The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-05
KANSAS CONNENT
Is THIS THE ANSWER i?

IS THIS THE ANSWER?
The Lawrence Journal which is re-
Darded as the organ closest to Stubbs,
says frankly that 1.-THE offices should go
70 the square dealers" Is this to serve
iotice that on or before certain date
the square dealers will file claim to
al the political offices within the gift
OF Kansas? If it is. what a pity!
we have assumed heretofore that
when the square dealers" took up the
cause OF good government upon plan
they had themselves formulated, it was
Tor the reason that being of the people.
they were for the people; that their in
terest was not inspired by the desire
20 promote personal affairs but that
tns1r sole purpose was 10 nelp the
whole people. There may have been
an unwritten plank in the square
GEAR platform demanding all the jobs
Tor the faithful. but there have been a
great many recruits in that organiza-
elon VINO never suspected lis existence
1t there was such a plank, then these
men nave been betrayed.
The square dealers" want the jobs,
ana they are Roing to get them II they
can Lhis may or may not be on tho
presumption that they could trust no
one else to carry out their reforms and
their pledges. That probably is not
me case. for there are men outside
pc found in it. men whose sole aim in
well.
If the Square dealers were after
the jobs from the beginning. then their
pronouncementS and their Subscrlp-
t1ons TO square deal fund were mere
ly steps in the progression which was
to win them personal benefit No man
can serve two masters. and this Is most
strictly true of the man in politics. If
ne Is after personal gain, it may be de-
pended upon that he never had very
deeply at heart the interests of his
state or of any thing else except him
self. That is the way demagogueS are
made. and the square dealers in now
demanding their reward are branding
themselves demagogues. Is there no
honesty and unselffshness among men?
Times.
ALLEN AND MURDOCH
The Associated Press dispatches
state that the Republicans of st. Louis
like Henry j. Allen. who made an ad-
dress before the Republican club of
that city last week. OF course they
like him. Even his political enemies
IN Kansas can not Withstand the
Establishments OF Henry's, winning
speakers in Kansas. and as an I'M
promptu debater probably has the
whole field beaten. He has announced
that he is not in politics in the accept
ed term of wanting office, though some
time Kansas will awaken to his real
worth and do a little job of drafting
that will be eminently satisfactory TO
many of his friends and admirers. Bur-
lingame people have watched Henry's
career with deep interest. owing to the
fact that a portion of his boyhood days
were spent here. This gives to this
town an interest in two of the young
Murdoch and Henry AL
len. and there are no better nor bright
er men in public life in Kansas today.
Chronicle.
BOOM FOR REID.
Albert T. Reid's pictures have done
more toward advertising Kansas than
have the efforts of any other man, save
those of Secretary Coburn. The Re-
publicans should give Mr.. Reid the
nomination for state printer. Tom
McNea1 would like to have a third
term but he has had his share, and
should quit.-Holton Signal.
WILL GET BUSY.
If Governor Hoch calls special ses-
sion of the legislature which he
threatens to do unless the railroad |
order a two-cent fare, |
we expect to see some better laws en- |