The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-22

niscence' ought to be at least twenty
four hours in the past, or severa
; months in the future. TO be admitted
in this department. But here is wha
the Capital said this very day:
President Taft is going to get his
) arbitration scheme through congress
and this alone will enshrine his mem
DRY high up among the presidents
Tho presidents handling of the Rus
sian treaty mess also showed that
there are some things in which he is
a past master. The president now has
his fighting clothes on for revision
downward President Taft is mod
est. In his message to congress yes
terday he merely mentions in casual
way that the postal service paid all
! expensea and made a small surplus
this year for the first time in twenty
seven years: T. r. would have
| ord breaking record Of that kind, and
| everybody would have sent up three
cheers
Now. what do you think of that
and it was not in the Second
Thought column either, but could
certainly be classified as such. Many
readers would certainly have to look
twice to see If the Topeka paper they
were reading was not the State Jour
nal instead of tits hated rival"
What does this mean? and should
not Arthur now amend his platform
and stand upon it for Taft. He seems
to have discouraged LaFollette lately
so that the latter has cancelled all his
Kansas dates. Too bad; for LaFol-
Iette tells good things about what he
has done and is going to do.
The Emporia Gazette seems to be
about the same, but when the Topeka
Capital is throwing bouquets at Presi-
dent Taft there is hope for even Will
liam Allen White. Nothing, OF course,
is suggested here about while the
lamp holds out to burn or anything
OF that sort. 1t is noted, however,
that Mr.. White is devoting his little
space just now to educational mat
tiers, and he is pretty level headed on
the high school proposition: that is,
the plan to give high school students
who desire to enter college the pre-
paratory studies therefor, and to
switch other high school students who
do not intend to go to college to other
and more practical subjects.
Mr.. White, it will be observed by
those who read his interesting and
esteemed paper, is booming and
boosting Senator Bristow's bill for
nominating Senator LaFollette to the
presidency. Mr.. White is also en-
gagged in an effort to dehorn and de-
PROFESSIONALISM university football.
our friend, the author and staff con-
tributor, J. E. H, estimates in the
outside newspapers, TO which he is
also a contributor, that tine LaFollette
campaign bureau has sent fifty thou
sand letters to Kansas voters He in
Inmates that most of those letters were
of 10
nor, who he declares has written his
calling the attention
of the voters to the necessity Of
special session Of the legislature But
for some reason he has not yet given
it out to the press.
Very important, if anything were in
it: Second Thought has another in /
teresting item in the exchanges which I
reached this table To-Day, namely:
The State Journal is boosting Taft |
hard and should be a great comfort
and solace to the regulars. who in re- /
cent time have had no Kansas news I
paper of statewide circulation to wipe
away the tears. Its sideswipes at the
administration crowd in Kansas have
been q trifie ladylike, but it is in posi-
ton to gcad the Kansas insurgents
into a fever. For the time being it
the regular faction of the party
There is an inside story in connec
ton with the Journals policy of mas
terly inactivity which may or may not
be true. 1t is given here for what it
may be worth. 1t is that Mr. Mac
Lehman, looking forward to the time
when harmony candidate for COVER
nor would be needed, steered a course
between factions with the hope that
The burden of uniting them might fall
upon him AS has been noted, there
NAV be nothing in the story, but it has
been whispered about for more than
year.
J. E. H. has his wires crossed. His
big boss one A. Capper. is the har
mony candidate for governor He adj
mits that he is and this writer is not
lisputing it. for he is not, never has
been and does not expect to be, can
lidate for governor.
Funny things, awfully funny, are
happening in Kansas just now. We
amt understand them and yet we
nave been out of the state only ten
short days What does it mean this
story on the State Journals first page
.oday. wherein Mr.. Capper is shown
% be sending out roast" on Gov
srnor Stubs. in a campaign docu
nent? Have you given your rubber ,
stamp, Arthur, to some politician s
,ther than Marcus Yesterday, who
still held it when this author" went
east a few days ago and found it still
working Perhaps there are two
stamps out.
(Chapter LV Tomorrow :