The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-27

Gruber Attacks Roosevelt.
Abraham Gruber, of New York, who
had been selected to fire the broadside
OF the old guard against Col. Roose-
velt's selection was recognized and
made his way to the platform.
Col. Gruber said in part:
Twelve years ago on this platform
I warned a Republican convention
! against turning the executive mansion
| into a shooting gallery. My advice was
| not needed. Since that memorable day
| the man who has ever since been shoot
ing has seen his party organization di-
| date overwhelmingly defeated, BUSH
| ness depressed and the intelligent and
honest workingmen without employ
ment and hungry.
Shooting at Courts.
Looking for other fields for shoot
ing practice this man is now shooting
at the courts and it's judges. Himself
posing as a lawyer, who never had a
case or drew a brief, he now finds
sport in holding up the courts and
judges to the scorn of the mob. But
this is not new symptom. 1t is an
old disease.
This apostle of Derringer practice
While he was president abused Judge
Humphrey of the United States court,
gentleman and an honest man for
rendering a decision which was made
according to the law and which to
this day is unreversed. When the
United States appellate court reversed
Judge Lands, the same shooter, not
the White House sanctified by Abra-
ham Lincoln told the people of the
United States that the judge had been
guilty of miscarrying justice.
''Workingmen of the United States
do you recall that when Hayward and
Meyer were on trial for their lives,
this same shooter with all the power
of the president of the United States
sought to influence the jury by holding
up these leaders of labor as undesir-
able citizens?
"A French king once said: 4 am
the state No sane man may ever say
I am the United States The lungs
of the country are not its brains. Men
who a few months ago believed, now
disbelieve, men who worshipped then
now execrate, and throughout the
country the business men as such are
facing panic, and as lovers of their
rights and liberties are fearing revolu-
ton. From Caesar to Napoleon; from
Napoleon to the American Jack Cade.
when given power to shoot the
trusts, he drew line between the
good ones and the bad ones. The steel
and sugar trusts were the good ones,
those which would not help along the
shooters political schemes were the
bad ones. As now those who cry
fVive LIE Rof' are good Republicans
and those who are putting patriotism
join the cry are bad Republicans.
Play on Lorimer Incident.
while under the table touch Cox's
feet I cannot with Lorimer sit down
and eat. Fellow citizens of New York,
has the correspondence with Hartman
passed from your minds while the firm
was Roosevelt and Hartman and not
Roosevelt and Lincoln, the shooter and
railroad man were engaged in a joint
plan to get money, and in writing, the
senior member of the firm assured
Hartman that they were both prac
teal men and had better keep the
partnership under cover. Every gen
Grafton gives opportunity to the pat
riotic and brave to keep our ship OF
state headed in the right direction and
all of US business men, farmers, labor
ing men, professional men and, yes,
even the women of this country may
now if they will, join in the great
fight begun in the convention to pre-
vent a third term or something worse"
No one enjoyed Gruber's speech moro
than Col. Roosevelt, who chuckled re-
peatedIy. The delegates Kissed Gruo
er's statement that it would be found
that two-thirds of Roosevelt's strength
in the convention came from federal
office holders.
At one point the jeers and cat calls
became so great that Roosevelt leaped
TO his feet and waving his hands at
the delegates cried:
81 ask a full hearing for COL Gruper.
Gruber Is Kissed.
The speaker continued. but misses
almost drowned his attacks on Col.
Roosevelt Col. Gruber concluding
CIomptrolIer Pendergast of New York
was recognized to speak for Roosevelt.
Mr.. Pendergast congratulated Col.
Roosevelt upon Col. Gruber's speech
He said he knew nothing better to
show the line of cleavage between Col.
Roosevelt's friends and other people m
this convention. The speaker assailed
the action of the state committee last
night.
ordered at 1922.
Stirred nv the action of the Repub
1ican state committee which last night
| resolved by a vote of p to Is that no
deceit or fraud had been practiced in
the selection of Mr.. Sherman, as tenn
porary presiding officer, Col. Roosevelt
early today authorized the following
statement:
Battle Between Honesty and Baseness.
The conduct of a majority of the
state committee last evening puts in
the clearest light what this contest
really is, the statement of Messrs. Girls
| COM Kru1ewitch Kracke. Wannama-
| ker and Henkel prove conclusively the
trickery that was used in the effort to
I win a majority and keep the manage
ment of the party under the control OF
/ the men who have discredited it by
! their actions. There has never been
state convention to which it was better
worth going than it is to this, for never
! in another has the issue been so clear
| ly drawn between cleanliness and hon
| esty in public life and that peculiar
| baseness in present management which
/ has made the very word politician OBJ
noxious to the people.
Our fight is squarely against cor
ruption and the unclean bossism which
/ has bred corruption.
The men who by trickery kept con-
troll of the state committee and who
now come here in the effort to domi-
nate the convention are the very men
who are responsible for the corruption
| which produced Aids and for all that
\ has been discreditable in the party
management and now these deeply
| discredited bosses resent the effort of