The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-12
Washington Post Finds 1t in
Kansas.
Fifty Interviews With Well
Known Kansans.
ATTACK INSURGENCY.
Intimates That the Movement
Is Dying Out.
Senator Bristow Still Is for
La Toilette.
ATTACK INSURGENCY.

The administration p.es bureau IL
working we'll in the capital city these
hot summer days, and Kansas mas
hem selected as the st theme for
Taft campaign material 1he WASH
ington Post today prints long aIAcle
setting forth the wonderful change IN
sentiment in Kansas towards the
7,resfdent The article goes further
still and declares that insurgency IS on
the wane in this state.
In support of its assertions, the ar
tic1e quotes the following we'll known
Kansans, most of them regulars, IN the
party in this state:
J. N. Dolley. Frank Ryan, r. n
Eaxon. Judge D. A. Banta, Judge z. Z.
T2,,anine state Senator Francis Price
w Y. Morgan. State Sens tor William
Glenn. Emerson Carey, Judge Thos- C.
NVf1son chester l. Long, Representa-
tive cliff Matson, Congressman An
fhonv d. r. Mulvane. Senator Z. =
t4uffroan John O. Myers. Morton Al
beugh. C. w. Findlay. Ewing Herbert
charles F. Scott, J. D. Bowersock, A.
NJ Keene. Thos. r. Wagstaff, Senator
n F. Porter. J. b. Dykes, Senator
charles E. curtis. Congressman Fred
senator Bristow alone dissents from
the Taft sentiment. He is quoted as
follows.
II am for Senator LaFoilette's nomi-
nation for the presidency. I believe
President Taft is weaker now than ne
vvas I'm 1908 It is impossible to say
what the people Of Kansas VIII 90.
Thev are very Independent out there
and are controlled by no one. They
viii elect delegates just as their con-
science dictates, and will vote as they
see fit. I am strongly in favor OF the
nomination of Senator I1aFollette, but
81 is impossible to say wha- the state
viii do. Besides, have not been out
there for seven months"
The Post, in its article leading up
to the interviews. says:
II is again in order to inquire,
What's the matter with Kansas?
Whv2 Because she is giving anoth-
er demonstration Of her mercurlal po-
litfcal temperament The word IN
surgenr' IS becoming unpopular IN @ tIle
SunfOwer state; a stranger might even
surnise that it was degenerating into
"a term Of disrespect or oppro br1um.
Wherever possible the word progress
eiva'' is being substituted, and in this
vvav candidates for Office are smuggling
nm to the socalled regulars, for they
realize that as a general rule success
at the polls next year can not be OD-
tanned with divided forces
A year or more ago it would not be
strictly accurate to say that President
Taft enjoyed a general popularluy
throughout Kansas. Libels had oeen
uttered against him by political opPor-
tunfsts. who pell-melled up over his
broad shoulders, obscuring him tenn
porariIy. but thus drawing public at
tention to themselves. In many ways
distinctly unfair, the president was
misrepresented by political orators ap-
parently suffering from paranoiac dis
3 iturbances. Taft was put in eclipse,
but he is now rapidly emerging from
the shadow. and the Republicans Of
this state recognize in him the same
kind of a man whom they supported
so enthusiastically in the 1908 cam
paign.
Insurgency Is Losing.
A wave of Taft sentiment is travel
ing rapidly over the rich prairie land
of this state. It is sweeping 'insur-
gay that particular species of 'insur-
gency' which is bent upon a rule or