The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-27
Representative From SedgWlck
Gives Lively Interview.
Applies Some Logic to Whites
Irrepressible Conflict.
WHERE WILL 1T END?
InsurrectiOnistS Preach Rebel
lion to People.
Will Not Taft'S Followers Also
Rise in Revolt!

E. B. Jewett, representative in the
last legislature from SedgWlck county
had business in Topeka TO-DAY anu
while here submitted to an III
terview in which he gave an appro-
pirate name for the present polltical
era of this state.
Mr.. Jewett, when asked for ms
views. on the celebration Oh the
otte constitutional conVehtioii
at Kansas City a short time ago. re-
ferred to that gathering as the open
inc pnn in the s'irrepressible conflict
Mr.. Jewett pays his respects 70 WI
liam Allen White, chief OF the IN
surgents as follows:
White Started 1t.
'sWiIliam Allen White, autnoI, eut-
tor. insurgent, and the most lnlele l.ese
ing personality, in Kansas, mas sIHJt, s.tsIn
confiict' in the Republican party ana
tbat - has assumed an acute form In
Kansas . .;,,oIv for
"Mr White speaks authoritatlveiyIo Ior
the insurgents. He is thelr ora - :
and literary executor, what ever ne
nromnigates by word or pen, is the
snoken or written gospel or m
snrgency and the insurgent VINO
does not follow it is rot or'hoooA'
but bogus.
'.Mr. White demands that all OF the
Kansas delegation in congress "no @
voted for the present tariff act or Ior
Cannon for speaker be displaced oy
insurgents, if not then by representa-
tives of some other party.
"Part of this is not his exact
language. but it is the logic Oh an
irrepressible political conf11ct
Now an irrepressible conflict IS not
suggestive of harmony, and Mr.. White
does not intend that the irrepresslple
conflict. which he says is on. shall emu
in compromise or harmony so ne mean
that if the insurgents are not nonl-
mated at the primaries, and the otner
fellows are, that they must be beaten
on election day. In other words that
the insurgents will not submit to the
result of the primaries, unless tney go
their way. For them to adopt any
irrepressible conflict, and leave him
with no other asset except nightmare.
A Complex Situation.
Now it would be illogical for Mf.
White to expect that if the insurgents
win at the primaries, that the follow
ers of Taft should vote for the insur-
gents. Should they do so. that would
destroy Mr. Whites irrepressible con-
flict, and he has absolved them from
doing that.
1--WE wonder what Mr.. Whites CO.
agitators. co-insurgents think of this.
"They must be bound py IL or nave d
fall out with Mr.. White. Do GOV
ernor Stubbs, Senator Bristow ana VIC
tor Murdock want Mr.. Whites ire
pressible conflict along the lines to
which it logically points.
Another Mary Ellen.
IAN irrepressible conflict, in politics,
in Kansas is very apt to be like Kan
sas tornado, it goes bounding along its
unbridled course, and you can't tell just
~ e fn strike. The last
irrepressible conflict we had in this
state was managed largely by Mary
Ellen Lease. We all remember that sh
advised US to raise less corn and more
Cain and it is our recollection that We
did.
1--WE wonder if it is possible that Mr..
White has caught the spirit of this last
revolution"