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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
THIRD-TERM CANDIDACY IN
RUINS

1t is becoming difficult to remember
that Mr. Roosevelt yielded only to an
overwhelming call of the people when
he informed the seven governors that
he would accept a nomination if it were
rendered to him. The Transformation
has been appalling. 1t has also been
pitifuI This weeks primaries and con-
ventions have gone so uniformly
against the third-term candidate that
compassion for one whose past SER
vices should never be forgotten domin-
ates the mind that contemplates the
tragical wreck of his campaign.
There is, of course, nothing but
buster in Mr. Roosevelt's cries of
farce and fraud and outrage as
these stunning blows are dealt him by
the voters of his own party. The pity
of it is that he should be stofming
about the land denouncing the victors
and almost nowhere accepting the YER
diet rendered as more than an express
sion of an infamous conspiracy against
popular. government. What ails the
man? Sober minded observers can see
clearly enough that the signs of the
collapse of his candidacy are cenclu-
sive. New York, Indiana, North Da-
kota and Colorado have already spoken
as with one voice in rejecting him Not
one of these four states will have him.
Yet they are all states which Mr.
Roosevelt carried by enormous plurali-
ties in 1904 They represent nearly all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's seldom anything that savors
of harmony in chin music.
4 y
If everybody would cut out super
fluous talk nobody would have much
to say.
=
A divorce may be more expensive
than a marriage but not generally in
the long run.
No man should try to reform 9TH
ers until he has achieved success in
reforming himself.
X 4
Most of the new ideas that are put
ouL these days in such profusion have
exceedingly short lives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

Getting even is an expensive luxury.
Many married man has chaperon in
his wife.
Women lean toward mystery. but men
lean toward mastery.
The way some women talk is enough to
make a bachelor feel bald headed.
The reason a girl won't let young
man kiss her is because she wants him to.
II some cooks lane in heaven they will
be awfully annoyed to find that they
can't leave
If a man isn't sufficiently original to
manufacture his own lies he should stick
to the truth.
one always thinks there is a lot of
money to be made in any kind of business
that he isn't in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
ny THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

| We have waited many moons in the
| hope that a true portrait of Hon
| Satan, mayor of Gehenna, might reach
our files, and at last the hope has
been realized. The current Sat. Eve.
| psf, which is reliable, publishes half
tone of Hon D. Satan, from which we
pipe that his nibletS wears not only
the tail and hoofs of allegory, but a
self-cocking opera bonnet, a cravanette
coat, VanDyke whisker and pair
of specks.
A friend who is not necessarily
Capper man, thinks it a raw deal be-
cause the Shawnee county convention
neglected to endorse the home candi-
date, just as matter of courtesy. But
had things slipped the other way, ana
the Stubs Roosevelt gang controlled
the convention, can you, even in your
widest flights of fancy, see THAT
bunch endorsing Senator Curtis, who
is also home product?
The government has a few million
pounds of brown cannon powder for
sale. This is a good time to lay IN
your summer supply of cannon powder
as the government needs the money.
A distinguished Russian agricultur-
list IS here in search of a job on
farm. About 80 minutes farm work
will answer the purpose, as all ne
wants is to make an exhaustive re-
port to his government on American
agriculture.
He ought to do it in that time, as
an English diplomat made a full in
Vestigation of American economic
social and religious conditions in So
hours
You have to give it to Champ Clark
that he is the most courteous candi-
date on the job. He not only refrains
from calling the others liars and burg
lars, but refuses to let his name be
placed on the ballot in the home states
of other Democratic aspirants.
wider circulation if they had anything
don't. When a Wop drinks out of the
finger bowl and tries to blow the froth
off of the charlotte russo, it is no sure
sign he isn't a millionaire.
It's a hard job to convince a woman
that she can't convince her husband
by scolding.
That truth is stranger than fiction is
easily proven. Nearly any one can rea1
the first chapter of a popular novel
and make a safe bet on the ending
thereof.
A herd of anarchists in California
were forced to kiss the flag, but we
hold that a greater reformation could
be attained by beating the whey out
of them with the flag pole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
SPRING.

When sleighing time is ended
And winter school is out;
When thawing caves are dripping
From many a leaky spout;
When ground-hog-day is over
And men in sober sense
Forsake the chimney corner
TO mend the orchard fence;
When buds, on elm and alder
Come tiptoe through the rain
And ask the frost's permission
To shfver and remain;
When freshet-swollen rivers
Are playing youthful pranks
With all the wooden bridges
And hen coopS on their banks;
When women crowd the markets
And elbow out the men;
And hens, like legislators,
Ask leave to sit again;
When coWSlip-cumbeTe meadows
Fling back their golden sheen
Where in a night some wizard
Has changed their brown to greeni
When starveling kline are shedding
Their shaggy winter coats
And Dobbin gnaws his manger
And dreams of corn and oats;
When WeanIing lambs are bleattng
And thrifty shepherds reap
The white and fruitful harvest
From flocks of timid sheep;
When bull-frogs in the marshes
Lift up their trembling notes
While Group and influenza
Are camping in their threats;
When tulips and narcissus
Forsake their winter beds
And Irvine their rainbow banners
About their shiv'ring heads;
When all the birds of summer
Insist on coming back
And in the ponds and marshes
hear the ducklings Quack;
And when the migrant wild geese
Go honking through the night
And like flight of arrows
Pursue their -pole-Ward flight;
To- nfw.rr q g h0nnGfS
Are blooming in the street
And russell shoes are hiding
The dudeling's frosted feet;
I know full well the meaning
of each new fact and thing.
Tbav all stand forth as heraldS
And harbingers of SPRING.
HENRY w. ROBY, M. u.
opeka, Kan.
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sections of the country, outside of the
South.-Springf1eld Republican.
THE CROOKED DEAL.

The CROOKED DEAL
Mr.. Roosevelt hits out wildly, like
man dazed by the heavy blows he mas
received. All semblance of restraint or
dignity he long since cast to the winds,
and his violence of language, his recA-
lessness of assertion. his apparent IN
ability to reason coheT emily, make or
him a spectacle distressing 10 ms
friends and notifying to the country
All that he had done before, however,
was left behind by the statement issued
by him last night. IN it there appears
the almost insane hatred or MI. 1AIl
which he has displayed on former occ1-
sions, but with it he this time masses
together his Misrepresentation OF the
president and his perverslonS OF the
truth in a way to lay him open TO
crushing refutation by a plain recital
of the facts.
During Colonel Roosevelt's Western
trip the question was raised whether
an expression in his Chicago speech
meant that he was making ready 10
bolt the Republican convention. When
this was brought to his attention, ne
was indignant. His hot declaration
was: ANY man who reads into the
speeches anything 1 have not SAID IS
deliberately and wilfully m1srepreseht-
ing Out of his own mouth he thus
stands condemned; for he has been go
ing up and down the land reading into
q speech of Mr.. Taft something tnat
Mr.. Taft did not say. We refer, or
course, to Mr.. Roose elt's deliberate
and wilful misrepresentation OF the
presidents speech at Toledo. In that
address, Mr.. Taft undertook to explain
in an elementary way the working OF
representative government, and re-
marked that the actual electors were
only a part of the population. While
1.-The controlling majority of the cleo
torate'' must bear a still smaller pro-
portion to the whole body of citizens.
so that, in fact, it is apparent that
ours is government of all the people
by representative part of the people.
But this mere commonplace was in
stantly seized upon by Mr.. Roosevelt,
and by him distorted into the asser-
ton that Mr. Taft did not believe in
popular government, and was for con-
troll by bosses. This is thoroughly dis
honest. Mr.. Roosevelt cannot be de-
ceived about what he is doing. Even in
his excitement and rage his mind must
work lucidly enough to make him
aware that he is stopping to a mean
misrepresentati ton which the lowest pet
tifogger would be ashamed of, and
which the yellowest newspaper would
feel to be too transparent as we'll as too
base TO attempt to impose upon the
public. OF such wanton twistings of
the truth one can only say, as the
Prince said to Falstaff: These lies are
gross as mountain, open, palpable. -
New York Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Where women have obtained the
right to vote they have exercised their
privilege with as much wisdom and
with as sincere a desire to advance
the general good as men have mani
tested" This is the testimony of
charles w. Fairbanks, ex-president of
the United States. Surely there is no
one to deny this fact. But over and
above their fitness to vote, the women
are entitled to the ballot as a right
that has been denied them too long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
THE SPOILED CHILD.

Misled by an Intellectual coterie of
parasites and his incredible thirst for
applause and power, ignorant of public
opinion, deceived by the curiosity of the
crowd, a pitiless curiosity which finds
it's dethroned heroes like Bryan and
Roosevelt interesting merely as it finds
the eight legged calf and the Siamese
Twins, Mr. Roosevelt sought the politi-
the true-hearted gentleman for whom
he professed so much friendship, who
had been at his side for years, whom he
had praised cordially and often What
is a friend to nomination? Why, in
deed, should a man who would make
the breath of mobs the final arbiter of
Justice bother about bauble like old
friendship? The great are not to be
judged by common standards, and sue
cess crowns and sanctions all.
But failure in an ignoble personal
struggle makes ridiculous, Here is
Theodore Roosevelt, less than two
years ago the most 11onored of Ameri-
can citizens. the most powerful in a
legitimate and honora BILE way, if he had
respected himself and his career and
the affection of so many of his fellow
citizens. Deliberately he threw his
meanly and ingloriously beaten, howl
ing fraud" like an energumen, his
dignity stripped from him by his own
hands, a figure Vulgarly comic.
Sorrowfully the American people
might contemplate this shrieking vic
tim who started out to victimize, if
of tragic splendor chung to
him; they might wrap him in their own
dignity and pity as he lies naked to the
world. But to betray a friend only to
be betrayed to public scorn, the super
man mounting like a clown, Caesar
cursing like a very drab, why. laugh
ter irresistible, and only laughter, is
what he stirs.-New York Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Some of Colonel Roosevelt's man
ayers are insisting that the Democrats
are doing everything in their power
to bring about the denomination of
President Taft for the obvious reason
that he would be the easiest man for
them to defeat. On the other hand
it is not unusual to hear from Demo-
Gratis who believe that Colonel Roose-
welt would be the easiest Republican
candidate to beat on the third term
f-s1Io alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
DAFFfDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If an OK tumbled would a cowslip?
(Oh! I wasn't with the circus for 20
years for nothingO
When the kettle boils over does the
kitchen sink?
(Say, Ysobeli Do you care eif I cut
your initials on a Logo
If the pianist in the movies was
taken sick would the photoplay?
Move on, there. You can't ioiter on
this corner.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
HUNOR or THE Day

She-What has happened tc Miss Muir
dock2 He-That affable young fellow told
her she had musical laugh, and she went
into mysteries over one OF his stpries.-
Woman's Home Companion
First City Man-How are you cominr
along with your poultry venture2 Second
Ditto-I've been swlndled- bought three
incubators of different makes, and not one
of them has laid an egg yet.-LipDincottu
Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

General PascuaI Orozco, the leader
of the big revolt against Madero. has
sent emissaries to Washington to pro-
fess his friendship for the United
States and to dispel the idea that the
rebel party is opposed to Americans
who save settled in Mexico. But such
professions of friendship are of doubt
full value Orozco. at one time. posed
as just as good a friend to Madero.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Nor would it be surprising to see
New York's delegates to the Baltimore
convention give their support in the
presidential nomination contest to
Governor Tom Marshall, of Indiana.
Richard Croker, ex-boss of Tammany
Hall, thinks he is the likeliest presi-
Dental timber in the Democratic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Colonel Roosevelt is reported to be
doing much handshaking on his south
ern trip, but not, it is safe to assume,
with the delegates from that locality
TO the Chicago convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

A tailor is authority for the state
ment that constant automobile riding
will develop the chest in a material
measure. And with an increasing
1ungpower, perhaps the automobilists
will be able to do away with some of
their frightful horns and screechers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
CHARACTER AS AN ASSET.

When you read of a clerk buying a
store and will go in business for him
SELF, do you know what that means? II
does not mean that the clerk has saved
enough money to buy a store. He could
hardly do that in a lifetime. Il means
that he has conducted himself so well
that he is able to get the necessary credit
to buy a store. 1t is a fine testimonial
of character.-Lawrence Journal World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Some politicians are insisting that
the Interests" are behind the candi-
dacy of Woodrow Wilson. If this is
the case they are s-ingier than usual.
Mr.. Wilson reports that his campaign
has become bankrupt for the fourth
time since it was launched.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

It cost the taxpayers in western
New York from $3.50 to $1O.5O for
each vote cast at the recent primaries
in that state. And this is one of the
increases in the cost of living that
surely cannot be blamed on the tariff
To-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New YORK Pregs.1

IFrOm the New YORK Press.
The better anybodys name the more
the world would like to blacken it
A few means two or three except In
after-dinner remarks, when it's million.
Nobody need ever invent a swearing
machine, for that's the one thing a man
wants to do for himself.
When a man slips cake of soap in
the bathtub he knows things like thas
never happened before he was married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
KANSAS COAMENT
LIFE,S GARnEN

&c are very particular about the kind
81 al, SEEDS we put in our gardens, but not
NJ me pants start from our sowing.
Inc wind carried some seed from a Tar
on Ield where weeds grew rank an last
sumner. These weeds. although you
lever saw them, and were not 10 blame
Tor them growing in your garden, vii
. .r,she trouble for you If permitted 10
- Is the same way with the weeds of
character, which we will name Ss1its
Sometimes person will think that his
IdlhIiss or faults do not matter to other
people, but only to themselves which -
great mistake. The breezes which we
call influence are continually vyaftin..
SEED from one heart to another, and one
saruen given up to weeds may make
trouble for a great many peonIe beside
the owner.-Perry Mirror
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Spring has surely arrived. This
statement is not made because of the
sprihg-like weather that has been
prevailing of late. No, inded. There's
better evidence than that. The black
birds are beginning to travel north in
hfor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Carter Harrison appears to have a
majority of the voters of Chicago safe
~ tucked away in his vest pocket. He
has just won another big political vic
tory there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Most of the students at Harvard
university are probably sore at the in
sistence of its president, Mr.. Lowell,
that it is in no sense a rich mans in
Stitutinn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

A Brooklyn botanist has succeeded
in developing a clover plant that will
produce four leaves on each stem.
What's the answer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

President Lynch of the National
League, is doing some press agenting
for his organization. He says that its
pennant race this year will be a hard
fought battle between all the teams.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Governor F'oss of Massachusetts
seems to be equipped with excellent
judgment. He has withdrawn from
the Democratic presidential race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Now that Luther Burbank, the hor-
ticultural wizard. has been relieved of
the necessity of devoting any of his
time to business affairs, lie should
bend all of his scientific energies to
improving the cranberry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
HIGHER TAXEs-

IN speaking of the higher taxes. one
thinking man raised the point thaf tto-s
VIII never be lower taxes until people
I'VE like they used to do. When va
country and state pinched along. Nov
our demands are greater OF the state and
country, and our privileges are greater
and our taxes are bound to be greater
Don't worry about your taxes. So long "a
you get the worth of your money in SER
vice. The fellow is generally in luck who
mas the most taxes to pay.-Mulvane
News.
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FROM OTHER PENS
GREAT EXPORT TRADE.


For SIX months in succession the ex-
ports of the merchandise from the United
States have averaged over 500, 100000 a
month. February, with only % days. fell
but Sl,l25.000 short Of that mark, show
ing a higher daily average than any
month except December. All records for
me shortest month of the year were en-
tirely echpsed.
Never in the history of the country has
there been any such period of immense
exports. Never were the imposing to-
tails of the export business made up OF
SO great variety of merchandise. The
shipments of grain and meat and cotton
the cruder staples of outbound foreign
commemorative not been so extra ordinary
as the remarkable traffic in manufactures.
The export trade was never before estab-
hshed on so broad and firm a foundation.
There is one great lack in this part Of
the international business of the Ameri-
can people: The proportion of the prod
uctS of their country sold in foreign mar
kets that goes abroad in American ships
is lamentably small. European ship-own-
ers continue to make large profits IN
carrying American merchandise which
ought to be exported in American ships
manned by American crews and ready to
meet the nations needs IL a great war
should come.-Cleveland Leader.
LAWYERS. GOOD AND BAD.
The legal profession of the country I'M
doubleday is susceptible to criticism, but
it is doubtful if ali the conclusions or tie
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching about the lawyers and the
should be taken, not with grain OF salt,
but with a whole pailfuL First. 1t says
there are too many lawyers, which every
one will admit is a Weli-founded ObserVa-
ton, but it concludes that the miscar-
riages of justice, the laws delay, and
public disregard of law and disreSpect for
the judiciary, all proceed i'm no small de-
gree from this multiplication of Ill
trained lawyers"
The miscarriage of justice and the de-
lay of the law have nothing whatever to
do with the inefficient lawyer. IL is the
skilled and efficient lawyer who knows
how to secure delay. For instance, the
lawyers who defended the pork packers.
Lawyers of ability know how to take ad-
vantage of the forms OF law, and IT is
this ability to stall off prosecution that
produces delay The inefficient and i'll
trained lawyer is left at the post. He
cumbers the earth. but he is no such
artist a his trained brother, who natural
Iy has wealthy clients and uses his gifts
and abilities in their rehabilitation
Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

Massachusetts continues to maintain
its place in the doldrums. Its legisla-
ture has gone on record once more
against woman's suffrage.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganfzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news Is received in The State Jour
HAi building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06
A SATURDAY SERMON.

The Lord is risen, indeed, and hath APP
peared to Simon. st. Luke XIV a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

A distinguished Russian agricultur-
list IS here in search of job on a
farm. About 80 minutes farm WORK
will answer the purpose, as all ne
wants is to make an exhaustive re-
port to his government on American
agriculture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

The government has a few million
pounds of brown cannon powder for
sale. This is a good time to lay IN
your summer supply of cannon powder
as the government needs the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-06

He ought to do it in that time, as
an English diplomat made a full in
Vestigation of American economic
social and religious conditions in 80
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Topeka, Kan.