The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-29

throughout the United States. The st.
Louis club has received many requests
for copies of the address and has tried
to meet this demand. Recently. how
ever, the United States senator ordered
President Buffers address TO be printed
as a public document, a somewhat rare
tribute of that kind.
Now. anybody who desires to read
this address. which many regard as the
foremost presentation of the conserva-
tive principle as applied to modern DO
litical life. will be able TO secure q COPY
by sending request TO a senator or
member OF the house. Requests OF this
kind are already numbered high in the
thousands and IL Is estimated that
within a few weeks as many as n
hundred thousand copies OF this ad-
dress in the form of a public document
published by the authority OF the
United States senate viii have been
printed and sent 10 various parts OF
the country.
1t. has been observed within two or
three days that the suspicion has be-
come almost conviction and is certainly
leading to a striking prediction that ths
outcome OF the two national conven-
tons to be held next June win be the
nomination of Taft by the Republicans
and of Colonel Bryan by the Demo-
Gratis This is not mere gossip. It IL
regarded now by some OF the ablcst ~
the politicians OF this state as the most
likely outcome OF the two conventions.
one OF the reasons given for this view
IS the belief that the Democratic ma
tional platform viii be so written ae -
make 1t inevitable that Bryan be named
as the candidate. Furthermore there
are some signs or an undercurrent in
the Democratic party in favor ~ az
nomination OF Bryan because IL Is rur-
pected that he win Be more likely IA
oeieat Tart than any other Democrrt
that can be named. In this vIcinff,-
the best judges say that II is almost
haN
Will be able to carry New York or an,-
of the New England states while thn
chances OF gaining for him the efe~-
toral vote OF New Jersey are regarded
as slight
The Roosevelt Campairn.
There is undoubtedly a great deal OF
pohtcal activity covering almost an of
me country. excepting possibly New
guiding politics that there may appea,- to
pe' by and by, a spontaneous and overl
whelming demand from the people that
Colonel Roosevelt be nominated next
~une. The colonel himself is. at this
time, a very busy man and his activities
90 not seem to be confined to his edi-
torial work. His mail. both OUTGOING ana
incoming, Is enormous. and there is a
good deal OF telegra phing with his name
at the top of the message.
Within a few days the story has been
widely circulated here that one OF the in
cidental and yet strongly-DersuaEiye rca-
sons which have caused Colonel Roose-
~ an end TO any politics which has his
nomination in the manner alluded to in
view is the fact that early in the ad-
min1stration Of the president who will be
elected next November there il to be "a
celebration which viii fix the eyes OF
the civilized world upon tho Panama
canal. Unless there be some hitcla in the
ran OF next year. the Panama canal will
be opened to navigation with most spec
tacular and dramatic ceremonial. This
president of the United States Will PROP
ably pass through that canal upon .ha
flagship Of the admiral and with prac-
tcaily the entire American navy follow
ing. 1t was chiefly due to Roosevelt's
energy and persistence that the Panama
canal became an assured artificial wa
terway. And there are many persons
who believe that there could be nothing
more appropriate and. in the best sense
OF the term, more highly symbolic IN al
the history of the canal than that Roose-
welt should stand upon the deck or the
admirals flagship as the vessel passes
from Colon to Panama and enters upon
the Pacific.
soning and picture seem TO be neverthc-
less it is learned here that there are
many persons in the United States who
feel that, II there were no other reason,
it would be a sufficient reason to nomi-
nate and elect Roosevelt that he, 20
whom the canal in great measure is due,
should be the conspicuous figure official
" representing the United States IN the
ceremonial with which the canal is Open
ed to the navigators OF the world.
HOLLAND.
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