The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-29

in connection with MS Cali Oh NotOAA
Roosevelt. AS for this paper. it can
not see that there is any change IN
the situation. Colonel Roosevelt mas
not vet answered s'the demand which
Governor Stubbs presented to the
colonel in a telegram to oyster Bay
a week ago. The governor went east
and evidently had pleasant call on
the colonel Meanwhile, a letter came
to the executive officers from Oyster
Bay, but still no answer 1t Will De
recalled that the Governor undertook
to tell Colonel Roosevelt what his duty
was in the premises The governor
exact words in the dispatch were as
follows:
II believe you owe it to the Ameri-
can people at this time to make
public statement concerning TINS mat
ter. I am wiring you because OF lhe
lateness of the day, and on Dehall OF
a vast majority of the Republicans OF
Kansas would urge you to give US this
definite statement by wire.
But the colonel fully as well as the
governor knows what he owes to the
American people and of course has
not and will not answer the governor
who certainly strains the coloners. po-
likeness and suavity by an impertinent
demand.
It must be remem bered, too, that
he said as president, on the night OF
his election:
Il am deeply sensible of the honor
done me BY the American people IN
thus expressing their confluence II
what | have done and have tried TO
| do. I appreciate to the fullest the
solemn responsibility this commence
| imposes upon me, and l shall 90 an
that in my power lies not to torIelt II;
| On the fourth of March, next, shaI
and this three and one-haif years
| constitutes my first term. me WISE
| custom which limits the president 10
| two terms regards the substance not
the form Under no circumstances
will l be a candidate for or accept an
other nomination"
Why do these alleged friends OF
Roosevelt try to get him IN oox' Try
70 compel him to dc something that
he does not want to de- try TO MAKE
hin, a candidate when he is not can
didata
The whole attitude of the insurgents
who have deserted their patron saint
| AMI typical representative I-aFollette'
seems to be one of a selfish desire to
| win having abandoned the idea that
+bev can win with a man of their own
sort that is, a man who represents the
insurgents, for Roosevelt is not an IN
| s1reent IaFollette is, but RooseNsl1
and I.aFonette are quite different
Senator Bristow is to be congratuia-
ted upon his consistency in sticking 10
I,aFollette while other Kansas lnsur-
| gents are deserving him.
| If there were some great national
emergency; some great crisis, II the
president of the United States had sig
II nally failed to do his duty or had con-
Quoted himself otherwise than in an
exemplary manner with excellent re-
; suits and with other contingencies all
tied together, with the fate of the ma
ton in a balance. it is barely possl Ole
that he Republicans might be excused
for turning toward Roosevelt, but nc
l ~1cb crisis exists; no such response
bility is weighing; no such emergency
{ 10 calling. on the other hand we have
: president who has had wonderful
; success in enacting the plan1s Of hi
} nartv,s platform into laws, and who
has worked wonderful economies II
administration and who has carried
} ont and inaugurated some of the wis
est and greatest policies of an admin
istration.
/ Think of the wonderful financing II
5 Tho various departments, saving mil
lions of dollars and yet increasing IN
EFFICIENCY. Of those departments. Thinl
what he has done in the way OF M
: long step towards universal peace II
2 the arbitration treaties
s President Taft has truly exsmplifiec
r the Christian spirit in most practica
\ WAYS. He today stands for the honor
+ and Integrity in the individual, in com
= panies. and in public and private al
fairs. He is making the corporation
. .sbe good He Is enforcing the law.
. Why should Kansas, this state which
a stands for law and order and peace ant
i fiustice. repudiate through a faction o
= the Republican party such Pres1den
= as we have today? It is senseless
There is no cause for it. but a selfsl
d one The Insurgents are challenged t.
Z give an intelligent reason why the Re
+ publican party should not endorse thei
: leader. William Howard Taft for re
s nomination.
; If there is not a great, big senti
nent in Kansas for the renominatiol
: of Taft, the State Journal does no
II know what sentiment is. If the read
e er has any doubt about this, he Nigh
e read the five columns of extracts fror
= various newspapers printed in thi
e paper last Friday; that is, of course
after he has read the columns of brie
e interviews with representative Repuh
s licans favorable to Taft printed in tn
n issue of the paper which you now hol
- in your hand.
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