The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-14
KANSAS COMMENT
AN ATTACK ON RoosEvEIlr

<1N Al 1AOh ON ROOSEN ELI.
! president Roosevelt is becoming al
| together too popular to suit the poll
tlcIans in Washington, and dispatches
indicate that members of the United
states senate are preparing plot that
| Will work to his undofne He is to be
assailed systematically as a usurper of
power, and men from each party are
in the plot. Everything he has done
| IN the past Two years viii be distorted
70 appear as having been done to put
himself on throne. and that the re-
pubic is In danger The senators be-
lieve that a thorough ventilation of the
preS1dentS executive acts Will break
| his hold on the country. They will
air everything he has touched in re-
| cent years: The Panama canal; his
criticisms of the judiciary; his atti-
| tude toward various Indian measures;
the japanese turmoil in San Fran
cisco; the order dismissing the three
negro companies, and last, but what
| they hope will not be least, they will
assail him for a letter written to
Thomas f. Drake, superintendent OF
insurance of the District of Columbia.
urging state legislatures not to pass
laws limiting the salaries of life in
charged. was in the interest of his
friend. Pau! Morton. who receives
salary OF $4,000 year as president
city. This is the story sent out from
Washington. The facts probably are
that the resentment against Roose-
velts popularity is growing, and that
members of congress will attack him.
The president undeniably does many
things showing haste, bull-headedness,
and undue admiration for favorites,
but that he is a square man, no one
seriously doubts. The people are will
ing to forgive much for the blessing
of a president who is honest and not
afraid. Before retiring from the
presidency. Roosevelt will probably
publican party, including the tariff.
the greatest thief of the lot-Atchison
Globe.
OTHER ROADS, TOO.
AS we understand the matter, the
Santa Fe has conscientious scruples
against trading transportation to the
the wicked editors might use 1t in in
terstate travel. but has no such fears
about the good politicians. OF course
the g. p. would not think of violating
knows the w. e. always have to be
watched.-Holton Recorder.
QUEER.
Women are mighty queer-some of
them. We have noticed that those
who cry very freely over the misfor-
tunes of some impossible heroine in
dime novel generally have not an tota
sympathy for a starving child in the
slums, nor a single sigh for the fate
Of thousands of real heroes and real
heroines who fight the battles of real
life all around them.-Kingman Jour-
nal
BUZZ WAGONS.
Muzzafer-Ed-Din who just before
kicking the bucket granted a constitu-
ton to his people. might reasonably
have been expected to be done up IN
an automobile collision than dying
quietly in his bed of silken canopies.
He owned a greater number OF
wheeze-wagons cough-carts and
gasoline-gurglers than any other sin
gle individual in the world.-Wichita
Eagle. .s{
A STAND OFF. ISIS.
Foraker, backed by the allied cor
porations, is against anybody Roose--
Welt wants for president; and the peo-
pie are against anybody Foraker
wants for president Jewell SRepuo-