The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-23
REpEArs .ANrI-TAFr..

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When Henry Allen of the Wichita
Beacon was in Kansas City a week ago,
he gave out an interview which was
printed on the first page of the paper
having the largest general circulation
in this western country, namely. the
Kansas City Star, wherein he said a
number of strange things about Kansas
! politics, including this: kansas is
nti-Taft and practically without dis
sent" and that Kansas in that respect
| was the barometer of the nation.
| The State journal under the heading
I'VE Don't Believe IT. replied to Mr..
Aliens interview on the day after it
appeared in the Kansas City paper.
| When Mr.. Allen was In Topeka Sat-
urday he said: ST guess I have talked
too blame much ON this trip. That
newspaper friend Of mine in Kansas
City slipped up on my blind side. How
ever. I am standing pat. Every money
| ed man / went to talk to about our
| 100000 building spent the first hour
telling me how many different kinds OF
a fool was for giving out that inter
view Just the same I don't believe
Kansas was ever a Taft state"
The above from Mr.. Allen read
pretty we'll and was supposed to be
Mr.. Aliens sober second thought al
though 1t was rather strange that he
should have said that he didn't believe
| Kansas was ever a Taft state in view
of the overwhelming vote Taft re-
| ceived here but a year ago.
Mr.. Allen forgets when he says that
Kansas was never q Taft state, that
| Kansas was a leader for Taft in all
her conventions, and before the ma
tional convention, in the actions Of
her Republican politicians, including
''Insurgent" Dolley, who exhibited
with pride the letter he received from
Taft after the campaign congratulate
ing him.
However, Mr.. Allen left here for his
home and yesterday presented in his
paper, the Beacon, an editorial which
is supposed to be his formal reply to
the replies" wherein he uses the cap
| ton kansas Anti-Taft." The State
Journal believes that Mr.. Allen is en-
titled to the publication in full of his
editorial and accordingly prints it be-
low preceding the publication of the
full text with the following extracts:
There have been from a number of
Republican newspapers in Kansas with,
stormy words denouncing the utterance
recently given by the editor of The
Beacon that Kansas ReDublicanism is
For the most part. the Republican edi-
| tors of the State take the position that
to, the Republican party; that any man
telling what he concefves to be the truth
about Taft should leave the party. Only
| two or three editors take the position that
Kansas is still friendly to President Taft.
AT Winona he practically declared that
the Republican who turned 'insurgent'
against the Aldrich-Payne tariff bill
should leave the. party"
"They are seeking merely to send to
genuine revision Of the tariff''
Taft has not stood for the things that
welt should return and accept it. Kansas
would support him for the presidency
No better thing GOULD happen to the the Re
tire country; save the Republican party
from Disaster
1--WE have noted that in the comment
OF the past week many bitter things have
been said The attitude Of abusing a man
yonrs IS rank an poea bgeTg arising
! from narrow vision.
| Inasmuch as the State journal was
not stormy" in it's utterances. and
inasmuch further this paper does not
take the position that "any criticism
Of the president is harmful to the Re-
| publican party; that any man telling
what he conceives to be the truth
about Taft should leave the party,
| Mr. Aliens latest editorial does not
apply to this paper. Still. further. as
this paper did not "abuse" Mr.. Allen
I the latter is not writing sat- the State
Journal particularly, when he takes
his pen in hand returning from Mis-
souri, where he gave the sort of news
which the Missouri paper wanted.
Indeed Mr. Allen was kind enough
to say when he was in Topeka Satur-
day, that of all the comments upon his
interview the State Journals was the
most sane and sensible, adding: "It
does seem a little inconsistent for me
to take the position I take in view OF
| the great prosperity of the state and
the fact that am putting up $780,
600 building"
We fail to see that Mr.. Allen does
any more than weaken his position.
The objection the State Journal had
to the Allen interview was that in our
judgment it misrepresented the feel
ing in Kansas Mr.. Allen had stated
that he had been next to the grass
roots and was handing out what he
declared was the feeling in Kansas.
We don't believe that Mr.. Allen
stated the feeling correctly. We don't
believe that he was next to the
grass roots" but was living. as one
paper expressed it, in his mind, high
up in the air in the tenth story of his
prospective magnificent new building,
far from the ground.
The State Journal did not believe las
; week and does not believe now that be,
cause Taft got the best tariff bill he
could and agreed with the 1913 Repub