The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
CHATTER LXxY.


| Colonel Roosevelt is said to have
made reply today to one of the numer-
Gus impertinent questions asked him:
4 am not discussing pipe dreams. "
Is it to be understood from this that
reference is made to the efforts of
Governor Stubs, William Allen White
and others to bring the ex-president
out into the race? AT any rate. that
is one of their dreams and the Colonel
is apparently not discussing it.
William Allen Whites leading edi-
torials in the Gazette last evening are
first upon The Ground-Hog." next
upon Arthur Cspper for Governor"
Then comes "Our Chief Failures and
lowed by No Chance for a Third
Party
We always claimed that White is
versatile and interesting This is the
second editorial upon "The Ground
Hog lately and the second of Febru-
airy is still many days off.
In regard to the mo Chance for a
Third Party Taft seems to be the
first and LaFonette the second. Who's
| third2
This is from the Gazette:
while We Oh the other hand, spend
our time and money educating boys
and girls to be president. Only one
boy in ten million becomes president
and no girl. But nevertheless we so
right ahead making presidents and
leaving the skilled trades untitled. We
should revise our educational system,
and educate children for life and not
to be president
All of which would indicate that Mr.
White is getting tired of trying TO
make presidents. only one boy in ten
million becomes president" anyway,
says he
This paper can subscribe to his terse
doctrine well expressed above We
should first revise our educational sys-
tenn, and educate children for life and
not to be president. That's the stuff.
We all talk too much ABOUT electing
presidents and give too little concern
to the great educational systems, plans
and work for life. This paper is with
the Gazette on the platform: Millions
for the youth to one for the president,
whoever he may be.
AS if it were not enough for the in
surgents to be all at sea and without
a leader in their own ranks. now comes
Golfers Weekly, in its last issue, prais-
ing Senator Aldrich. From expressions
that have come from Senator Bristow,
Kansas chief insurgent. the impression
has gone abroad that Senator Aldrich
is little less than a dragon, seeking
whom he may devour. and devouring
most of those whom he sought.
But now Golfers throws real con-
sternation into the confusion. In the
same issue Golfers announces that The
public library at Brookline, Mass.
Keeps out some of the more poison
Gus volumes Of Ida Tarben. Lincoln
Steffns, Ray Stanard Baker, and Will
liam Allen White" adding that tine
youth of our land must be protected"
The heading of the paragraph is, For
the funny column
In evident despair as to a candidate
our morning. contemporary, candidate
for governor. says that 1T is simply
up TO the party to make its choice.
then in another column significantly
calls Taft courageous
Putting all of these things together
what does it really signify? Does it
mean that after all it is a ground hog
case. that if the Republicans are go
ing to get together at all they will
have to take Courageous Taft2 And
that if they do not take him, the lead
er of the party. they at once admit the
charge of the Democracy that the
Republican party is no longer to be
trusted.
Perhaps some day the insurgents,
after houndering around little more,
will realize that it would be pretty
hard to elect Republican by stand
ing on a Democratic platform or de-
crying Republican leaders and Re
publican principles.
Here's the latest: in the Chicago
Record-H Herald quoting this news item:
William Allen White is out for Roose-
Welt:
The shades of night were falling fast
As through a Kansas village passed
A man who bore mid snow and ice
banner with the strange device
His brow was high his hair was thin,
He had an ample double chin;
He spoke in an emphatic way
And this is all he had to say:
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Try not that trick" an old man said.
But William Allen shook his head:
With mighty strength he flung aside
The old standpatter and replied:
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on. stay a maiden said. land rest
That noble head upon this breasti'
But Bill White was a married man.
And so he called back as he ran:
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a farmer called out from his ranch:
~ Ware the La Toilette avalanche
Back through the shadows of the night |
Came this from William Allen White.
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In Wall Street, when the morning broke, |
The brokers'. broking. sadly spoke.
And through the rumble and the roar
They seemed to humble Ger and Ger:
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