The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-20

nlanship.
The previous question had been set
tied by the chairman'S decision, duly
announced through the megaphone.
Good lawyers do not continue to
argue case after the judge has given
his decision.
1t was very plain that if Heney had
had his way, not only would the de-
CiSion have been recalled, but the
chairman as we'll.
But solid line of police were cir
cling Heney, and back of him stood
Sergeant-at-Arm Stone-and all the
time Rosewater calmly looked off in
to space in a tired way.
Not creating quite enough excite
ment, Mr.. Heney began to center his
shot on individuals.
Stevenson of Colorado, was down in
front of him. THE difference be-
tween you and Abe Ruef," said Heney
shaking his trigger finger at Steven
son, lis that Abe Ruef is in the pen
itentiary and you should be-
Then Mr.. Heney explained that it
was he who placed Abe Ruef in the
penitentiary which was an intima-
ton that Mr.. Stevenson would yet go
the same route, on Mr.. Heney's initia-
tive
The vast audience guffawed, then
Kissed and groaned in disapproval.
Heney folded his arms and took the
attitude of perfect blissful peace.
He grinned and the grin sat upon
his face like plaster paris cast of
Cheshire cat. Such grins are not be-
coming. There is no fluidity of spirit
behind them. The grin did not token
the smile of content, of peace and
good will. 1t was the very antithe-
sis. 1t reflected the spirit of hate
incarnate.
The audience was one vast roar of
disapproval. Heney stood with folded
arms and the geologic grin. However,
he at last weakened, and turned to
h. ol,o
The chairman took one hand off the
steering gear long enough to motion
to Sergeant-at-Arms Stone, and then
he whispered something to him.
The sergeant-at-aFms moved for
ward to the edge of the platform and
sent out the message, clear, shrill,
sharp and distinct to the audience,
through the megaphone, as follows:
The chair orders me to say that
the speaker must be given a respect
full hearing. Delegates or visitors who
insist on interrupting the speaker and
not giving him a respectful hearing
will be elected from the hall"
1t was a rebuke9 to the speaker SO
subtle that he certainly never saw it,
it changed the wave of dis
approval to a ripple of laughter.
The chairman's order, being inter
preted, was that a man making a dis
respectful speech should be given a
respectful hearing.
Happily, TINS scene occurred among
people descended from the NorSemen
and the Teutonic tribes and not from
the oriental latin races, otherwise to-
day this city of Chicago would be de-
vastated by a mob and the lamp posts
would be doing double duty.
Heney has not even forgiven Abe
Ruef. The editor of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, who had more to do
with sending Abe Ruef to the peni-
Tertiary than any one influence. is
now petitioning for Ruef's release.
But Heney is still attorney for the
prosecution.
Abe Ruef is in San Quentin, where
he was sent two years ago, taking
the VOW of chastity, poverty and ODE
dience. The man is subdued, whipped
out, undone. sr
And what shall we say of spirit
that still trails and follows him?
Isn't it hate gone to seed? Isn't it
righteous wrath that has reached the |
point of diminishing returns and now
become the thing that 1t denounces? /
we hate, and every epithet that we
apply to another fits ourselves best. -
The Republican party is rent and |
torn in tatters by this spirit of hate. |
HadIey a Commanding Figure.
Hadley is a commanding figure, |
and if dark horses had been on exhi- |
bition in the ring, he would have |
Missouri hen and the Missouri mule |
10 not compose the total assets of the |
state that demands visual demonstra-
lion.
Missouris best crop is its men and
women.
Hadley is a fine type of man. But |
t is apparent to some that he is
slightly ashamed of the company that
ne is just now in. He is too big a
nan to take orders from Oyster Bay.
The man who best represents the
spirit is Francis J.
yuage of keen kutter kazooks, and
,lings it with bullseye precision.
The mental attitude of these men
s the same. They hate so thorough
~ it full to the point of saturation
With ptomaines of contempt and the |.
-irus of violence.
Roosevelt for president and Heney
'or vice president would make a won
ierful team. Already, this double-dis- |
cred and torn the Republican party to
alters.
Get enough hate diffused through the
lation and the United States of Amer.
ca would live only in the history of
hingS that were.
And on the ruins of a republic q |
dictatorship would rear its turreted
lead and it's loopholes would look out
It a land drenched with the blood Of
,rothers. When the professional co.,
Iueror conquers, red ruin is hammer
ng at the gates.
And afar on the horizon a buzzard
oars and sails, and sails and scars.
oming nearer, nearer.
Hate means distraction, disintegra- |
ion, dissipation, defeat and death.
Builds New Grocery.
w. L. Osbrone, the pioneer grocer
ha Il