The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-03
..uNmE JoE..-No. 8.

with apologies to no one; also, no ex-
ira charge.)
When the nonpareil line was insert
ed under the caption of mo. 8" to
this effect, with apologies to the
reader" there was no intention of
apologizing for any statement that
had been made in any of the articles.
quite the contrary. No fact in any
one Of the Uncle joe series has been
seriously questioned, so far as is
known, and If anything be disputed.
this paper is pretty well fortified with
witnesses and documents to support
the truth. The little line was injected
under the heading for the fear that
many readers might think that the
State Journal was running this "Un-
Gle Joe" business into the ground,
that it might be getting tiresome. in
which event the reader was asked to
skip II not interested"
The writer thought each Cannon
article would be the last, including
the first one.
The last article, printed June I,
has brought out so many replies to
the effect that no apologies for it
were necessary that. before dropping
the subject, few further data. in this
first and only series Of what might be
termed "Half Hours With Great
Statesmen may be interesting and. it
is hoped, readable: the more readable
things one can get in. the better, for
there are more readers who read
readable things than there are the
other kind.
The State journal desires to make 1t
clear, even to the extent Of what may
appear to be unnecessary repetition,
that it is not defending Joe Cannon,
but it is not to be blamed for an ef-
fort, or attempt, to disillusionize its
readers from some erroneous views
they have certainly formed, through
omission Of facts or misrepresentation
Of facts of man who was unani-
mously chosen by the honorable and
respectable men whom the state OF
Kansas and the other states have sent
to congress as their Republican rep
resentatives. These men made Cannon
speaker, these men made the rules,
and these men rather than Cannon do
appear to need some sort Of q defense.
There are in congress, 1t is conf
IDENTIFY stated. as many honorable men
striving to do the right thing, work.
ing to know what is right and best to
do, to the utmost of their ability and
information, as there are the
same number of honest men in other
lines of public and private life. The
truth is often buried and. must be dug
up. That means you cannot always
get correct impressions. form right
| - lA
you look. work and get over the sur
face only.
Why should the young men of this
country, and the young women too, be
told, through the newspapers and
from the platform, distorted and I'M
just things about the men we elevate
to office? These men must have
| merit. or they would not have been
mentioned for the high places to
which they have been elevated by
those given the great responsibility of
selecting leaders and executives.
The Speaker of the House Of
Representatives is often said to be
next in power to the President.
Have Congressman Anthony and
Scott and Campbell and Miller and
Calderhead and Reeder and Murdoch
and Madison-all honorable men and
all voting to make Cannon Speaker
done the contemplate thing Of
stultifying themselves. and the peo-
| pie whom they represent, by placing
| the kind OF a man in the Speakers
chair whom many have been led to
believe is presiding over the destinies
| Of Congress, and that by vote OF
| reclamation after he had served one
term in the same Office? We don't
| believe it.
| 1t has happened by accident, of
| course, that there is just now run
ming, contemporaneously with these
| sketches in the State Journal, two
| articles about the same subject in q
| weekly, which calls itself a National
| Weekly by name Golfers. The writer
by name is William Hard. who is ap-
propriately named, for a more brutal.
cold-blooded, picture presentation of
a prominent statesman has hardly
ever before appeared in print and
yet Golfers does some good things.
| This paper can give 1t credit for that
whether Golfers gives Cannon credit
for anything good or not; but some
authorities quoted in the Golfers
articles of the current issue and the
preceding issue, taken together, are
from similar authorities which called
Lincoln an ape, Grant a murderer
and. within six months, Roosevelt a
Robespierre.
We of the west who love Roosevelt,
and his methods and ways, his con-
slant reiteration urging individuai in.
dustry. family purity and corporate
as we'll as personal. obedience to the
law, always advocating a fair show
for the worker and the poor man h,,,