The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-26

| prevailing tariff schedules should be
| revised, and we believe that the only
| just way to secure such revision is
along the lines suggested by Senator
Beveridge, involving an investigation
of the present tariffs and the presenta-
ton Of new schedules by nonpartisan
commission of experts composed of
men of high character and representing
economical rather than political schools
of thought.
"Third-Where a county central com
mittee has unanimously assumed the
authority of selecting delegates and
alternateS to the congressional and
state conventions, and the Republicans
of the county have unanimously rati-
fed such assumption 1t may be proper
for such delegates and alternates to
act as the representatives of the peo-
ple but without such unanimity in
both committee and party. we en-
phatically protest against such an as
sumption upon the part of the com
mittee. Such action is wholly unjusti-
fable and iniquitous when 1t meets
with the active opposition of a reSpec-
table minority of the committees own
membership, the expressed personal
dissent Of 200 members of the party.
and the unanimous condemnation and
warning of the Republican newspapers
of the county. We join in condemnfng
such practice as unwtse, un-Repunn-
can, subversive of the primary election
idea, unworthy the representatives or
a free people, and as disfranchising the
Republican voter at the only moment
he might express his party choice,
however indirectly, for president OF the
republic.
"Fourth-we believe in William
H Taft He is our choice for pres1-
dent of the United States, and we in
struct the delegates and alternates
chosen by this convention to use their
votes and influence to secure the Sc
lection of delegates and alternates to
the national convention, both from
the state and the First congressional
district, who shall vote for Ohio's
peerless statesman as our choice Tor
president first, last and all the time.
"Fffth-We instruct our delegates
and alternates to the First congress
siona1 district convention to vote Tor
and to use all honorable means to
secure the election Of Arthur Capper
and Cyrus Leland as delegates from
this district to- the national Repubif-
can convention.
'HSixth-We oppose the reelection
of David w. Mulvane as national
committeeman. He eNerts a pernf-
cious influence upon and panders to
the lawless element of this comrnt1-
nifty. He has crowned a long period
of misrule with the present disgrace
full Observation-Disclosures OF the county
central committee of which he ts the
DE facto chairman and dictator. He
directed the PROFESSIONAL loDDy anu
exhausted every resource to defeat
the direct primary law. He obstFuct-
ed by every means at his disposal the
enactment of legislation demanded by
the people He presumed to state
that no man should represent Shaw
nee county in the next legislature
who would not stand for the re-elec-
ton of Chester I. Long. At heart, his
avowed preference for president is
Fairbanks; but he masquerades al
Taft's friend. We instruct our 2s
delegates and alternates to the state
convention to say to that body that
we are seeking no doubtful honor,
and we therefore ask that he be re-
tired to the rank of private citizen
ship.
Resolved, That we commend the
action of these faithful members or
the county central committee who
pleaded for the rights of their con-
stituents. the Republicans of their
precincts, and who, in the face or
insult and the refusal of the chair
man to recognize their request for a
roll call, have given the Republican
voters an opportunity to vote for
their choice of delegates to the state
convention"