The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09


public men whose careers have been
scandalized throughout the country al
though they keep clear OF the courts
Read the confessions of the four
men, Read what was developed by the
two states attorneys, one belonging TO
one party and one belonging TO the
other about the four men agaln<I
whom they secured indictments ana
about other men also Read tnat ana l
defy any honest man of intelligence not
to come to the conclusion that the leg
isIature whose doings have been ex-
posed was guilty of the foulest anu
basest corruption, and, therefore, OF
the most infamous treason to Ameri-
can institutions.
Turned the Rascals Out.
.Uhen was president 1 endeavore1
tn act SO that there should be no neeo
of raising the cry among my oppoheHt9
of turn the rascals out, pecause 1
turned them out myself just as Iast d.
| could get at them.
an making Investigations, struck
two different sets of cases. Inero
was one set of cases where prosecu-
lions would lie. In those cases l ~
ed the matter over to the department en-
Of Justice. In addition there was tne
1a-Ser class of cases where there was
not sufficient ground for persecutlon'
hut where it was evident that the man
was an unfit and improper puDnc ser
want and there l turned MIN Oul' 60
when now and then the man oacA VI
him occasionally belonging TO CO
ordinate branch OF the COVER
would come up and say; ..;.t
"sOh. there is no conviction against
him. I said, No, 1 dare say that ne
has practiced law honestly Out ne 10
a crook and out he goes.
ssNow / could do that with the aP-
nointive officers who held Office I'm
der me; with the elective OFFICES mere
is but one body that can DO tnat anu
that is the people. 1t depends upon
YOU. upon the people or Anerlca'
whether you Will perinlI d ma q
resent you because he has peen az
Quilted in a court of law, or because
| there has been a mistrial SO tnat
enough Jurors have believed IN Hlih
| to get him off; whether you Will per
init that man to represent you, "
whether YOU will take the stand tnat
where Won have evidence of kind
which may not be legal but Wnicn
| convinces every honest man OF intel
lieence: whether you Will supHllI ~
| the pollution of American lie by Pu.-
ting such man in hlgh Official posi-
ton.
Demagoeues and F1atterers.
"In each nation, every form OF gov
eminent, there are base hatterers. Inc
same individual who IN a naonarcn ~
| would be a courtier and datterer OF
| the king in a republic turns dema-
gogue and hatters those whom ne
| thinks will cast the most votes he is
lust the same man, the one Just as
! had as the other, only that they are
| fI1nctioning under different conditions.
| IT is a favorite-I won't say argument
hut a favorite assertion of that type
| of man when some pubic serVant
has been found guilty of conduct that
should disgrace him, 10 say, we WIN
90 to the people for his vindicatlon,
we will see if we can't secure him
an election Sometimes they succeed.
a great many thoroughly good people,
thoroughly good citizens nave nc
| special means of Information, are lg-
norant of what really has happened
and NAV on occasions like that, be
misled, but if they are misled ana II
they do, so far as in them lies, at
tempt to vindicate dishonest and
unfaithfuI public servant by re-elect-
ing him, they don't .vindicate MIN
my friends, 1 ask you men of II
Iinois that you purify your politics
, that YOU hold accountable the scoun-
drel great or small, who has beer
guilty of corruption; that you insis
, on cleanliness in your public life, anc
I ask it for the sake of the American
, people. and ask it for the sake of al
, the nations of the world, that theil
!, hope may not be made dim, and tina
, thew may continue to cherish the idea
-. of the DOSSlDlllIy u ldNiuS d SONSIh
ment of, by and for the people, tina
4 shall mean also the government O
: Justice and the government of hon
4 esty."
E Hearst Oyers Aid.
Freeport. ILL.,, Sept 9.-Colone
Roosevelt admitted here that there
possibility of his returning to pub
t, lie life. In this connection he ISSUED
: | a warning to corrupt corporations tina
i oierI, him in oh
: tanning any place would be at the1
: own peril and not with the idea o
: getting official favors or 2ardons later
The statement was in his address Il
? connection with the fair OF the var1ou
! national organizations of railway EN-
: pIoyees for the benefit of the home TO
,, aged and decrepit railroad men o
America at Highland Park. III.
+ ct don't suppose I ever shall be Il
! public life Again,' he said. ''but if
am, there is always the chance tina
, some time it may come up when
I shall make nv words good
. mo corporation, no politician mus
; ever support me for anything unde
: 1.-THE idea that 1 will pardon that corpor
alton or that politician If he or it
corrupt
: eff either corporation or political
= helps at any time to put me in posi-
! ton of influence. let them remembe
: that if they encourage corruption l
others or if they benefit by it them
: selves, they help me at their peril. for
: will hurt them if I get the chance"
Colonel Roosevelt especially warne
men of the Ave brotherhoods of raj
: way employees that it should be the
), duty to see that their trgonizatioT
:, were managed in obeolenco to law an
= he insisted that should they ever ir
Il dujge in anv lawless action or violenc
: the result would be II iniure them
= the estimation of the american peopl
. He advocated a working mems CON
y pensation act as a measure of justic
for every employee who is injured
. the line of his duty.
: Colonel Roosevelt also read on ope
- letter by William r. Hearst in whio
= Mr. Hearst advised the colonel to r.
turn to New York and take up the fig
on the Republican organization ther
J. saying if he did so. Mr.. Hearst wou
n be in sympathy with him