The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-02

IOT FOR LA TOILETTE.

Is the Insurgent cause losing ground
in Kansas? This is a question that is
asked every day. Most of the leaders
Will not admit that the cause is being
that there are fewer Insurgents in the
state than there were two years ago.
Others assert that the fight on Presi-
dent Taft which Senator BristOw and
William Allen White are attempting to
organize in the state will not receive
the support of the rank and file of the
Insurgents.
Among the old time Square Dealers is
Col. E. c. Manning of Winfield. He
has been a BristOW and StubbS sup
porter and holds quite a prominent
place in the politics of southern Kan
sas but he refuses to join the anti
Taft crusade.
Colonel Manning's Letter.
The following letter from Col. Man
ming is taken from the insurgent Or
10 the Editor of the Capital:
Mr.. LaF'ollette is candidate for presl-
dent, and | shall not encourage him IN
that ambition. If nominated, he would
be defeated.
If Mr. taft cannot be elected, no Re
publican can be He has done al that
any man could have done toward better
ing conditions throughout the country.
under the environment, circumstances
ana rasnonsibilfties which have encom-
passed his term Of office His appoint
ment of a progressive secretary of war
nothing with Mr.. LaFollette- He makes
no mention. except diisparagingly, of the
cuted by the federal law department
against the trusts and combines
La Toilette Fosters Discomfort
Mr. LaFollette Iashed the water of the
troller bay harbor and splashed the spray
into the presidents face, over what upon
Investigation proves to have been a
''bug-bear." But he made no amends for
his fury. He is nursing and fostering
discomfort, dissatisfaction and diScoru
among the people, and especially dlsre-
spect for the judges of our courts as
whole his anathemas having for JUS
tification perhaps a half dozen lndlVld-
uals.
Mr.. I4aFolIette shows neither charity or
Judgment in his onslaught upon present
1 grant that Mr.. LaFollette
has done great good I supported Mr.
Esristow for u s. senator in this state
against Mr.. Long. ram a progressive
also, but an Ed Madison progressive.
notwithstanding the predominance OF
a aFolletteisn in Wisconsin, it is no
Utopia, when it takes two hundred thou-
sand dollars to elect a good or bad man
take YOUR 4chOice) for u s senator IL
a Toilette cannot prevent that at home,
What would it do, if spread out all over
he United States and its worldwide de-
)endences?
People Are Prosperous.
Our people, throughout the nation, are /
.njoying greater prosperity than any peo-
lie elsewhere in the world Notwlthstand- |
ne two short crop seasons here in Kan !
as. we have a higher degree of prosperi- |
V than ever before There is more idle |
money deposited in our banks and a great /
r per capita of deposits than ever before. !
fiilions are invested in luxuries, includ- |
ng automobiles, which no one used ten |
ears ago. Our people are better clothed, |
,etter fed, better housed better read, and |
,ut for the hue and cry of the over
Jealous reformer, they would be more |
ontented than ever in the past.
Tafts idea is like Madison's: "Stay I
With the flock and lead it; not drive and /
onfuse and scatter it, LaFollette's
ropaganda is discomfort, disrespect for
he law and courts nursery for social
sm the varioloid of anarchy. Respect
ully yours, e. c. MANNING.
winfield, Kan. Oct. %, 1911.