The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-06
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
]. N. DOlley Makes Reply for
Insurgents.
Respects to Those Who Would
Read Him Out of Party.
INSURGENT HISTORY.
Says That When Successful Are
Called Patriots;
That They Kept Faith Pledged
Is Before Election.

An unnamed state official is quot
ed in the Kansas City Journal as de-
claring that the Kansas Insurgent Re
publicans have read themselves out of
the party. This official asserts fur
Their that. these half breeds" calling
themselves Mckinley Republicans, are
of the same brand as the free silver
ties who tried to wreck the party some
twelve years ago, and that under the
rules and regulations of the state pri-
mary law, they will be unable to get
their names on the regular Repub-
lican ticket next year. Anyway, that
they must go before the board of
canvassers and later appear in the
courts to establish their claims to
having possession of the true faith
Under the skillful pen of the Kan
sas City Journals Topeka correspon-
dent the interview was decidedly
readab BILE.
Webster defines an insurgent as
zone who takes part in active and
constituted authority of a place or
country; also rebel to whom bellig
erent rights have not been accorded"
President Taft practically read the
Insurgents out of the party in his
Winona speech.
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authorities, therefore is all against
the insurgents.
Dolley an Insurgent.
Chairman J. n. Do1ley of the Re-
publican state central committee who
conducted the campaign in Kansas
last fall when Taft carried the state,
is an insurgent, at least he has openly
expressed his sympathy with and for
the insurgents on the Kansas delega-
ton and does not believe the Payne
bill is a redemption of the party
promise upon which he based his cam
paign when Bryan threatened to carry
the state early in the summer.
Mr.. Dolley was inclined to moralize
over his threatened election from the
Republican party by the fellows he
had licked in the primary last year.
so they have changed our name
from square dealers to insurgents he
said, land have read us out of the
party. Well, this was the only thing
they could do and still hold their po-
sition that the party pledges had been
redeemed. The leaders of every move
ment for the masses against the
rectionists for the last fifteen hundred
years. If they lose the fight they are
traitors and are hung or stood up
against a wall and shot. If they win
they are called patriots and their
memory endures forever as a shining
were first called traitors and then in
surrectionists. 1t was only after the
surrender of Yorktown that they
gained the title of patriots.
1.-THE reformer is crank until he
begins to fight for his principles. Then
they try to buy him off with a fat Of
flee or pension. If he won't sell they
kick him out of the party and call
him an insurgent against all authori-
ty. His attitude is regarded as a state
of incipient belligerency until he be-
gins to win victories and then his
movement rises in dignity ftom an in
surrection to a revolution. The thing
that worries the constituted authority
all the time is that they never know
just what a popular uprising against
their selfish rule will lead to. 1t is
like the thunderbolt, never seen until
1t strikes.
Think Taft Weakened
when President Taft spoke in To-
peka last fall there sat on the plat
form with him Dolliver, Bristow
Stubs and a whole carload of 'us in
surgents.' We were not insurgents
then, though, if you please. Senator
Dolliver made a powerful speech in
support of Taft in which he promised
the people of Kansas real tariff revi-
sion. The president made the same
promise. Dolliver fought to the last
ditch to redeem his promise and would
dCCGPl uO COIIl ~ OLIlISc- lie pISSluGIll
was willing to arbitrate and make
concessions. Now Senator Dolliver,
who fought bravely and we'll through
out the campaign, is called a rebel
because he was faithful to his trust to
the end while the westerners who
yielded to the demands of the east are
patriot warders in the Republican
castle.
"Well it is a queer old world, sure
enough, and party leaders are still
plentiful who believe that they can
fool all the people all the time 1t
was public sentiment that forced the
tariff revision issue to the front in the
Republican party platform last year
and western representatives and SEN
ators were elected solely on the
strength of their protestations that
they would work and vote for revi-