The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-05-24
The Kansas Brand.

kansans always were UNIQUE lot.
The Republicans of that state pulled
Off their convention lately, and, as
usual, many queer things We're said
and done. For instance, Governor
Hoch, who is accused of trying to kiss
Ex-Governor Stanley's wife, was re-
nominated with whoop. But it was
on the tariff that the Kansans showed
at their worst. State Chairman Stnbbs,
who was fighting kisser Hoch's renom-
ination, in calling the convention to
order was moved by the spirit to make
a speech and said inter ALA. I'VE know
that the greatest robber in the country
today is the great steel trust made
possible by an unreasonable protective
tariff That was the keynote to
Brother Stubbs' remarks. 1t was clear
and ear compelling. A Democrat could
not have stated it more luminously.
What's more, it's Democratic doctrine.
Perhaps Stubs was speaking that way
because he thought that way. Perhaps
he was doing 1t to worry Hoch the
Kisser and his whoopers-up. Perhaps
he was trying to stampede the conven-
tion to himself, thinking that the COLO
cation of words Governor Stubbs"
would look well In print and would fill
the trump of fame. Not being in the
confidence of Chairman Stubbs, can
not state definitely what his motive
was, but when he spoke of IAN unrea-
sonable protective tariff" making the
steel trust possible Stubbs hit the nail
squarely on the head and talked more
sense than is usual with Kansas Re
publicans.
But Stubbs' thunder was in tn, in
dex only, What he said seemed to
mean business, but when the platform
committee spoke it said this pltiful
thing in the nature of straddle, Its
protective policy proyokes controversy
only between revisionists and stand
patters." The old ostrich caper over
again. Controversy only between re-
visionists and stand pattersw only
Ask Secretary Shaw and Governor
Cummins what they think of the con
troversy "only" between revisionists
and stand patters as bagatelle. They
could give these bleeding Kansans
some valuable pointers as to the force
and meaning of the word "only" In
that connection.
To mere locker on in Vienna II ap-
pears that eX-United States Senator
William A. Harris, the Democratic
nominee for governor, ought to beat
Hoeh the Kisser out OF his boots on
such platform as that, There is no
sort of trouble to prove that Stubbs
was correct In denOuncing the steel
trust as the premier robber of the age,
made possible by an unreasonable pro-
Iective tasiff. When coupled with that
statement Is the further fact that
the Republicans made and maintain
hat unreasonable protective tariff, It
Is clear that they made the steel trust
possible, and 1t is equally clear that
hey do not intend to remedy the sitn-
alton. Sensible people everywhere
snow that the only relief from trust
lnd tarifi' eXactions must be obtained
Jy Democrats. Now, mark you, Mr.
chairman Kansas Republican
state committee, denOunces the steel
rust us the greatest 'robber," etc
Now, robber Is an awful word wnen
Democrats apply II to any schedule 81
lac Dingley bill, but what shall be doue
With and to the beloved Stnbbs?
A Republican Opinion Of Republicans.
The Providence Journal Is a Repuu-
lean papcr. Mr. Alice Is Republican
United States senator. Mr.. Addieks Is
he Republican political creator Of Mr..
Ailee. Addicks says that Alice basely
'etrayed him, and the Journal says;
Few United States senators resign an.
er any circumstances, and il IS unlikely
hat even the gas mans sarcastic remind
r that he made the fortune Of the Dover
eweler and gave him the silver on his
able and the hatrack Ia his hall VIII in
uce Mr.. Alice 10 make way for his fellow
ehemer IN the malodorous politics OF tho
tate. Mr.. Alice Is not much as a senator,
septng In mind the BaYards and sauls-
ATys and sirays of that little conamoa.