The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25
A STRAIGHT TALK
Congressman McKinlay Gives
Interview on Situation.
Boldly Discusses the Disease of
insurgency.
WEST BEEN MISLED.
All Chautauqua Orators Pops
and Democrats.
Three Elements, Standpatters,
PrOgressives, Radicals.


Fifth district" said Congressman Nc
Kinlay today, while in Topeka few
hours on his way to Emporia, where
he speaks tonight. Il would not have
taken sides in this instance" contln-
ued the Californian. had not Judge
Rees taken the stump against me ana
declared himself against the new tarllI
bill and criticised the national admin
istration.
u did not come here to support any
congressional candidate as against any
other candidate in the Republican
party. I came here to support the
Taft administration The state of KAN
sas and its congressional districts Will
select as candidates men whom they
think best fitted to represent the sent1-
ments of a majority of the people. The
voters do not need instructions from
me an outsider, in this task or Sc
lecting their candidates.
But when Judge Rees declares that
the Republican party has goldbrlcked
the country in the passage of the
Payne bill there is no half way busi-
ness adequate to answer such state
meut There must be either Repub-
lican or Democrats congress next
year 1 am working for the former.
Middle West Been Misled.
"I have found that the people of
Kansas are taking marvellous inter
est in the great questions of the day.
Kansas people have been Systematical-
" and deliberately misled on every
public question by the Democratic and
POpulist SpellbinderS who have
thronged the Chautauqua circuits of
the middle west for the past few years. |
Take for example the statements OF
this man O'Neil. or is it MacNeal. in |
surgent candidate for congress in the |
First district His declarations in re- !
gard to the sugar schedule are ridicu- |
lous. The facts in the case have been
garbled beyond recognition There is
bound to come reaction against |
such methods When Colonel Roosevelt |
returns to this country he will endorse |
the Taft administration. OF that am |
confident. Then these radicals who
have preached sedition will be out on I
8 limb.
For some reason or other many of |
the big newspapers of the country |
seem to have gone into spasms over
these radical doctrines and are deter
mined to elect a Democratic house of |
representatives.
That Massachusetts Election.
Il want to correct one false i'm |
preston that seems to have gotten /
out in regard to the recent congress
sional election in Massachusetts. The /
Republican candidate who was beat |
en back in the Bay state was an in |
surgent- He was beaten because he !
opposed the Taft administration on !
the stump The people of his dis
trict preferred a simon pure Democrat !
10 a nNDT IN6puDllCdn VINO would
vote with the Democrats.
The Kansas Insurgents
Your Kansas insurgents, by the
way, are pretty good fellows and of a |
different stamp from some of the
brand in congress. Murdock and
Madison are fighting to a finish for
new house rules, but they have not
voted against the president and his I
policies as persistently some of |
the house insurgents have done. I
want you to understand that there (
are three distinct elements of the Re /
publican party in the house. There |
are about thirty-five radical insur-
gents. fifty radical standpatters, and I
about two hundred progressive Re
publicans who want to get out of the
rut but who do not believe in the La |
Toilette brand of Populism. 1 be-
long to the last named crowd. So
does President Taft.
His Kansas Trip.
My trip through Kansas may be |
considered a success when judged by |
the size Of the crowds at my meetings
and the interest they have shown in |
my plain statements. I have endeav-
ored always to present the real facts |
and discuss public questions logically |
and without bias or prejudice. There |
Will be other speakers sent here by |
the congressional committee out of a |
list of twenty of the prominent men |
of both branches of congress. They |
will stay here. each one of them, |
about ten days.
This is a Chautauqua country, |
with only such Democratic and Pop
ulist speakers as Bryan, LaFollette, |
Cummins. Hobson, Dolliver and otri |
ers of that stamp on the program. |
Not a Republican on the list. The |
people out here have only received |
their side of the question presented to |
suit themselves
Trying to Start Third Party.
TT looks to me like there is an ef- |
fort under way to start third party. /
They have the leaders, but not the |
gent fight in congress the other day |
they did not seem to know what they |
were fighting for. They started their |
battle in fine shape and then quit cold |
when the real fssue-the deposition
of Cannon-came up for settlement. |
It was a spasm of unrest. A few |
men who want to court fame. Rule |
or ruin. A case of can't get in the |
wagon and so we'll break it up.
'"The present congressional rules are |
imuerarive to the transaction of busi- |
ness when it is considered that 35 900 |
bills are presented in the house in one /
session. These rules may be abused. |
That would be possible. But the power /
they give one man is imperative if or /
der and not chaos is to rule in the |
house If Champ Clark had been elect |
ed speaker the other day he would have
had 10 use the same rules, just as |
Crisp used Czar Reeds rules
Il go to Emporia tonight and to Fort !
Scott tomorrow l will then return to |
Washington via North Carolina. where |
! am to make a few speeches. There |