The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
Kansas this campaign by the national
committee


committee.
The Florence Bulletin, Republican
paper published in Marion county,
the sermon of Rev. A. L. A McCaf-
| free, a Methodist minister of that city,
who bolts Judge Taft in the following
emphatic language:
Judge Taft is a robber. for he
would rob me of nv Saviour; he would
rob me of the cross where my sins
were taken away; he would rob me of
the peace and joy that came to my
heart through believing in Jesus Christ
as the Son of God, the Saviour of the
world: he would rob me of the
strength of life that comes through
faith and the personal touch of the
personal Saviour, for Mr.. Taft does not
believe in the divinity of Christ. The
newspa pers are trying to make it ap-
pear that his religious views are all
right and all that, but 1 have no ac-
count of his conversion or his COMES
sion of belief in Christ as the Saviour
from sin, so he must be as he has been
an Unitarian infidel, and he can not
have my vote. Furthermore, l can
not see how any Godfearin~ Christian
man can vote for him as chief execu-
tive of this nation"
]. T. Botkin. assistant secretary of
state. and a brother of J. d. Botkin,
the Democratic candidate for governor,
yesterday rendered his services to the
Republican state central committee and
they were accepted.
This difference of opinion on politics
has not interfered with the brotherly
love between Tom" and Jerry" Bot
kin. Tom says that he has no hesita-
ton at all in taking the stump against
his little Democratic brother from
Winfield, as it has been understood
between them for years that they
would not let their political differences
have any weight with their personal
feelings toward each other. j. 7. Bot
kin. the Republican brother said. in
rendering his services to the commit
tee:
"The relations between Jerry and
myself have always been such as
should exist between brothers" he said.
political differences have, not marred
our friendship and will not. l hold him
In high esteem as a brother and have
great respect for his character as a
man, but politically he is on the wrong
side.
THE Democrat party is fundamen-
tally wrong on all the great questions
that affect the welfare OF the nation.
1t started out at the very beginning
with the wrong idea as to the power
and scope of the federal government
and has never been able to get right.
at started right on the tariff ques-
ton espousing the cause of protection.
but soon fell into the hands OF the
slave power, became a free trade party,
bankrupted both the government and
the people several times and has never
had the moral courage to correct its
plumbers and get right on that ques-
ton.
TT started right on the money ques-
ton, but in keeping with its blunder-
ing record, it abandoned the sound
money doctrine for votes, failed to get
the votes and now without principles,
without reason and without conscience,
it blindly follows it's discredited leader
in his search for an issue with which
to mislead the people and gain control
of the government.
"In this campaign I shall support the
straight Republican ticket just as
have done in every campaign since I
reached my majority"