The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-25

have succeeded is shown by the fact
that more than One-half of the state
banks had already come into the fund
or made application. Had not the law
been nulIfied by the federal court prac-
tically all the state banks would have
been admitted within the next so days
Il regret that the laws of the great
state of Kansas. as we'll as the other
states OF our nation. can be nullifed
at the pleasure of the federal courts.
especially as to our law at this time
when our own supreme court had the
same question before it for ,considera-
ton. 1t is very plain to me and / be-
lieve will be plain to the people of
Kansas, that this is case wherein the
people are not allowed to rule
Tom McNea1 will open his congress
sional campaign Jan. IS at Hiawatha.s
The Topeka man, in thus carrying the
war into the enemy's country, shows a
Napoleonic turn Of mind. Ewing Her
bert, an Anthony postmaster, is en-
trenched at Hiawatha behind a print
stated that he would prefer to open his
campaign at Hiawatha, but did not
mention the name of Mr.. Herbert in
connection with his political activities.
It will be remembered that some time
ago when McNeal challenged Dan An
thony to a debate that the latter de-
cined and Mr.. Herbert volunteered in
place Of his chief. McNeaI refused to
debate with henchman and spirited
newspaper controversy followed be-
tween McNeal and Herbert.
The Sylvia Sun, Reno county paper,
boldly booms Attorney General Jackson
for governor in 1910, and swears with
its hand on its heart that all western
Kansas is solid for Jackson for the job.
The federal court decision annulling
the enforcement of the guaranty law
will serve to widen the breach between
Kansas Republicans holding federal ap-
pointments and those holding state
jobs. All the federal appointees in the
state and large majority of the con-
gressional delegation are lined up
against the state officials in the party
saddle at home. Governor Stubbs and
Bank Commissioner Dolley do not hesi-
tate to speak bitterly about the federal
court decision.
The primary elections in the congress
sional districts next summer will in a
large measure decide the supremacy of
the one faction or the other in the
party. If the square dealers win in
their congressional fights then they
will reign supreme. but if they lose they
will have to fight for their lives against
a rejuvenated and confident opposition.
William Allen White pays this trib-
ute to A. c. Mitchell, square deal can
didate for congress in the Second dis
trict against Charles Scott:
"If ever in Kansas there was a can
didate who talked straight from the
shoulder to the people, that man is
Alexander Mitchell. the candidate for
the Republican nomination for con-
gress in the Second district against
Charles F. Scott The issue between
these two gentlemen will be upon
principles, not upon personalities. Mr..
Scott stands for the Cannon idea; Mr..
Mitchell stands for platforms as they
are made, not as Cannon and Aldrich
interpret them. He has made a most
courageous and convincing speech. 1t
is the kind of speech that is to be
made in six of the eight Kansas dis
tricts by men who demand that the
people in the Republican party govern
the Republican party and not the
party bosses at Washington