The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-21
Refreshing.
Ewing Herbert of HiaWatha
World i'm Town Today.
Gives State Journal a Red Hot
Interview.
Which Is Unique and Positively
Delightful.
RICH. RARE AND RACY.
Grills the "Holier Than Thou"
Insurgents.
Declares WyandOtte Celebration
Was Framed Up"
"Let's Have Little Sense in
Kansas"
TIMES; WAGES GOOD
Possible Insurgents Wrong =
Taft, Cannon Right.
Cannon a Great, LOyable, Hon.
est Man."
"AtWOOd Welcomed Insurgents
to Democratic Party"
"AtwOOd Welcomed Insurgents
to Democratic Party

Ewing Herbert. editor and pro-
prietor of the Hiawatha World. came
to Topeka today to attend the wedding
of a friend.
Herbert is always interesting and
refreshing.
A representative of this paper asked
him what he thought of the Wyan-
dotte celebration and William Allen
Whites strange interview at Kansas
City, wherein White declared that all
the congressman. save Murdock. and
possibly Madison. should be defeated
because they voted for Cannon for
speaker.
Herbert laughed, and said: ''Do you
want an interview with me?"
The reporter said: Yes, indeed"
"Give me the typewriter and few
sheets OF paper said Herbert.
He was accomm odated. and here is
the decidedly refreshing, bright. racy
epigranmatic interview which Her
bert turned over.
1t is as good or better than Whites
famous whats the Matter With
Kansas ?" 1t is in sense parody
on the editorial which first gave
White his fame.
1t is full of epigrams and here are
g few of them picked out from the
body of the interview:
mo genuine Republican speech
was arranged for
"A silver -tongued Democratic ora
tor welcomed the insurgents to the
Democratic party"
Comparing the chosen few of our
Onward and Upward movement with
the men who put down slavery and
fought for freedom!"
t'Wh0 jS enSlaVe0 at the present time?
Who is deprived of liberty?"
THE gravy of prosperity is coursing
down the public cheek
Work is plenty and wages good"
Just what wrong they are so terri
bly, wrought up over isn't just clear"
Every Republican congressman is to
be defeated because he voted with his
party and the president"
THE insurgents should either get in
or get OUT
1t is just possible the insurgents are
wrong"
THE majority in congress believe in
Cannon Cannon is great American,
q lovable, honest man..
Lets have a little sense in Kan
sas."
''The Kansas humor that belittles
great men and great policies is un-
worthy of a great state and people,
There is nothing finer than the Kan
sas spirit when the cause is well ta-
TT only serves notice that Kansas is
drunk again"
white is going home to the Democ-
raey of his sire
"A good plot for comic opera
Cannon and those for him to be op-
posed and smirched because the insur-
gents say that Taft and Cannon and
the majority are wrong.
by what right do they demand that
Republican Kansas defeat all Repub-
1ican congressman"
Republicans should nominate and
send Republican congressman back
with increased majorities."
1T seems true that whatsoever is
proposed in Kansas will have a follow
ing"
It is a remarkable coincidence that
this interview of Herbert'S today is
based on very much the same sort of
a condition alleged to exist by certain
Republicans, known as Insurgents, as
was pictured by the Populists years
ago when White wrote of them as Her
bert today of the Insurgents.
Here is what Herbert said and just
as he said it in tull:
THAT was well written speech Bill
White made at the Kansas City frame
up for the insurgents. But the baze
only lasted long enough to light .he
way of those bent on destroying party
organization.
Now that the smoks has cleared
away it seems that the banquet was
for the purpose or boosting insurgents
in public estimation by comparing
them with the genuine Kansas revolu-
tionists of a period when wicked wrong
was visible and dreadful war certain.
A Democratic Welcome.
IF an old party spellbinder could
have contributed an old time Repub-
lican speech 1t would have added in
terest to the dinner, but no genuine Pe.
publican speech was arranged for, so a
silver-tongued Democrat added to The
unalloyed joy of the event by welcom-
ing the insurgents into the Democratic
party. The old time Republican would
have been out of place there, without
an opportunity to express his inligna-
tton. 1t was evidently carefully planned
to have insurgents do the talking for