Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-16
MORE o KANSAS.

1uS IeCeAt primary eleCIlOu l
Kansas has created a great deal @
comment In political circles in spit
Of the efforts of the republican regu
lars to ignore 1t. The followin,
editorial In the Philadelphia Nortl
American, to our mind sums up thu
situation in the proper light. The
North American says:
when Kansas speaks the natior
listens. Kansas has always stood
for the rights of man whenever
these were opposed to the rights Of
property. 1t is in the Kansas blood
ut was Kansas that first checked
the extension of the slave power. In
Kansas were lighted the fires OF
liberty which swept the nation and
burned out the last vestige OF
slavery.
"At that time 1t was bleeding
Kansas. Now 1t Is blooming Kansas.
Its product is something more thar
walls of corn. 1t bears more valua-
bic fruit than grain OF cattle. 1t is
the mother of men, real men, men
who have attained their intellectual
stature as well as their physical
growth.
THESE men think and read. The
result is that Kansas has the best
newspapers in the country.
mot only are the barns of Kansas
full, but its banks are full. Its
people have money. When Wall
street was stranded in its own panic,
1t appealed to Kansas for help. The
appeal was not In vain, for Kansas
had enough and to spare.
""Kansas believes In property. 1t
believes 30 much In 1t that 1t proba-
bly, has more property, man for man,
than any other state in the union.
But 1t believes that property Is for
the use of man, not man for prop
erty.
1T is peculiarly fitting that Kan
sas should have beer the ground for
thy, first pitched battle in the new
i waf-a war of ballots-for human
rights. 1t was recognized by the
feaders on both sides that the en-
was crucial. The preda-
Ferry interests felt that If insurgency
we're stamped out in Kansas the
effect would be decisive on the fight
In the nation.
SO every was made
available for use in Kansas. The
sinews OF wal were rushed to the
pivotal state. Cannon, with doting
egotism. went to rally his hard.
pressed henchmen.
de did rot know that his unsav-
DRY presence could not fail to be
offensive to intelligence, like that OF
Kansas. Nevertheless, the fact that
at his age he braved the scorching
harvest suns to make political
speeches showed how important the
predatory interests regarded the
issue.
Finally into the balance there
was thrown all influence of the ma
tional administration. In the distri-
button of federal patronage Senator
Rrfstow, one Of the leaders of the
progressiyes, has been ignored and
the entire weight of administration
favor has gone to the reactionaries,
the representatives of the predatory
powers.
"All that the insurgents had on
thSii SlQ0 was LuS IlkuL anu ll0 liz
|trliigence of Kansas.
1.-THE contest was for the nomina-
ton of eight representatives in con-
gress and a state ticket.
THE |insurgent candidate for head
of the state ticket was Governor
Stubs, the most radical of all the
progressive leaders, He was nomi-
mated for a third term by a majority
larger than he received at the time
of his previous nomination.
I'm tho last house of representa-
tives the Kansas delegation. stood six
stand-patters and two progressives.
At the republican primaries this
week there was a complete reversal.
The nominees stand six progressives
and two stand-patters.
"Of the six progressives nominat-
ed, two are the incumbents, Madison
and Murdoch, the representatives of
Kansas insurgency in the last house.
Mr.. Murdoch was one of the most
active leaders in the fight against
Cannon and the Cannon rules COM
mittee.
"Mr. Madison was a member of
the Ballinger Investigating commit
tee~ He was the only friend of con-
servation among the republicans of
the committee. and as such did val
liable service.
cot the four standpatters who
yer defeated, three held important
ehairmanships in the house and the
other was a member of the ways and
means committee. This shows how
Kansas is regarded in national poll
tics. Cannon distributed influential
appointments among the delegation
AWith a lavish hand.
SsAnd 1t was during the Kansas
primary campaign that Cannon an
nounced~that he would again be a
candidate Sor speaker. Had the
sfandpatters Ven 1t would have been
heraIded throughout the nation as
q Endorsement OF Cannon and a
snTc-ndication OF his return to the
speakers chair and the control OF
The nations legislation In the inter
est OF predatory wealth,
"Of the two standpatters nominal
ed, one represents the zinc district,
the Pfttsburg of Kansas, and In It's
Industrial population quite out of
harmony with the rest Of the state.
The tariff ON zinc, of which Con-
gresham Campbell was supposed to
Be the special guardian. had some