The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-02
CHAPTER XCVu.

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more than tempest in a teapot
| The indications are that when the
| prodigal governor returns to his home
state he will realize that wonderful
and sudden change has come over it;
| that his people have been schooled
against a third term; have been dis
posed to recognize good works by en-
| dorsement in the usual way; that is.
of granting a second term to one who
has fulfilled the pldeges and carried
out the promises made at the begin
ming of his first term.
The governor may imagine as he
swings around the circle in New Jer
sey that he is the harbinger of vic
tory for the man who has been mis-
led by him and the six others WING
constitute his board Of managers.
As a herald, or avant courier of this
sort, Governor Stubs may be liken-
ed unto todays sweeping and all
covering snowstorm as harbinger
of spring.
We dislike to use the expression,
but we can think of none other so
good as to class the Seven Governors
and some of their associates like Col
onel Nelson and Pinchot and Gar
field as political pirates. For they
are surely endeavoring to scuttle the
political ship of state. Three years
ago, these same people and the man
whom they have misled into being
their leader gave the Captain of the
Ship, William Howard Taft, specific
orders as the officer in command.
These orders were definite and speci-
fic. They were in the form of a po-
LOT Il, io1,
to contain the combined wisdom of
those who issued the instructions.
Captain Taft has followed their in
structions to the letter. He has gone
further in obeying his instructions by
taking better care lin more economi-
cal expenditure of fuel and power, in
taking the ship through the channels
of trade and good citizenship and into
harbOrs of safety and commerce.
Governor Stubs and all know that
President Taft has obeyed their or
ders, and accomplished results re-
markable. If their present conduct
is not an attempt to scuttle the ship,
and to place themselves under the
category of political pirates, what can
be their classification
we trust the reader will follow Gov
ernor Stubbs' speech of last night at
Newark as it is printed in full in an
other colmR of this paper and dwell
particularly upon some of the absurd
assertions that Our Governor is max
ing away from home.
He tells the New Jersey people that |
the country today is in the throes of a |
terrible crisis; second to only two 9th |
er great crises in the history of the |
United States, that of the Revolutiona1 q |
War and of the Civil War Absolutely |
absurd.
The governor himself cannot believe |
this for the echoes of his voice have
hardly died away in speeches in which |
he extolled Kansas and her great pros
perity.
He says today in New Jersey that
I'VE do not enjoy that Observance of
human rights nor possess that equality
of opportunity which are essential for
the general happiness and the general
prosperity of a free people,
And yet, at another time. when he
is not talking for Roosevelt and third
term, he tells Kansas and all who will
listen of our great happiness and pros
f
tanned during the successful admins
trations of President Taft and Governor
Stubs himself.
Behind the present day movement
is the purpose to prevent the expIoita-
ton of the American people by priv
iIege.'
If he means by present day move
ment' the successful movements of
Gn11f Tot
entrenched, he is correct.
1--WE are fighting the dishonest capi-
talist, the dishonest lawyer, the dis
honest professional man, the dishon-
est farmer, the dishonest laborer."
Well, Governor Stubs and Colonel
Roosevelt have no monopoly in that
fight, because President Taft is carry
ing on a successful fight in the same
direction. While Governor Stubs is
about it, Taft is doing it.
81 bring you a message from the
plains OF Kansas, a message of good
cheer from comrades who have be-
come veterans in the strife. We prac-
tically have ended railroad domination
of our politics. To a large extent we
have ended the political influence of
We have eliminated
graft from our public Offices"
Well. Taft is doing these things to-
day in the nation. Why don't you
uphold his hands and pull with him.
instead of futilely against him-and
for what purpose?
1.-The nation will not soon forget the
by Roosevelt of the anthra-
cite strike, one of the greatest indus
trial disturbances of modern times
without employing a single soldier or
a single drop of blood. 1t
cannot soon forget the magical infIu-
ence he welded in securing peace be-