The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-25
letter, which has just been made pub
lie, follows:

lie, follows:
December 6. 1909.
ITO the President:
You do not know me. and never
will. probably, as 1 have no personal
favors to ask at your hands, or any
other presidents, and never expect to.
However, I voted for you, and I am
proud of it. I indorse your public ut
terances and career throughout, and
without reservation, and agree with
you that our new tariff law. which
have carefully perused, is the best ever
enacted by congress. under which pol
icy we have the most unexampled
prosperity of any people, no matter
in what walk of life fate has placed
them, from the highest to the lowest,
recorded in the annals of time, all of
which no man is more familiar with
than yourself. And I refer thereto
only as a prelude to what follows.
when a majority of the Republi-
can party in congress construed the
party will as expressed in its last
platform by the passage of the new
action, thereby that law became the
last expression of the party will and
settled that matter SO far as the Re-
publican party is concerned, at least
until the wisdom or want of wisdom
in that enactment shall have had time
to fructify Under these conditions
every man who indorses such action
is Republican, and those who do not,
are not.
For the two years past Kansas
politically has been for second time
on drunken carouse. so to speak.
First. in the days of Populism; now
in the days of Governor Stubs. Sena-
tor Bristow. Congressman Murdoch
and Bill White. erstwhile a so-called
literary malcontent and now and al
ways political ass, and their follow
ing, all sired by the Democratic party
and damned by Mary Ellen Lease,
who are now following Champ Clark
and free trade democracy, as was
done by like political takers in the
'90s; which such ignoramuses and like
following landed Grover Cleveland in
the White House, followed by the Will
son bill. after which everybody found
out where / am at sure enough!
Just as will happen again if the gang
named can have their way.
"They are making the noise now in
Kansas, but in the sweet by and by
the yeomen will wake up and smash
them hip and thigh and the world
that knows them now will then know
them no more, as the others have dis
appeared from the political horizon.
And now to the object of this COM
munication, and this is: Do not mis-
take their vociferations and verbose
declarations for that of the people In
early days, when l was a stranger in
the wildS of the west in crossing a vast
prairie from one Stream-the weather
desperate cold; was walking and lead
ing my horse-to another, late a night
and very dark. 1 was startled by what
seemed to me hundreds of wolves bay
ing, seemingly right at me. and vau1ting
into the saddle. rode furiously Cor miles,
fearfully frightened. Later, in detail
ing my fright to an old plainsman, he
Smilingly assured me that there was no
cause therefor. as they were coyotes.
and harmless, and that there were not
and could not have been more than four
at best, and that they were perfectly
harmless.
so out here in Kansas now, politi-
cally, only the political coyotes are
bowling, and they are harmless, and