The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-19
TAFT AND CLARK.


Clark are quite likely to be pitted
against each other at the presidential
election in November. 1912.
This is the opinion of the writer.
who has just returned from two
weeks absence in New York. That
city is indeed remarkable and the
oftener one visits it the more readily
he sees why in that great metropolis
SO many national issues are settled, SO
many opinions crystallized into senti-
ment and affairs of moment resolved
quickly into results of nationwide i'm
Dortance.
The writer likes New York. but he
would not like to live there. A week
OF two twice a year suffieeth.
1t is not the New Yorker himself who
makes the city the determining factor
in the great commercial and political
issues of this country. The New York !
er may imagine that he IS the one who
is responsible for the great things which
get into action on the Island of Man
haitian. The average Gothamite takes
himself go seriously. It is not the
KnicHeFDockers who fill tie hotels. the
theaters and the cafes. OF course,
there are thousands and thousands Of
them 10 the manor born. but many
and many Of them have never been
out of the state and regard Buffalo
as a western city. 1t is to be OBJ
served in these latter days that if ne
great Mississippi and Missouri valleys
of this big country are not prosperous
that New York Il city of fine hostelries.
suffers. IL is not uncommon for
New York hotel proprietor to explain
any dull business by saying that ne
people Of the west are staying at home
just now
In a word, New York depends upon
the outside country and it depends
upon it even more than it will admit,
but its observant visitor realizes that
the view in New York is important
for the reason that all roads lead to
New York and the people there who
are formulating opinions, expressing
sentiments and holding politicians
into statesmen, or statesmen back into
politicians, are not always New York
people, but they are the people who
are temporarily in the city of New
York and who have come from New
Orleans, from Seattle, from Spokane.
from Sacram from Nashville,
from St. Paul. from ST. Louis. from
Cleveland, from Boston. from At
lanta. from Georgia. from Texas, from
Missouri, from elsewhere, and so on
through the list of states
In New York the people meet, they
mill about at dinners. at assemblies, at
the hotels, just as Kansans formerly
milled about Copeland County. The
writer found just such a milling going
0n quietly, but in a dignified manner,
and he listened to representative peo-
pie of both parties. of all factions and
from every section of the country.
The Republicans and Democrats and
Insurgents were asking, sitting, talk
ing classifying, concluding. They
we're forming judgments which later
must develop into opinions in their
own localities for they would separate
and return to their homes the infec-
lion from the city.
The political germs centering into
New York were again scattered forth
and what was formerly sporadic be-
comes a widely prevalent state of
health or disease of the same general
raging with more or
ess variance according as climatic po-
itical conditions may foster a fun or
partial growth
x
The average New Yorker. much as
many of the genus must be liked IS
narrow and provincial. He
thinks what he says and does is i'm !
lortant but he makes more break"
han the westerner. A real. genuine /
New Yorker will take gold brick
fucker than a man from Medicine |
Lodge. The New Yorker IS often not I
wen shrewd. The representa- ives of the |
interests" are often stupid. They are
stupid now. They are at sea. They
10 not know just where they are and
ire not rapidly finding out, but rather
will be found out
Here is a case in point: The Inter
stsH with the big IT, using the word
n its somewhat slangy significance,
re crazy for Harmon of Ohio for presi-
lent, and instead of Disgusting their
ceilings, they are declaring that he is
he only man who can save the coun-
saving the country in
heir language means. Now Governor
Harmon is a fine gentleman; he is
'ersonaily delightful and he is poIiti-
ally astute What his experience has
aught him has not been learned by
lis friends in Wall street. They 90
lot seem to realize that the very fact
hat they are covertIy, but none the less
lainly, pushing Mr.. Harmon to the
ront, eliminates their friend, a man Of
,ood parts, from the coming contest:
or Harmon was attorney general ua-
er Cleveland and the Interests" say
le was all right. Nothing discreditable
$ here set down to Governor Harmon,
kept the action of what might be
ermed his fool friends" for progress
ion of some sort must be recognized
" both political parties.
Professor Wilson is a fine gentleman,