The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

nation. Newlin was one Of the leaders
Of the boss buster movement in the
Seventh district.
William Allen White is severe on
our Congressman Charles Curtis in an
editorial in the Gazette. White can be
severe at times and this is one of the
times A few stray copies Of the Ca
zette have been passed around through
the state house and the politicians
who have seen it are discussing the
matter. 1t has made no little stir
among the Curtis followers who have
already got most of the members of
the next legislature pledged in his be-
half The article is readable. White
gets ten cents a word for some articles
he writes. but this is thrown in here
with the regular weeks subscription
to the paper, which is only ten cents
per whole week. Now count up the
number of words you get in seven
issues of the State Journal, multiply
them by ten and see if this gives you
your moneys worth Here is the
editorial:
.'The announcement of Charles Curtis
a. candidate for the United States SEN
IS made by the Kansas City Journal and
the Topeka Capital There IS no doubt
that Mr.. Curtis Will be in the rOnuins
and that he viii represent Il considerable
minority if not ma Ority OF the Is anSdS
people if he is elected. He has about the
average Kansas intelligence ard about
the average Kansas moral sense. Tsut
for all that he should not be sent 10 rhe
senate For if Kansas is to have any
power in the nation her public men must
be of a higher grade OF Intelligence ttian
that OF the average man. Curtis III the
house has one specialty-IndIanS, and on
that subject he IS considered, but on all
other subjects he is a bound boy at
husking-With his finger in his mouth,
mere spectator of a game. He is the lead
er of q mediocre delegation from Kansas
only by reason of the seniority of his ser
vice He is not a leader by reason Of his
Curtis is far below the house average
in general information in intellectual
viewpoint and in moral vision In the
senate he would be merely hustier LOT
patronage. He would never become a
leader. He would never be able to map
out a policy on any of the great questions
that are about to come up for solution IN
this country. In the senate Curtis would
be about such a senator as tWO-thirds of
the nObodies who are sent there from
the prairie and sage-brush states. He is
of the same piece of goOds-not a rotten
piece by any means; but not strong
piece-iust figured calico that no one
kansas is old enough now to improve
the breed of her statesmen Kansas 97s
low rank in congress because her con-
gressmen as a rule don't know anything.
For the most part they are cheap people
tics; men who, when they lose their JOBS.
lose their standing: men who never read
a book, who know little of the drift and
tendency of things in the economic world;
who know nothing of current affairs in
literature, in art. in science in those
subjects which give a man breadth and
clearness of vision on practical affairs. 1t
is all very funny to refer to culture as
'culchaW,' and sheer at it, but until the
Kansas delegation in congress is graded
up, until the runts and scrubs and long
horns are culled out of the delegation,
Kansas will not amount to much in the
nation. And by all means Kansas will
gain nothing by putting the champion
fence-jumping native into the upper
house of congress.
There are Il thousand unexpectedly
ten thousand would be nearer it-whO
have more ability to represent Kansas in
the senate than Charles Curtis-men of
culture and business acumen, who have
succeeded in life as lawyers, as doctors,
as farmers as merchants, men of lib
eral education who know what civiliza
ton means; men who have we'll grounded
opinions upon the great problems that
soon will be vital political questions be-
telligent state in the union; Curtis repre-
sents its average intelligence; but the
men who make statesmen in this country
are above the intelligence of their fell
lows; they are leaders; they the scholars
and men of genius Lincoln was such n
mana seIf-made man. who had great
executive genius; Roosevelt is such a man
AN educated man with genius for
work. The senate leaders of the coming
generation will not be the men of aver
&c intelligence-but men who have the
broad view and clear vision that can
come only to men of high intellectual ca
pacity Kansas could have such man
if she would. but Curtis doesn't fill that
jOllier-a mixer. a PATRONAGE broker; p
political manipulation who all his life will
be what he is today. He will always be
a third rater if he goes to the senate, and
while he represents his district we'll
enough. he is not a big enough man to
stand for Kansas"