The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-25

strike his victim from safe ambush in the
dark. know the full import of the fore
going words. 1 know all the perfidy and
dishonor they. portray, but whatever the.
world may think of them, now. or hereaf-
are trueEone is j. r. Burton and the 9TH,
er is Theodore Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt Ambition.
Il believe there are others, and know
ing the man as they do, many who do
not know the facts in this case do know
that he is capable of doing all. and more
than I have charged against him. This
was why I was first struck down, why
was bounded for years, for a crime new
er committed; while all the vast enginery
of the government was brought against
me; why perjury, subordinatioh of per-
jury, Intimidation of some, and promo
ton of other government official immune
ity to criminals; why every crime that
can surround court of justice was COM
mitted to hunt me to death,
ITO convince any fair minded man that
malice 1 need only recite that he in
lcensed because he could not keep me %
B He highly honored ex-senator Pritch-
ard, who acknowledges to being guilty OF
the crime with which was accused. He
overlooks the acts of another senator, the
evidence of whose guilt is in writing, filed
are samples of hundreds of cases which
illustrate his much Wanted policy of
forgotten statute. that four of the justices
of the supreme court say does not Apply
My only possible crime, if guilty, was
the violation of a law, by misinterpreta-
tion-a law that neither L nor my col
leagues knew was on the statute books.
If / was bound to interpret 1t Alright, or
6 6e gg I'll OF the Mpa u couP who
divided as nearly as that court can divide
to its meaning?
was I? What am 1 now? l had, without
wealth by my own efforts won the conf
proud a constituency can be found in
this country, or in the world: That peo-
pie had bestowed on me the highest honor
they had to give. L had done in Kansas
what Roosevelt never could have done ia
New York. but for the accident of the
Spanish-Amerlcan war. with the mighty
force that accident placed in his hands
power bi,IIa Ins rom nY high POSITION
strips me of my henors, send me to jail,
pii!ories my name with the brand OF e
on me a badge of infamy 1 must wear
through life, and yet his malice is not APP
IF perchance. am free from, such
would not wisdom hold my
any Kind of earthly honors or regal trap
picgs bring ease to a mind full OF SUCH
thought of me, is not his malice most pit
liable? Can any American citizen see such
executive without feeling of humiIia-
ton? -t
Fears No Mailed Hand. 'i
'.I have OWNED his motive in thus try
not, never can be, satisfied. He asDires
20 hollOrS greater than were accorded to
Wa shington, Lincoln or Grant. He fears
I am not quite dead, and buried beyond,
He would utterly destroy
me. In that he can not succeed. His
malice shall defeat itself
IT do not believe in the law of oppor-
unity SO, classically expressed by Ingalls,,
That is the opportunity Of the adventurer
md the gambler. 1t is the philosophy Of
,hance., hate and despair I believe in
instead of coming but once, with stern
Usage, and If not admitted and embraced,
Inocks eternally at every gate; that the
nigel yistant is always. just outside. the
he hand of love.
Malice. haze, revenge. ambition, covet-
.usness and other evil passions always
anne with thatkind of opportunity describe
i by the Kansas philosopher and post.
,uch OPT ortunity is ever evanescent IN
erta ir; unreal DISAPPOINTING. s But there
'ertunity that is ever present, all power
ul. satisfying, and ever available to
" love. Even
The gate that's chained by hate to hate
Opens wide to love.
with a consciousness of innocense and
With heart brimful of life and hope I
ore me. Yes, shall succeed in spite OF
is fury AS have opened the, door of
gain, and again, in the future I'm open !"
cit with all the power. of his mighty
losed against me, nor against any man
rho VIII waste no time in provoking.
OF brcoding over injury, but has an
oidins talIh IN the philosophy of good"
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