The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-30

-AA5 NAAC AA5AllS VI the men ana women
who earn their daily bread by toll.
This nation is bounding forward at
tremendous speed in the development
or our industrial, financial and COM
merc1al resources; in educational,
moral and religious matters Kansas
ranks high among her sister states No
man or set of men can clog the wheel
OF American progress for any consider
able time.
Thanks for the wise and far sighted
policies of Colonel Roosevelt, Clifford
Pinchot and their associates, our great
rivers will be developed for public
benefit and our mines and forests and
public domain will be protected and
preserved for future generations. My
hope for Kansas is that we shall do our
part like men. that we shall dedicate
our lives to the proposition that Kan
saS shall establish and maintain q
model state government, administered
in the interests and for the benefit Of
all the people. Such a heritage be-
Queathed to coming generations will be
more precious than gold or silver. than
houses or lands than stocks or bonds.
1T will not only be good for US while
we live but it will be good for our chll-
dren when we are gone and 1T will be
good for the great republic of which
our commonwealth is an important
part
During the course of his address
Governor Stubs mentioned Theodore
Roosevelt's name and the party coun-
Gil paid ringing tribute to the ex-presl-
dent. Governor Stubs depressed some
what from his prepared speech as is his
custom. and spoke of Roosevelt as the
greatest man alive today
TIE state Platform.
Following is the state platform as
presented:
I'VE hereby bind our Kansas Repub-
1ican members of congress IN Doth
houses to make every effort to secure
fI11 nY11a n q
stitutional amendment that will pro
vide for the direct election of United
States senators by the people.
And we hereby instruct our mem
bers of congress to support law that
will provide for six year terms Tor Ieo-
eral and district and circuit judges.
I'VE endorse without qualification the
administration of Governor Stubbs.
And we pledge the people of Kansas
during the two years to come, the same
fidelity to public interest that he has
manifested during the past 20 months
of his administration.
1--WE pledge Republican members of
the legislature in both houses to vote
for a law that will place public utlh-
ties, railroads, telegraph, telephone,
electric light and power companies,
street railway, distributors of gas,
whether in cities or by pipe line, ex-
press companies and common carriers
of all kinds. under the control of
the issue of stocks and bonds, having
means and power to obtain the physi-
cal valuation of the plants of these cor
porations, to fix and adjust rates upon
their own motion and to regulate rates
and services in the interests OF the peo-
pie of Kansas and the investors ana
employees of these corporations; retain
ing to those cities that have the COM
mission form of government the rights
for initial control that they have now,
furnishing in the state board board
of appeal and review, for the city. for
the corporation or for any interested
taxpayer
I'VE hereby bind Republican MEM
bers of the Kansas legislature to vote
for the enactment of a law that Will
compel corporations doing business in
Kansas to begin all litigation In Kan
sas courts and take no refuge in the
federal courts until the litigation in
question has been passed upon by the
Kansas supreme court.
1--WE hereby instruct Republicans in
the Kansas legislature to vote for law
that will make the second onense
against the Kansas prohibitory law
punishable by a sentence in the penl-
Tertiary.
1--WE believe that the first duty of
every party is to put the responsibility
of government as directly as possible
into the hands of the voters, giving
the people veto power not only upon
undesirable laws. but upon those who
enforce the laws. To that end we
pledge our state senators and repre-
sentatives in the state legislature to
the principle and declare for the FOL
lowing policies:
"First-To submit to the people in
the election of 1912 a constitutional
amendment giving the people the
power to recall officers of city, coun-
ty and state governments whom they
believe to be derelict or unfaithful I'M
der procedure similar to that now
granted to cities of the first class
adopting the commission form of gov
eminent And to give the recall
promptly to the people upon every Of
ficer under Legislative authority.
"Second-To submit to the people
of Kansas a constitutional amendment
giving them the right to initiate legis-
lation and to vote upon certain legis-
lative enactments-the amendments
that have been adopted by the states
of Maine, Oregon, South Dakota and
Missouri. and known as the initiative
and referendum, with as low per
cent of the voters on the petition is
found in any state in the Union.
"Third-To adopt Immediately the
Oregon plan, which gives the people
q right to choose at the November
election between the partisan nomi-
nees for United States senator.
"Fourth-The enactment of law
which shall compel publicity of cam
paign contribution both as to source
and to dispersement before primary
and general elections both for cam
paign committees and for individuals.
"Fifth-And We pledge Republicans
in the Kansas legislature so to amend
the Kansas primary law that dele
gates to the national convention and
the national central committeeman
may be elected at the primary cleo
ton and that the names of the can
didates for president and vice presi-
dent shall be placed on the ballot
that the people of Kansas may ex-
press their direct choice for nomina-
tions for president and vice president.
I'VE pledge all Republicans in the
Kansas legislature to vote for the rati-
flcation of the amendment to the
United States constitution providing
for sderal tax on incomes,