The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-02
STUBS OPENS 1T
Boosts Roosevelt Candidacy in
His Newark Speech.
Things Are in an Awful Shape,
He Intimates.
SAYS PEOPLE NEED LEADER
EX-PreSident Greatest Since
LincOIn's Time.
'"Crisis" Seen by Kansas Exec
utiVe in the East.
SAYS PEOPLE NEED LEADER

Newark, N. J., March 2.-Roosevelt
supporters in New Jersey held the first
mass meeting of their campaign here
when an audience listened to speeches
by Governor w. r. Stubs, of Kansas,
and Ex-Governor j. Franklin Fort, of
New Jersey.
Governor Stubs talked progressive
ness in politics. Kansas had tried out
the idea of progreSSiveness in making
sound, decent business laws, he Sa1d
and it was the same kind of methods
that the progressives meant to apply 10
the national government under the
leadership of Roosevelt. The people, ne
was convinced, are beginning to learn
that there is something better tnan
dollars and cents.
TT is because Teddy Roosevelt is one
of the kind that has learned it,, con-
tinued Governor Stubs, that l hKe
him. He has a place in history that is
secure against the world and when the
grass is green above us all, the histori-
an will write one of the greatest things
in history when he writes about that
Columbus speech of RooseveltS. The
speech did not please Pierpont Morgan
and others, but it did please the man
who has to work for a living. Some
people have called that speech crazy
and denounced it as anarchy, but they
might just as well say the same thlnS
of expressions of Lincoln"
Former Governor Fort, in brlef
speech, lauded Colonel Roosevelt as the
greatest leader of the day and the man
who could unite the party and put 1t
where it once was.
Stubbs Sees ''Crisis."
Governor Stubs said in part:
MY friends, there have been three
great crises in our political history. The
first, when through revolutionary war,
we gained our independence OF Great
Britain. the second, when through civil
war Abraham Lincoln wrote in letters
rf LIGHT doctrine Of human ih6rtY.
the third, in which we are involved to-
day, and through which I firmly believe
we will achieve the real purpose of that
independence and that human liberty,
the economic freedom of the citizen. |
Behind these three great movements
lie the same undying principle which !
has ever been the human goal. Behind |
the separation of the colonies from the !
British crown was the purpose to Sc |
cure freedom from exploitation. Be |
hind the struggle for the preservation |
of the Union was the purpose to end |
slavery-the exploitation of members of |
the human family by other members.
Behind the present day movement is |
the purpose to prevent the exploitation |
of the American people by privilege.
Let it be understood here, that no /
one, least of all these identified with |
the progressive movement, is seeking TO |
deprive the honest business man of |
anything that is rightfully his.
Graft Eliminated in Kansas.
1--WE in the great middle west have |
watched you sympathe+ically for We. /
too, have been and are engaged in a |
like battle. I bring you a message /
of good cheer from comrades who have ,
become veterans in the strife. We prac-
tically have ended railroad domination
of our politics. To large extent we |
have ended the political influence of
corporations. We have eliminated graft !
T1l1h1fo and
have done and are doing, you, the peo
pie of New Jersey are doing. God
speed you on your way.
THE experience of New Jersey anG
Kansas is that of every state in the
Union. New England is feeling the
quickening of the public conscience and
giving it expression. The Pacific coast
states are removing the letters which
bound them in political bondage.
And that movement, gentlemen, ris-
ing from the people is not directed mere
Iy for the reform of the government
of the states but for the reform of the
government of the nation. 1t is couIi-
try wide movement, which is designed
to suppress privilege, to destroy mon
opoly harmful to the public good. You
have been shocked. as we of the west
have been shocked, by the evidence of
corruption in our national government.
You have read the appalling details of
the election Of Lorimer by the corrupt
ed legislature of Illinois. You have
been informed of the statement of Sen
ator stephens that his election to the
seat he occupies cost him $4,000. You
are now being dragged through TIE
sewer of Delaware politics. which
spewed into the senate Du Pont of the
powder trust fame.
He Sees Need of Leader.
1.-The American people today are
standing face to face with problems
that are so far-reaching in their ul-
innate consequence to the nation and
of as vital a character as the issues
which were solved in the days of
or Lincoln. There is i'm
perative need at this time of a great
leader who possesses genuine con-