The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11
CLARK In KANSAS.
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of the Big Seventh Kansas district,
until lately represented so ably by
Judge E. H Madison. whose unt1meIy
death we all depIore whether Demo
Gratis or Republicans
None knew him but to love him;
None named him but to praise.
Il am here for the purpose AMI in
the hope OF sending another Demo
cratic congressman to Washington to
keep company with Joe Taggart who
last Tuesday won such a brilliant vic
tory in the Second Kansas district
May his tribe increased Now that
Kansas has taken the nrst step IN
sligning herself with the Democrats, it
is to be hoped that she will go the
whole hog, to use a homely but lu-
minoJs expression, and become a
safely Democratic state as she should
be BY every rule of logic and common
sense
ITO me Taggart's decisive triumph
was one of the most pleasant features
of Taggart'S election as II vas an eX-
preston of opinion by an intelligent
western constituency on President
Taft's record as compared with the
record of the Democrats in congress
In all the other elections held that day
it may be claimed with more or iess
plausibility that other questions We're
involved; but no such claim can DC
made as to the result in the SECOND
district of Kansas because the Taft
record and the Democratic record
We're the only things involved in that
contest. Taggart carried the Demo
cratic banner to victory as I hope
Brother Nicely will do in this district
Having in my youth been an inha bit
ant of Kansas, I feel a deep and abid-
ing interest in her welfare, which L
hope she Will promote by swinging
into the Democratic column.
The Kansas City Journal, nigh
Republican authority, claims that
Governor Stubs defeated Guyer-' The
progressive Republicans assert that
~ Ira n
grace. Governor Stubs says that the
people We're too busy to vote. While
they are still dispuung as to who or
what did it. I will as speaker of the
house swear Joe Taggart in on the
first Monday in December so soon as l
call the house to order and the chap
lain prays.
Votes to Pass Over Veto.
Somebody may inquire and not
without reason why I am so deslrouS
OF electing another Democrat when we
already have 65 majority in the house |
The answer is simple. In the present |
house OF. SOL mem bers while on a full |
vote it requires only 1875 votes to pass /
q bill, we have to have 262 votes to I
pass a bill over the presidents veto /
While we passed all our tariff bills I
originally by a vote of to l, when |
we came to pass them over the presi- |
dents veto. we lacked Il votes OF I
having enough-at least that is my |
recollection. a change of seven votes I
would have given US the victory Much /
pressure was brought to bear on Re /
publican members to induce ther1 to /
save the president the humiliation of |
having his vetoes overriden- am in [
formed and believe the fact to be that I
Wen the house was voting on the |
vetoes, four cabinet members were on |
the floor with the White House patron
age and White House power to per
suade or coerce Republicans INTO
voting to sustain the presidents
vetoes.
ably will be. We need all the Votes
we can get That is the chief reason
why I want to see Mr.. Nicely elected,
but if it were not for that I would still
want to see him elected because ne is
a Democrat
TT may be that some Republican
congressional brethren who voted to
sustain the vetoes at the extraordinary
session may have learned something
during the congressional vacation by
xeeping their ears to the ground and
may vote with US if there are any more
presidential vetoes of tariff bills: but
and one vote may be decisive of the
result.
1--WE Democrats are fighting tooth
and nail to relieve the people of a
part of their burdens and in this great
struggle we heartily invoke the aid of
all good citizens irrespective of party
affiliations Our sole desire is to pro-
mote the prosperity, safety and honor
of the American people. To that laud-
able end we devote our time. our en-
ergy and our ability We believe that
we will triumph because we have right
and truth and justice on our side.
Democrats We're Disorganized.
When I was elected minority leader
In December, 1908. just after we We're
completely fattened out, the Der ocrats
were a weak wrangling. jancling, quar-
rebng, dispirited bunch. more intent
upon fighting each other than in fight
Ing the common enemy. by q course Of
and rubbing the hair the
right way Of the hide we got together
on the 18th day of March, 1910, and roll
ed your Uncle Joseph Cannon to q
fare you-well. So completely did we
roll him that he declared that evening
that there vas nc longer a Republican
in that house, though the ros-
ter showed a Republican majority of {
a. On that memorable day every Dem ;
ocrat lined UP under the Democratic S
banner and toed the mark-the first time {
since Grover Cleveland called the ex-
traordinary session of congress in Aug
ast, 1898. Twas worth 10 years of
peaceful life, one glance at that array /
The splendid record of the Demo- ,
Gratis of the house of the Sixty first