The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22

counsel. The Republican party in this
nation stands but one possible show
of winning the elections to be held this
year. And that is to turn from the
dominant congressional leaders and
their policies, as the Indiana RepubIi-
cans turned, and face right about to
the leaders and policies that gave the
party its strength when Roosevelt was
in the White House.
"In Kansas the contest between the
reactionaries and the progressives
opens today. On the one side is the
old crowd-the federal machine and
attorneys, the railroad lawyers, the
discredited has beens of Kansas poll
tics, the old senate lodge and the con-
gressmen and their machines who are
fighting for life because they betrayed
the people. On the other side are the
people who make Republican major
tiles in Kansas led by eight progressive
Republicans in eight Congressional dis
tr1cts, seeking to represent the people
and not the interests, and with these
Republicans stands Governor Stubbs
The fight seems to be on Governor
Stubs. The leading counsel for the
Standard Oil in Kansas, w. E. Stan
ley, who also represents the harvester
trust, and former Governor Hoch and
former Governor Bailey have been en-
listed to add the tin cornice of re-
spectability to this house of shame. In
side, directing the work of deceiving
Kansans are David w. Mulvane, Re-
publican national committeeman; D.
o. McCray, Morton Albaugh of the
federal court and the congressional
managers of Anthony Scott Miller
Campbell, Ca1derhead and Reeder.
They have brought out Tom Wagstaff
for governor, young man of unques-
toned character and of undoubted
ability. They are seeking to galvanize
candidacy on his behalf not to de-
feat Stubbs-of that they have no
hope-but to centralize the reaction
airy movement in Kansas and save the
six congressman just above named who
of Aldrich and Cannon so far that the
Republican party has been disgraced
in the congressional elections of this
country as It has never heen shamed
before.
Tear Down Party.
This is the outfit that is seeking to
tear down the Republican party of Kan
sas. It is a part of a national move
ment to control the Republican party
in favor of Wall street and the great
interests that made the tariff, that fos-
ter the trusts, that prey upon the peo-
pie in a thousand ways and make the
cost of living outrageously high. It is the
plunderers against the people. Not a
man connected with the inside of the
Kansas movement ever did a thing for
the people of Kansas. Every movement
toward better things in Kansas in the
Fast five years this crowd has fought.
It fought the primary, and is fighting
it now. 1t fought two-cent fairs and
is against them now. Tt fought for po-
litical passes and would have them now
If it could. 1t has fought the CONSOLE
cation Of offices and il is against them
now. 1t fought freight rates revision
and would go back to the rates now.
Yet, in order to divert attention from
the Ubiquitous tariff bill that brought
the Republican party to shameful de-
feat ill recent congressional elections,
this crowd is raising the cry of high
state taxes in Kansas.
THE state taxes arc charged to the
governor. The facts are that these