The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
Former State Senator. Kelly on
Kansas Situation.
He Writes Interesting Letter
About Roosevelt Hysteria.
RECORD OF PRESIDENT TAFT
Old Time Mcpherson Politician
Is Proud of 1t.
Declares That IS Per Cent of
Party Is for President.


In a letter to the State Journal H.
b. Kelly, of Kansas City, tells OF the
wild efforts of the Roosevelt following
to deceive the voters and misrepresent
the political situation, just as he sees
the operations after years of observa-
ton in the political battles. Kelly, VINO
was formerly a state senator from
Mcpherson county, comedies that
Roosevelt may secure enough Roose-
welt votes to insure the election OF
Democratic president. but declares that
this folly will be only in strict keep
ing with the policies adopted by the
Rough Rider and Bull Moose" fol-
lowing.
This is the way the veteran Kansas
politician views the political situation
in letter to the State Journal;
The Real Taft Opposition.
In view of the unimpeachable per-
eonaI character and the clean ofnclai
record of President Taft, the harmony
of his views and actions with the ma
dority of the Republican party and OF
congress as indicated in his messages
and speeches, the conclusion is reacheo
that had President Taft gone against
that majority and vetoed the Payne
AIdrich tariff bill, as I hoped he would
or had he permitted that bill to be-
come a law without his signature anc
then omitted his Winona speech, there
would now have been no lnsurgent
movement, would have been no preteAt
for the rough riders canvass to as
sennble a cowboy convention for third
term presidential nomination and this
with failure followed by the cry
beaten by fraud as a pretext for or
ganization based upon the so-caIled
Roosevelt policies carried out IT. Is
claimed, by Taft ON stretcher al
though when inspected those policies
appear too vague, indefinite and un-
certain for concentration in platform
for even a mild rough rider party.
1.-THE conclusion therefore is that
President Tafts attitude upon the tar
If is the responsible cause for 1nsur-
gency and the movement against him,
and in reaching this conclusion 1t Is
pertinent to ascertain what are the
views and attitude of Roosevelt upon
the subject of tariff revision and tar1n
reform, admittedly the greatest of poll
tic-economic questions. And, upon this
issue Roosevelt is more indefinite and
less promising than President Taft and
apparently with less intelligent under
standing of the purposes and results
of protection
A Trust Burdened Moses.
'It is a matter of grave Importance
to know why the third term ambition
is backed and the campaign for cleo
ton of Roosevelt is financed by the
most arrogant trusts. If Roosevelt be
the Moses to lead the people from
the bondage of predatory wealth why
IS Morgan's manager the chief fnan-
cier and manager back of the Roose-
welt campaign Why does Roosevelt
make no reply or explanation to the
testimony of Cortelyou that the 1904
Roosevelt campaign cost about two
million dollars? Why no explanation
for his remark, You nd I are prac-
teal men, upon receipt of a quarter
of million dollars campaign fund from
Hartman? Why no explanation of
his support by Dupont of the powder
trust, the harvester trust, by repre-
sentatives of the sugar trust? Why
no publication of the names of con-
fributors to expense of his third term
canvass for the nomination?
There is no practical reason for a
third party and nothing in the charge
that Taft was nominated by southern
delegates, whose states will supply no
votes for his election, as this is off
set by the effort put forth by Roose-
welt to obtain those southern dele
gates, the game having been played
with all the skill and cowboy dash
he could command, but the commit
tee and the convention called the bluff
and the Rough Rider lost out.
1T is said that at no time during
the convention with all the delegates
his partisans on the committee and in
the convention could have given him
Roosevelt have been nominated His
nope from the beginning lay in
stampeding southern delegates to
his standard, Rough Riding a noToi-
nation or in deadlocking the conven-
ton and then securing the LaFoIlette
and Cummins delegates. If, therefore.
Tafts nomination was stolen it was
not stolen from Roosevelt and the
charge That II was is but a part of
the Rough Rider campaign of bully
ing and bluff.
when I say I do not believe Roosevelt
will make an approach to election in No
vember, / make the statement for tbe
reason that he has nothing to offer as a
foundation for the third party and there
afflicted with the Roosevelt hysteria. will
quietly vote for the reelection of Presi-
dent Taft upon the proposition that his
administration has been clean and the
country prosperous.
Kansas VIII Come Out of IT.
''The work of the Chicago convention
maintained party integrity, gave guaraS-
tee of safety to the best interests of the
government, upheld the unwritten law OF
precedent and patriotism from the at
tacks Of Roosevelt and his issue of me-
Me, ME- and saved the country from
his INSCRIPTIONS ambition. The Roose-
Welt recently appropriated policies, In
atiative and Referendum and ReeaiP are
but decisions, the infatuation of dream
ers, soon to pass, and when the awaken
ing comes, Kansas will come out of the
hallucinatlon with new birth of COM
mon sense and with vigorous demand
upon the Bristows. Stubbses and Cappers
for an accounting for the attempt to steal
the states Republican electors for trans
ference to a third party while to White
and Allen nothing will be done, because
not needed, as they will have died in the
'bornin'.' with no official record to con-
denim them.
Kansas may be, as in times past. WITH
the country Republican. while Kansas
was Fusion in support of the Democratic