The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-23
Republicans will Lose if They
Don't Fix Things.
ON ONE CONDITION.
HOch Must Withdraw From
Katy Suit to Win.
Some Of the Mistakes Governor
Has Made.

In a strong editorial appearing In
Fridays Emporia Gazette. William
Allen White lays down the conditions
upon which the Republican ticket can
hope for reelection, and the condi-
itions are such that it is just about
the same thing as putting the Gazette
ION record as "bolting' the ticket.
supplemental to the anti-Hoch edi-
ltoriai, Mr.. White prints another piece
about the Katy land suit. In which
he endorses the action OF ". A. Harris,
land SAYS that there can be no question
what Kansas will do between a gov
lernor who says he viii hold her up to
Ethe buzzsaw for q million dollars fed
feraI taxes and one who says he will
take her away from that danger
( This is an extract from the editorial
fconcerning the chances Of the Repub-
1ican ticket:
There is no possible hope for the
lRepublican state ticket as the matter
lnow stands. Hoch and his associates
Ivviu be defeated by 10000 If the situa-
tion does not change. and there is but
lone way for the situation to change:
lThe candidates themselves must
lchange It. There is q square toed
Interests seeking special privileges
land the people. The railroads with
ttheir high-salaried political attorneys
are seeking to keep railroad taxes
Edown. and rob the people directly by
making the people pay what the rail-
lroads shirk The railroads and their
kpals IN Standard Oil and beef are seek
ling to retain special privileges OF
rates and rebates in Kansas The
railroad attorneys bossed the Repub-
ilican convention, and put up ticket.
IThey did not do it for fun. The peo-
lule can no longer be fooled into think
ing that railroad attorneys are in poll
itics for the game. The candidates on
the Republican ticket are asking Re
publican votes. They are not in need
of railroad support There is just one
way to get Republican votes and that
Is to get on to Republican principles;
the state platform made by the rail-
road attorneys cut out the anti-pass
splank and 1t failed to define itself on
q primary law as specifically as it
should have done. These are the big
issues before the people. 1t will do
candidates no good to stick their heads
In the sand and ignore those Issues
The people insist on discussing them,
and to discuss them will mean to de-
nounce- the Republican eonventoh 1or
ignoring them. The candidates when
they go before the people must make
ST plain to the people that as candi-
dates they are against the Republican
machine that named them; that they
are against treasury looting and the
men who wink at st: that they are
lagainst railroad domination in poll
lSics and that they are in favor Of max
ing law which will put a railroad
attorney In Jail who offers pass to a
ipublic official.
THE Republican party belongs to the
people and not to the grafters, and
bunless the candidates cut loose from
Ithe grafters, the people will reorganize
lfhe Republican party two years from
suow on the wreck Of this years ticket
with this years candidates as horrible
Examples framed upon the walls.
Governor Hoch. who is in Office
bias a chance that the other candidates
20 not have. Three things he can do
will save the party. They are simple
and within his easy reach. He must
iRnforce the prohfbitOry law; he must
sput new life into his prosecution of
the treasury loOters and he must with
draw the Katy suit. Unless he does
Nhese things saltpetre won't save him
next November If it is boiling the
Iicket to advise action that viii save
the ticlzet-then the Gazette is a boil
applied, hts Gazette loves and honors
dow its state ticket to 60 down with
out trying to save it. The fellows who
ere trying a stand-pat policy. are OBJ
iviously paying more attention to their