The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-04
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resolutions. order Of business. perma-
nent order of business and credentials
be appointed.
z r. Ridgely moved as a substi-
tute that the committees be selected
by the delegates from each congress
sional district.
". r. Eyster, Green Sallyards and
others spoke against Ridgeley's sub
stitute. The matter was threshed out
with elaborate profusion in true Pop
ulistic fashion. Nearly everybody made
a speech Finally a motion was made
to table the substitute, and this mo-
ton carried by vote of 40 to %. The
original motion carried
Senator Keefer's Speech.
Horace Keefer. former senator from
Leavenworth, asked permission to ad-
dress the convention, and this was
granted. Mr.. Keefer read his re-
marks He said:
Once upon a time-not so very
long agO-Wiliam Allen White in
hurried space filing article made him
self popular by his What's the Matter
With Kansas His answer was Pops.
Today the burden Of his song is that
me Republican party is not all Pops.
From the outgoing of Leedy and
Bryan the land reverberated with,
| WHAT'S the matter with the Pops? In
fact so hackneyed had become the
phrase I began to think Babb and
were the only ones left in Kansas.
/ Who was Pop? mere handful of
razor-back indictments who hid out
way down in the pines of Florida and
said something about public owner
snip. direct votes of the people, legal
tender money that was not commodi-s
lles, government banks initiative and
referendum. etc, later emphasized at
/ Omaha, which fired the brains of men
who had capacity to think and reason
outside Of influences inspired by their
] bankers, doctors, lawyers, preachers.
/ fathers. Yes. till the whole country
sat up and took notice of this new
/ brotherhood doctrine and forced the
/ let alone crowd to brand them anarch-
lists, vile thing that would disturb
/ our institutions and disrupt the great
/ privileges of the CRATER and those of
! vested rights-at least he was a crank,
a whiskers and must be published as a
! fool, and as he could not be taken out
/ and shot for treason, he should be
killed off by absorption. by infection
! and Vaccinated with the virus of his
! own poison-democracy There were
/ John Browns then@bless then1-who
/ declared they were better dead than
alive with this deadly poison in their
/ veins. and who today from their
graves point the finger Of Scorn and
say, I told you So Yes, we sold our
| birthright for a mess of pottage. But
/ let US see if it was worth while The
Mill End ad brought people to the
bargain counter and they bought and
examined all sorts of goods they
thought they had no use for, and
! showed them to III cir children and
4 neighbors a. curiosities and soon other
/ devices for the catch penny were re-
sorted to and great department.
/ houses were making runs on Billy's
and Teddy's, till lot the crazy quilt
/ Pop fabric became popular and today
one is not in the fashion unless he has
at least one of the Toms reasons for
La particular make. and the president
has said. This is the day for pAfehed
( trousers to appear
I'VE gods. what imitators of clown
ish testers.
Yes we jay Pops got lost at these
bargain counters. 1t was a New Jeru-
salem trade mark that caught US and
we were easy.
Billy said we were all right and he
could fit US. crooked and angular as We
were, and we let him take our meas
ure Well the coat was short ard
/ Shades of Jeffersoni It made us look
like our granddads of a church day
/ and Sapp down there at Ga1ena on all
! days and we were expected to appear
/ and DeLacy Nicou. We are slouchy
cusses and curiosities at Delmonico's
/ or royal banquets. However, Dave
Francis and Henry Watterson say
Billy is now all right. and they ought
to know. A lot Of US. as we were
| drifting about out of sight of land,
| heard the welcome sound of a fog horn
and heaving aside was strenuously told
that we looked like d. asses, that
/ our former tailor was a bOtch. and If
we'd come aboard he'd show US what
a fit was. He began by plucking the
feather and taking the upstandishness
out of the hat and wrote at the top
of the ledger, Reform, reform yourself.
That was all right. Then he began
| to measure US.
Neck chalk the tariff Gee. but
that tickled.
"Bust=the trusts. We felt terra pin
and champagne right inside.
Girt-the railroads. We were riding
on one cent mile and SO cent Pull
mans.
der and fakir. That made US vince a
/ bit for them fellers were our chief
| diversions. And when he said, Wash
| up=the hide and talloW man-we had
| a suspicion he was getting personal.
He soon put US in better spirits, how
ever, by telling us he'd make our
/ trousers sailor fashion so we could
enjoy the ride on his new canal.
He ordered them all right and we
got the outfit and looked heap
pearter. But do we feel so? Ask
yourself If you have one blessed thing
| YOU started after. Not one. You have
been waiting like the easy dupe you've
always been, waiting to be taken in,
running to new bargain counters, d.
verted by side shows while the Band
plays on to the music=Its the best
we can get.
That's what's the matter with the
pops
Hes been looking at the operator
Il to see the bird fly while his picture is
took and It looks to me like. the old
woman that kept tollgate, But can it
be dressed up a bit? The pe9pfe want
what you have got now. Three Tom s
Tom Watson. Tom johnson and
Tom Lawson have helped q lot to put
new faces on the homely figure. To-
day Populism, Socialism stand for the
ethical the logical outcome of scien-
tifc governments. To quote Chief
Justice Coleridge of England The