The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-24
WIT AND LOGIC.
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Harlan waded at once into the issues
in Kansas. With the most scathiEg
! language +he Chicago man blistered
Stubbs, Dolley, the Kansas Progress
sive leaders and Roosevelt as the ChlcI
Bull Moose. Time after time ne was
INTERRUPTED by applause in his cool ard
candid handling of the Bull Moose IS
sue.
1.-THE party that attempts to build up
on deceit and Treachery. repels non 4st
men, declared Harlan. RooseVell ,
marty was in it's inception lie ana
died a borning. They hoped for Sic
cess in Kansas by stealing your cleo
tors But stealing has never oeeh
very popular or successlul III Na at.'=
even under Progressive adm1nlstrtl-
tiOns The man who steals your poch-
etbook while singing Onward CHRIS
tian Soldier is not recognized as thS
true advocate of honesty. mat sah 1'
man would steal the Republican parry
in kansas. He calls it Progress.
call if stea ling. What do you caIl II
Then Harlan paid his respect to the
crowds of curious ones VINO hearo lil9
Roosevelt speech.
~Roosevelt had a large crowd here
+bev tell me-" said Harlan, The had
large crowd in other states-so dlo
Ringlings' circus.
Again discussing Kansas polltlcs'
Harlan said: .
sThe burglar-even the gentleman
candidates who would stay on the Ike
publican ticket when they know they
belong to another party me man
who would steal your party emblem IL
infinitely lower and baser in the moral
scale than the man who would steal
vour nurse, though that man occupy
a governors mansion. The man VINO
as chairman of your state committee.
would sit on this platform in endorse
ment of these men and their methoos
is baser than the gentleman burglar.
Teach YOUR children to point the hnSe1
of scorn at such men. Ostracise them
Don't let your children play with then
children. Teach them to say. there
they go and to stay away from them
Reflection on Kansas Voters.
why when William Allen White
gave out his interview in which he said
the Taft people must be good or they
would have no chance to vote for their
choice for president, it reflected an
act of courage and virtue on the or
binary burglar as compared with the
man who would point gun at the
head of the men of the party.
II want to brand such men as these
and Roosevelt as moral thieves If the
leader does not command them, Thou
shall not steal 1 must denounce MN
as a thief and a hypocrite so long as
he refuses to pick these men off the
ticket and refuses to be interviewed
the matter
Then Harlan devoted his time tc
Roosevelt. He took the starch out OF
Roosevelts explanation of Perkins
contrite heart and penitent spirit when
he contributed $4,000 to the Roose-
Welt campaign fund.
Mr. Perkins and Mr.. Munsey are just
grub stalking Mr.. Roosevelt in this
campaign explained Harlan. Perkins
$50, 600 was given as the trustee of the
widows and orphans whose funds he
neld in trust He only demanded two
things in return for that grub stake
He asked the abandonment of the pro-
ceedings against the harvester trust
in 1906 for rebating and Roosevelt
called halt at Perkins request. Per-
kins demanded that suit be abandoned
and Roosevelt ordered the papers sent
to his office and the action held for
further orders-that never came. Not
until William Howard Taft became
president was the suit revived. Then
Mr. Perkins, through the persuasive in
huence of an Indictment, paid that $780,
900 back to the widows and orphans.
LAS a falsifier," said Harlan at an
other time, land a man who has brow
beaten and bulldozed the entire ma
ton, Roosevelt is without equal. He
is a man who has lied and defiantly
stood UP and branded others as liars. |
He is man who won't keep his word |
written or spoken
And Harlan proceeded to prove his
assertions IN the puDllc declarations OF /
Roosevelt in which he promised to |
carry out the Mckinley policies, an |
and wrote that he would new |
er accept a third term, won the New |
York gubernatorial election as the |
hero of San Juan, when he wasn't |
there: and produced untold imaginary |
correspondence to substantiate his
MANY claims.
Bede Is a Brilliant Orator.
1t was the clever wit j. Adam Bede
who dug under the Pull Moose move
ment and made the crowd at the Audi
torium roar with delight. 1t was Bede
who met the Roosevelt-Lincoln COM
PARSONS with a clash of records that
left the rough rider IN the discard. 1t
was Bede who gave the Kansas Re-
publicans the advice that if they
couldn't vote for real Republicans in
to make no mistake, but to
vote for the Democrats. 1t was Bede
who went back % years to find when
Roosevelt first learned that the Re
publican party was rotten and corrupt !
and helped the audience to discover
hat it was the afternoon of June %,
1912, when Roosevelt received the