The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-24
Judge Rees Holds a Love Feast
at Assaria.
Town Where Every Vote Was
Cast for Him.
BOURBONS SHOW HAND
Will Make Their Campaign on
Tariff Issue.
Salina Paper Says There's Fac
tiOnal Fight in Both Parties.

Rees, candidate for congress in the
Fifth district. held a love feast at
Assaria this week at which the 107
Republicans OF the precinct were pres
emit. The least that Judge Rees could
do was pay this slight testim onial of
appreciation to the solid phalanx of his
supporters in the Saline county strong
hold. In the late primary. it will be
remembered, Judge Rees received all
the Republican votes OF Assaria pre-
cinct and the question was asked by
the press at the time as to the where
abouts on election day of the Calder
head postmaster in that town. The
reply came in the nature of a poem
from the postmaster himself. one Yon
YOnson, who declared that he "Baint
for Calderhead no more"
The Assaria gathering must have
been a rema rkable affair. When it
is considered that in this free country,
where men hold so many and widely
divergent opinions on all things that
a candidate for congressional office
receives every vote in a township when
opposed by the congressman in saddle,
then it is time to make comparison
with the miracles of old. Judge Rees
did well to go in person to Assaria and
there sit down and break bread with
his disciples.
And the 1O7 were all there. The
news item dwelt particularly upon the
number of those present. Not one Re
publican voter of the precinct was
missing That is a magic number, 10Y.
They should organize and hold re-
unions Their devotion on August ?
was such that they should take pre-
cedence over the famous organizations
of history There was Gideon's band
of SOC, and the forty immortals. and
the sixty EpicureanS who dined with
Foquet at st. Mande. These people
and their exploits would look foolish
in contrast with the exploit of Yon|
nd hn Of
Assaria.
For the Assarians came down upon
Calderhead
Like the wolf on the fold.
As Byron puts it in his famous poem
of Sennacherib.
Judge lees, if elected to congress,
should devote his first energies to Sc
curing a federal building for Assaria
Yon YonSOnS devotion was such that
nothing less than that is worthy of
him. It will be remembered that
Alexander started from the little pro-
vince of Macedonia and that ma
parte sprung from the Isle of Corsica.
Judge Rees, in his turn, can lean in
perfect security upon the shields of
Assaria and make head against the
nation. No ambition of his can be too
lofty for those Assarians who have
shown already the qualities that made
the Bretons of Belle Isle famous for
so many centuries.
Judge Rees is fortunate, in these
degenerate times, to have an Assaria
in his district. His visit to Assaria
proves that he is not without appre-
citation and that is next to being
worthy. The cabalistic figures 107
will surely appear in the new cast of
the Rees crest in order that all the
glories of the house may appear on
the coat of arms.
In most of the Democratic papers
of Kansas this week a table of figures
showing the increased cost of neces-
stiles is printed, and accompanying
the table in each paper is an editorial
placing the blame upon the Repubh-
can party. It is upon this issue and
the charge that the tariff was not
really revised. that the unterrif1ed will
wage their congressional campaign
in Kansas, and for that matter all ov-
er the country.
The Salina Journal believes there is
a fractional fight in both parties along
the same lines, and closes an editorial
on the subject as follows:
Between the progressive Democrats
and the machine Democrats there is
just as much difference as there is be-
tween the machine Republicans and
the progressive Republicans. And if
the Democrats should ever get into
power in this country, and try to run
along the same old lines, 1t would not
be six months until their party was
clearly divided into rival camps, just
as is the Republican party
THE great issue of today is between
the progressives and the reactionaries
and the party which conforms most
readily to the demands Of the people
will be the coming party of America.
THE recent primaries show that the
Republican progressives are going to
control the Republican party. Voters
who favor progressive ideas of gov
eminent should cooperate with the
progressive Republicans to secure that
desirable result. The Democratic par
ty may become the party of the re-
dictionaries and the standpatters; that
remains to be seen; but the Repub-
lican party is being rapidly and effec-
lively pledged to the welfare Of the
rnanrla as AGAINST the COMBINATIONS g.,