The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16

school win decide whether the country
shall be governed by money for profit
or by men for human welfare.
Il made a speech in st. Paul recent
~. In connection with that speech some
body mentioned the possibility of the
Organization Of new party Mr.. Can
mons reference to me in that connec-
ton doubtless is due to his having read
some headlines at that time. The es-
sential questions before the people nov
are outside of party lines. In looking
ever the names of those who voted foI
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill l am LED
to believe thai regular Republicans and
regular Democrats are the same
Il am a Republican and do not be-
lieve in the necessity of third party
at this time and there won't be any.
Proelaims His insurgency.
Il am not a Cannon Republican or
an Aldrich Republican, but am Dol
liver Cummins, Beveridge, LaFollette,
Murdoch, Norris, Stubs Republican
and like to be counted among that kind
of cattle
II am on my way to speak for an
insurgent candidate for congress in Cal
ifornia. This is my first appearance IN
politics.
Mr.. Cannon said that party can not
stand on one issue. Well. know that
the people will never become enthus1-
astic on the one proposition of stand
ing pat. I want to be counted with
the men who go ahead.
Il have an exceedingly kindly feeling
for the speaker The old man in his
fight with Murdoch and the other in
surgents stood for an obsolete tradition.
but he was manly about it. His cour-
age has made him great while fighting
for a proposition in which l think he
was mistaken. 1t is a sad thing when
men who have done their work must
stand aside and give the leadership to
others. But this has ever been the his
tory of progress.
II think 1 am as good a Republican
as Mr.. Cannon"
But some of US are Democrats,
shouted some one in the audience.
Il am glad you said that" answer
ed Mr.. Pinchot, for the ideals of pub
lie spirited Democrats are exactly the
same as the ideals of public spirited
Republicans. We must all work to-
CT politics.
1.-THE speaker mentioned Major Pow
ell. He was a great man. Frederick H.
Newell is the same kind or man. L
consider Mr.. Newell the best officer IL
the federal service at Washington at
the present time.
.aThe greatest tribute ever given Mr.
Roosevelt was that of an English wri-
ter. who said that when president or
the United States Mr.. Roosevelt sur
rounded himself with the most effec-
tive, the most enthusiastic company of
young men ever engaged in carrying
forward the executive. duties of any
government"
None Can Stop Progress.
ct am for the man." Pinchot said.
"who puts man above the dollar,
progress above reaction, and the in
surgents above the regulars. be-
lieve the salvation of nation lies not
in being satisfied. don't believe that
what was good enough for our faith
ers is good enough for us. When we
come to the end of our lives some of
us will fail to see greater things
ahead. Our work will be taken up by
younger men who see the country is
moving onward, and that success does
not lie in standing still. Perhaps we
will fight against the change, but we
will be defeated. No man, however
great, can stop progress.
THE speaker told you that he was
a true Republican, and that you could
not build party on single issue,
unless it be overwhelming, such as
the slavery issue, and that therefore
a third party would not prosper. He
suggested that 1 was in favor of
third party. Evidently he had read
only the headlines of my st. Paul
speech.
II don't believe there is a necessity
L
Cannon's kind of a Republican. I'm a
Republican like Stubs over there in
Kansas. 1 like that red-headed fight
er, too"
Here the banqueters cheered and
waved napkins. Representative Victor
Murdoch of Kansas has red hair.
There is an overwhelming issue
such as the speaker talks about. 1t
is this:
Shall special interests run this
country, or shall the people handle it
themselves. l am sure the American
people are tired of being ruled by
small self-selected body of men whose
only motto is accumulation.
The conservation association has
taken up the work that should be
done by a conservation commission,
which was Knocked out of the sundry
civil bill by Mr.. Tawney's amendment.
Mr.. Tawney threw off the track the
train Mr.. Roosevelt started. The as
ISOLATION is fighting the Morgan-Gug-
genheim syndicate which is trying to
control the Alaskan coal lands, the
General Electric company which is
trying to get control of all the water
rights.
I'm the last session of congress one
of the seven conservation bills passed
That came largely through the efforts
of the association. This bill, the with
drawal bill, was a fairly good one
Wnen II got through congress. 1t has
been a habit of the United States to
give away water power rights for
nothing, and forever. The association
is against these monopolies, insisting
they must be paid for and not granted
forever
Frank K. Sanders, president Of
Washburn college, Topeka, also ad-
dressed the club.
UNCLE JOE WROTH.