Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-10-11
TR0UTMAN'S ADVICE,
URGES REPUBLICANS TO VOTE
STRAIGHT TICKET.
says II Would Not Promote square
DeaP Cause for Republicans to
Vote Democratic Ticket.

SAYS II Would Not Promote square
DeaP' Cause for Republicans to
Vote Democratic Ticket.
In a speech at WelIsville, Kan
sas. September 27, James A.
Troutman, chairman of the Square
Deal Republican club, told the
voters to stand by the Republican
ticket. Mr. Troutman declared that IL
was not the purpose of the Square
Deal organization to repudiate the
platform of the party, but to enlarge
it SO there will be room for all Repub
llcans and good citizens of the state to
stand upon it in the work OF crystal
izing into law the reforms demanded
by the people. He said the Republl-
cans of Kansas can get the needed re-
forms from their own party, and that
it's congressional, state, legislative ana
judicial candidates can be depended
upon to do the peoples will. MI
Troutman called attention to the fact
that In this campaign no charge OF per-
sonal dishonesty, or political venality
has been lodged against any man on
the Republican state ticket, and that
the administration of the affairs of
state had been SO free from criticism
that the Democrats IN their platform
found nothing toI condemn.
Governor Troutman made 1t plain
that 1t would not promote the Square
Deal cause for Republicans to vote the
Democratic ticket; the only result
would be to weaken the power OF the
Republican party for good. As proof
of this statement, he said:
"In 1882, good many Republicans
thought the party deserved lesson, and
they helped elect Democratic Governor,
For two years we witnessed the humiltat-
ing spectacle of a Governor prostituting
his exalted office to subserve the de-
mands Of the criminals Of the state. AS
fast as Republican courts and Republican
officers convicted violators Of law, they
were pardoned, and given permission, pn-
der the fiat of a Democratic Governor,
to 20 on violating the laws OF the state.
And the acts Of notification OF this DEM
ocratic administration were sustained, by
the united voice Of the party that Is now
making a hypocritical pretense of stand
ing for the enforcement Of law.
'sTen years later some OF you Thought
the party needed another chastisement,
and you Joined the opposition and helped
to put the Republicans out OF power:
There Is nothing left OF that two years
history. now, but an odoriferous reminis-
cence. ~ ,..,..a %
rebuke the party at the polls. And that
two years constitutes an epoch OF political
depravity unparalleled in the states MS
tory. o.,,,,os ,afore Won
do you think it pays to turn your own
marty DOWN.?
Concluding his speech, Mr.. Trout
man pledged every candidate on the
Republican ticket to stand for the re-
forms advocated by the Square Deal
organization. IF 1t were case In
which bond could be given" he said,
81 would not hesitate to sign bond
to the people of Kansas for the full
amount of my meager possessions,
that these pledges will be sacredly
kept"
II embrace this first opportunity to say
that every state, district and county cam
didate upon the Republican ticket will re-
ceive my vote this year The Square
peal Club is essentially and radically a
Republican organization. II eonoones no
nrerneditated offenses committed by indi-
viduaI Republicans but 1t absolves the
great mass Of the party from responsible
itv Tor those offenses It Is fundamental
w interested IN the triumph Of right prin-
cinl,.s and the enactment and enforcement
N iust laws am the keeper Of no mans
conscience. and the guardian OF no mans
hsIiot mt nv own. In my representative
ana cifv / have asked candidates TO de-
fine their attitude upon these quesuonH
and they have done 30. Believing tnAi
they are actuated BY pure motives ana
natrfotic desires, personally, accept tneII
piedres al par and shall give them my
iov,ai support This Is campaign LOT
principles, and not a crusade against
men,
With the hope of inJuring Governor
Hoch with the people the Democratic
managers and the Kansas City Star
are accusing the Governor with being
IN lea1ue with Charlie Curtis and the
railroads to elect Curtis senator. The
hest proof that the governor has
formed no entangiing alliances with
anvbodv on the senatorial question IL
tbst he never consulted any politicians
~ any faction when he appointed
Judrs Benson as senator. Had be had
an alliance such as the Democrats
sccuse him Of he most eertainly
would have appointed the man in the
alliance