The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-03
EYE NOT ON STAR
Congressman Campbell Has No
Ambition to Be President.
He Isn't Eligible Because He Is
Foreign Born.
CURTIS HAS NEW BILL
Purpose Is to Put Stop to For
eign Discrimination.
Much Interest in Approaching
Democratic Caucus.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 3.-Philip
Fit Campbell of Pittsburg, Kan, is
one eminent and ambitious member
= OF congress who has no hope of being
president OF the United States. He
mas ability enough and ambition
enough to reach almost any high sta
ton in American public life, but the
presidency can never figure in his
plans, as he was born in Nova Scotia.
He was not consulted, or he would
surely have chosen a birthplace under
the stars and stripes. However, he
! mas been resident of Kansas since
the age of 4, and grew up on the
| farm.
| After graduating from a univer-
slty, he read law without giving up
| MS labors in the wheat field and corn
patch. 1t didn't take Campbell long
TO see the good of politics and office
holding. so he planned to begin by
entering congress. ignoring the usual
road of ambitious young men, who
begin as prosecuting attorneys or as
members of the state legislature. 1t
was the Campbell idea to jump high
at the start, and he has kept on
Jumping in five elections. With a
matter of six or seven thousand
plurality in his district, Campbell has
had no torment worth talking about
in coming back term after term, and
he reJOiceS not for himself alone that
BLEEDING Kansas sent a solid Re-
publican delegation to the house the
past election.
There is one explanation of it ALL"
said Mr.. Campbell, to the State Jour
fact that our people distrust the Dem
ocratic party. Out in Kansas, where
our people are interested in farms, in
coal mines, in oil and live stock, there
is a fear that the Democratic party
in power will work harm rather than
lnf Il .T l. 49,
summer there was evidently dis
satisfied feeling among Kansas voters.
They were distressed about mething
they didn't know exactly what
and so they didn't come out to vote.
Then came the result in November.
1T was a putting of the air brake
on every form of Kansas industry.
The price of all products went down,
and the wall of the Republican voter
went up, as he regretted that he failed
to go to the polls.
1T was not looked upon in Kansas
as an actual Democratic victory, or
as indicated, the ascendancy of DEM
ocratic doctrines. The vote indicated
that Republicans stayed at home, and
it is figured out that 1875, 900 Repub-
licans remained away from the polls
in Kansas alone. That tells the story;
why say more?
with all that stay-at-home per-
centage of the normal Kansas vote
the Republicans won a victory, and
are glad of it. There will be four new
Republicans in the next house, thanks
to the insurgency sentiment, but I do
not look for much insurgent sentiment
in congress when our party is in the
minority. In some ways the Repub-
Iican defeat of last November did
good, and the party will profit by it
in the long rum"
Senator Charles Curtis has intro
duced a bill in the senate to amend
section 5 of the act providing for an
prohibiting the importation of adul-
terated articles of food or drink. The
text of his amendment follows:
THAT whenever the president shall
be satisfied that any foreign state, in
violation of its treaty obligations to
the United States, shall seek by re-
pressive, discriminatory or confiscatory
measures to jeopardize, impair, or de-
stroy the capital of citizens of the
United States legitimately invested in
such foreign state in accordance with
treaty prOviSoS, or that whenever the
president shall be satisfied that unjust
determinations are made by or under
the authority of any foreign state
against the importation to or sale in
such foreign state of any product of
the United States, he may direct that
such products of such foreign state so
discriminating against any product or
citizen of the United States as he may
deem proper shall be excluded from
importation to the United States; and
in such case he shall make proclama-
ton of his direction in the premises,
and therein name the time when such
direction against importation of the
articles named in such proclamation
shall be unlawful. The president may
or renew any such direction as, in his
opinion, the public interest may re-
quire.'
Ed w. Hoch, journalist, publisher,
and for two terms governor of Kan
sas, when seen in Washington recent
ly, declared that in woman suffrage
he saw a probable alienation of the
"barroom rampant"
I'm my judgment" he said, IMAM
hood and womanhood should be band
ed together in civil government. 1
have never heard good argument
against woman suffrage, and 1 would
go 100 miles to hear one.
''I believe a woman should have a
vote, if only to protect her son grow
ing up to manhood. Woman in politics
is and always has been an influence
for good. If women have the ballot,
the saloon will have to go.
ST am an optimist The world is
growing better, and I pity the man
who is not glad he was born.
kansas has been temperance
states for thirty-four years. Kansas
was the firing line of prohibition.
Now the whole world has caught the
Kansas spirit But I warn you that
what is good for the cause of tenn
perance is accomplished by temper
ance. The man opposed to prohibition
has right to his opinion.
''In Kansas, one-third Of the coun-
ties have no prisoners in Jail and no
residents of the poor house. In Kansas,
SIS out of los counties have not sent
a prisoner to the state penitentiary in
the last year.
As the time approaches for the Demo-
cratic caucus in January the house
Democratic leaders are more and more
at sea. They are worried over a num-
Der of questions chief of which is the
manner of naming committees and the
method TO be adopted in revising the