The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
TRAILING WILSON.
Senator Burton of Ohio Speaks in
Topeka This Evening.

Trailing Wilson as j. Adam Bede
and John NJ. Harlan are trailing
Roosevelt, Senator Theodore Burton
of Ohio, Will come to Topeka at
O'Clock this afternoon for an hours
sp eech at the Rock Island depot.
Burton will make but two stops in
Kansas. One at Norton, where he
spoke this morning. The other in
Topeka this afternoon. Tonight SEN
ator Burton speaks in Kansas City,
Mo.
The Burton special over the Rock
-ow Wilson. Wherever the Wilson
train goes, the Burton train is sent.
Burton will camp on Wilson's trail
until election day. 1t is charged by
Senator Burton, who is speaking in
the interests of President Taft, that
Wilson is lodging the tariff issue,
that he is for free trade and refused
to make clear his position. In Omaha
yesterday. Burton declared:
"On the tariff, Woodrow Wilson has
climbed into the middle of the prop
osition and crawled out at both ends
We cannot find where he truly
stands. We know that at heart he is
a free trader and would tear down
the tariff walls, burn the custom
houses, bankrupt the government and
paralyze business. l am confident
that the American people. business
men, laborers and farmers are enjoy
tng unusual prosperity today. Why
SnCuIC LlGy seek a CnanRS r!
Senator Burton is an orator of
more than ordinary ability and his
invasion of Kansas will probably
prove one of the real events of the
train on which he is travelling will
arrive in Topeka at o'clock He
will leave at o'clock for Kansas
City. The speakers aboard the train
include Senator Burton of Ohio and
Isaac M. Meekins of North Carolina !
Down in Chase county, the home of
State Printer W. G. Austin, there is |
a Taft club claiming 500 members en-
rolled from The 937 Republicans who ]
voted in the 1910 election. Last
week they held a meeting and passed |
some startling resolutions, in which |
the Bull Moose candidates generally |
were denounced and repudiated. Aus |
tins paper. the Chase County Leader,
did not speak kindly of the meeting
and referred to the members of the |
as radicals and reaction
aries. Now c. W. Bocock a member
of the league, reminds Austin that
some of the members of the organiza-
ton have been with the Republican
party since its birth and voted for
John G. Fremont Sc years ago. This
year, Bocock asserts, members of the
league will draw a loose line around
party fealty and swat every candidate
who is following the Roosevelt move
ment in Kansas. Chase county is in
the FOuTIn ulSlTlcL ana the cIuD pro-
poses to desert Stubs, Capper. Jack
son, Austin, Akers and all Progress
sive nominees on the Republican
ticket.
Political straw votes are always con-
spicuous the month before election.
Perhaps they do and Perhaps they
DO not signify conditions. But in the
office of the auditor of disbursements
in the Santa Fe offices, a straw vote
toll tor Mo I
draw your own conclusions. This is
the result of the vote on the three
presidential nominees: Wilson, At;
Taft, IA; Roosevelt, II.
Governor Marshall of Indiana will
make his second invasion of Kansas
this month. He is billed for two
speeches. The afternoon of October
hold a night meeting in Ottawa. Sen
ator James A. Reed of Missouri
speaks October 9 in Leavenw orth;
October 10 in Paola: and October IL
n Chanute. Governor R. B. Glenn of
North Carolina speaks today in Pitts
burg.
J. w. Bergman, an Ashland banker.
and former president of the STATE
Bankers association, is in Topeka to-
day He declared that Senator
Francis c. Price, of the Thirty-seventh
district, will be reelected by large
and will probably carry ev-
cry county in his district Price is
a Republican of the Regular Repub-
fcan stripe, was chairman of the jul
dietary committee and floor leader
for the Republicans in the 1911 ses-
sion.
Two days of the Mitchell County fair
at BeIoit were set aside for political
oratory. The first day was assigned
to the Republicans and United States
Senator J. L. Bristow, Farmer A. W.
Smith. J. 3. Dykes and J. A. Troutman
we're the speakers Congressman ]. D.
Young was in the crowd but was not
On the speaking program. George f.
Williams, of Boston, and =. r. Con- |
nelly, who is opposing Young in the