The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-08
GuyerDefeat Due to High Hand
ed Methods of Insurgents.
GOOD FOR THE JOURNAL
COngratulates This Paper for
the Stand for Clean Politics.
Sees Omen Favorable to Champ
Clark in Result.

Dem and warm Irlen0 OF speaker
Clark, is happy today. He was asked
preston of his feeling. He said:
1.-The election of Joseph Taggart in
the Second congressional district of
this state by a majority approximating
about 1900, district heretofore
strongly Republican, is another indi-
cation of the trend of public opinion
IN political affairs.
I'm view of the fact that Speaker
Champ Clark of the hous eof repre-
sentatives personally participated In
the fight in the Second district as well
as in the Third district in Nebraska,
scoring a victory for the Democratic
candidates for congress. it brings him
into still greater prominence as a
presidential candidate, and increases
the admiration of Democrats through
out the nation.
ut is due to the Republican party to
say that the defeat of Mr.. Guyer was
due largely to high handed methods
of the insurgents who dominated the
congressional committee, and whose
slogan is reform and whose practice is
machine.
I'm the first place the congressional
committee decided they would name
the Republican candidate and being
committee composed of Guyer men.
they, of course, intended to name
Guyer. This brought a protest from
two very excellent men in the Repub-
lican party, Mr.. Keene of Fort Scott
and Mr. Brady of the Second district,
and a prompt and scathing rebuke
from the Independent Republican pa
per, the Topeka state Journal.
f"The intention of the Republican
congressional committeeman was so
unfair that they had to abandon their
position. They then announced that
all three candidates could aspire but
that an entrance fee of $4,000 cash
must be paid.
saThis was practically throwing out
the sign No poor man need apply as
Mr.. Brady and Mr.. Keene declined to
come through with that amount of
not, and as it was well known that Mr..
Guyer would.
Now this might be a reform method
bl;t the people didn't see it that way.
they thought that insurgents who en-
tirely controlled the congressional
committee would naturally be for a
primary or the primary principle at
least.
ing on it is to the credit of the To-
peka state Journal that it was the
only Republican paper that I can re-
call that protested against such high
handed methods as our reformer IN
surgent friends were indulging in
Now if the committee had been the
old Republican machine no one would
have been surprised but the good peo-
pie were inclined to expect a differe1t
procedure from refOrmers- The resui-
was the reformers, by machine meth
DDS. nominated their man and lost the
people.
.'The result, however, as aforesaid
rebounds to the credit Of Champ Clark
whose great speech at ottawa and es-
pecially at Kansas City, Kan, turned
the tide in my opinion While Mr. ClarK
was winning victories, woodrow VII
son was losing out. He lost the New
Jersey legislature to the Republicans,
although he campaigned the state per-
sonally anc threw his entire strength
into the fight. It's the old story lack
of experience the experienced man
wins. the inexperienced man loses and
so it will be in the aspirations OF
Champ Clark and Woodrow wilson
for the presidential nomination.
I'VE could not possibly reconcile the
candidacy of Mr.. Wilson, If he were
nominated with our last national Dem
ocratic platform on the subject OF or
ganized labor on which SUBJECT the
Democratic party TOOK an adNalSeu
etand in the interest of organized Ia
Dor and along the lines OF lesalzeo dr
bitratioE. 80 e---.
"Charap Clark is singularly free from
handicaps 1t is in rare instance tndt
we find a man who has been as proll-
inent in public life as Mr.. clark, VINO
has not had scme discredit attaching
to him. Champ Clarks career as
public man is absolutely clean ana in
touched by the breach OF any scahusL'
ncliticaI or otherwise His services IN
congress have been and Will be I'M
n,ensely valuable and greatly to the
ADVANTAGE of the Democracy. He has
Guarded the interests of our party wen
and is in a position and is preemlnent-
" competent. to shape its destinies.
IF the Democratic party is to come
into mower which is almost a GER
taintv. I contend that it is immensely
in- -portant .overshadowing almost every
other consideration that We go in, IN
the hands of a strong, powerful man
of 1~r0 axnarience like Champ Clark.
7 hold nothing against Mr.. Wilson per
sonally but in less than two years. II
he were elected president, he would
be all mixed up, and in two years more
the Democratic party would get 'hcked
out of it's boots.
'rWhy take chances on new and mex
Derienced men and especially men who
have loads to carry like Mr. wilson 1
repeat that the Democracy of the north
and the west have no earthly use Tor
man who deserted US in the midst of the
battle of 1895. The day has not yet arrived
in this world when political treachery ana
betrayal shall be rewarded at the expense
of fidelity and devotion Mr. Wilson Is
guilty of the two former and Mr.. Clark
stands forth as the embodiment OF fiden-
ty and devotion to the great Democratic
party which in my judgment will soon
be in control of this nation.
Next Saturday thebig Democratic con-
vention in the big Seventh district in this
state will meet at Dodge City and Champ
Clark will deliver a speech there that VIII
be worth hearing. Flushed with yester.
days victory in the Second congressional
district in Kansas and in Nebraska, he
will open the campaign in the Old
Seventh in such a manner as to secure
a victory there, as he has elsewhere,
where he has thrown his powerful politi-
cal personality into the fight There win
be tremendous crowd at Dodge City
and it being the last speech that he will
make before going to Washington for the
opening of congress it will be keynote
speech"