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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Irving to Disrupt Party.

Martins defeat for congress in the
Seventh district is said by some one
to be slap at Taft. How any sane
person can reach such conclusion
is iificult to understand. Martin was
a progressive and his platform was all
that the most radical could wish for.
1t was not against Taft, but, was a
slap against the alleged progressive
leaders of Kansas that have. Iabored
long and hard to disrupt the party in
the state.-Lindsborg Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Taft viii Re Nominee.

The sentiment Of the west is very
generally for Roosevelt and were it
possible to nominate him it is probable
he could be elected over any man the
democrats could name. The sentiment
of the east is not for Mr.. Roosevelt
at this time and the Saturday Evening
Post indicates that Mr.. Taft will be the
nominee and pretty nearly proves it.
Anthony Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
A Big Volume of Record.

One trouble with Taft is that his ad-
ministration is not indexed. There is
no summary of it. The public has no
time to wade through the big volume
of the record. In consequence it does
not know what is going on. Every ad-
ministration needs an index Some call
it a press agent.-Lawrence Journal
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
LaFoIlette Should Support Taft.

If Senator I4aFollette were a real
progressive Republican, he would be
backing up President Taft III his fight
for honest progress, and aiding in his
defense against the powerful and sell
fish interests who seek the destruction
of the president because of his service
to the people.-Fort Scott Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
NIurdock and NIadison Wore for Taft

Both Murdoch and the late Ed. Madi-
son We're for Taft for second term, the
rest of the insurgent leaders are OPP
posed to him because he would not give
them enough of the political pie Con-
gresham Murdoch is the most pro-
gressive Republican in this state He
lower than Stubs, Bristow or White,
and yet he is not one of their crowd
Why? Because he does not approve of
their kind of surgency.-Lincoln Sen
finel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Everything Points to Taft.

Stubs based his hope on being able
to stampede the state for LaFollette.
But whatever sentiment existed in
Kansas for the Wisconsin man has
about fizzled out and Stubs must
make his fight on other lines. Every
thing points at present to a Taft dele
cation from Kansas.-St. John Week
ly News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Roosevelt Not Certai nof Elect,

Roosevelt Not Certai noR Election.
1t is by no means certain that Roose-
welt could be elected if nominated. Taft
is accomplishing far more than Roose-
welt did in actual working out of ad-
ninistration problems, and is in the
midst of a complete reformation which
will mean millions saved and greater eff
policy means the lifting of a tremend-
Gus burden Of expense from the nation.
-Hiawatha World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
HOPES to Defeat Taft.

Incidentally, Pinchot is supposed to
have been chiefly instrumental in fin
ancing the campaign that was launched
many moons ago in the interest of La
Toilette.
Pinchot probably had sense enough
from the first to know that he could
not nominate LaFoIlette. but he hoped
to defeat Taft He still hopes to do
that.-F,t. Scott Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

The night ON Tart IS 50 unfair that
every man who has been treated I'M
fairly. and every man has been treated
unfairly, should resent it and stand by
Taft And if men will do that Taft
will be the next president. Hiawatha
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

Senator Brady of the Lawrence Jour
nal-WOrld insists that President Taft
IS the greatest president since the
war.''-F't. Scott Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
TAFT a Good President

Mr.. Taft has made the best Pres
ident this nation has had in half a
century Although he may not be as
popular as the colonel he will not
be turned down unless he withdraws.
Pratt Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Is 1t a Vehicle?

We greatly imag ined that progressive
RepubIicanism was organized to GUST
Joe Cannon, but we find that it is
merely a vehicle for certain d'scon-
tented and otherwise helpless politi-
clans to ride or attempt to ride into
office.-BeaVer Valley Booster.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Roosevelt win support Taft.

instead of clarifying the political wat
ers, has added to their murkiness.
Away back east, according to a num-
Der of the magazines. 1t is understood
that Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft have a
secret understanding and when the
time ripens, the ex president will de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
How Not to Win.


The Republican party cannot win by
attacking Republican measures ana
Republican leaders and by trying 10
steal the other fellows platform
That is the lesson" of the election In
the Seventh district. Or rather the re-
suit in the Seventh district simply en-
phasized -ot of other lessons to the
same effect which have been admins
tered to the Republican party during
the past two years and half
1t may be possible to revolutionize
the Republican party, to discredit its
legislation, to destroy those who have
been its trusted leaders and to make it
declare for principles which it has here
tofore pronounced to be vicious and I'M
sound. But when that is done it viii
not make the least difference what the
party does or processes or who its lead
ers are, for 1t will be so hopelessly out
OF power that none of these things will
be of the slightest consequence.-Iola
Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

President Taft has done his best to
get along with the progressives. He
has appointed many of them to office.
He has recognized them as being Re
publicans. He has recognized their
views and has adopted many Of them
There is no reason for deserving him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Not RooseveIt's Real FI-iends

The Lawrence Journal World quotes
a lady visitor who has been visiting in
the family of Congressman Jackson at
Washington for weeks, who says:
There is very little talk in Wash
ington about Roosevelt for president
When the Republicans there discuss
the matter. the burden of their talk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

Roosevelt is the man who made Taft
vouched for him, stood by him, and the
man who will again be for him.-New-
ton Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

If Roosevelt had headed off a revo-
luton in Cuba by a quiet ultimatum
at the psychological moment we would
brag about It for months If not years
When Taft does something big we ac-
cept it as a matter of course and forget
about it quickly--Sioux City Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
The Presidents COURAGE.

Mr. Taft says it takes courage to ad-
NIT, to declare, that all people are not
ut for popular government, but that
ne mas OF course here will come an
other attack; but the preside emit is rigl1t
and being right never hurts in the end
Garden City Telegram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

William H. Taft has made a good
President and the people of the United
States could not do better than renom-
mate and reflect him.-OIathe Mirror.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

he was on earth. And Roosevelt won't
run and La Toilette can't run, so why
to pile up a big majority for TAFT
Eskridge Tribune-Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Unwise Friends or Enemies?

Those who are attempting to get a posi-
i've statement out of Colonel Roosevelt
are either his enemies or his unwise
friends Colonel Roosevelt stated re-
peatedly that he is not a candidate for
president He Is not. II the people insist
II Is their own affair. Furthermore II he
announces as even receptive candidate Il
would at once give rise to the charge that
ne was seeking to make this country a
monarchy. OF course a charge would not
hurt much In this enlightened age but
we find considerable honest sentiment
against third term. Roosevelt must be
drafted, not nominated at HIS own sur-
acknowledgements Journal-World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Not Easy to Stampede.

At last accounts the Hon. Joe DolIey
of Kansas, who is on record as favor
ing Taft, had not been jolted loose by
the Roosevelt disturbance Perhaps
Dolley is not an easy man to stam-
pede--Kansas City Journal
Mr.. Dolley is not the kind of
statesman who is apt to be carried
away in political wave, but he is of
the sort who is staunch and true and
always stands by his friends in a loval
fashion.-Eslkridg Tribune-Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
FOR TAFT
Taft Is Practical.

OF course it will make no difference
in the end nor does it make any now
A great many people are going wild
over Teddy and denouncing Taft ana
yet the public records show that in the
three years of Taft's administration
there have been written on the statute
books more laws demanded by the peo-
pie than in the seven years OF Roose-
velt's administration - Kinsley Mer-
CurY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Party Judged by Taft Adminisfration


The Republican opponents of Presi-
dent Taft are evidently getting des-
perate. First they made Senator Ia
FoIlette their candidate and when his
boom fixed a good part of them
turned to Roosevelt, and when he de-
cllned to give them comfort they spIir
off another faction for Senator CHM
Minis In Wisconsin they will be for
!4aFollette, in Kansas for Roosevelt.
in Iowa for Cummins. And now If
they can get the Wall street end of
their alliance to run a candidate IN
New Y ork they have their campaien
plan well determined.
The Republican party is going to be
judged by the record Of the Taft ad-
mtnistration The thoughtless Repub-
lican who has been induced by his fac
tional leader to be against Taft had
better be taking a tumble to the situa-
ton. Taft is making good and if you
try to sum UP argument against him
from a Republican standpoint you lust
can't 10 it.
II is all right for Republicans to be
enthusiastic for their preferred can
didate. but they had better go slow on
abusing the rest. One of the others
will probably be nominated.=Hutch- |
lnsOn News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

Results OF Taft and Roosevelt same.
The actual accomplishments OF Taft and
roosevelt are much the same.-Ottawa
Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

The Jewell Republican says: Taft
has made a good president. He ought
to be re-elected.-Cawker City Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Taft,s Gigantic Work.

And remember this as you go along,
it was William Howard Taft who as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
TAFT Always RooseveIt's CIloice.

Stubs, Bristow, Capper & CO. attack
that noble Republican. William Howard
Taft, without cause. Taft is the greatest
statesman this country ever had. He is
a pure ana honest man. During the
Roosevelt administration. Taft was al
ways the choice OF Roosevelt as his right
hand man when he had very important
mission to perform. Why2 Because
Roosevelt valued Taft's statesmanship
and admired his honesty OF purpose and
ability--Meade Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26

Taft,s WONDERFUL Achievements.

The Clippers preference is Taft
Soldier Clipper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Taft Not satisfied Everybody

OF course, President Taft has not salts
fled everybody, Neither did Jesus when
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Nothing Valid Against Taft.

An eastern editorial that came I'M
der our notice recently, not particular
ly antagonistic to the president, COM
planned nevertheless that Mr.. Taft,
while conceded to be honest, sincere
and able was mot a politician
That he talked too much and wrote
too much and was hasty in forming
his conclusions
This later arraignment is the most
unkind cut of all. Think of the presi-
dent Immediately following our de-
Iightful Colonel Roosevelt, being
charged with talking too much and
writing too much and being hasty in
his conclusions"
The situation with a lot of weak
kneed editors over the country is.
they have nothing valid to urge
against Mr.. Taft. but because it is the
fashion, they feel called upon to say
something condemnatory of his admin
istration.
Furthermore. he is too honest,
frank and straightforward to make
first class politician, like almost any
insurgent of prominence.
Mr.. Taft has sounded the depths,
when he falls of being a politician
when he talks too much, writes too
much and is hasty in his conclusions.
FIT Scott Republican
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
Taft Is Progressive IAN Right

Do YOU think the Taft administration
progressive? If twenty-five years ago
the attorney general had been engaged
in trust busting. jumping onto Stand
ard Oil and the Steel Trust, and trying
to send the plutocrats to jail, If the In
terstate Commerce Commission had
been refusing to permit railroads to
raise their rates at will, if the secre-
tarv of the state had been engaged in
making peace treaties with all the
world. If the secretary of agriculture
had had the men in his department
preventing the adulterating of food and
requiring the labelling of medicine and
putting the fellows in jail who poisoned
food, and if the secretary of the in
terror had advocated the building of
government railroad and government
control of forests and mines. and if the
postmaster general had advocated the
ownership of telegraphs by the post
office department, if all this had been
happening a quarter of q century ago,
we folks even out here in Kansas,
would have declared that the whole
government had gone populistic, that it
was just a lot of freaks who were run
ming the government and that they
would run the thing into the ground
and drive business off the earth. Yet
these are the things that a cabinet, |
said to be strongly stand-pat, is doing |
right along Talk about progress, when |
contrasts are made, this government is |
progressing fast enough to make your
head swim.-Manhattan Mercury.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-26
Clever Eat Men.

1t is frequently averred that fat is
deadening to the brain, and conse-
quently a foe to intellectual activity.
But is this so? Some of the greatest
men the world has ever known were
plump even to obesity.
Napoleon was decidedly embonpoint.
DIR, Johnson was fleshy even to fiabbi-
ness. So was his biographical shad-
ow, Boswell Balzac, the great French
novelist, was so stout that it was a
days exercise to walk around him.
and he was encircled with bandages
as II he were a hogshead Rossini, the
composer. was regular Jumbo, since
for six years he never saw his knees.
Jules Janin, the prince of critics,
broke every sofa he ever sat down
upon. Lablanche, the great singer,
was charged three fares when ne trav-
eled. Dumas pere was stout, and
Sainte-Beuve carried the stomach of a
Falstaff. Eugene Sue had such aver
sion to his growing corpulency that
he drank vinegar to keep 1t down. and
yet he wrote The Wandering jew"
A man Is not necessarily fat-witted
because be has boundless stomach.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-26
Blow at Suicides.

"A pet monkey that I shipped up
town this morning was bound on a
most unusual mission for monkey" !"
said an animal dealer.
HE was bought by woman who
runs 4 furnished room house in which
three persons have killed themselves
with gas recently. Those suicides have
upset her nerves. Now she is going
to Try the same preventive means
adopted by three Of her friends.
They too. keep roomegs. Also
they keep monkeys There have been
several attempts at snlcide Il their
houses. bat they have always been
frustrated By the monkeys, WHO have
smelIed gas and set up such a chat.
teging thai they woke everybody up.
Monkeys are extremely sensitive
70 the oder OF gas. This customer Of
r1ine hores TO utilize hers as a new
kind Of life preserver. -PhHadelphls
Record
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-26
HER SHARE or THE BUREAU
Girl Visitors Idea Of a Division
Seemed to Be to Take All the
Space You Could Get.

"A friend came to visit me last
week." said the Girl Flapper, "and as
there Is only one bureau / told her |
would have to share It with her. So
| pushed my things out of the way
and she began to unpack. This is
what she put out:
"a bottle of spirits of camphor, a
bottle OF camphor water and boracic
acid that she nsas 'or her eyes, a
bottle of witch aazei, mother Of ben
zoln, a box Of iSce nQwder and tin
OF talcum powder, makeup box,
sixteen Ivory toilet things, four Ste
venson texts In frames, an atomizer,
bottle OF ammonia, another of oil
of pennyroyal for mosquitoes, nine
hatpins. a sewing bag. jewelry box,
some perfumery and an alcohol lamp.
Now, III unpack my bathroom
things she said. and she took out
three sponges. large. medium and
small; a rubber bath glove, bottle
OF liquid soap and four kinds Of tooth
powders and mouth washes. patent
exereiser, a bathrobe and slippers, an
antiseptic bathbrush, a rubber spray,
a thermometer and a whiskbroom.
Then she borrowed my button
hook"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-26

nonesnt il seem that some over
sealousfrieads of Champ Clark are
making themselves appear foolish ii
their fight on Mr. Bryan as Chautau-
qua program lecturer
Up in Pike county. for instance. the
Nehraskan Was billed for the Chau-
tauaua and yesterday the date was
because OF the protests and
the fact that persons had gone through
the county and tore down the posters
bearing his picture.
Such actions can hardly be expected
10 hurt Mr. Bryan. They do serve
however to keep alive the feeling
among the Clark men that Bryan de-
geatod their candidate It i like !
small hay getting whipped and rehs
ing 70 forget it AIR Bryan IS no;
growing the convention Is over the
result cannot be changed Mr Glars
is big enough not to De small why
not his grtendss II they cant forgive
WHY not a. least gorsete And If thoy
can't seues Why keen theie wounds
fresh oaa bleeding hy laelr owr
knives -lQplia Gloas
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-26
poor AS 4 CHURCH MOUSE
Since Confetti Came Into Use, the
Saying Has More Meaning Than
at Former Times.

The sexton OF fashionable New
York church was sweeping into a
large mound the bright purple, red
and yellow discs OF confetti which lit
tered the church entrance and steps.
This month";" he said, 4 have had
already 35 weddings in my church.
And at every one OF these weddings
paper confetti was thrown at the
bride instead of rice.
"The confetti fashion is very well
come TO us sections. When rice was
used our churches were overrun with
mice. The. saying, AS poor as a
church mouse, was then meaningless.
Why. In my church. where weddings
are so popular. several hundreds Of
mice -fat chaps they were, too
found an ample food supply In the
rice that was sprlnkled over the
brides.
Now that lice has been aban-
doned for paper confetti, these mice
have all disappeared. They were
starved out. They couldn't live on
paper"
Bending with difficulty to collect a
few obstinate pieces of the bright pa
per confetti that stuck TO the floor.
the old sexton added:
"of course, these bits of paper are
much more awkward for me to sweep
up than rice, But, even so, hope the
confetti fashion has come to stay"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-26
THE ALSO RAMS.

| doif my hat TO the famous men,
who'ye won to the top with the brush
or pom, who bask IA the sun and thrive;
but ais / watch them frolickiug BY !
shed a tear and heave sigh for the
fellows who don't arrive SO many
droamers have dreamed Ia vain, so
many bosoms are full OF pain and
grief In this human hive? So many
started with hopes sublime but the
ladder broke when they tried to climb,
and the fellows did not arrive see
great thinkers and gifted bards
a.sweatlng around in the railway
yards, and pity them as they strive;
they too had dreams OF the deathless
bays, and they wrote their prose or
enchanting lays, but somehow did not
arrive There are Millions reaping the
farmers crop, and down ia the village
hlaCksmith's shop I've counted some
four or five; their souls are full OF the
singers fire, they scorn the forge and
they love tho Tyre, but somehaw they
don't arrive Alas, alas, for the souls
that yearn, for those who must from
their visions turn, and into atiillction
dive' Alas for those who would trot
along the glowing peaks of the hills
OF song. aud simply cannot rriye'
Walt Mason
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-26
surprise Boxes in SHARK stomnohs.

Surprise Boxes In Shark Stomachs.
Fishermen In the Caribbean sea re-
Gently found in the stomach of shark
which they had killed good sized
bottle in which was half-decipher-
able letter from a shipwreeked sailor
Many such relics have been found. In
cne case lady's bracelet was found
in state of perfect preservation, to-
gether with silver spoon and thou
sand Spanish reals in money. The
curious feature of the finding OF the
money was that 1t was In an official
receptacle lost In the city OF Spanish
Town (Jamaica) during a negro upris
ing in the seventeenth century. Where
had it been meantime? Surely not In
the sharks stomach. unless the shark
lives a much longer time Tor some of
them1 than science has any reason to
suppose possible. On the other hand,
Il in the sea Il would have been rem
dered unrecognlzable in a few weeks.
Had It been in the possession of some
one shipwrecked, why had 1t been left
intactg The conclusion was newt
able that the shark must have fished
Il our istm a compartment of some
tong-ssnnsrged vessel Harper's
Weetg$
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-26

THE humane instinct will accurded.
" continue to develop And Il should
be observed that to advocate the
rights of animals is far more than to
plead for compassion or justive to-
wards the victims of ill.usage; il is
not only, and not primarily, for the
sake OF the victims that we plead, but
for the sake of mankind itself Our
true civilization, our race progress.
our humanity lin the best sense Of
the terml are concerned In this deyelp-
ment; it Is ourselves, our own vital
instincts that we wrong when We
tromple on the rights Of the fellow be-
mgs, human or animal over whom we
chance d hold jurisdiction Henry
S. Salt.
Ignorance and want or thought are
the prlaelpal causes Of cruelty to ami.
mails
The remedy is instruction in their
nature needs and capacity
Humane Societies can greatly in
crease their usefulness by distributing
literature giving such information
1t is better to educate than to prose
cute.