The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
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I
plain if ne feels that while his COM
/ plant is pending he viii be singled out
I by the railroads for punishment. Our
/ law is in accord with Presi-
/ dent Roosevelt's recommendations, with
! few exceptions.
! I'VE fix the actual rate instead of tn e
maximum rate, and our commission IS
not limited to action uDOn complaint
4 but may act upon its own motion
! Il believe both of these elements are
necessary in order to afford an AIDE
4 quate remedy, and though we may not
get it from the United States senate
/ as at present organized, it viii leone. as
/ it has come in Wisconsin, as 1t viii
/ come in Kansas
And the message that would leave
with you today is, demand first of all
and through all. honesty in your pub
/ lie servants. Don't trust any man IN
/ politics whim you wouldn't trust IN
/ business.
Remember that activity will do you
I no good if you permit the opposition to
i make all the nominations. Your cam
paign should begin now. Organize
/ now. Organize in all your parties and
! throughout all the state let it go forth
/ that you viii support none but honest
! men. Adopt a primary election law,
| nominate and elect honest men. and
you won't have to fight for any legisla-
ton, for then whatever is necessary
4 and just will be enacted as a matter Of
/ course"
Permanent Organization.
The executive committee presented
the following plan for permanent or
/ ganizatiOn.
A permanent organization to be
made by this convention to continue
! to carry into effect the objects of the
| convention as set forth by resolution.
l. A state executive committee to
! be composed of two members for each
| congressional district, and five at
/ large. Those from each congressional
/ district to be selected by the delegates
i to this convention from such dis
I tricts and the five at large to be
/ meetin gt0 be held Immediately after
Il the adjournment of the convention.
! This executive committee shall have
] power to appoint subcommittee to
/ carry out this plan of organization.
2 County organizations to be
/ formed under the direction of the
| state executive committee, organizers
for each county represented there to
| be selected by the delegates from said
| counties, and for counties not repre-
! sented to be appointed by the eX-
| ecutive committee. Township and
ward organizations to be formed in
! each county on the same plan.
3. The state executive committee
shall hold until it's successors are
/ elected at a state convention to be
/ called by the executives committee not
later than March, 9OT. 5a-
4 In order to carry out the work
of this association, money will be re-
quired. and it is recommended that
membership fee of so cents be
charged, Is cents of which to go to
the state executive committee
5. Each delegate to this conven-
| ton on his return home shall imme-
| diately join with the county organiza- <
ton in his county.
6. All associations Of farmers, mer-
chants, shippers and Iaporers approx
ing the objects of this association are
invited and urged to cooperate IN
carrying these principles into effect.
Governor Hoch's Speech.
Governor Hoeh's speech was as fol-
"This splendid gathering is reassur-
ing and inspiring. 1t is an omen of
much good to this great state. Here
are assembled a great cOncourse of
farmers, stOckmen. business men of
all classes, shippers of all kinds, plain
! common citizens from every part of
the state, men who are not candidates
for office, men with no personal pO-
litical axes to grind. with no faVOrite
candidate to boom, with no MERGE
nary motive of any kind prompting
their presence. You are here repre-
senting diversified but mutual com
mercial interests. knowing YOUR rights
and daring to assert and maintain
them. You are not calamity hOwIers
magnifying conditions; you are not
demagOgues appealing TO prejudice
/ and passion; YOU are not APOSTLES of
the present prosperity which fills the
Golfers and gladdens the hearts of the
people, but rejoice in it; you are not
enemies, but real friends of the great
railroad interests. Your warfare is
| offensive only so far as its defensive
nature compeIs it to be. You are here
to protest against corporate favor to
the few against the many, to seek a
remedy for these recognized wrongs
in a word, to demand a square deal
; all around With the spirit and pur-
pose of this gathering thus defined,
! he who temporarily serves you in the
and tenders YOU personally and Off
| cially all possible cooperation and
( assistance.
Too Many Perqnisites.
Gentlemen, one Of the most hope
full signs of the times is the awaken
ing of the rank and file of our coun-
trymen to the practical problem of
government. When the people are
aroused the country is safe. From
one end of the country to the other
conscience and of an increasing in
terest in civic affairs on the part of
5 the everyday citizen. Too long has
= the petty politician largely dominated
z parties and controlled the country.
? perpetuating his tenure by prostituting
> his Office to personal ends and par
tisan and fractional interests. With him
party platform and promises were
. only Tor campaign purposes ana were
? contemptuously ignored when the day
{ for ful6llment came. Offices within
, his gift We're mere peTquisites with
which to purchase additional power.
/ So common was this method of dis
? tribu6ng patronage that the public
conscience had become scared to the
fact that it was always essentially cor
rupt, that it was a species of boodling
with office, which, inteligently an
alyzed is worse than boodIing with
q money. Our governmental sins. both
of omission and commission, have
chiefly been the result of machine
politics. 7 am a partisan; I am be
/ lever in political parties. Under our