The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-20

and the country was in the grip of a
mighty panic. Had our party been in
power. this panic would. of course.
have been Democratic panic. But,
fellow citizens, II was Republican
panic. the like of which neither this
fore witnessed. For forty-six years
that party had enacted the legislation
and shaped the policies OF the federal
government. For ten years it had
held undisputed control of everything.
The tariff laws, the currency and
it's making. How can the country
longer depend upon such a party to
control its destinies? How can pa
triotic. candid men longer trust party
leaders who have so long deceived
them as to the effect of their pet poll
cies upon the industrial and financial
conditions of the country? MANY Re-
publicans are indeed beginning to see
the light, and will help us to put
Bryan in the White House and elect
congress in harmony with his prin-
ciples and policies.
Notable instances of this awaken
ing have occurred through the years.
One of the outstanding cases is that
Of the Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, Re-
publican congressman from Kansas
Of November 1877. he said: We ask
that Wall street. the Rothschilds, and
the Barings shall no longer have the
entire control of our financial legisla-
ton. And when I charge that our
Legislation has been in the interest of
the capitalist and the dealer in money,
I charge that which 1 can prove
from the record. and I challenge sue
cessful contradiction
The Money Question.
1.-THE party had then been in en-
tire control of the government sixteen
and a half years, and was the author
Of all the money legislation then on
the books. A pertinent question is. if
the Republican party had at that
the people into servitude to the
monied interests. why should any in
telligent man be surprised to find it
today. thirty-one years later. under the
absolute and hopeless domination of
those same interests. grown vastly
and file are as honest and as DESTROYS
of good government today as in the
days OF the immortal Lincoln. But
the leaders, the men who really
determine the platforms and the
policies OF the party, intoxicated with
and shamelessy committed to the
oligarchy of wealth. It is time for
an exodus. We invite you to a care
full study Of our national platform, of
the state platform adopted at the
Hutchinson convention last February,
and Of that which is to be formulated
by our party council on the 25th day
Of this month. We also invite to a
candid investigation Of our candidates
from Bryan to the last man on the
list. Study them in comparison with
their opponents. And when you en-
ter the booth next November cast a
patriotic rather than a partisan vote.
Having devoted considerabl time
to discussion of political history
with the purpose OF clearing away un-
certain misconceptions and false i'm
presS1ons that are fraugnt with much
danger. 1t is now my purpose to call
your attention to some of the more
important state issues upon which my
campaign for governor Is to be made.
1t Is not my purpose to enter at this
time upon full statement or discus
sion of these questions for the reason
that in my speeches throughout the
state 1 shall devote myself to them
chiefly. and everybody who desires
will have ample opportunity to learn
my position upon all matters affecting
the public welfare.
I'm this contest there is no ground
for personal feeling. and there is none
between my chief opponent, Mr..
Stubs, and myself. He Is advocating
some of the doctrines I preached all
over the state twelve years ago, and
they are sound Democratic doctrines
today. He was a little slow to see
the light. and being new in the bust
ness of reform, in his first love- so to
speak. he is a trif1e too radical in
some things to suit some of us old re-
formers. I have read everything he
has published since his recent en-
trance upon the task Of saving the
country, and have heard him speak
once, and In all his statements not
a word or syllable of criticism has he
passed upon the Democratic party or
upon any Individual Democrat. On
the other hand his attacks upon the
record of his own party and its lead
ers within this state leave nothing
for US to do in that line. The won
der TO many Of us Is that he remains
In party as corrupt as he describes
his party to be. Another wonder is
that 50 corrupt party should have
chosen as its standard bearer this
new reformer and critic. We Demo-
Gratis welcome Brother Stubs as a
co-worker in the cause of reform, but
we shall see to 1t that he does his
work in an unofficial way for years
to come.
The Jeffersonian doctrine of equal
rights for all and special privileges for
none;' or. as the great Lincoln ex-
pressed 1t. "A government of the peo-
pie. by the people and for the people,
1 consider the basic principle of our
government That we have sadly de-
parted from this base in our practice
Is no longer disputed by men claiming
Intelligence and fairness. To restore
the government to the people to whom
it rightfully belongs. is the duty of the
hour. This can only be done by the
people themselves. To accomplish this
end the people must, first, nominate
their own candidates under a sane
and practicable primary law So long
as the people permit the interests to
select the candidates of the different
parties through little bunch of
courthouse and state house politicians,
just that long this will be a govern
ment, of. by and for the interests
That the present primary law has
serious defects NO ona questions. But