The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-21
the party which disowns them in their

| he spoke for but no good Republican
would have felt comfortable listening
to it. If he is right in his notion that
| the people are being wronged by the
wicked in powerful places he could
start something besides the more or
| less ridiculous, but it is far-fetched to
compare the chosen few of our Onward
and Upward movement with the men
| who put down slavery and fought for
freedom.
who is enslaved at the present time !?
/ Who is deprived of liberty?
Who is suffering hardship under
present conditions?
The Gravy of Prosperity.
1.-The gravy of prosperity is cours-
| ing down the public cheek. Work is
plenty and wages good. Personally
! our state has no better men than the
| Insurgents but just what wrong they
are SO terribly wrought up over isn't
| just clear. They say all congressman
| who voted for Cannon must be beaten.
| In other words every Republican con-
gressman is to be defeated because he
voted with his party-voted with the
| favor of the president elected by Re-
| publicans.
Cannon to Be Smirched, Why?
Speaker Cannon. and all who are for
him. are to be opposed and smirched
simply because the insurgents say that
Taft and Cannon and the majority
are wrong and that they, the minority,
right.
There isn't a plank or promise in
the party platform to sustain them.
The president of the United States.
elected by Republicans. discredits their
position. Yet Bill and VIC and Joe
and Stubs insist that they are right
and the party leaders wrong.
May Be Majority Is Right.
isn't it possible and probable that
the president and the majority in con-
gress are right? Where did the in
surgents learn so much that they speak
with so much defiance and authority?
by what right do they demand-aS
the Pops did of old-that Republican
ansas defeat all Republican congress
men?
should do is to nominate and send the
Republican congressman back to con-
gress with increased majorities.
Have Tried Experiments.
1--WE have tried the experiment of
sending alleged men of the people TO
represent us. The Pops sent on a few.
They befouled the state and People and
made Kansas the one best laugh Of the
country
What reason is there to suppose that
good can be found in party defeat? Do
the insurgents offer any further good
than the Republican representatives
stand for?
posed that a present Republican repre-
sentative may not espouse?
"Is there anything in the Re
publican party platform that any Re-
publican congressman has denied?
Republican Representatives Right.
THE Republican representatives
are right with the party and the
president on every issue and the In
surgents are weakening the party by
differing from those who are loyal to
all it stands for. 1t seems to be true
| lin Kansas-that whatever is pro-
posed will have a following.
''If Bill and Vic and Joe and Stubbs
would earnestly assert that all others
were wrong in the belief that the
earth was round they could prove it
| SO plainly that the earth would be
| fiat to the fat folks.
| But Republicans who have read
| the party platform and the argument
| in congress and the utteranceS of
| President Taft can be depended on to
sustain Republican policies and senti-
ments. When a majority party in
congress defines and decided what the
| policies and sentiments shall be. why,
then, those opposed can get under the
| canvass. or stay outside with a crowd
of their own.
Either Get in or Get Out.
"There is no other way. 1t is either
get in or get out 1t is hard to be-
lieve that men claiming to be Republi-
| cans can have the nerve to say they
are superior in their information and
| judgment to the Republican majority
| in congress
"It is amazing that they should as
sumo that they are greater than the
eminent men who have made a life
study of tariff neutrality-suspicious. than
| the president and greater than the Re-
publican party.
1.-THE Republican Republicans have
not Joined Bill and Vic and Joe and
| Stubs. 1t is just possible-it is more
| than possible-that the insurgents are
wrong.
Cannon, Loyable Man of Force.
| so far they have done most of the
| talking. But when the men they have
| attacked have been heard-when the
accomplishment has been judged
| president commends, are apparent. it
| is possible that their boast is trif1e
vain that every Kansas congressman
who voted with Cannon will be de-
feated. Cannon couldn't very we'll be
an issue for our people. Cannon is
man with force great enough to con-
| troll a great body of men with the rules
| adopted by that body. No man in his
man is entitled to, could be what they
| say he is, or do what they say he does.
His home people believe in him. The
majority in congress believe in him.
He is great Americana lovable,
| honest man, not at all inferior to any
| puffed up Insurgent who opposes him.
Let's Have a Little Sense.
| Lets have a little sense in Kansas.
We have been SO tickle. so notional. so
childish all the years that it is time
now that we should reject the muck
raking newspaper stories and speeches I;
have some fairness and manliness in
our judgment of public men and public
! policies. 1t isn't at all true that the
majority OF congressman are scounGrels
and the minority angels of light. Most
men in congress have motives as fine
and patriotic as men can have.
! The Kansas humor that beIittles
great men and great policies is un-
worthy of great state and people.
And to compare our foolish petulant
differences of orinion to the great and