The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
BAILEY is HERE
Former Governor on a Cam
paign Speaking Trip.
He Talks for Taft and De-
mOunceS Bull MOOSerS.

Ex-Governor Bailey of Atchison.
VINO was a delegate to the Chicago
convention, declares that Taft was
! fairly and honestly nominated at Chi
| cago. Governor Bailey came to To-
peka today. He speaks at Clay Center
tonight, at PaoIa Friday night and at
Holton Saturday afternoon. H. can
not conceive how Bull Moosers oE the
Republican ticket are entitled to Re-
publican support. In an interview
Governor Bailey said:
1.-The political situation in Kansas
is an anomaly with me- said Cover
nor Bailey. Men are running on the
Republican ticket claiming to be Re
publicans and are openly supporting
an opposition candidate for president
and vice president of the United States.
Every fair minded man must realize
that you never can have great ma
tional party unless the Republicans of
each state abide by the wish ana de-
cision of all the Republicans of the
United States, and for any number or
men in Kansas who claim to be Repub-
licanS although they may be In the
majOrity here in Kansas, to refuse TO
bow to the will of the majority OF the
Republicans of the nation and run a
separate party in Kansas, would GER
tainly mean that we never could nave
great national party.
II firmly believe and am in posi-
ton to speak having been delegate
to the Chicago convention that Presl-
dent Taft was as honestly and tairly
nominated as the candidate of the Re
publican party as any man who mas
ever been the party's candidate Mr.
Roosevelt 10 longer claims to he Re
publican, but insists the republican
party is nothing more than hollow
husk and is making his fght as ar
IDENTIFY against the Republican party as
he has ever made it against the Demo-
cratic party.
81 have been a Republican all my
life. l expect this year to vote Tor
every Republican who is on the Ike
publican ticket, but the supreme test
of a mans Republicanism is that he
support the Republican candidates Tor
president and vice president ANY
man who will not do this, in my judg-
ment cannot be counted as a Repub-
lican. I feel that ] am absolved from
supporting any man whose name is on
the Republican ticket who does not
measure up to this standard of Re-
puhlicaniSm.
How can a man on the state ticket
ask me as 4 Republican to vote for
him. when he is boiling the head or
the national ticket and lending his
influence to defeat the Republican
party in the nation? l claim thai
such men are boilers rather than /
I am trying in my feeble way to de-
fend the character and integrity or
the Republican party by condemninS
in every way l can the action of men
who are conspiring to defeat the Re
publican candidates for president and
vice president. 1 don't feel that 1 am
yet an old man but during my life
time | can remember many bolts where
weakened Republicans felt that the
party was dead. But it has survived
all such tests. It has been in the past
and is today the great militant party
of national progress.
At don't believe that a great party
can be buided upon the ambition of
one man, backed by the disappoint-
ments of others. The Republican party
has not filled its mission, and 1 erily
believe whether we win this time or
not that the hope and future welfare
of this country is based upon the
great fundamental principles of Re
publicanism.
LAS a citizen and a Republican
have an individual duty to perform,
and the question that confronts me
that 1 must answer to my own con-
science, is not whether we can win
but whether we are right. Believing
this 1 expect to cast my vote for Will
liam H. Taft and the Republican cleo
tors on next Tuesday. and against
those candidates who while running for
office thmselves on the Republican tick
ct are boiling the Republican nominee
for president"