The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-15

I pGTSOIdI unUGr IOOJ,
| even sacrifice the good of tie state in
| oIder to save the heathen- Since the
| Ldymen'S convention here last month
| the governor has been aroused over
this foreign missions work. He knows
all about BiddIe's capacity for convert
| ing the heather and it is possible that
4 he will yet decide to shoot the prison
| board all to pieces in order to send Mr..
| Biddle to the Malay archipelago TO lead
! the festive Filipinos in the way they
should go. Warden Codding would
miss Biddle's aid and counsel, and the
| happy McNeal would be almost incon-
solable over the loss, but duty IS duty
and the service to the many must be
considered over and above the loss to
! the few. There have been human sac
riffces over since the days of the
Druids.
Ewing Herbert, in the Hiawatha
World, has this interesting comment
about the recent meeting of the Kansas
Editorial association at Wichita:
THE Pure and Spotless Reformers
Do Not Hesitate to Take Advantage
and Engage In Misrepresentation.
" The Kansas Editorial association
won't last long if it is going to be used
as the arena for circus tricks of a po-
itical character The editors who went
into dark room and "resoluted" at
Wichita, did themselves no good. and
did the association a lot of HARM
From EmpOria Gazette.
THE Kansas City Star and Wichita
papers print similar reference to the
action of Republican editors at Wich-
ita. The Pure and Upright Apostles Of
the Reform movement shouldn't lie in
an effort to come back. The Republican
organization was made in the open and
all Republican editors were invited and
the organization was held in the same
room that the State Editorial associa-
ton met in and William Allen White
and Henry Allen were informed of
what was to take place and We're i'll
vited to attend. Mr.. Allen has claimed
that Kansas wasn't for Taft and Mr..
White and Mr.. Stubbs and several 9TH
er Knockers. large and small, have
rather leaned towards the idea.
THE Wichita organization of Repub-
hcans hurt them dreadfully. The Kan
SaS City Star SAYS to indOrSe Taft was
a rebuke to Governor Stubbs. who
was present. Well, now if Governor
Stubbs finds rebuke in the action let
him make the most of it. The Star
calls the action a smooth trick and
brands it as indecent. What choncern
is it of the Kansas City Star anyway?
Isn't it about time that paper permit
ted Kansas men and women to settle
their own affairs?
I'VE admire the Star and the men
who make it, but the paper is often
ing to be independent. and nonpartisan
it continually gives the insurgents the
best of every break Last year Bill
White wGS president of the Kansas
Editorial association. Although it is
the decent thing to avoid politics in
the association and bar all political ad-
dresses and discussions-indeed, that is
a provision of the constitution and by
Iaws-Mr. White imported Miss Ida
Tarbell to make the principal address.
She is a very talented woman and the
editors were glad to meet her and hear
her speak. bu- she gave offenSe to eV-
cry Republican editor present by maxi
ing a free trade speech. She made
statements that were untrue and her
i ,k,l r.x-fa
tectionist from Lincoln to Taft.
4aI.his year Arthur Capper brought on
Medill Mccormick and he made po-
fitical address. The editors were glad
to see and hear him. but every Re
publican was offended by his clap
trap. The Chicago Tribune hasn't been
Il regular Republican paper for 10
years. 1t is one of the greatest papers
in the world and if Mccormick had
cut out his political dope and talked
about the making of that paper he
could have pleased and helped ali who
ssNow, Miss TarbeIl and Mr. Nc
Cormick should have been Informed
that Il political address wasn't want !
Cd from either. But Bill White want |
ed a political address. so he dehed the |
laws of the editorial association and
had Miss Ida do her very best to in |
Ject free trade virus into the faith |
full. Arthur Capper wanted to brace |
up Governor Stubbs. so he had Nc |
conflict and the cause just as the
old Pops did when they swept the
state It was fine old doings.
"Stubbs and White and Allen said |
it was perfectly grand. No one else
thought so. And the next time polft- |
ical address is put on the program,
objection will be made that 1t is
violation of the constitution and by
laws. as we'll as offensive.
1.-The Republican editors present, |
not wishing to disturb the State Edi- !
torial association, which is composed |
of editors of all sorts of political re- |
ligious and social beliefs, kept within |
the law and right and called for the |
organization of a partisan Editorial |
association, a Republican organiza-
ton. And for doing so they are con-
demned by every man and paper that |
has offended Republicans. And they |
glory in the protest of those who are |
forced to take a little of their own |
medicine.
s'The present Conflict wouldn't
amount to anything if tho Republicans
would jump right into the fight and
slap the men who are betraying the !
party into submission or put them
down and out of it. If they want what
they are asking for they can find it in
the Democratic party and they have |
idea of talking about making Kansas |
nonpartisan is laughable. If Bill
White and Governor Stubbs think that |
Kansas intends to follow their leader |
ship into the free trade camp of De- |
mocracy, they need vigorous correction |
all along the line. Kansas is Republi- |
can and for Taft and the sooner Re- |
it will be for all concerned"