The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-20
CHAPTER LII.


news dispatch:
THAT Theodore Roosevelt viii not be
4 a candidate for the Republican presl-
Dental nomination next year, IS the
message that Will be delivered by G1f-
I ford Pinchot in an address at Medina,
/ ohio Friday night 1t is announced
that only three OF the speakers preVl-
ously announced viii make MnlrlWlnd
campaign in Ohio during Christmas
HOLIDAYS Clifford FinchOt, Senator La
toilette. and Senator Moses Clapp
Medill Mccormick, of Chicago. low
ing supporter Of Republican Progress
siVe movement, is expected IN Column ous
next week to aid in arranging Tor an
Ohio statewide progressive conference
January first.
Whether that telegram is absolutely
authentic or whether or not it will hold
william Allen White and Governor
Stubs for a while is problematical-
There is little doubt, however, that
could those and certain other Kansas
anti-Taft insurgents, for Chairman
DolIey and others are pro-Taft progress
sives induce Colonel Roosevelt to
declare himself a candidate, they
would throw the Wisconsin man who
itches to be president overheard 50
quickly and effectively that there would
be nothing left of the latter except
the bubbles on the political sea where
he went down with a glubglub.
Whatever the results of the drastic
legal procedures of the Taft admins
tratlon against the SHINING bis interests
which have violated the law with i'm
punity, not to say with impudence,
there is this 10 be noted: never be-
fore was there such a scurrying on the
part of the corporations to put their
houses in such good order, or to i'm
prove their sanitary and legal standing.
rebates and special
rates disappear.
The Steel Corporations have in one
year spent a million to improve the
health and safety conditions of their |
factories. With the effort to treat their |
employees more humanely and are en- !
titled to some credit for the comforts |
ana protection of life given to the in
dividuals by the employing coinpan-
les.
The packers are today on the rack
1t viii possibly be proved that they |
have been legally ruthless They con-
stitute, according to the prosecution,
the most effective known engine to sup /
press competition and thereby depress
the life of all trade save their own
In the East the noise of the LaFol-
lette campaign is now largely confined
to the clash and click of the type
writer keys as the instruments at the
headquarters hammer out
the biographical and booming material
that is inspired by chief who has
always as ever the Scotch motto en-
9lazoned on his crest, s*While there is
life there is hope LaFolIette would
be cheerful and optimistic of every
thing, but his country under Taft,
even in the silent city on the hill east
Of Topeka on dismal Friday night
On the 18th as long as the will-o'-wisp
holds out to burn. and Bristow remains
;teadfast, with White and Stubs
standing near by in the gloom of Kan
ias' biggest burying ground.
At Colonel Roosevelts reception
DOM at the Outlook office yesterday,
1t late noon. there was a lively picnic, ,
,ut little refreshment for all of a ;
hungry. eager and earnest faced I
.rowd. Thirty or more filled the ante
DOM. About 1870, the colonel having {
haken the hand and listened to the !
anctuary, came out into the open. /
t was like old times in the cabinet t
DOM at the White House on con
.ressmen's Saturday.
The contributing editor and cause used
10Th hands, arms. legs and shoulders
nd one strident voice, only intermit- ,
entity subdued and softened. He went i
+ ugh that crowd of the great and
in about fifteen minutes. +
1t melted out of the door two to the
minute. {
NO, I cannot answer that" shout {
d the Colonel. THAT is an information $
l question. You should ask Secretary |
1nox, not me- Everybody heard in I
Iuding Lincoln Steffens, who was hold Y
lg his breath with a message of the a
ountry's concern.
Glad to see you said the colonel, +
4 he discovered and extended his left a
and while his right was swinging I
Il undercut to a palm in another di- +
ection. Let me introduce you to my =
ssociate, Lawrence Abbott, you go +,
long with him, over to the Aldine S
Tub and 1 will join you later" So V
iloted by Lawrence and Ernest, and a
with their father. the +,
ditor-in-ehief of the Outlook, who l.
ad dined once in Topeka with Abb b
oft, with w. W. Mills az host. the a
ayhawker went to the round table q
tuesday, luncheons There were six
zen. About half were of the Outlook e
usiness and editorial staff for the II
lncheon is a newspaper conference II
nd exchange. II
There were several guests of Frank :
n Lane Of the Interstate commerce
General James A Drain W
XVaSbin1tou who edits n 7,,ili+arx-