The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-30
ACTION IS SLOGAN
Denton Says Party Men Are
Golden State Builders.
Conditions in California Likened
to Those at Home.
RULE OR RUIN POLICY
Insurgents Working for Fat
Places, Not People.
Secretary of State Tells of Cities
on Pacific Side.
RULE OR RUIN POLICY

c. E. Denton, secretary of state, has
| returned from California and the Pa
| cific coast, where he spent three weeks
in company with his wife on a trip
through cities on the slope. They had
a very pleasant time and return to
Kansas in fine health and spirits.
Speaking of conditions as he found
them in there. Mr.. Denton today said:
The coast country is enjoying good
times, just as good as in kansas or
anywhere in the middle west. They
work on big scale out there, work
all the time and they are in love with
their own country and think it is the
greatest i,nder the sun
81 found that Trey have in California
a faction in the Republican party out
there similar to the one existing in this
state. They have insurgents and regu-
lars, just as we have here. The for
nler seem possessed with the idea of
stirring up the rabble to change pres
ent prosperous conditions. The change
may be for the worse for all they knew.
hut anyway they want a change. The
leaders, OF course. expect the profit
thereby from fat offices. But they have
nothing specific to offer their follow
erS.
Il found that the members of the reg
ular party were in the main composed
OF the men VINO are building up the
state of California Men who are do
ing big things out there. who have their
money invested in all kinds of indus
tries, who have the future of the state
most at heart. and who are working
along safe and sane lines to build a
good foundation for future greatness.
The lines were sharply drawn between
these two classes of partiZans. 1t struck
ne very fOrcibly. I had not thought
of the division between the regulars and
n hi no
believe, since I come to think over the
matter. that this stare of affairs is
more or less true in every state where
these factions exist.
Insurgents Little to Lose.
your irsurgent has little to lose and
much to gain by any kind of a radical
change in the policy of the dominant
party of the nation. Your regular has
much to lose His building contracts,
his mills and factories his business,
his lard values. his crops, his various
enterprises, big and little. whether he
is worth $1,000 or half a million, he
stands to see his property shrink III
value and his ENTERPRISES stand still
in the case of a political upheaval. Then
the wage Garner and farmer will also
be direct sufferers
"Out in California all the men Of the
state who are doing things for that
state, all of them that I talked with,
fear the insurgent policies of rule or
ruin for the bad effect it will have on
the progress of their state. They are
doing splendidly. They argue that times
are good, that wages are high, that
work is plentiful and the prices are
good, and they don't see how much
improvement can be made unless some
Utapia is successfully established upon
the earth.
when you find the substantial and
active men of the state all lined up
on one side of a proposition it is a
pretty safe guess that judgment and
experience are behind that policy.
But If the people want to firt with
hard times and follow rainbow lead
ers who make a living out of political
jobs instead of by the process of
building up a business or developing
a section of country, or turning the
raw product into finished material.
why it is their own business. 1t is
their privilege.
II am merely trying to tell you the
thoughts that occurred to me from
observation and from talk with pro-
gressive men, while in California. If
you will go over the list of the regu-
lars you know in Kansas you will find
among them most of the men who are
doing things to build up their COM
Brings Home Oranges.
Mr.. Denton brought home box of
oranges and stood treat to his state
house friends. Contrasting Los An
geles ways with those of Topeka, he
remarked on the courtesy of the Cali
fornian who rode in vehicle for the
Californian who walked in the dust of
the road. Mr.. Denton saw all traffic
in a busy street blocked while wo-
man wheeled a baby cab across from
curb to curb. Los Angeles streets
are congested with traffic all the
time, but the street cars and autos
and drays move slowly and acknow-
ledge the right of a pedestrian to live
on earth.
Mr. Denton then made mention of
the Topeka street cars in their mad
career and the Topeka autos and
drivers of other vehicles. The man
who crosses Kansas avenue on foot
must be sound and quick of limb and
keep his eyes wide open. The cars
and autos appear to have the right OF
way over everything and everybody
While Los Angeles is a much larger
and buster city than Topeka, Mr.. Dem
ton thought that a Los Angeles man
would not have much chance on Kan
sas avenue until he got accustomed to
the fact that the man on foot has no
privileges that a man on car is
bound to respect.