The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-11

have not mushy heads. His heart is
brave and kind and his head is clear.
Watch him. He is a coming man."
Ottawa Herald: State Treasurer KEEL
~ is no better man now that he is 4
member of the Republican ticket than
he was before; the charges of crirse
against him are no more diSproved by
his denomination. In this instance, also.
the only explanation that can be made
for the conventions action is that The
new machine had the power and used
it.
The evidence of railroad influence
that prevailed in the convention viii
be disappointing to Kansas people who
had looked to the new machine for the
fulfllment of its best promises. The
belief that the Kansas railroad board
should be composed of men who are,
at least, not in alliance with the rail-
roads is one which the average Kan
sas citizen will be slow to surrender,
even at the command of the new and
all-powerful machine. The innovation
of sending two railroad general attor-
neys as delegates to the national con-
Vention at the direction of a railroad
contractor serving as convention chair
man does not harmonic with the
pledges made in behalf of the new
movement in state politics.
Ottawa Herald: The esteemed To-
peka Capital this morning issues the
proclamation, Let RepuDllcanS get
together" Leaving out of the conSid
Grafton the fact that this is a doctrine
which the Capital has not preached for
the last two years. the question may
reasonably be asked, What is the OBJ
ject in having Republicans get to-
gether? 1t has recently been shown
that one man can get out behind the
barn and select a delegation to a party
convention and endow it with more
power than a delegation chosen by Re-
7Ji xrrI1O 17oy~ h1
purpose in the regular way.
Ottawa Herald: Any doubt that may
have existed in the minds of Republi-
cans about the perfection and running
qualities Of the new machine in the Re
publican party is dispeIled by the re-
ports from the Wichita convention. The
new machine headed by Messrs. Stubs,
| Mulvane and Kelly has some points of
superiority over the old one. It is IN
/ der more complete control and runs
/ with less jar. The convention at Wich-
ita has in the main nominated a clean,
creditable ticket. The ticket is headed
| by strong man. No excuse can be
made for the action of the convention in
seating the boiling deIega tons form the
/ First and Second districts. The delega-
tons were illegally selected to enable
men to steal a nomination which they
could not get in the regular way. 1t is
to the shame of the new machine that
| it has not the courage to carry out its
! good promises instead of making an al
! lance with local grating and corrup-
ton without parallel in Kansas Repub-
lican politics. No other explanation can
be made for the seating of the boiling
/ delegations at Wichita than that the ac-
ton was necessary to the interests OF
the men who are running the new ma
chine and that the new machine had
the power to do it,
Lawrence Gazette: In one respect
| n he ,Y,f-x to-
in Kansas politics is more of a machine
than the old one was. The new man
ayers have themselves been forced t.
do things they did not want to do
Hoch was forced to come over to the
Second district to abuse Henry Allen
{ BECAUSE Bowersock thought that wa.
the proper thing to do. Then Bower
sock also forced Stubs and Barker t.
/ let him have half of the Nat Barne.
= delegation, a thing both of them gagged
on. Then when they got to Wichita
: the managers of the new machine wer,
hauled and dragged around, and mad,
to swallow things that tasted bitter
: but the programme as arranged had I,
/ be carried out, for the new machin,
s stood in such deathly fear of the oil
Y one that every advance and retrea
had to be guarded in order to keep tn
4 LELAND fellows from stealing the grul
: wagon. The new organization is
= political machine just as truly as tn
a / Leland organization was, and if
2 doesn't conduct itself properly it
: spokes will be knocked out, just as LIE
f lands were.
4 Lawrence Gazette: In the main. w
: say, the convention did the right an
t proper things. There were two notabl
: exceptions. One was when it admitte
:. the Kelly delegation from Miami, and tn
5 other when it admitted the Nat Barne
t delegation from Wyandotte. Neithe
Il one OF these delegations had the leas
y semblance of right to seats. and thi
the convention knew, and the mana
e gers admitted privately that ther
e could be no justification for the ac
= What shall we say of reform" move
}. ment that at its inception does an &C
5. that would have disgraced the Lelan
n machine at its worst? For the mos
o part, the work of the convention wa