The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-18
AS HE SEES IT
Ebert Hubbard Writes ON Eve
of Great Contest.
The Fra Hints at Free Use of
Money.
MAKES A GUESS ON RESULT
He Believes President Taft
Will Be RenOminated.
Will Be Plenty of Threats, but
No Violence.
(Rv Ebert Hubbard.)

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dictment for violation of the Sherman
act.
The were indicted on the order of
| President Taft.
These individuals are now working
| tooth, nail and pocketbook for Theo-
| dore Roosevelt.
They know RooseveIt-they did
| business with him when he was south
and they hope to do business with him
| again.
Four years ago and eight years ago
sums for campaign purposes.
This matter of court record.
Ten, fifty, one hundred, two hun
| dred thousand dollars was given by
this concern and that represented by
these Jealous campaign heelers,
Such sums are insigr if1cant, when
compared with what is at stake.
The Taft forces are not on half
rations, for they have all the momen-
tum and mazuma that woes with fed
eral patronage
But for the outs to have the most
money is a new condition in Republi-
can party politics.
Bribery and Barter.
General Hooker once telegraphed to
President Lincoln:
81 have been offered 100000 to let
cotton through the line. Getting near
my price. Relieve me-
Only very crude, rude, vulgar peo-
pie imagine that bribery in politics
What happens if that necessary dis
bursements take place to cover lesiti-
mate expenses.
Delegates will need money in the
coming election to use for the good of
the cause, not for themselves.
Some may need personal loans.
A man may have an inconvenient
mortgage on his home. Others are
sending their girls and boys to col
lege. Another needs team of horses,
an automobile, piano, or some other
of the necessities of life.
The money isn't passed out through
a window and receipt given 1t
comes from a near and dear friend
with whom you are dining and quietly
talking matters over in a heart-to-
heart conference
1t is payment for services rendered
or to be rendered. 1t is the mark of
faith tWixt man and man. 1t symbols
human brotherhood.
Colonel Roosevelt went to the
Fourth Presbyterian church Sunday
and put a five dollar bill in the basket
This does not mean that he bought the
minister. He merely contributed to
good cause.
one coIored man told me that he
had been able to pay off the debt on
his church since he arrived here
Conscience is 1ured on and lulled to
sleep by friendships lullaby
e are we sh mHsf stand IT t SG@%en
Stormy times are coming. we must
entrench ourselves against possible
billiards..
And so we divide up the sinews of
war not for selfish reasons-Qulte the
contrary. Any money that is passed
out is for the good of the cause.
This fine work done by the political
antennae is not carefully AUDITED or
vised by the big corporation
The men higher up have perfect
faith in their hired servants
The money may pass down through
two, three, four or five pairs or grlmy
hands before it reaches a point Where
it irrigates the fertile fields that are
arid and silently petitioning for re-
lief.
The brotherhood of Man.
Never was there such fraternaI ana
fine feelings of human felicity as are
now being exhibited between the
whites and the blacks.
Last week our colored friends were
up around the Coliseum or on me
West side. Now they are right with
us, wearing high hats, Prince Albert
coats smoking the best cigars, con-
versing in confidential tones.
Chauncey Depew once SAID Ihae
nothing animated the tagging zeal of
LAWYER equal to a hundred dollar
excepting two one hundred dollar
bills" added Mr.. John Parsons.
And Mr.. Depew accepted the
MANY men around the Congress no
tel now have hundred dollar bills VINO
never had them before:
These men may be pledgea Ior OF EN- tba
o11estion that agitates the impalpaple
ether is. Twill they stay put
There is no legal obligation ana
conscience is largely matter OIL euu-
cation.
Monarchv With False Whiskers.
MANY of the Taft delegates were ap-
pointed to office by Theodore Roosevelt
and thev are now being plainly told
that if Theodore Roosevelt IS again
elected they will hold Their positions Tor
life.
+oIl which we now hear expressed,
calmly without apology, not loudly nor
with bulling bravado-but quietly,
simply and as matter of course. Ana
that is this: If you have 5000 gem
eral manager of your factory, you
don't turn him out at the end of every
four years and put in a new man.
Neither do YOU disturb your entire
business organization by bringing in
az of the stockholders, employees and
of your goods to vote ON the
question.
If the man is doing good service for
you as a superintendent, you keep him
Theodore Roosevelt did this country
splendid service. He set in motion re-
ferns. which if carried out honestly
and persistently would reorganize the
country on a better basis than civiliza-
ton has ever before seen.
Roosevelt put Taft in as president of
the United States believing that Taft
would honestly carry out the good
work initiated and set in motion
Taft however evolved a Goodyear
vertebra and unfortunately was not
able to carry through the reforms.
Wherefore it is necessary that Mr..
Roosevelt for the good of the country