The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-23
HE DEFINES IT.
Mr.. Reeder Explains Kansas
Language to Square Dealers.
1t Was Spoken Dozen Years Ago
by POpulists.
VOICE OF CALAMITY.
Kansas Is Prosperous Now and
No Cause for Wailing.
A DenOuncement of DemO-Re-
publicans and Free Traders.

"A announcement Oh DomO-K0-
publicans and Free Traders.
Congressman Reeder of the Sixth dis
tr1ct. recognizing the opposition of the
square dealers to his denomination
next year, has taken the initiative and
in the statement printed below de-
nounces Governor Stubs, Senator Bris-
tow and Henry Allen as demagogues
and free traders who yell calamity in
good times and who have deserted their
party and would wreck it on the reefs
of radicalism in order to advance their
own political fortunes. Congressman
FEEDERS statement is as follows:
Square Dealers Talk Treason.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
Governor Stubs would have the
square Dealers vote with the Demo-
Gratis, If any of the present Republican
delegation, that are supporting the Taft
administration are again nominated for
congress: his position was made clear
in his speech, delivered quite recently
at Independence. William Allen White
took substantially the same ground III
his speech at the famous Wyandotte
convention, when that arch Democrat
John Atwood in an eloquent address,,
welcomed the square dealers" into the
Democratic party. Senator Bristow is
attacking the president and defaming
the Republican party, because seven
senators and twenty members of the
house were not allowed to dictate to
over ninety per cent. of the Repub-
licans composing those bodies. Now
comes Henry Allen. who has aligned his
Wichita daily with the Kansas City
Stars Democratic cabal, and says,
kansas is against Taft, practically
without dissent" and again kansas is
tho barometer Of the nation -
These are startling statements, COM
ing as they do from the chief executive
of our state, and the leading opponents
of the square deal" organization. The
language of Governor Stubs should be
noted in particular, it places him be-
yond the pale Of his party, and most
certainly absolves all true Republicans
from being under any further ob1ga-
lions to give him their support, for his
language expresses the sentiment or
perfdy to his party.
The Kansas Language.
All Of these gentlemen, who are so
voluble in expressing themselves as be-
ing in opposition to the Republican
party at this time, plume themselves on
the fact that they are enhghtening our
great country, by speaking the Kan
sas Language" in part that statement
is true: it has familiar sound to those
who resided in Kansas during the reign
of Populism; 1t was the vernacular or
b ~O@N9
wears OF calamity's reign. when Coxey's
army was marching on to Washington
and our Pop delegation In congress
brought the smile of derlslon TO the
face of the individual who possessed a
normal mind.
It was the kansas language" that
was being spoken. when the farmers
and business men of other states, were
busy e1ecting Mckinley and usher1ng
in prosperity, while poor misguided
CT
the demagogue, that spoke then as
YOU are speaking now. was voting for
greenback James B. Weaver; but
deny that it is the language OF our
Kansas of today, after ten glorious
years of unparalleled prosperity that
has been brought about by the protec-
tive policy which you gentlemen and
your Democratic allies would destroy.
You gentlemen, possessed OF such rat
uous minds, are at the present time,
doing all of the talking. but while you
are busy exploiting your Bryanistic
doctrine, the farmer, the business man
and the wage Garner are doing the
thinking; they know that 1t has been
we'll said that, "even fool can criti-
else, but that it requires brains to
construct"
The Farmers Thoughts.
The farmer may not fully under
stand all of the intricacies of the tariff
problem, but he does know that when
he hauls load of wheat to town, that
it is better for him to have 1t net him
so dollars, than fifteen dollars. He
does know that it is better to have a
load of corn bring him thirty-f1ve dol
lars, than the miserable low tariff
price of five dollars, and all of his
other farm products in proportion,
and the vital point in this case Is
that the doctrine of free trade for
which you gentlemen stand. will give
him the lower price for his commodf-
ties.
Free Trade Is a Fake.
Gentlemen, your free trade issue, is
fake, and your so called kansas
language" was only spoken by her
people while in a deIirium. Kansas
was only guilty of using such Ian
guage, during the trials and struggles
incident to the life of our pioneers on
the western prairies, and If those
noble men and women at times gave
vent to their tortured souls, by ex-
pressing the sentiments, that you
without reason, now express, pray re-
member that their provocation was
great, but also remember that such
treason to your party as you are so
free to express at the present time,
has no place in the Kansas of today,
with plenty on every hand, and whose
people would also be enjoying political
peace. but for the interruptions meth
DDS of the Demo-Republican agitator.
Anxiety for Office.
In conclusion, let me say to you.
gentlemen, that your anxiety for office
and political power, has lured you into
the realms of Democracy; flushed by
the success of your victory won in the
last election, you would unite with the
Democrats and force upon our great
country another Wilson tariff bill,
with all of the commercial loss and
business disasters incident there to. I
warn you that you have not read the
voters of the prairies Alright; you are
preSuming on the ignorance of the
farmer, the business man and the
wage Garner, thinking that their lack
of information, will allow you to mask
your real position, but let me say to
that fool them fhav