The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
was raised. he is simply telling you
what is not SO.


The editor Of this paper is not a can
d1date for any political office, city, |
state Or national-but with little more
time he would dearly love to he for a
couple of terms. road overseef in the
township wherein he lives about half of /
the year and helps pay for some bad
roads. He accordingly feels free to |
commend or criticise the actions and
policies of those in authority
He believes that the insurgents"
have done much good by exploitation. |
but he also believes that being in the |,
minority they should realize that in
this country the majority rules. If the
editor OF this paper lived in the Eighth |
district, he would be for Victor Muir |
dock for congress, although he dis |
agrees with him upon some things po-
litical. 1t is good for congress to have |
some men like Murdoch, and yet Speak |
er Cannon thinks Murdoch is as bad as |
Democrat; but there are good Demo- |
Gratis and good insurgents" If Mr..
Murdoch had never done another thing
in congress. or does not do another
thing, his action in bringing the rail-
roads to time, pointing out to President
Roosevelt clearly and plainly that the
railroads were getting pay on a daily
average produced by doing seven days
work a week, and figuring the daily
average by dividing that seven days
work BIZ six instead of by seven, the
correct divisor, Murdoch, as long as he
has ordinary ability. energy and the
welfare of the people at heart, should
be returned to congress from his dis
trict; as long as he thinks the co'i-
gressman's place preferable to that OF
the editorship of a great Kansas daily
newspaper which is his whenever he
wants it.
While Mr.. Allen has been hobnob-
bling around with the plutocrats,
breakfasting at the Hotel Baltimore,
the finest hotel in the west, visiting
Chicago, New York, Columbus, Hous-
ton and the great cities of the coun-
try with a view to getting the best he
can for his 100000 building, this
writer has also been talking and mix
ing with a few people next to the
grass roots" He has learned that
these people next to mother earth. the
real tillers of the soil and the real
business men of the state, are not
talking SO very much about politics.
They are not excited over political
situations.
They do not seem to be thinking
that the country is going to the dem
milton bow-wows'' simply because we
did not get the kind of tariff bill that
was satisfactory to every individual in
the state, or because the congress had
not yet seen fit to adopt rules in ac-
cordance with Congressman Muir
l. I. -
gresham Scott, of Congressman Cal
derhead and of the rest of the ma
Jority.
These people next to the grass roots"
seem to be hugging themselves with
the high prices they are getting To-
their products, and clothing themselves
in fair raiment with the proceeds.
gloating over seven and eight cent hogs,
almost $3.50 for wheat. and comparing
| their observations with former times
when they were told to take 80 cents
for their wheat or haul it back; when
they were told to take 10 cents for their
corn or burn it. These same grass
roots" people are observing the figures
carefully to see for what price they can
get the adjoining eighty" and lament
| ing why they did not take in that
eighty VI TIC quarter SECTION unQef the
old Wilson bill. or even the Dingley
bill; also discussing whether they
should buy a Packard, a Great Smith or
another brand of automobile; they are
also discussing, these people next the
| grass roots whether they should
send their daughters next year to
Smith or Wellesley, or their sons to
Manhattan or Lawrence, or Harvard OF
Yale.
Put your ear to the ground again, Mr..
| Allen.