The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-03
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Congressman ID. r.. Anthony
Talks of Platform.
Only Objection Is to Half Heart
ed Endorsement Of Taft.
HE ENDORSES REFORMS
Says That cit Is a Platform Of
Progress.
Hutchinson Paper Claims Mad
HE ENDORSES REFORMS
Hutchinson Paper Claims Mad
isOn Is Standpatter. i.

u. X. Anthony, congressman AOI lAiO
First district and proprietor OF the
Leavenworth Times, will support the
Republican platform adopted by the
progressives at Topeka last Tuesday.
He takes exceptions to the half heart
ed endorsement of President TAFT but
believes in the progressive tone of the
platform in general and is in full &C
cord with the revision of the tariff
schedule by schedule. In an editorial
in his Times today Mr.. Anthony says:
with the exception of the half
hearted endorsement of President TAFT
and some impractical things OF minor
Importance The Times will support
the platform put through the Repub-
lican party council by the insurgent
machine at Topeka last Tuesday.
This paper and its editor believe
thoroughly in every one of the genuine
reform principles of progressive Re-
publicanism.
I'm past years The Times has been
accused of populistic tendencies be-
cause we have favored the direct pri-
mary and the initiative and referen-
dunn and the recall. The tendency
nowadays of legislation is to place
more and more power into the hands
of the people. There may perhaps be
times when this power will not be in
diligently used, but in ninety-nine out
judgment and reflection of the Ameri-
can people as expressed at the ballot
box can be depended upon as being
absolutely right.
1.-The declarations of the First dis
trict Republican party council and of
the state Republican council on the
tariff are not so far apart after all,
and even Colonel Roosevelt joins
with President Taft and the state par
ty council and the First district party
council in commencing the idea of
the tariff commission created in the
future accurate revisions of the tariff
will be made, one schedule at a time
as the case may demand.
$50 this newspaper will unqualified
ly endorse the reforms enunciated in
the Republican state platform, firm in
the belief that when the time comes
for the enaction of these principles in
to law the people and the legislators
will have been so fully informed that
the legislation itself will be accom-
plished in a wise, safe and sane man
ner.
aside from its factional and YER
bose tone it is essentially a platform
of progress, pointing the way to bet
ter things in the interest of the whole
people which the editor of The Times
has always stood for"
According to the Hutchinson Ca
zette, Congressman Ed Madison of the
Seventh district, an alleged insurgent,
is a standpatter, after all. The Ga
zette figures that the saying, "By their
works ye shall know them" does not
cut any more ice in arriving at an eS-
innate of mans character than the
other saying, "a man is known by
the company he keeps" Madison, when
he came to select a chairman for his
congressional committee, named J. u.
ing to the Gazette, a standpatter from
the headwaters of Cannon creek. Now
every county in the Seventh district
went insurgent except Reno and that
was lost by only few votes. For why,
then, should Mr.. Madison pick
A prompt answer will be appreciated
by an anxious constituency.
Stubs, Dolley, Jackson, ct al, came
back from the Roosevelt reception at
Kansas City feeling pretty fine over the
drift of affairs. The governor says
that the ex-president is a progressive,
CUES that the stage of instruction
having been passed and a nationwide
movement inaugurated in it's stead,
that progressive is the proper title at
this time. The governor said:
Colonel Roosevelt spoke in favor of
Republican platform adopted in Kan
sas last Tuesday. He stands for the
same things the Republicans of Kan
sas stand for. And they stand for the
same things Lincoln stood for-an
equal chance for all. That is all there
is to this fight. We demand that every
man be given an equal chance and
that there be no special privileges for
any man or company of men,
The Republican end of the state
campaign will not be started in earn
est before the last of this month and
then it will be a whirlwind, according
to Chairman Dolley. Outside of Gov
ernor Stubs, the only speaker of
known ability on the state ticket is
John Dawson. However. there is some
fine raw material at hand. Charles
Sessions, candidate for secretary of
tsate, made a fine speech at Fort Scott
a month or so ago and he will be tried
out in earnest in the fall campaign.
Sessions has everything that an ora
tor ought to have except experience
and confidence in himself. But these
are easily acquired. Charles Gibbs, who
will have charge of the speakers bu-
reau again this year, is preparing to
give Sessions heavy schedule in the
doubtful counties. William J. Bryan
was just Sessions age when he first
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