The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-19

hip pocket and made hammerlike
positive gestures with the other.
The senator's subject was 1.-THE
| City's Place in National Life"
There is no state like Kansas" he
said. ST ought to be permitted to talh
a little about Kansas. although thai
subject was assigned to someone"
His hearers sat more erect. That
was the beginning of the senator's
speech.
"They may jest about Kansas" he
said. '"They may say that we are err
ratio, that we are impulsive, that we
are even insane in Kansas. But
| would rather be insane in Kansas than
sane in New York. There are things
that they can't and don't say about
Kansas. They can't say that We have
not convictions; they never say that we
don't say what we think and act like
| wise. Kansas is not afraid of any set
! of men. Kansas is the product of the
day on which she was born. In the
early day we fought for human liberty
and today we are fighting for political
| and commercial liberty. Why should
| not Kansas lead in renovating the
morals of men and the policies of the
! nation? In my heart I love Kansas
and my ambition in public life is to do
something that will add to the pros
perity of the state and the welfare of
its people,"
In responding to the cheers, the
senator said:
This hearty reception, think, is
not so much for me personally as it is
for some of the things L have been
trying to stand for. In the olden days
in other countries the nations began
with the cities and their stone walls
The nation was not builded until the
cities were erected. The history of
the nations was the history of the
cities.
Talks of Machines.
I'm our country it is different. The
nation up to this day has been ruled
by rural people, not an urban peo-
pie. In the past the cities have not
been potent in the making of our
laws The legislation has been
nodded by the people from the farms
and the villages. But lie people are
drifting rapidly to the city The
urban population is to play a great
part in the future of this country
Municipal government is to be potent
are to rest our destiny on the
patriotism of the city voters. In time
they will control. The city govern
ments must be clean if the national
government is to be good.
There is danger ahead I know of
the governments of two cities con-
trolled by political machines that are
outrageously corrupt. I know of only
more wickedly and criminally cor
rupt than the Democrats in Tammany
hall in New York city and that is the |
machine in the city of |
II had thought that such rural in
f1uences in our politics as come from |
Iowa and Nebraska and other |
agricultural states of fewer larger cities |
would keep our national government |
clean, but in the last session of con- /
gress there was signal of danger that |
IS vital to our nation"
Senator Bristow spoke no names and |
did not specify, but he then referred to |
the deal that Speaker Cannon made
TanmAnV rI11n hn
deal became public, he said, when !
Chairman Parsons OF the New York
state Republican central committee in
vestigated for Governor Hughes and |
learned that Cannon, in exchange for
Democratic votes for his set of auto
cratic rules, delivered Republican votes |
in New York against proposed law to
purify general elections in that state.
national. congress-" Senator Bristow
said, s'to deliver votes that will crush
a good election of great state it is
time to take notice of the municipal
governments in our great cities"
Governor Stubs Speech.
Governor Stubs, in speaking on the
subject. kansas" said that the citi-
zens of Kansas should take an interest
IN the development of the Missouri
river and contribute toward the i'm
proVement work. His remarks along
This line were approved by his hearers.
L. NJ. Jones, who was one of the guests
at the dinner, seemed to be especially
pleased with the governors recon-
nendations
The Lord has done wonderful things
or Kansas" Governor Stubs said HE
las not done any greater thing for this
tate than to place that great canal over
here On the eastern border. Don't you
NOW tina seagoing vessels ought to be
BILE to come up that river and touch |
N Kansas soil?
Kansas people should take an interest
II this river improvement: The river
lets of this state to the world. By i'm
rowing the Missouri river you can
make Kansas a greater state and make
Kansas City, Kan, a great city. If / |,
we're you I would get after Senator
Sristow before he leaves this city and
rye him to use his influence to have
ongress appropriate millions and mill
ions of dollars for river improvements.
Likes Gubernatorial Job.
THE river should be improved on a
arge scale, not few miles a year. A
liver should be improved like rail-
DAD is built. You do not build four
T five miles of railroad a year. You
urvey the whole route and then strike
ut and build it for the whole distance
s fast as YOU an.
Il like the job of being governor of
-ansas because it gives me chance to
oost all of those good works. Let US
make Kansas as sound as a bullet in
IS moral and business life. We have
ONE great institutions in Kansas. We
ave the greatest university and the
reatest agricultural college in the
ountry. And if any of you are con-
emplating going to the Kansas peniten-
larry you will find conditions improved
here. And some good work has beent