The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-17
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HUBBARD is There
Fra EIbertus Writes of the Row
i'm Chicago.
Invectives Used Are the Words
of Defeat.
COL ORED men HOLD BALANCE
Their Action VIII Determine
the Nominee.
MarveIs at Charges Made by
Roosevelt Men.
;OLORED men HOLD BALANCE
(By Gilbert Hubbard.)

COyOteSi Double distilled th1eVery
Hand-p picked brigands! Hold-ups!
Liars! Liars! Liars?'
These are the words of defeat, not
/ the exultant cry of success. 1t is like
/ that untranslated French word flung
| by the last of the Old Guard at Water
| loo, when his ammunition was exhaust
| ed. When overcome by the enemy
! there is always one, thing which, with
our last breath We can tell the enemy
to do.
If this Chicago fight is won by Taft,
it will be because the colored troops
fought nobly-and stuck. They hold
| the balance of power.
| In the lobby of the Coliseum you see
/ them by the dozen; colored gentlemen,
well fed, well upholstered. well dressed,
each evidently with all the money he
needs, even if not all he wants.
But wait until they get little of
that uncle trusty dolodocci," said a du-
| b1ous party today.
In the meantime all the white folks
around the Coliseum bow low and say:
| Excuse me-
The colored race have shown their
! ability to stick on the field of battle
Why shouldn't they here?
| Invectiye Defiance Threat.
| 1t is well to remember that this shout
| of Thar! liar! theft thief!' is not the
| language used by men of one political
party against those of another.
| 1t is the language of colleagues, men
| who should be working together for
common end and common purpose.
What was it Lincoln quoted about
house divided against itself?
| Colonel Roosevelt spoke for just five
minutes Saturday afternoon and in the
course of his remarks he used the
words "Thievery, thieves and theft
just seventeen times and always The
| words were applied to men in his own
party.
When Robert Ingersol1, standing on
the step of the sub-treasury in New
York referred to the Democratic party
as having just two motives in life,
thought the talk was severe.
But please remember that Colonal
Ingersoll was a Republican, and he
was talking about a party with which
he had no sympathy.
But the invective here in Chicago Is
by members of the grand old party
against brother members.
And most certainly, the G. o. P. Is
no longer grand when these things ex-
list.
One hears no talk in Chicago about
compromise candidate. There is nc
mention of a dark horse. There are
only candidates before the convention.
Roosevelt repeats again and again that
he will die in the last ditch, etc, etc.
The Taft people are not talking so
the intention is, most positively, that
Theodore Roosevelt shall not be nomi-
mated.
A Disturber of the Peace.
If Theodore Roosevelt had kept out
of this game, President Taft would
have been renominated, without doubt
and he would have stood a good chance
of being elected.
The machine was all well oiled and
everything was in shape to slide the
president back into Office.
He would have gone in on gravity.
even if not on his record.
Then came the eight governors with
their round robin that Theodore Roose-
Welt should be 'our candidate"
And that particular round robin, we
now have reason to believe, was initia-
ted by Theodore Roosevelt himself and
presented to the governors for their
obliging signatures.
Governors are but men, and it would
be well if they would stick to the mild
ly radical chautauquas and not be
dragged as a body into national poll
tics.
Certain it is that the governors did
not expect the opposition from the reg
ular machine that has been manifested
And now, at least five of these gov
errors are here in Chicago, and again
signing round robin, this time one of
dissent a gainst Republican oil-pull tao
tics.
Thus, in advance are they giving a
reason for a. defeat or a bolt, or both
for the terms are synonymous.
The governors are losers and they
are not cheerful losers, either. For even
if Roosevelt should get this nomina-
that a big detection of Republican vot-
ers would follow.
If the Taft forces put their candidates
in, and it looks as if they would, they
will not forgive Theodore Roosevelt for
butting into the game and revealing
the weakness of their man.
Taft has been put into a silly and
ridiculous light by the strenuous col
onel
All this shrill cry of thievery.
thieves, theft, brigandage, grand
larceny, coyotes and such, puts the
whole party in a bad way before the
people.
1 have been in Chicago two days
and have talked with good many
prominent men and the most careful
questioning fails to reveal any issue |
between the Taft and Roosevelt
forces.
1t is a scramble for office with all
the honors, rewards, perquisites and
emoluments that go with it.
Taft certainly does not like Roose-
welt and he has full and sufficient |
welt made him president of the United |
States and we always hate the indi- |
vidual that confers on US a great ia |
vor unless we are able to pay it back. |
The colonel made Taft his secretary i
of war; then sent him to Cuba to ad- |
just the instruction; later again sent |
him to Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama
Japan and the Philippine islands and /
finally he made him president.
And now the colonel has changer
his mind about Taft and refers to him
as a fat witfed failure, a reactionaryi
and bestows on him a great many 9TH
er unkind, irde1icate, injudicious al
lusions. which to say of a man who !
occupies the high position of president
of the limited States are erfainIv ont