The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-23

! all Democrats here this evening and
| it is just well that we should be
plain and that we should consider our
faults and shortcomings as well as our
| good qualities. Two years ago the
/ Democrats of Kansas had one of The
opportunities of lifetime. and had We
all performed our duties as Democrats,
| red hair would not have been as fash
| ionable in the state house Is it is to-
| day. In the last campaign the Demo-
Gratis of Kansas went before the peO-
| pie with a ticket from top to bottom
| that was clean, which was composed OF
men of sterling worth, honorable, up
right and capable. They deserved the
| undivided support of a united Democ-
racy which they did not get. You are
all familiar with that campaign, you
all know as well as l, that there is not
a single reason on earth why we should
not refer TO the senator from Olatne
as Governor Hodges.
THE greatest need of the Democracy
of the state of Kansas is cooperation
and organization, your chairman and
secretary of the state central committee
can not do it ali. Every county Should
have thorough organization, yes every
township and every voting precinct
should have q strong organization
Petty jealousies and personal ami
mositics should be relegated TO the rear.
get together, pull together and present
a united front. If you have personal
difference existing between your next
door Democratic neighbor and yourself
and you are unfriendly. and he doesn't
ike your style and you don't like his
shape go to him like man and tel
him about it, but for Gods sake don't
try to get even with him by voting the
Republican ticket.
". II. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Today.
1T has at last become respectable
to be a Democrat, even in Kansas
While the Democratic party in the
10 years of it's life has made less mis-
takes than the Republican party in the
so years of it's existence; YET, we are
more concerned with the Democracy
of today than we are with the Democ-
racy of the past.
THE Republicans charge US with
many sins; but in all our proud his
dency, nor have we ever robbed the
widows and orphans to create slush
fund to purchase that high office:
1T is as much of disgrace for
candidate for president to eXpend, by
himself or others $2O.00O,00O to Sc
cure election, as it is for a candidate
for the United States senate to ex-
pend 100000. Both should be equal
" subjected to full investigation before
being permitted to hold the Office. No
such expenditure can be honest or le-
Ultimate and the man who does 1t
should be disqualified from holding
the position he seeks, and certainly
ineligible for a third term. 1t is high
time to understand that American
manhood it not a mere commodity to
be bought and sold by corrupt parti- |
full except travelling expenses of public |
speakers, and necessary expenses in
advertising and distributing literature;
and ample provision should be made |
by law for this to be paid from the /
public treasury.
'sThe principal plank in the Demo |
cratic platform of today was first
written by the hand of God on tables !
of stone, amidst a cloud of smoke as
from a fiery furnace, on Mount Sinai, |
by the light of flashing lightnings ac-
companied by roaring thunders. when
the whole mount quaked. These words |
were given to Moses for the children |
of Israel: Thou shalt not steal!
Democracy of today offers this as the
param cunt issue for 1912!
1.-The Democratic party offers a solu-
ton of these questions in the interests
of the people as against the trust and
nonopolies which have grown up I'M
der Republican rule, fast reducing the
people to poverty, destroying their
homes and free institutions and
threatening the very life of the nation
itself. The Republican party stub
bornly resists this upon every hand, |
or makes conditions worse if it at
tempts to remedy them. The Demo- |
Gratis at the last session of congress
under the masterful leadership of
made the people, which placed them
in control of the house. The Republi- |
cans have broken every pledge made |
the people and have taken no steps |
today is entitled to the favorable con- |
sideration of the people?
The Democratic party is the party |
of the plain common people. God |
bless the common people. Lincoln |
said: Cod must have loved the common |
people for he made so many of them. |
The Democratic party is today as it |
always has been, the party Of the |
many as against the few; the party of
the poor man, the laboring man, the |
middle man, and even the rich man so /
long as he behaves himself and keeps |
his hands out of other peoples pock- |
cts. The Democratic party has no |
warfare against wealth honestly ac- |
quired: but its unceasing battle is
against the accumulation of great for |
tunes in the hands of the few so
manipulated as to deprive the many |
of the just product of their labor"
T. L. Bond-Dcmocrattc Opportunity. |
THE spirit of political unrest is (
abroad in the land. It stalks from sec
ton to section of our country-from
state to state-from mine to mine-from
factory to factory-from city to city
from farm to farm It's shadoWy form
hovers over counting room, mart and
school. It visits merchant and student,
preacher and layman. employer and Ia
borer, the learned and untutored. 1T
startles the satisfied and adds to the
unhappiness of the disconnected. It