The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-11
Defense of President Taft Fea-
ture OF His Address.
POINTS TO RECORDS.
Compares Gov. Stubs With Ma
TONS Executive.
Charges Extravaganza in Adj
miniStratiOR State Affairs.

an q ANCpuDllNeiil 4NCPuDllNc1iA
without prefix or suffix. I am for
President Taft.
The real issue, the big issue in this
campaign is, whether the Republicans
of Kansas shall follow the leadership
Stubs. We cannot do both. We must
choose one or the other. 1 say this
without qualification, because the gov
ernor and his friends unsparingly crit
icise and denounce the president.
Il have not made this issue. l ac-
cept it as L find it; as the governor
and his friends have presented it by
their hostility to the president.
Compares Taft and Stubbs
(which are you for? Whom will
you choose?
we have had one year of Taft
and little more of Stubs. What has
each done to merit your approval.
The president, though handicap
ped by hostility and discord has Sc
cured more wise and constructive leg
islation than any other president in
a similar period.
What has the governor accomplish
ed with a legislature entirely friendly,
except to increase our taxes?
THE president has advocated and is
securing legislation which will effect
uate the policies of Roosevelt. What
has the governor advocated except
the increase OF DOdTuS ana offices
THE president has instituted re-
forms which will decrease national
expenses forty million dollars a year.
The governor has increased state ex-
penses more than million dollars
year.
travagant.
"One looks to the good of all the
people and the success of the Repub-
ican party the other to the increase
of his patronage and the triumph of
his own faction.
I'VE are confronted by a common
enemy. the Democracy. Whose record
can we best defend? VIII eXtrava-
gance like the governors win more
votes than the economy of the presi-
dent?
lis the increase of the Governors
patronage better campaign material
than the policies of Roosevelt? Are
division and factionalism stronger
than unity and party loyalty?
Stubs Appeal to Democrats.
Taft relies for support upon Re
publicans-Stubbs openly appeals to
the opposition with the assertion, that
for every Republican vote he loses. he
will gain two Democrats.
The Bible says that a house divid-
ed against itself shall not stand. Taft
would heal the breach-Stubbs would
widen it, though the house should
fall.
I'm short, Taft is a Republican in
every fiber and Stubbs-well, Stubbs
is just Stubbs.
Taft is for government by party
founded upon Republican principles.
Stubbs is for government by Stubs
and for Stubs.
Under The pretext of short ballot,
Governor Stubs demands that tho
righ+ TO fill the great offices of treas
urer. auditor and others be taken from
the people and given to him as patron
age. President Taft would give self
government even to the ignorant Fill
pino Governor Stubs would take. it
from the intelligent Kansan.
Mexico may need Diaz-Kansas
does not. Governor Stubs. if permit
ted. would Mexicanize the government
and every atom of political power.
Increase of Taxes.
I'VE have charged the governor with
extravaganza and we have proven it.
he Las vastly increased our taxes
without corresponding benefit. We are
not niggardly in Kansas, nor do we be
grudge a single dollar actually neces-
sary to the expense of good govern
ment.
''I am for economy. but not at the ex-
pense of our educational institutions. I
believe the children of Kansas are en-
can give them. No one ever has or
ever will hear me criticize such ex-
penditures that are returned to us ten
fold in better citizenship AS a Kan
san, educated at Old K. U, no one ex-
ceeds me in loyalty to the schools Of
and educated me, but 1 condemn I'M
warranted expenditures of other de-
partments comm sncing with the office
of governor, where the policy of eX-
travags nee was initiated and the ex-
ample set for other officers to follow at
the outset of this tax controversy.
Driven to a defense, the governor
declared, there was no increase; that
the appropriations of 1909 were a mill
lion dollars less than those of 1907. The
state auditor Immediately showed they
were eight hundred thousand dollars
more and that the governor had missed
his first guess by a little over eighteen
hundred thousand dollars.
Detected in this misstatement, the
governor declared that the increase
was to pay a million dollar deficit left
bv the Hoch administration. 1t WAS
Immediately shown there was no de-
felt, no warrants stamped unpaid for
the want of funds and that there was
a bal -nc0 in the treasury when Gov
ernor Stubs assumed his duties as
such. His next defense was. that the
increase, which he first denied, was
due to increased appropriations for
educational institutions Of the state
and for the building of Memorial hal.
Once more he was convicted of
Ignorance or carelessness, for it was
shown that the 100000 appropriated
for the Memorial building was taken
from the $525, 900 paid by the federal
government to the state on old war
claims and that this sum, turned into
the general fund. together with revenue
from other sources than taxes, was
more than sufficient to cover the
Memorial building, the increases at K.
u and Manhattan, so that. the excuse
for higher taxes must be sought else
where.
Blame on Legislature.
And then, at last, driven from ore
position to another. deprived of each
shift or subterfuge as first presented,
he announced the most startling and