The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-08
SEE DARK HORSE.
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factions are looking for a dark horse
to win at Chicago.
Cy Leland, the sage of Doniphan, is
here. Judge Sluss and Dave Mulvane
of Topeka and H G. James, the In
dependence editor. talked about Taft
and his fine administration. Charlie
Sessions, secretary of state, and Will
Davis. state auditor. were in the
crowd. So was Ike Lewis, superin-
tendent of insurance. z. E. Brewster
of Leavenworth, the new chairman of
Dan Anthony 5 First district committee,
was there, getting acquainted with the
old timers at the game.
Earl Akers, the Stafford editor,
launched his candidacy for state treas
urer and he made lot of progress
with it. Akers is as good a mixer as
there is. He received many pledges
of support.
Tom Cordry, the Parsons editor, de-
clared himself a candidate for con-
gress for the Third district and fur
ther complicated the situation. Ev-
cry one thinks that Phil CampbelPs
clock has struck since the big Third
went for Roosevelt after CampbelIs
feud with the colonel. Every one
wants to run for congress. The mat
ter will be ironed out at the Third dis
trict congressional convention at In
dependence May IA. 1t has been de-
cided that only one candidate will OF
pose Campbell and the man decided
on will be the man showing the most
strength.
Frank Merrill of Paola, Joe Hazen
of Pittsburg. Tom Smith of Hiawatha,
w. T. Watson of lola, Ed Greer of
Winfield, Ansel Clark of Sterling, Cliff
Matson of Wichita and scores of other
well known Kansas progressives are
here as delegates.
\ Roast for the Democrats.
Frederick Stanley of wichita, tenn
porary chairman, in his speech said:
Every politica, party now has its
following For IL thought
the Democratic partZ had none. But
now we need fear no more for them.
Perhaps that following is not as
significant it might be, but if it
were a choice of that or nothing,
think 1 would rather have 'houn
aroun' than no following at all. And
there is a reason when you come to
think of it. 1t is a matter of common
knowledge that the poetic soul of the
houn' dog responds most freely and
most vociferously to the wailing music
of sorrow, to the melodies of the dirge,
and it is from the harp of the Demo-
cratic minstrel that such music is for
ever poured forth.
There is a time and place for
prophecy. There is a time and place
for criticism And each in its proper
time and place has an important func-
ton to perform. In holy writ we
find the JeremiahS who perennially
poured forth predictions of calamity
and those times also had their John
Sharp Williamses and William Jennings
organs who pointed out the evil in all
existing things. So l say, in proper
time and place these expert knockers
and calamity prophets must have
purpose. We know not now just what
this purpose is but it is said that the
good Lord gave a purpose to every
living, creeping and crawling thing, so
of course he must have meant some
good to come from the Democratic
party.
A Party of Knockers.
cratic brethren MY have a special
gift as knockers and prophets of evil,
do not imagine that thereby and there
fore they have developed any speed
are entitled to any medals in the
matter of doing things
They are obstructionists by nature.
They are constitutiQnally opposed to
construction or progress in any form.
They can view with alarm. They can
not accept a challenge of battle and go
joyously forward to meet the foe. They
are like the turtle. forever condemned
to carry it's shell over it's head to
whom all crawling and obnoxious
things are visible but from whose
vision the glorious stars and the beau
ties of the heavens are forever denied.
He cannot feel the inspiration of the
upward look for his gaze is always
downward.
Let US pity, rather than censure,
them, for they carry smell upon their
backs, and yet one night, remember,
1 accidentally turned the turtle over
on his back and seemed to me that q
new light and bright hope came into
his eyes as he gazen heavenward and
beheld the Pleiades set in their silver
row and all the myriad gIories of the
roof of heaven. Who knows that we
may not yet, by turning over our
see the light and become true and
valuable soldiers in the ranks of
progress.
Progress Not New Issue.
I'VE recognize the existence of
great progressive issues Progressive
ness is not Il new issue. There are
new issues in the old progressive pol
icy of this nation. When 1 speak of
the progressive policy of the nation.
mean the policy of the Republican
party, for the onward growth of the
nation since the days of Lincoln has
been guided by Republican hands; the
great laws that have done so much for
the development of the nation have
wisdom of the Republican statesmen
and progress, that beautiful duty at
whose shrine We all delight to wor
ship, has at all those times. and is
now, and ever shall be- nurtured and
adorned, not by the hands of skeptics
and prophets of evil but by those
hands who brought her into being;
the hands of Abraham Lincoln, of U.
s. Grant, of William Mckinley and
Theodore Roosevelt.
''Progressiveness is as old as man
ana II VIII commune until that time
when the wolf shall dwell with the
lamb and the lion shall eat straw like
the OK. 1t is the upward reach placed
in the heart of man by an all-wise
God.
TT was the inspiration of Magma
Charta. 1t caused the patriots of
revolutionary times to write in letters
of blood those immortal words, lib
erty and equality. 1t bursts into flame
again when from the great heart of
the martyred Lincoln there LEANED