Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-31
PRAISE. FOR KANSAS rs A s
She Sends a Message Of Courage
and Hope to the Nation
AN OMEN OF GOOD PROMISE

AN OMEN OF GOOD PROMISED
o. T..
Elimination Of Standpatters Hailed a.
Victory For Honest Government
"She Has Fired Shot That Will Be
Heard Round tho country"-"'As
Speaks Kansas So Thinks tho West"
Kansas deserves great praise for
showing the country how to get rid of
recreant congressman. Her action in
making almost clean sweep Of the
standpattcrs has been received as a
message Of courage and hope by all
who are fighting the battle of the peo-
pie as against legalized extortion.
That it will have pronounced effect
upon the congressional struggle in
other states Is quite certain. Promi-
nent newspapers recognize it as an
omen of big things elsewhere.
The Chicago Record-Herald says:
kansas has spoken in insurgent &C.
cents. The militant Stubbs scored
victory. The insurgents have captured
congressional districts. Murdoch and
Madison. able insurgents. were too
strong to invite even nominal 'regu-
lars.' The first tug Of war between the
standpatters and insurgents came in
Kansas. and the latter triumphed at
wide open primaries. Cannon's pa
thetic efforts did not stem the tide.
'What does Kansas want? What the
whole middle west wants. There is
nothing cranky about her verdict.
She wants popular government. hon
est politics. legislation in the interest
of the people instead of in that Of priv
ilege, genuine and systematic conserva-
ton. equal opportunity.
Her protest is moral. not financial
She has little to complain of. materi-
ally speaking. but she wants more
starch in the application of the pro-
gressive policies.
LAS speaks Kansas so thinks the
west, certain machine contrived ap-
| pearances in Ohio. Indiana and else
where to the contrary notwithstand-
ing"
The New York Evening Post says:
"Returns from the Kansas primary
show that a political revolution has
| been accomplished in that state. The
Republican insurgents have more than
made good their promises. The. entire
result is an overwhelming popular in
dorsement of the congressman who.
with Senator Bristow. spoke and voted
against the Aldrich-Payne tariff. The
Kansas primary gives that measure
the blacklist eye it has yet received.
kansas insurgents are now the reg
ulars and can point to their strong in
dorsement by the voters of the party
as sufficient warrant for all that they
! have done or intend to do. And the
most gratifying aspect Of the. victory
is the fact that the attack upon the
tariff was made upon moral grounds
The fight was not about schedules or
revenue producing capacity or any
charge that Kansas has been unduly
Disseminated against. What BristoW
and the others went up and down the
state denouncing was the use of the
tariff making power by Aldrich and
his followers and business allies as q
means of INSCRIPTIONS self enrich
ment.
This is the thing that Kansas has
now stamped upon. and her sister
states should be proud Of her. In yes
terday's primaries she fired shot thai
will be heard round the country"
The Brooklyn Citizen says:
The issue was the Payne-Aldrict
tariff. law. and the result is complete
reputation by majority of the Re
publicans of Kansas of the law.
"President Taft is involved in thi:
defeat Of Cannonism. for he has MOI
hesitated to declare that the Payne
Aldrich law is a fulfillment Of Repub
lican campaign pledges and a goo(
thing for the country. Well. the Re
publicans of Kansas have taken issue
with him and agree with Senator Bris
tow and Congressman Murdoch tina
the law neither carries out the plat
form pledges nor is it calculated to re
lieve the people from the extortions o.
the monopolists.
''There are no better Republican!
anywhere than the Republicans O
Kansas. They are the sons and tn
grandsons Of New England abolition
; lists who settled in Kansas and wht
; followed the leadership Of Abraham
Lincoln and Charles Sumner