The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-10
Emporia Editor Says Progress
ives Will Control.
Not Sure Which Party They
Will Capture.
THAT ALL DEPENDS
Take La Toilette if Harmon Is
Named by Democrats.
Ii Not Will Flock to Support Of
Wilson.

The Denver News prints an interview
with VIM. Allen White which contains
some rather startling information
Here is the News story:
The Progressives will take control of
one of the next national political cam
pa1gnS and put one Of their number in
the presidents chair. William Allen
White says so and he is a prophet.
The man who made Kansas famous
as the home of all things goods and all
things beautiful, even uric the sun
flower. arrived in Denver yesterday
afternoon, and Immediately he began
prophesying about the Progressive
movement. AS official press agent of
the Progressives, William Allen White
| is one who must be listened to rever-
emily. In a similar capacity he glori-
fed Kansas and he has a much larger
field now.
William Allen White did not pretend
to know which party the Progressives
would control He does net condescend
to classify them in one party or an
other, for, he SAYS, the Progressives
cal and economical betterment, and
! are not to be deprived OF elbow room
in which to work.
eff the conservatives nominate Har-
mon in the Democratic party, then the
Progressives will sweep the Republi-
can party ana nominate La FOIIeILe.
If the conservatives control the Repub-
lican party and nominate Taft or the
ultra-conservative Sherman, then the
Progressives will take the Democratic
party and nominate WOODROW Wilson.
1.-THE conservative party and presi-
dent will try to hedge and straddle on
progressive measures, ard of course,
will go down to defeat
This is the neat little summary
which William Allen White mapped
out in a few minutes conversation,
and then he smiled the sunfiower
smile. The sunfiower smile. is Whites
own. 1t is half way between the BEAM
ing visage of President Taft and the
grin of a street urchin, upon whom
you couldn't pass bum nickel in a
year of Sundays. And the combination
has the added quality of being friendly
and homely and kind, as it spreads
slowly across the round and sturdy
visage.
Having made newspaper famous,
William Allen White is capable of Civ
ing his views with editorial lucidity
and rapidity. In about five minutes
he outlined what the Progressive plat
form would be if he were invited to
write it.
First he said, 1.-The platform
should pledge the primary nomination
of presidential candidates
"Second-The establishment of a
national court of commerce to regulate
the business of corporations and to
control their stocks and bonds by bas-
ing them upon the physical valuation
of the corporations, or by some other
method of attaining standardization.
"Third-The revision of the tariff
downward, based upon the cost of
production at home and abroad.
''Fourth-The direct election of
United States senators.
''Fifth-The right to impose the in
come tax, or, if all the states have
given their ratification before the next
national campaign, then an expression
of its statutory application"
Real Progressive Issues, He Says.
This platform contains the real is
sues of the Progressives according to
White. The last two planks may not
be necessary at the next national con-
Vention, he says, for the spread of the
direct primary has covered nearly
every part of the country.
The famous editor of the Emporia
Gazette has a most capable way of
summing up things. He has been over
the country and recently sent out cir
culars to every governor and secretary
of state asking what progressive laws
their states had passed or would pass
through the last legislatures which
joUrn. His views are substantial, there
fore. If it were not for these facts a
glance at his shrewd blue eyes is
enough to convince the listener that
White is a judge of conditions, and,
moreover, he is a very pleasant man
for the lonely scribe to interview.
''Just give the hailing sign first and
the rest goes with me- said White as
he jumped into an autom obile at the
Union depot and was whirled to the
home of DR.. c. B. James.
Cites West Virginia's Example.
There is Governor Glasscock of
West Virginia. said White, who has
called a special session to secure the
primary for the election of a United
States senator and to express a presi-
Dental preference. No one ever
thought that West Virginia would take
such a step. That is sign number 1,
to indicate that the sentiment of the
entire country is for progressive ideas.
do you know" continued William