The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-02
He STRIKES Note.
Court Decision on Electors. Case
ExciteS w. A. White.
He Sees Crisis and Chance to
Save Country.

Emporia, KAN Aug. Wv. A.
White, manager of the Roosevelt cam
paign committee in Kansas, said to-
day: ''The United States supreme
courts decision that the Roosevelt
electors legally may go upon the Re
publican ballot in Kansas, marks the
last failure of the machine crowd III
Kansas to make steam roller out OF
the American courts. Once in the dis
trict court of Harvey county, twice
in the supreme court of Kansas. once
in the supreme court of the Unfed
States. the haann4er and tongs OF me
machine men nave bounded off pow
erIess from tI4e<Attempti to transform
our courts into Instruments to prevent
the register of popular will. Instinct
lively it was the same kind or a ngAt
they made in the presidential contest
anything to keep the people from
having a voice in the party.
Like National Committee.
s'The Kansas crowd is like the ma
tioral crowd that run the steam roller
in Chicago-only there were engineers
in Chicago and Long and Curtis ana
MuIvane and the raS-tag of conser-
vatism in Kansas are the tram porters
and peanut butchers of the movement.
But they have used the same tactics
that the big fellows used. First, they
opposed the primary; next they tried to
cheat the people in the primary by run
ming in all the purchaSable votes, then
they packed the committee and stole
the convention and finally appealed 10
the courts to make the courts the
agents of the oligarchy that is trying 20
run this government. This olgarchy IS
run in the interests of the few, and the
kind of politics these peanut agents of
the steam roller are promoting is for
the few; always they are trying to keep
the control in a close corporation-the
convention, the committee or the
courts.
No Chance for People.
Never are they willing to give the
people a show. This control of the
many by the few in politics, is Part
of the plan to plumber the many by the
few in commerce, stealing conventions,
packing conventions, preventing pri-
mary laws, all costs money. That
monev is contributed by the big inter-
ests and is pinched out of the people
by numbering in rates and prices
legalized by the oligarchy of politics
These porters and news agents of the
steam roller are not working for glory.
They are working for their masters
and the Kansas end of the cew, Long,
Curtis, Mulvane and the rest, are part
of the big plan to run this country in
the interests of Wall street.
Kansas and Her Chance.
kansas now has a chance at them. |
Time and again Kansas has swatted
them-first Chester Long, then the
Standpat congreSSm en--now it is Cur
tiss turn and his electors who are
pledged to Taft. There is just one
more river to cross. Kansas should |
rise next Tuesday and hit that crowd |
so hard that forever after there will
be no question as to the sentiment of
Kansas
Don't worry about November. Now
is the time to strike.
zone blow from Kansas. disclosing
what a hollow empty shell the Taft |
claim to the peoples vote is, will hurt |
more than the loss of a dozen states
next fall. Kansas now has the oppor-
tunity to rebuke the theft of the Chi |
cago convention. Kansas has an op-
portunity to stand up and prove to |
America that Taft as a candidate of |
the Republican party is a soft fat
squashly, unpalatable and inedible joke |
An overwhelming Taft defeat next |
in the primary election will |
demonstrate tofothe country that the |
fight is between Roosevelt |
and Wilson, with the odds on Roose- |
welt, and relegates the steam roller
nomination of the Republican party ev- |
to the tin cans in the back /
alley of oblivion. Kansas now has her /
chance.
Opportunity of a Generation.
t'It is the opportunity of a generation. |
The Kansas farmer who goes to the |
primary Tuesday and votes for the |
Roosevelt electors win take more his |
tory with him and bring home more |
for his children than he ever /
loaded into his little old green wagon ]
before in all his life"
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