The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

"a SHAMEF1rI. ArrAcK


90 Tar the Sun has failed to see a
single defender of the president with
the hardihood to defend his position
from an ethical standpoint. "-Lecomp-
The foregoing from the Lecompton
sun Is another of the many evidences
lately brought to light that the ''insur-
gent hight is really fight on Presi-
ueHl IaIt What more bitter attack
could there be upon the president of
the United States than to declare that
Ills position cannot be defended from
an ethical standpoint? That Is to charge
MN with deliberate and Intentional
wrong doing, a charge which this pa
per does not believe could ever justly
De brought against any man. Demo-
crat or Republican, who has occupied
that high office
Even if it is conceivable that a bad
man should be elected president the
uplifting and ennobling influence which
une exalted position could not fail to
exert upon the man who occupied 1t,
and the tremendous sense of RESPONSE
bll1ty under which he must continually
rest, would make It simply out of the
Quesuon for any ordinary human being
TO denoerately do wrong act in his
PUBIC capacity. Amy president. may
make mistakes some times, but it is
one OF the glories of our country that
no deliberate and Intentional crime
against the people has ever been COM
United by any one of them. The Le-
compton Sun is SO bitter against Re-
puDi1canS IN congress who have stood
by the president that in order to make
capital against them, it is willing to
descend to the meanness of making an
accusation against Mr.. Taft which ev-
cry patriotic American of whatever
PARTY ought TO resent. Il lawrence
World.
OVER THE SANTA FEE TRAIL
(1ITfiCC -
York city. An English aviator dupli-
Gates the feats of his French COMPETE
tors and makes tine third successful
flight across the English channel A
n1ght nom New YORK to Chicago is
proposed; then from New York to ST.
Louis; then from ST. Louis to Kansas
CITY; Denver makes an offer for an air
trip from Kansas City to the Colorado
capital. The airShips will soon by fly
fEg over the new Santa Fe trail In
this Wonderful age of invention, the
impossible of yesterday is the common
place of today. Doubtless the men who
planned the new Santa Fe trail as a
magnificent highway for teams and
automobiles never dreamed that the ae-
roplane would soon be following its
route to the Rocky Mountains. The
camper on the old Santa F'e trail would
hardly have believed that in a half
century the trip of weeks would be
made in "A hours with ease, as COM
FaTed TO ms Vortuous progress. The men
who have laid out this highway for
motor cars to run upon, may. have been
laying out the thin black line that will
guide the aviator driving his biplane
on its regular trips between Kansas
City and Denver, over the route on
which Hutchinson will be only a gaso-
line ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Gazette.
AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.
Why should not the department
stores furnish bridesmaids? 1t is a. ter
rible expense parents are put to when
ever their daughters have to act as
bridesmaids. No girl ever refuses but
II always means that father must dig
up for something he cares nothing
about and must. pay for what he has no
interest in. Professional bridesmaids
he