The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-20
Evidently the Square Dealers
Are Still Undismayed.
NO COMFORT is THERE
Presidents Position Not Pleas
ing to Dealers"
Assert He Should Have Deferred
to West.


seem to be allied against the Kansas
square deal these piping days of
peace that lie midway between
political campaigns. The national
convention of bankers in Chicago,
passed resolutions condemning the
guaranty of bank deposits, while on
the same day President Taft reflected
on the members of congress who
voted against the Payne tariff bill as
men who Gin conscience abandon the
party
Here are two of the most power
full forces of the nation arrayed
squarely against the pet projects OF
the square dealers and their
opposition is a matter of record. The
president represents all the ma
chinery of the administration, which
stands for power, while the bankers
are trustees for a large part OF the
wealth of the country. Thus the
of war are in the hands of the
opponents of square deal issues in
Kansas.
To add weight to the burden there
Is dissension within the ranks OF the
party at home. There are hundreds
of Republicans in every county in
the state opposed to the square deal
policies as interpreted by Stubs,
Dolley, ct al Assailed from without
the borders of the state and facing
civil war at home, the square deal
leaders stern-faced are preparing for
still greater political triumphs: Gov
Stubs to march on the senate
while the succession is to remain pure
through the exaltation of Dolley.
Washington. representing the
power of the country, and Chicago
representing the wealth of the west,
can pass resolutions by the cord;
Curtis and Morgan and John Davis
and a long list of other notables can
preach sedition at home and inclte
revolution and even levy war, but
Stubs, the man who has built rail-
roads. and Dolley. the man who has
sailed ships, appear serene over pres
ent turbulent conditions and con-
ffdent of the future. They bank their
irregular tendencies of the people of
this western state as opposed to the
regular and conservative policies OF
the national administration and the
organization of the bankers of the
country.
AS to how far the western spirit
will go in opposition to the regular
established order of things remains to
be seen. The square deal leaders OF
Kansas may go as far as this spirit
does and no further. Their hopes /
rest upon it alone. They are playing
reform to the limit. If their prom
lions are verified, why we'll and good,
If not, then the deluge.
In the next campaign in Kansas
the '1nsurgent'' leaders will APP
parentIv be opposed by the national
ppdministration. the bankers, the anti
Stubs machine, all the dissatisfied
politicians and many who are salts
Fed, and by that element of politics,
business and society that still clings
to regular and conservative methods
in the conduct of affairs.
Taft has taken q bold stand against
these alleged western reformers and
the reformers say that perhaps
looked Kansas in making his western
trip. They say it is all very well to
go up into the wiIds of Minnesota
and preach heresy among the
state, but he evidently appreciated
the Importance and strength of the
Stubs machine in Kansas and
lodged this state in his crusade to
save the west from the Saracens of
reform and radicalism.
Governor Stubs says the coun-
try owes a debt of gratitude to the
Insurgents.
letin, ingalls, of the Atchison Cham
pion and Tucker of the Eureka Her
aid are disappointed at the attitude of
the president and insist tht he does
not understand conditions in the west.
Perhaps the president was obliged
to consider conditions elsewhere, too g.?
The presidents Minnesota declara-
ton is being discussed quite freely
in Kansas. The standpatters are jubi-
liant over the openly expressed support
of the chief executive, while the re-
form wing of the party is definant.
Administration and anti-administra
ton lines may be clearly drawn in this
state during the next campaign. If
delegates were to be selected from
Kansas at this time to national Re
publican convention with Taft and
Dolliver as the presidential candidates,
sit is believed that the Iowa man
would have the support of a solid dele
cation from the Sunf1ower state" as
serts a prominent square dealer.