The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11

congress enabled us to elect the house
| Of the Sixty-seccnd congress. not only
that but our record elected sever Dem
Ocratic senators to take the place OF
standpat Republicans and six Demo-
cratic governors in place Republicans.
The Democrats CT the house of the Six
ty-first congress did it and are entitled
to the glory thereof. We set the ex-
ample Of getting together which has
spread to Democrats everywhere.
This Democratic house over which
I have the honor to preside has made
a record which has surprised our
friends and dunbfounded our eremies.
We have stood together fought together
good fight We have kept the faith
with the people and by reason of so
doing the signs of the times indicSt tie
q sweeping Democrat victory all along
the line next year which will give US
the senate, the house and the presi-
dent.
Il believe that the people ought to b.
treated fairly honestly, candfdIy and
courag eously. They are entitled % that
square deal of which we hear so much
and see so little. The promises made
to carry an election ought to be religi-
ously carried out after the election is
won. No other rule of political CON
duet viii do to live by That's all the
politics I know Individually I would
rather lie accused of horse stealing
than of Winning on one platform and
Ultimately the people will cast out the
public men who palter with them in a
double sense, keeping the word of prom
ise to the ear but breaking it to the
hope.
Causes of Victory.
we won in 1910 on six principal
4 we promised that if we carried
the house we would pass a bill COM
polling the publication of campaign
contributions and disbursements before
the election and we did it promptly
That was the first bill I signed as
speaker.
- We promised to pass q resolution
submitting q constitutional amendment
providing for election of United States
it. That is five times that I have vo-
ted for that proposition. There never
was man vet with sense enough to
give a good req son against il
g. We promised to liberalize the
rules of the house and we did that.
a. We promised to economic and
we have begun that great and difficult
task and we began where charity
should begin-at home. We Topped off
more than 100 Supernunaary EMPLOYEES |
Of the house thereby saving to the
treasury their salaries amounting to
5000, 000 That is an earnest of what
we Will do when We reach the appro- /
priatiOn bills.
IS. We promised to admit New Mex
leo and Arizona. as two states and we
lid it.
down to a revenue basis ana we pass |
ed bills which would have saved the |
500 millions a year-more I
than Sc per capita, more than $50 per
family, counting So persons to the fam |
Iy-
President Taft vetoed all these bills
he thereby raised an issue which Will +
age with Inabated fury till the close /
IF the polls in 1912. Under the consti- !
-utiOn he had the right TO veto them. |
do not doubt his right. I doubt the /
wisdom of the performance and so /
Viii he one year from next Tuesday. /
The king of England has the right to I
Fcto bills. but no king of England has |
Jared to veto a bill in 200 years. No /
king of England will dare to veto one /
n the next 2ov years. The first English /
King who dares to veto q great bill will /
De the last king of England, as I believe
William Howard Taft will be the last
;tandpat president of the United States
He digged his own political grave with /
lis own spade.
Boasts of House Record.
1.-THE new Democratic house has made
record so splendid as to surprise our
riends ard dumfound our en- an IS. No
louise il generation has achieved 50
much constructive legislation of such
beneficial character in SO short Il
inc; Notwithstanding the fact that
eirg 9 party of mere neGatien an
tterly destitute Of constructive states
laEshtps Thar cnaer is now frozen
n the faces of the sneArers. That
Ice c.sturbs NOBODY any more ,fen-
i l Grants famous mot THAI Demo
rats can always he depended on 10
} the wrong thing at the right tiine,
-h;ea has been overN9rked IN - many
has be- put out IF bust
ass completely by the wise courage
T9o f~in m Tas7s I
rats OF the Sixty -sec3n1 congress in
9th house and senate. Our unity CT
rrpose and action has pleased the .
ountry as much as it has astonished
4. While we had 65 Democratic ma I
oritS in the house, our Democratic
FetllTea in the senate We're haadi
apped by being in the minority: but
y pursuing the same course in the
anate in this congress which we pur
Ied in the house in the last congress,
e., by for ming Il coalition with the
lsurgent Republicans the coalition
-on in the senate in this congress just .
6 It won in the house in the last con- !
ress. SO I say that the Democratic
have done remarkably well in {
lis congress. /
THE great battle of 1912 must be i
ought on the splendid record of the I
'emocrats in this congress and upon ]
lat record we can win not only next !
ear but for years to come.
DUTY IS the SubllmeSt word in our
oeabulary. To do ones duty honestly, I
aithfully, courageously and patriotic G
lly is the greatest achievement in Il
atesmanship or in any other field of v
uman endeavor. To their eternal
edit be it said that the Democrats 7
the Sixty second congress at the ex- (
aordinary session discharged their
atty to the utmost and deserve weI1
the country.
1--WE keep the faith We redeemed
II promises We liberalized the 7
Hes passed a bill compelling publica-
on Of campaign contributions and :
sbursements before the eleetion