Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-09-14

To the Chairman of the Kansas Re
publican Party League:

To the Chairman of the Kansas Re
publican Party League:
walked into the office of large
industrial plant and saw hanging on
the wall this notice: eff you want to
know who is running this Office, just
start something"
Well, Walter Roscoe Stubs has
started something" No man west
of the Mississippi river has contribut-
ed so much to the distraction of the
Republican party as Mr.. Stubs. 1t
is doubtful if Mr.. Roosevelt would
have been a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination at Chicago but for
the insistence of Mr.. Stubs; and Mr..
Stubs has contributed to the de-
mand that Mr.. Roosevelt should run
on a ticket of his own making and on
a platform full of vote-catching
platitudes. While doing all this
mischief Mr.. Stubbs pretends to be
the Republican candidate for United
States senator from Kansas. Stubs
is supporting and incourageing the
electors nominated as Republican
electore to violate the trust placed
upon them and declare that if elect
ed they will cast their vote In the
electoral college for Mr.. Roosevelt.
These statements all being true, no
Republican owes Mr.. Stubs any
party obligation. He has severed him
self from the Republican party and
is its enemy. Roosevelt says the Re-
publican party is nothing but a husk.
Well, when Stubs and his electors
ask for ballots, we will give them
husks.
At the August primary about so
per cent of the voters cast their bal
lots. OF this number the boilers
ticket received about SO per cent, or
in other words about one-fifth, of the
total vote of the state. But there was
one of the electors named by the
state convention who said, Il recog-
niZe my obligation as a Republican
elector to vote for Mr.. Taft if / am
elected And this elector received
more votes than any other elector on
the ticket. Now l have this ques-
tion to ask of the Topeka Capital,
which seems to be justifying the
treason of those Roosevelt electors:
Suppose that all those Roosevelt
electors had said as Mr.. B. F. Baker
said, Il recognize my moral obliga-
tion to vote in the electoral college
for Mr.. Taft in case i am elected. .
Don't you know that they would
have been elected just as Mr.. Baker
WASP Don't dodge this question but
give US an honest answer.
In 1861, after the battle of Wilson's
creek. l gathered up a group of
young men at Marysville and we
walked 100 miles to Leavenworth to
enlist in the volunteer army for the
purpose of destroying treason and
subduing traitors. l had been mar
ried about a year to a schoolmate OF
my youth. / decided my little home
in Marysville and forty acres of land
near the town TO my wife, sold our
little personal property and sent her
home to her parents in Iowa, believ-
ing that / might never see her again,
we Joined the army, not even know
ing or caring what wages the govern
ment would pay us. We said, give US
blanket and gun and we will dc
the rest. And we did.
A few of US are still alive. And we
are here in Kansas TO fight treason
and traitors again. Sneaking in upor
the Republican ticket as Republican
electors and then declaring that they
will vote in the electoral college fol
an enemy of the Republican party
for president is treason, then give me
my blanket and my gun again. My
blanket now is my ballot and my gur
is my vote. 1 will roll that blanket
into bullet and fire it in the mos
deadly way at the traitors to the
party which has carried thi.
nation to the very pinnacle o.
greatness among the nations o.
the earth.
e. G. MANNING,
Winfield, Kans.-K. c, Journal.