The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-19
new BOSS BOSTER.

NEW bU0S bUNIEhu
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Progressive on the state ticket. His
| soul was, fired with the conviction that
his cause was just and he showed no
mercy TO- the men whom he declared
had stolen the party in Kansas.
This situation in Kansas is due only
to the demagogues permitted to run
loose in this state" declared Dean.
I'VE have stood quietly by and watch
| ed a gang of men run our state who
are not Republicans, but are non
descripts and robbers We made no
effort to interfere when we witnessed
the cickeninC spectacle of William AL
len White. national committeeman of
another party, naming our candidates
and telling the peopl who were honest
Republicans.
when the old Populist party aros'
in this state, it had some honor" con-
tinued Dean, land it had the integrity
to come out as a new and third party
but this outfit comes along and tries
to steal the party organization and
the offices wen at the same time they
declare their faith in the candidate OF
another party. Are We going to stand
it?" yelled Dean. NO You bet
we mt" came yells from re crowd.
which by this time was well warmed
to the occasion and clamored for the
scalp of every Progressive from road
overseer to preside.-t. There is no
law Continued Dean, that will send
these fo'' to Jail for taki-~ proper
ty under false pretenses- But there
ought to be. This country never beforf
witnesse1 the spectacle OF a set of
men nor mated by one party, support
ing for president the nominee of anoth-
er party. There is but ore thing t
do-kick out the traitors who are run
ming on the ticket as a Republican and
are going to vote against the head of
our national ticket
SIonecker Flags Supreme Court.
When Dean had concluded, j. G.
Slonecker was called. It was Slonecker
who added spice to the Prog-c--sve ar
gument against the judiciary by ex-
pressing his own opinion of the Kan
sas supreme bench, whom he dubbed
cottonwood rabbits"
I'm our primaries we have nomin.
ted for governor a man VINO has nc
more right on the Republican ticket
than have George Hodges or Hugh
Farrelley. If Capper wants to run for
governor on the Bull Moose ticket, or
Stubs wants to run for the senate on
the same ticket, well and good, but
he has no right on our ticket. Mer
who won't support the natioral head o.
the Republican party have no right in
the party; and no man who will not
support the national ticket, s I'D have
place on the Republican state ticket
Then Slonecker reviewed the pr.
Dental electoral case before the Kan.
sas supreme court
The cottontail rabbits on the sJI-
preme bench-two of whom are can
d1dates for re-election-said they had
no legal right in the electoral case, al
though they intjmated at moral
right. These men had the last guess
and they made bad guess-but we
are bound by it,"
Farmer Smith Is Bitter.
Farmer" A. w. Smith provoked
more enthusiasm than any speaker at
the boss buster meeting. He flayed
the progressives in a manner that
kept the crowd in an uproar and
charged the. progressive movement
with the burden of Democratic con-
gress. 7s7a
To-day the papers say L am legis-
lated out of office, that / am lame
duck said Smith, but my Repub-
licanism is not affected by that action;
preaching OF truer Repu blican doc
trines than tonight" Then Smith |
praised President Taft-who had that
day signed the pension agency con-
solidation bill-and declared he would |
be recorded in history as one of the |
greatest presidents the country had |
produced.
IF we have not the privilege of |
voting for Taft" urged Smith, 1--WE /
have no one worthy of our suffrage. |
On the one hand We have crazy man
and on the other a college professor. |
You can no more make a president |
out of college professor than you
can make silk purse of bull /
moses ear. But If must vote eth
Ell for a crazy man or a college pro-
fessor, will wither my vote rather
than stultify it in the election" Smith
then compared Roosevelt with Jeff |
Davis, whom the pension agent brand
ed as the original Bull Moose
jeff Davis First Bull MOOSE
jeff Davis was the first Bull
Moose we ever had" declared Smith,
for the Bull Moose who is running at
large today"
]. B. Belts, Logan spalding and
others made short talks and the /
meeting closed as the 500 Taft Re-
publicans stood and sang with Rev.
John A. Bright, Its the Old Time
Party and It's Good Enough for Me-"
Rev. Bright sang the song through
out Kansas during the Mckinley
Bryan campaign in 1896 and to many
Of the men in the meeting, the words
were familiar.
Then the crowd left the hotel-to
work for the new movement. An or
ganization will be formed in every
county in the state and every Taft
Republican in Kansas will be urged
to attend the big mass convention in
Topeka, August 81 In the meantime
headquarters will be opened in the
New England building and a system
attic fight conducted for the defeat of
every Progressive on the Republican
ticket.
Those Resolutions.
The following resolutiones offered by
J. s. Dean We're loudly endorsed with
put an opposing vote:
Whereas, The great Republican
party-the party of immortal Lincoln.
D. the Martyr Garfield, of the beloved
anc 1amented Mckinley, of the great,
fearless ard upright leader William II.
Taft-has been for the past fifty years
pr more, and is today, the party of pro-