The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
ALLEN IN MISSOURI.
The Wichita Editor Makes a Rafting
Good Talk to Republicans.

st. Louis, Aug. 26-Repubiicans of ST.
Louis gathered at Forest Park high
lands Saturday afternoon and night, and
the ambitious We're afforded an oppor-
tunity to launch their booms. The prin-
eipal speaker was Henry J. Allen of
Wichita, Kan. Mr.. Allen was met at
Union station by Congressman Caulf1eid
and Coudry and City Committeeman Z.
c. Dyer and Nat Goldstein, and driven
to the Planters hotel, where he met Sen
ator Warner and other Republican poll
ticians. Mr.. Allen spoke here last year
and made such a favorable impression
that he was called on by the promoters
Warner Mr.. Allen was guest of honor
at a luncheon by the local reception
committee.
Mr.. Allen was introduced as 1.-The bril-
liant young orator from Kansas, the
state that gave to Missouri Herbert S.
Hadley." The orator from the Sunfiower
state also started little boom for Sec
rotary Taft.
THE Republican party has among its
ranks several men who would make good
presidents said Mr.. Allen in his speech.
There are Taft, Cannon Fairbanks,
Root, Knox and Hughes. We don't care
particularly which one is elected, so lonS
as he weighs over 800 pounds
The Kansan also discussed the
chances of the Republican party in 1908,
the protective tariff and William Jen-
nings Bryan. During the course of his
remarks he took occasion to severely
grill Senator Stone for still harping on
the civil war and reconstruction periods
in his speeches as a means of influencing
votes. Aliens speech was a masterpiece
of elOquence, polish and imagery. IN
part he said:
This gathering has been appropri-
ately named an outing Missouri Re
publicans have been getting their out
ings' at the polls biennially now for
some time. Let us hope that the next
time we will get an inning 1 noticed
in a speech that Missouri senator IS
still using the old war prejudices in his
speeches It's time that he should re-
alize that the war is over. Senator
Stone is just about forty-five years be-
hind the times. All the feeling that ever
existed between the north and the south
was washed out during the civil war,
and Their is something wrong with man
who still harbors a bitter feeling.
Coming down to politics, let us for
a few minutes see what the Republic
cans and Democrats have done for the
country. Let us take the two Tepresen-
tatives of the parties and discuss them
semblance between the two is that
Bryan is an honest, clean man, but
there the resemblance ends. Bryan is
like a jaybird that awakens up in the
eagle that flies a straight line. Bryan
has been talking for number of years
for one-half the gate receipts; Roose-
welt does not talk. he acts. Some patri-
OTIS have called Bryan the David of the
Democratic party. If that were a fact
he would devote the greater part of his
life hunting for a pebble to put in his
sling. Roosevelt. on the other hand,
picks up any old jagged stone and hurls
it Roosevelt is the concentrated es-
sence of the Republican party. Bryan
is a fine example of the conversational
powers of the Democratic party.
Roosevelt is an ideal executive.
Some men have declared him boss
and unsafe-notably ]. ]. Hill and Har-
riman. That is true. He is unsafe for
grafters and other law violaterS. He is
a boss but boss that wants other peo-
pie to do right, and does it himself.
The president has the confidence of the
entire country. = For. his successor we
have a number of good men-Hughes,
who has made great sacrifices to do his
duty as a citizen; Root, the most power
full intellect in the administration;
Fair banks, a well balanced statesman;
Cannon of the old school; Knox, whose
ability is unquestioned, and Secretary
Taft who has all the necessary Qualif-
Bryan claims that the Republican
party has stolen all his issues. Have
we stolen the divine ratio of 16 to l?
Have we stolen his Philippine policy?
Have we stolen his government owner
ship of railroads policy? The last one
we could have gotten easily. He drop
ned it and ran, and we could have
picked it up without trouble. We don't
have to steal issues. The Democrats are
not able to put them in effect, and we
can do what we want with them.
In concluding, Mr.. Allen discussed
the policy of the government in the
declaring that the United
States only duty is to hold onto the
islands indefinitely. He stated that even
the Democrats are getting around to
that notion, and he believed that Bryan
would not relinquish them if he had
chance.
On the platform with the speakers
were: Charles Nagel. Secretary of State
John E. Swanger. Judge Franklin Fer
riss, Congressman Godfrey and Caul-
field, Jeptha D. Howe, T. K. Niedring-
haus, Gen. J. w. Noble, E. l.. Proctor
Ius and former Congressman n. A.
A band of 80 pieces provided
music during the speeches. After the
was disDosed of Henry j.
Allen and Senator Warner shook hands
with many of the audience.