The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-29
Overwhelming Taft Sentiment
Expressed by Visitors.
President Is Entitled to Be Re-
nominated and Elected.
LOGIC OF SITUATION
Ex- Congressman Scott Raises a
Unique Point.
Convention Must Point tOA chiev
ments of Administration.
Prominent Republicans Tell
Where They Stand.

The indications today for an aver
age attendance at the Kansas Day
banquet tonight We're good. The old
timers in the political game came
early in large numbers and there is a
goodly sprinkling of young men from
all the eight congressional districts.
The men here today are for Taft for
president They believe he is entitled
70 second term on his record and
are for Taft win or lose. Only here
and there can an insurgent be found
IN the crowds milling in the hotel lob
b1es. The men who talk for publica-
ton on the presidency are for Taft on
! the principle that party precedent en-
titles him to a second term and that
his record is worthy of his party
preference.
4 regard the denomination of Pres
ldent Taft as inevitable" said Chas-
F. Scott of the lola Register. Not
larity of Colonel Roosevelt General
Grant was popular yet he was not
nominated for third term.
But the political logic Of the situa-
ton which will confront the Chicago
convention, even if there were no
question of the third term, will COM
pei Mr. Taft's nomination. in my
judgment Did you ever stop to think
of the kind of a platform that con
vention would write? Well, about
two-thirds of it will be taken up with
a recital of the achievements of the
Taft administration.
One after another of the pledges
made in the platform of 1908 will be
recalled in order to point with pride
to the fact that they have been fulfill
ed. The reforms instituted in the ad-
ministratoin of the various depart
'nents whereby millions of dollars have
been saved and the business Of the gov
ernment placed on a business basis OF
economy and efficiency will be cited.
The triumphs of the administration in
I he various and difficult diplomatic en-
ergencies which have arisen during the
past three years, whereby the domin-
ance of the United States at the coun-
Gil board of the nations has been again
and again made clear; the enormous
extension of our foreign trade, largely
through the efforts of reOrganized
diplomatic and consular service for
which this administration is response
BILE; the arbitration treaties. the longest
step ever taken in all history in the
direction of world peace; these are
some of the things the Chicago plat
form must contain no matter who is
nominated, and would it not be a sing
ular conclusion, ridiculous non Sc
quitur, an absurd anti-climax, if after
pointing with PRIDE through column
or more, to the splendid achievements
Of this administration the platform
should conclude with
THEREFORE,, we deem the man
who made this unparalleled record un-
worthy of further confidence and pre-
sent to the people of the United States
that Great Leader, that Fearless Cham
pion etc, etc.
Republican conventions have some
times done some rather unaccountable
things added Mr. Scott in conclusion,
.Hbut no one has ever been quite so
illogical and inconsistent as to nomi-
nate one man on another mans re-
cord
f. B. Jewett of Wichita is for Taft
all the time. It think Taft's stand for
universal peace entities him to the
support of Kansas" said Mr.. Jewett.
kansas is one of the Christian states
of the Union"
w. p Lambertson of Brown county, |
speaker pro tenn of the last house, is |
for Taft. Il am for Taft at this time''
said Lambertson. IF it Is found next
July that Taft cannot be elected, then
IL is time enough to talk of some one /
else for the nomination. To talk it now !
is merely playing to the hands of the j
Democrats
Mr.. Lambertson will be a candidate |
for the state senate this year. He de- |
clared that the Republicans in his sec
ton of the First district stand four to |
one for Judge Stuart for the congress |
sional nomination.
Fred Dumont Smith, of Hutchinson. !
is present. He brought his individual