The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-26
KANSAS EDITOR
He Talks for Taft 10 Colorado
Springs Reporter.
T. p. MacLennan of Topeka
Gives an Interview.
SAYS THE TIDE WILL TURN
Reviews Logic of the Situation
in a Fair Way.
Chicago Convention Charges
VS.. Kansas Progressive Deal.

Colorado Springs, July 26.-That
President Taft will grow in popularity
with the people of the United States
when they have taken second
thought, and that he is entitled to re-
election on the record he has made, is
the opinion expressed this morning by
Frank P. MacLennan, editor and owner
of the topeka State Journal, Topeka,
Kan. who with Mrs. MacLennan, has
been a guest at the Alamo hotel here
for several days.
Mr.. MacLennan expressed douDt
whether Taft will be reelected and said
that he would not be surprised if no
candidate received enough votes in the
electoral college.
While Mr.. MacLennan thinks the
acid test a bit severe, he is severe in
his denunciation of the plan of the So
called "Progressives'' to put Roosevelt
electors on the straight Republican
ticket If Roosevelt electors are to be
elected he believes that they should
run a separate and distinct ticket.
He Praises Taft.
In an interview before leaving this
morning for a motor trip to Cascade,
Mr.. MacLennan said:
A record of the progressive measures,
currently printed. Endorsed or secured
by President Taft's administration
classes the president as one of the
greatest, practical, sane, progrossives
of the o1y.
1t may unpopular just now to say a
kind word for President Taft and his
splendid record, but 1 must say this
word and declare that he has been
much maligned and much misrepre-
scented man, entitled to reelection.
President Taft is not getting square
deal from the insurgents, who claim
that as one of their tenets; this without
rejecting upon Colonel Roosevelt, one
of the greatest men in the country,
with a fine record behind him, but who
has been misled by overzealous friends
and by seekers after office, who striv-
ing to profit by his personality, have
plunged him into a campaign for
third term which first splits his own
Republican party in twain and now
seeks it's humiliation by means of a
third party in certain states, and self
destruction in others.
Speaking of Theft.
Speaking of political theft, was
there ever a more fragrant attempt
than that now made by the new third
party machine in Kansas trying to
steal the prestige, the livery and or
ganization of the Republican party2 1T
is all right for the old insurgents to
organize a new party-as Colonel
Roosevelt honorably proposed-tO be
made up of Republicans and Demo-
Gratis and others, but to use the Re-
publican organization is plain stealing,
theft. 1t is simply preposterous to say
certain Kansas electors were selected
to vote for Roosevelt. They were Sc
Iected to vote for the Republican NOM
inee who now happens to be Taft.
Roosevelt has not yet been nominated
by any convention and if he be named
it is proposed to have him nominated,
not through primaries, or contests, but
simply by a convention of men favor
able to him. The Roosevelt people
should fight outside the breastw orks
and not within the organization which
they have left and in which they were
defeated. They announce themselves
as dcserters and political rebels and
now try to use the forts and forces of
the loyal Republicans.
If the proposed presidential electors
could not see their way to support Taft
they should have resigned as William
Allen White did from the national
committee and let loyal men serve; or
they should run as independent or
third party electors.
He Answers Charges.
The wholesale charge is made that
the nomination of President Taft was !
a theft, a fraud, backed by great cor |
parations and big interests and DO
litical bosses.
The large interests, even as Roose- |
welt has himself reiterated. are en-
titled to fair treatment. The square |
deal for all is a good proposition to |
live up to, not to juggle with for po- |
liticaI purposes, as is being done in this !
state today.
one of the biggest political bosses this
country has ever produced. Finn of
Pittsburg, Pa, one of the active
men supporting Colonel Roosevelt. One !
of the greatest figures who was ever be- |
ests'' in this country is George W. Per |