ticket.
Some things have come up recently
which show other weak spots on the
Republican state ticket. The school
fund commission has done a woefuIly
disreputable thing in the purchase of
the Comanche county bonds. tinctured
with fraud; the late purchase forming
an unfortunate addition to other dis
credited and defaulted securities held
by the state school fund from the
same Comanche county.
Had Mr. Hoch been brave like
Roosevelt, or firm like Parker, he
would have told Stubs to repudiate
Kelly and refuse to permit him to dis
grace the ticket. Hoch is sentiment
tally a good sort of a man, but he has
his weaknesses and they will result in
decreasing his majority by thousands
and thousands over that which Kan
sas will give Roosevelt.
Mr.. Hoch is the man who said:
Every one whose bosom throbs with