Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-08
PRAISE FOR KANSAS
She Sends a Message of Courage
and Hope to the Nation
AN OMEN OF GOOD PROMISE

Elimination of Standpatters Hailed as
Victory For Honest Government.
"She Has Fired a Shot That Will Be
Heard Round the Country"-"As
Speaks Kansas So Thinks the West"
Kansas deserves great praise for
showing the country how to get rid Of
recreant congressman. Her action in
making almost clean sweep of the
standpatters has been received as a
message of courage and hope by all
who are fighting the battle of the peo-
pie as against legaliZed eXtortion.
That it will have pronounced effect
upon the congressional struggle in
other states is quite certain. Promi-
nent newspapers recognize it as an
omen of big things elsewhere.
The Chicago Record-Herald says:
kansas has spoken in insurgent ac-
cents. The militant Stubs scored a
victory. The insurgents have captured
congressional districts. Murdoch and
Madison, able insurgents, were too
strong to invite even nominal 'regu-
lars The first tug of war between the
standpatters and insurgents came in
Kansas. and the latter triumphed at
wide open primaries. Cannon's pa
thetic efforts did not stem the tide.
"What does Kansas want? What the
whole middle west wants. There is
nothing cranky about her verdict.
She wants popular government. hon
est politics, legislation in the interest
of the people instead of in that of priv
ilege, genuine and systematic conserva-
| ton, equal opportunity.
Her protest Is moral. not financial.
She has little to complain of, materi-
ally speaking. but she wants more
starch in the application Of the pro-
gressive policies.
LAS speaks Kansas so thinks the
| west, certain machine contrived ap-
pearances in Ohio, Indiana and else
where to the contrary notwithstand-
ing"
The New York Evening Post says:
Returns from the Kansas primary
show that political revolution has
been accomplished In that state. Tho
Republican insurgents have more than
made good their promises. The entire
result is an overwhelming popular In
dorsement of the congressman who,
with Senator Bristow, spoke and voted
against the Aldrich-P Payne tariff. The
Kansas primary gives that measure
the blacklist eye 1t has yet received.
| kansas insurgents are now the reg
ulars and can point to their strong in
dorsement by the voters Of the party
| as q sufficient warrant for all that they
have done or intend to do. And the
most gratifying aspect Of the victory
tariff was made upon moral grounds.
| The fight was not about schedules or
| revenue producing capacity or any
| charge that Kansas has been unduly
Disseminated against. What Bristow
| and the others went up and down the
state denouncing was the use of the
tariff making power by Aldrich and
| his followers and business allies as a
means of INSCRIPTIONS self enrich
| ment
This is the thing that Kansas has
now stamped upon. and her sister
states should be proud Of her. In yes
| terday's primaries she fired a shot that
will be heard round the country"
The Brooklyn Citizen says:
1.-The issue was the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law. and the result is complete
reputation by a majority Of the Re-
publicans Of Kansas OF the law.
president Taft is involved in this
defeat of Cannonism, for he has not
hesitated to declare that the Payne
Aldrich law is a fulfllment of Repub-
ncan campaign pledges and a good
thing for the country. Well, the Re-
| publicans Of Kansas have taken issue
with him and agree with Senator Bris-
| tow and Congressman Murdoch that
the law neither carries out the plat
form pledges nor is it calculated to re-
lieve the people from the extortions Of
the monopolists.
"There are no better Republicans
anywhere than the Republicans of
Kansas. They are the sons and the
grandsons of New England abolition
lists who settled in Kansas and who's
followed the leadership Of Abraham
Lincoln and Charles Sumner"