The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-24
CHAPTER LXXNII.
(PresidentiaI Prospects. )


brought over from the Commonwealth
Auxiliary Publishing House every
morning on a wheelbarrow. The sup
ply concern was located where the
Crosby Bros. Jackson street building
now is. Now a big car load lasts
little more than a week. In this
wheelbarrow time the State Journal,
four pages, was delivered by carrier
at fifteen cents per week. Now you
get from twelve to twenty pages
every day for ten cents week
1t required seven carriers to deliver
the State Journal in Topeka then
Now the number is fifty and it costs
about $1,000 every month to merely
deliver the papers to the regular To-
peka subscribers. The big advertisers
then paid for the total of about 500
copies circulation from twenty cents
to thirty cents per inch for their ad-
vertising They now pay from forty
two cents to fifty-six cents per inch
Thus advertising does not cost today
one-tenth of what it cost in Topeka
twenty five years ago.
Did it ever occur to the reader that
in all this talk about the high cost of
living that you never in your life
bought a Topeka newspaper or secured
advertising in your Topeka daily for 50
low a figure. nor received 50 much for
your money as you do today? If every
thing else so necessary to life as the
daily newspaper cost so little, thare
would be absolutely no ground for the
common hue and cry Strange isn't it.
President Taft last evening secured
in Oklahoma the first delegates to be
chosen of those who will select the
Republican party's presidential nomi-
nee at Chicago next June. great
effort was made to stampede the con-
ventfon to Roosevelt. but the colonel's
oftines expressed desire and wish
were reflected when delegates favorable
to Taft were chosen. The overzealous
friends of Roosevelt seem determined
to try to put him in a hole. but they
have not yet succeeded.
Governor Stubs on Monday wired
Colonel Roosevelt, instructing him as
to his duty and asked, not to say al
most demanded g definite statement
BY wire
Governor Stubs. upon being asked
today whether he had received a re-
ply from the colonel, by wire or other
wise. and that he had not.
This was in the governors dis
Patch:
i h9leNe you owe IL TO the AuleIlCdtA
people at Il is time to make a public
statement concerning this matter l
am wiring you because of the lateness
of the day. and on behalf of a vast
majority of the Republicans of Kan
sas would urge you to give us TINS
definite statement by Wire
Perhaps the State Journal is not up
upon all of the proprieties. but it looks
to this paper as if Governor Stubs
had sent somewhat i'm pudent tele-
gram to the colonel. We would like to
vouchsafe this opinion, that no one
better than Colonel Roosevelt knows
what his duty is in this and other
premises, and just what he owes the
American people
Furthermore, this paper believes
that Colonel Roosevelt's position up to
date is model one. A great many
people seem to be criticising the col
oneI for what he does not say, but it
is not for this writer to enter any criti-
cism of that sort. In f-ct. he admires
the colonel generally and especially for
the stand he has taken and his refusal
to answer in any other manner than
he has certain questions which were
nut to him by people who should re-
spect his wishes and not endeavor to
force him to say things which he does
not want to say or which he thinks he
ought not to say
Governor Stubs and other Insurgents
in Kansas do not seem to realize that
Colonel Roosevelt means what he says
when he has repeated over and over
again that he is not candidate and
does not wish his friends to make any
effort to secure delegates for him.
Neither do these politicians with more
zeal than discretion appear to under
stand that in deserving IiaFollstte and
Cummins and other typical Insurgents
that they are deserving the principles
for which they are fighting. It is their
favorite expression to say. THE move
ment is mora important than the man. =
Then why do they not take up a man
who is typical of the movement. and
who is an avowed candidate, and make
fight on these lines? Bristow is con-
sistent and to be commended.
Roosevelt does not want the office.
and his friends should not embarrass
him by forcing their attentions. of
course, these friends will claim that
they are real friends, but. as a mat
ter of fact it would appear that they
have discovered that they cannot beat
Taft with one of their own number,
and are, therefore. anxious to beat him
with a man who favored him. Thus
far. however, the efforts to pit Roose-
Welt against Taft have failed. Our IN
surgent friends do not seem to com
prehend the seriousness of their proce
dure. The unpopuIarity of a third term,
no matter how popular the man, is SO
thoroughly grounded into the political
sentiment of this country that anyone
who undertakes to go in the face of it,
would take a greater risk than the best
friends of Colonel Roosevelt should de-
4 sire even him with all his prestige and