The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-19
He Will Speak at Ottawa Late
Saturday Morning.
AT Topeka SATURDAY NIGHT
No Bands or Fireworks or Re-
ceptiOns-Just a Speech.
From EmpOria to Crawford Co.
for Monday A. M. Talk.

Theodore Roosevelt will deliver
three speeches in Kansas and spend
sunday in this state-probably at thu
nome of William Allen White in En-
porfa- The Progressive presidential
nominee will enter Kansas Saturday
morning and will arrive in Ottawa at
IL o'clock from Kansas City. He will
make an early afternoon speech in the
FRANKLIN county seat, viii take an
early train to Lawrence and arrive in
Topeka shortly before Z o'clock Satur-
day evening.
The Topeka meeting will be the big
gathering of the Kansas invasion by
the rough rider. 1t is believed that
several hundred people will come 70
Topeka from neighboring towns and
that the seating capacity of the audi
tor1um will be taxed at this meeting
There viii be no fireworks surround
ing the Roosevelt visit to Topeka. No
bands will play. There will be no
parade or other demonstration and
Roosevelt will just talk politics
straight from the shoulder.
After the Topeka meeting, Roose-
velt will go to Emporia for a quiet
Sunday with William Allen White. The
Roosevelt party will leave Emporid
at o'clock Monday morning over the
Chanute branch of the Santa Fe AMI
will arrive in Pittsburg at noon. Here
Roosevelt will speak in the afternoon,
leaving on an early evening train for
Missouri.
DOUGLAS
county-the home of Governor Stubbs
has passed stirring resolutions fav-
oring President Taft and the principles
of the Republican party; and solemn
ly vows that none of the Douglas
county members of the league will
support any man for office who favors
the Roosevelt electors. While the
Douglas county club refrains from
naming names, it makes no effort to
exclude from the black list w. r.
Stubbs as a candidate for United
states senator, or J. /. Brady-also
of Lawrence as a candidte for con-
gress in the Second district
On the Douglas county resolutions
committee were J. ID. BowersoclI, for
mer congressman from the Second dis
trict; A @. Wilson and John q. A.
Norton. Thomas Harley is president
of the local organization in Stubbs'
home county; and Henry A. Asher s
secretary of the league. At meeting
held Sept. II, the league adopted
these resolutions:
The Resolutions
Believing in conservative. constitr-
tiOnal government and in the fundamental
and advanced principles of the Republican
party. exemplified and illustrated dur
ing the past half century, from Abraham
Lincoln to William Howard Taft, under
which our nation has grown to be in every
respect the best and greatest on earth.
and
Believing in order, in organization. and
in law as against disorder. and realizing
the necessity of worthy. honest intes-
lectual and practical men in responsible
positions in all the departments of our
government, both state and national and
realizing the dangers of hasty, fll-adviseo
and ill-considered experiments In popu-
lar government;
Therefore, be it, Resolved by the Doug
las County Republican League, First
That endorse the administration OF
President Taft. especially approving OF
the forward steps taken by him toward
better government, the action taken by
him in favor of worldwide peace, tho
a h is q a m & nd
his vigorous, fearless and persistent
prosecution of the violators of the anti
stand in favor of civil service reform.
Second: We endorse the Republican
tion on June Isl iS12 toset6er with the
nominees of that convention. And we de-
clare that we will give our united and
earnest efforts for the reelection of VII
liam Howard Taft for president and
James s. Sherman for vice president.
Third: We declare ourselves emphdt-
icaly in favor Of popular government,
through representatives of the people as
provided for by the Constitution OF the
United States and of the state of Kansas
Fourth: We are opposed to the tn
itiative, the referendum and the recall
and especially to the recall OF judges ana
of judicial decisions. We look upon the
latter as being malignant in any form.
destructive of an independent and ur-
biased judiciary, and menace TO consu-
liberty.
Fifth: We resent the scheming OF
politicians. officeholders and would be Of
ficeholders, who, under the name OF the
Republican party while posing as upliftefs
of party virtue and conscience. pirate OF
fair play and honest dealing, and yet are
making an effort to disfranchise larSe
number of the voters of Kansas ny
placing Roosevelt electors in the Repub-
lican column and under the Republican
emblem.
Sixth: We declare that we will not
vote for candidates masquerading Re
publicans and who favor or have favored
placing opposition electors for president
in the Republican column"