The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-02
Has Nothing in Last Congress
For Which to Apologize.
Talks of the Issues That Con-
front Kansas Voters.
REFERS TO PRIMARY.
HeraIds 1t as Most Important
in Recent Years.
Ayers Insurgents Are Not Other
Than Democrats.

Congressman Reeder blew in from
the Sixth district today, looking as
young and full of fight as he did ten
years ago. He is feeling fine about
the last session of congress and has
nothing for which to apologize this
year He is sure that he Will win the
nomination again. Men call it luck,
Reeder said, but they do not stop
to think of all the hard work that
must accompany that luck if man
is to get anywhere in this world.
Speaking of the issues that confront
the Kansas voters and the causes that
go to make these issues Mr.. Heeoer
said:
1.-The people of Kansas are close to
the most important election that mas
occurred in recent years; | refer to
the approaching primary election on
August End. At this time the Repub-
licans of Kansas will cast their votes
in favor of sustaining President TART,
by nominating Republicans for office
and making a fight this fall to defeat
the Democrats, and retain our pres
ent splendid agricultural and CONNER
cial conditions, or on the other hand,
they will at this primary election
abandon the president and the poll
cies for which he stands and turn the
country over to Democratic rule, by
nominating a ticket composed of the
so-called square deal or progressive
Republicans
Insurgents Not Republicans.
There might have been some
doubt in the minds of the average cit
izen as to what the progressive or in
surgent Republican leaders stood for
in the last election; there is no room
for doubt longer; the record of their
senators and members of congress on
all national questions of the greatest
Importance to the welfare of the peo-
pie, show that they are absolutely in
f1n
Republican party in all votes taken.
The time has come for the people of
Kansas and the American people to
know that the insurgent is not Re
publican, but merely retains the name
to hold for himself a vantage ground,
from which to strike down the great
policies and principles of the party, in
which and for which he has no longer
any sympathy. In plain words, the
progressive Republican insurgent
leader thinks as a Democrat, believes
as Democrat, and he is a Democrat.
and the people of this country should
no longer be deceived or misled by
him, If they sincerely desire to up
hold the hands of President Taft, and
Republican policies.
Il am aware that this is plain talk,
and that it will cause howl of COM
plant tc go up from these men. who
have violated and outraged every rule
of decency and political fairness, that 1
am reading them out Of the Republi
can party. I answer that these men,
composing only a small fragment of
the leaders of the Republican party,
and who, because they can not rule
would ruin the party. can not be read
out of the party; as a result of their
own political perfidy they are now
outside of the lines of the Republican
organization. How can man be a
Republican and consort continually
with our common enemy. the Demo-
Gratis? How can the progressive Re
publican leaders satisfactorily explain
their Republicanism when they de-
nounce the leader of the Republican
party, President Taft, and oppose tooth
and nail the very legislation that he
desires and which was pledged to the
people in the party platform? 1t may
be that men like Dolliver and LaFol-
lette, and lesser lights of their ilk, who
fight the Republican administration
and go per cent of the present Repub
1ican congress-, constitute what would
be considered good Republicans but I
refuse to believe that the people of
this country will accept them as such;
this is one of the questions that will be
decided at the coming primary in
August. No one is going to read these
gentlemen out of the party, but the
fact that they are so continually called
upon to explain to the people as to
their Democratic proclivities, shows
only too plainly to the thinking man
that they are already out
Too Late to Campaign.
Il shall get home too late to make
much of campaign against my pro-
gressive opponents. Public interests
and the legislative program desired by
the president compelled me to stay in
Washington in order to prevent the
Democrats and progressive Republicans
from defeating the legislation that the
country had commissioned the Repub-
lican party to enact. Kansas is on the
high divides of her greatest prosperity.
Since Mckinley was inaugurated presi-
dent of this great country and Danish
ed three millions of idle men and the
soup houses from the land and ushered
in a prosperity. the like of which the
world up to that date had never seen.
our country has continued to expand.
and add yearly to it's enormous wealth.
The present Republican delegation in
congress from Kansas, have witnessed
their great state rise from poverty to
riches so great, that she now stands
second in per capita wealth of the
great states of the Union; our farms
have increased from three hundred to
ten hundred per cent in value. our
banks are full of farmers money. and
the farmers feed lots are turning out
meat products, at price that may well
startle the world; surely the farmer
has his Innings now; will he in the
face of present conditions. give aid and
a. comfort to this misbranded order of
Republicans who are now rocking the
Republican boat and attempting to re-