The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-26

| bright moonshine night, and great
J frost, but no comet to be SEEM Later
the same Gay, however. Pepys did see
the comet, which now, whether worn
away or no, know not, appears not
with a tail, but only is larger and
duIler than any other STAR
KANSAS INSURGENTS AND TAFT.
Having seen the handwriting on
the wall, as it were, having discovered
that there is a sentiment among the
great majority of the Republicans in
Kansas which is decidedly favorable to
President Taft, the Kansas insurgents
and the newspapers which hawk their
wares. are indulging in desperate and
labored efforts to try and prove that
there is nothing in their insurgency
which can properly be construed as
being unfriendly to President Taft.
1t is not likely that they will be
able to fool the intelligent people of
Kansas on this score. Attention was
called in these columns the other day
to the fact that the Kansas insurgents
are unalterably opposed to the tariff
law which Mr.. Taft strongly cham
pions; that they are against Mr.. Taft
for continuing to show faith in his
secretary of the interior, Mr.. Balm
ger; that they are with the insurgents
in the senate and house in their en-
deavors to eliminate from the railraod
bill all of the important suggestions
for adequate railroad regulation which
have been promulgated by the presi-
dent, and that they are opposed to
the present system of federal courts
which Mr.. Taft considers to be the
right one.
If this is not sufficient evidence that
the Kansas insurgents are in reality
antagonistic to President Taft it is
possible to furnish plenty more An
other piece of it is to be found in the
attitude of the Kansas insurgents and
their erstwhile Republican newspapers
in the criticism they delivered at the
actions of the Republican editors of
the state who met and formed an
organization at the recent meeting of
the Kansas State Editorial association
held at Wichita. At this meeting of
the Republican editors resolutions
were passed endorsing the administra-
ton of President Taft. Every one can
remember and is familiar with the
bowls of protest that went up from the
Kansas insurgents and their newspa-
pers. They insisted that this meeting
of the Republican editors was on the
trump convention order. They hol-
Tered themselves hoarse with protesta-
tions that the resolutions endorsing
the administration of President Taft
did not represent the real sentiment
of the Republican editors of Kansas.
And among those who thus protested
the loudest are the newspapers and
their insurgent friends who are now
insisting that there is nothing in the
insurgent movement which can be
construed as being unfriendly to Mr..
Taft
OF truth, the Vaccinations of the
minds of the Kansas insurgents and
their newspapers are marvellous. Be
cause they have found out that their
opposition to the things for which
President Taft stands is seriously
hurting their cause in the present po-
litical contest, they are now attempt
ing to deny that any such opposition
ever existed. But they have a diff
cult row to hoe. The evidence against
them is too voluminous and too strong.
The people can be fooled occasionally
but not all the time.