The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-05

p Waggener thinks that a fair enun-
Grafton would show Atchison county to
nave q population Of near $4,000. The
city can show near 10000 people ana
the rest of the county ought to show
1900. The commissioners say they
nave no money to pay for the work
and the city council dorfSed last night
that, since the commissioners would
not do their part of the work. 1t would
De useless to go to the expense OF
enulnerating the city again. It would
pc joke If Atchison county should
lose a representative and have another
county put in this senatorial district
At one time the county had two sena-
tors and three representa- ives and it
would be great humiliation to cut US
| OF with one representative and third
Of senator"
In speech at Humboldt on Thurs
day evening, State Treasurer Z. T..
Kelly took occasion to even up some
old scores With W. r. Stubs and the
Square Dear movement. Kelly
roasted the whole programme OF the
Square Dealers. and abused them for
selecting poker name. He init
mated that President Roosevelt had
originated the name because of poker
playing knowledge.
After taking a large sample Of cpl
dermis from the Square Dealers, in
divldually and collectively, Mr.. Kelly
dipped into the taxation question, and
defended the present basis of assess
ment of railroads. He said that the
railroads are already paying more than
their share of the tax
Concerning the Square Deal move
ment. Mr.. Kelly said:
THE candidates on the ticket are
the creatures Of the party convention
and they have no right to assent TO
supplemental platform, gotten up and
propounded by set Of disgruntled
politicians. The platform adopted
treats on all public questions forcib!y
and without euuivocation. 1t is good
enough to win the election on, il 1t and
the candidates remain loyal to each
other.
LAS result of the convention S. c.
drummer was made chairman of the
Republican state central committee,
and it IL he to whom all good Repub-
leans are to look for orders as to the
party matters, and not to w r. Stubbs
and Jim Troutman.
TT is a we'll recognized fact that no
two seasons are exact duplicates. And
so it is with political campaigns. There
are strange features. surprising feat
ures, in this campaign we are now en-
gagged in. For instances. We are hear
ing much of the Square Deal This
so called Square Deal has been in
jected into the campaign by set OF
presumed Republicans whose Repup-
licanism did not stand the test of de-
feat and disappointment in the party
convention of last May
1.-The term Square Deaf is not new.
1t originated in gambling and among
games of chance. Every man and /
may add every Woman. Nwho has IN
dulged in the great American game of
draw poker. or the more conservative
games of bridge-whist and high five,
knows what deal means. In our
ready adaptation Of one word to more
pungently express the meaning of an
other. we at some time acquired the
habit of using the word straight as
synonymous with honest And then
it was but a short step TO the use OF
square when we meant straight
venient to say square deal. than TO
say honest deal and there we have
the origin of the Square deal
TN the connection in which the
square deal is being used in our kan
sas campaign it was borrowed from
our strenuous president, who, being
thoroughly American. is perhaps him.
self not without knowledge Of the
great American game.
pretending TO admire the presi-
dent and indorses the things he stands
for, our Kansas square dealers are
attempting to use the square dear
! to coerce Kansans into doing things
the president does not indorse and
that conditions or fair treatment Of all
people do not warrant
"Our self-styled square dealers are
proceeding today on the theory that
they and they alone must save the Re-
publican party from itself Their cry
is all on the score of party service.
There is A way for these square
dealers to both save and serve the
party. and to save themselves as Re
pubIicans. Let them keep the COM
mandments as made by the party in
its authorized convention. Let them
/ give of their personal ideas-ideas
turned down by the majority of the
party-to the poor. Democracy in
kansas is always poor as regards is
sues.
pointment in the defeat of his pet
plans, who sulks at temporary retire
ment from party prominence, who
can not relinquish control of party or
ganization at the will of the majority
is not a loyal Republican He will not
give up personal advantage TO party
advancement.
ssThis SQUARE Deal in Kansas had
its birth in the defeat and disappoint-
ment which overlook certain ambit-
ious men at the Republican state con-
vention. It was fostered in spirit on
the part of its sponsors who would
rather see the Republican party beat
en- and destroyed than to give up their
own personal advantage and follow
the Republican party To personal
spleen and rancor the organization OF
this movement with its poker name
can certainly be traced
The following is the conclusion
which Mr.. Kelly drew concerning the
question of railroad taxation in Kan
sas.
ut is shown by official reports that
railroad property is assessed higher in
the state of Kansas than other classes
of property, and assessed higher than
the same class of property in other
states. In the 1900 census report it
is shown that the average tax paid
per mile by railroads in the United
states is 1897. In Kansas last year
the amount of taxes paid per mile by
all of the roads of this state was
S30023, or S6S-2S more than the aver
are tax paid per mile by the roads of
the United States
Leavenworth, Kan. Oct 5.-Chaii-
man E. B. Baker of the Republican