The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-28
KANSAS CONHENT


A COMMON SENSE VIE
one Of the things that a paper loses
Dy not being stand patter is the
printing of the constitutional amend
nents at a dollar per square This
KIND OF printing is always at the dis
posal of the powers that be, and we
nave no complaint to make at being
cut out OF it. It is no more than fair
that the papers that can always be
counted on to boost the ticket under all
circumstances, should receive whatever
Iavors the party has to give. That IS
! pohtlcs. A party that will not treat
us own papers better than it treats 9TH
er papers when it can legally do so,
Will soon be a dead party. But this pa
per does not wish to be considered a
party organ any more. 1t does not wish
70 De under party obligations. 1t pre-
Iers TO be known as a newspaper that
DeHeVes In Republican principles as set
forth by President Roosevelt and his
Irlenos-a paper that believes the Re
puDhcdn party is the best party there
Is a paper that Will always support the
H6puDlcan ticket unless it thinks it has
good reasons for not doing so: but that
yet feels free to commend any good
measure other parties may advocate, or
oppose any bad measure the Republic
cans may advance; and whenever the
RATS, the Aldriches, the BurtCns, KEEL
lys and railroad interests dominate a
convention and dictate ticket we
want TO be free to say just what we
think about it. Our Judgment will
sometimes be faulty no doubt, but we
nope 1t viii not be prejudiced. In this
way we believe the paper can better
serve the interests of Jewell county
! people than 1t can as a strict party
organ that is always expected to be
candid only when candor will not hurt
the party. We make these statements
because we want only such recognition
from the Republican party as it is will
ing 70 give to a paper occupying this
posiuon.-Jewell Republican.
A CLAY CENTER VIEW.
nasty examination of the records at
| Topeka discloses the fact that in at
| least five instances the state school fund
commissioners, of whom the attorney
general is one, have purchased bonds
issued under the provisions of the ''un-
constitutional law that Clay Center
has been attempting to operate under
and the transactions had the attorney
generals approval. It seems that the
sacredness of the funds set aside for
the education of the children Of Kan
sas is not to be compared to the sa-
greatness of the interest of the Clay
! Center Light company Then, too, Mr..
/ Coleman is not attorney for nor a
4 stakeholder in some private company
1 to whose interest it was to hold up
those bonds. That law is 'unconstitu-
tional' only in the case of Clay Center.
Clay Center Dispatch.
LAFOLLETTE'S RECOMMEND.
J. L. Bristow's boom for United
/
impetus in this part of the state. by
the visit of Senator LaFollette of Wis
consin, who publicly advocated the cleo
/ ton OF BristoW in his speech at Lin
coin park last Friday The people of
this state believe in LaFollette and the
/ things he advocates. They know also
that he would sanction the candidacy
of no man unless he had every reason
I to believe that man was honest and in
sympathy with the people in this fight
against corporate control. Hence his
open advocacy of Bristow's candidacy
added great strength to Mr.. Bristow
in this part Of the state.-Downs News.
FOR PRESIDENT.
The feeling is growing all over this
country that the proper man to succeed
/ Theodore Roosevelt is Robert NJ. La
/ Toilette OF Wisconsin. He would have
/ the determined and bitter opposition Of
all the politicians, all the railroads, all
the big corporations and trusts, but the
! people would be back of him. and they
count some.-Rools County Record.