The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-29
WHAT WILL WHITE SAYS.
Emporia Editor Discusses Appoint
ment of Mr.. Royce.


Under the heading, 1.-THE Threaten
ed Row." William Allen White pub
fishes the following editorial on the
appointment of Royce in the Emporia
Gazette:
Governor Hoch has made a num-
Der of his friends mad by the appoint
ment of John Q. Royce as bank COM
missioner. There is no question of
Mr.. Royce's fitness for the place.
There is no question but that he is an
honest man and a loyal Republican.
Also there is no question but that
some of his best friends and sanest
advisors are angry Just how angry
they are, and how long they will stay
angry, only the future will tell In
addition to these friends, men like
Stubs. Dolley and Murdoch. Cover
nor HOch has incurred the lasting and
certain enmity of the Kelly-Burton
faction. and there-no matter what
Stubs and his friends may do-Gov-
war For that crowd is rule or ruin.
That crowd prodded Bailey until he
committed hari-kari before the whole
state. That crowd has built up a Bes-
semer steel machine. and no consid-
Grafton of state. pride or real interest
at stake will make them let up in
their war.
This is the situation before the Re-
publicans of Kansas today. That it
is unfortunate, that it might have been
avoided by the governor, or by Mr..
Stubbs, it is idle to say. Everyone
knows that Mr. Hoch was confronted
with this dilemma: Going back on
his word pledged to Mr.. Royce after
election, or offending the men who
had made his nomination as governor
possible, and who furnished the real
brains and the best and most unset
fish spirit of the reform movement.
The leader of this group is w r.
Stubs. There is no question. on the
other hand. but that Mr.. Stubs hon
estly believed the appointment of Mr..
Royce would be a blunder, from every
standpoint, and there is no question
but that he had a right to protest and
have his protest heard. But also no
one who knows Stubs, can believe for
q moment that. when he sees the
situation in its true light-when he
sees that by deserving Hoch he leaves
Hoch to be torn up byA the beasts of
the Burton agerie-Stubbs will
come to the rescue=perhaps not of
his friends as such-but to the rescue
of the Republican party which he has
done so much to bring to its present
high position in Kansas.
The greatest things in the history of
the Republican party in Kansas are
now before the people Questions are
before Kansas for solution which the
whole nation is interested in. Kansas
mas started out in an unbeaten path.
She is blazing a trail in government re-.
lations to the legal morality of corpor-
ations- She is going rather blind. There
are pitfalls in the way At the very
best, she will make mistakes The best
judgment of the best men in Kansas,
the highest patriotism and the most I'M
selfish devotion to state, are needed right
now in the high places of the Republic
can party. Harmony about minor and
irrelevant matters is vital Wisdom is
not born of spiteful brawls, and the
kind of judgment and sense that w. R
Stubs has shown is needed right where
it will do the most good. He cannot at
ord oil Of 4 or an
American-to break with Governor
Hoch. Stubs cannot afford to see the
good work he has helped to start, come
to nothing by a foolish row in the Re
publican party. Stubs drafted Hoeh
for governor. Kansas now must draft
Stubbs for Hoch's guide and friend.
What is the appointment of a bank
commissioner to the big things that are
personal friendship, affronts, sights
real or fancied-what are jealousies and
injuries to politicians, to the big human
universal problem that Kansas is trying
honestly but so unsurely to solve? For
the Burton crowd Kansas can have no
feeling other than disgust. From them
it expected nothing and has got moth
ing. But of Stubs and HOch, whoever
was wrong-and they both had much
right in their contention-of Hoch and
Stubs and the patriotic, sane, high
minded element of the Republican par
ty the Kansas people have a right to
demand harmony at any cost, that a
united party may go forward taking up
the great things now before the people
and solving them with all the heart ana
soul and mind that has made the Re
publican party in the past the great
party that it is.
''It is the cause Of the people-the
peoples war, and the quarrels of the
generals. no matter how just and no
matter who is right-can only bring
good to the enemies of the people"
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