The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
WHAT OTHERS SAY.

ExC6rpIS from the EDITORIAL OplulOuS
OF several of the prominent newspa-
pers of the country on the renomina-
ton of President Taft and the boiling
of Colonel Roosevelt from the Repub-
lican party, make exceedingly inter-
esting reading just now and especially
in Kansas where Governor Stubbs is
swinging his arms and declaring that
Colonel Roosevelt will sweep the coun-
try next fall and be the next president
of the United States. They follow:
PARTY IS ALL RIGHT.
Whatever Mr.. Roosevelt may do. the
party is all right. The sane manage
ment of the convention has gone IKE
an arrow to the mark of keeping the
party true to its ideals The outcome
of the present crisis must be ne
Strengthening of Republican principles
and the furthering of the forces of the
party to the end of better service ana
more q~uickened perception of the
work that it can do for all the people.
Baltimore American.
SAME OLD PARTY AND PEOPLE.
The Republican party is still the
party of all the people. 1t is true that
in the solid south a Democratic vote
has been cast with continuity since the
days of reconstruction; but the RepuD-
lican party has legislated for north and
south, and for east and west. with I'M
partial justice. And, IL the people
south of Mason and Dixon's line were
to vote as they feel, and tc support the
party in whose principles most of them
believe, many of the u states
would go Republican next November.
Today the Republican party is the par
ty which has to offer real. vital, pro-
gressive legislation in the cause of the
wage earners of the United States
Boston Advertiser.
CLEAR PATH AHEAD.
The completed work of the Repub-
lican national convention will COM
mend itself to sober, thinking people.
BY reason of the sanity of the onven
TONS conclusions the party of achieve
ment remains the same as from its
foundation, the party of orderly prog
ress, holding fast that which is good,
moving forward seeinsly n not
bIindly, choosing it's steps with care
that at each advance it's feet may be
planted on solid ground.-Pittsburg
Gazette-Times.
WHY NOT 'L'ETAT, C'EST MOTT"
The new pro-Theodore party is
searching for a name. Let the name
be significant of the meaning and aim
of the organization. Wherefore not the
Napoleonic party? That is, if the
.third-term candidate does not desire to
satisfy his egotism with naming 1t for
himself. With it the colonel can nave
his own party Away at his behest
He will serve as its be-an and end-alL
He will be distinctly "it." He can take
it in the corner and play with it. He
may echo Louis XIV.'s words, "L'Etat,
c'est Moi" It will distract his atten-
ton from other things, and the country
can go its way calmly, honestly, re-
joicing. By all means let us encourage
the third-term candidate in his plans
for a persona11y-conducted party
Philadelphia Telegraph.
CRISIS PASSED.
Another crisis in the history of the
Republican party has been met, with
the result that the party remains and
crisis Once more the
flag waves in decisive
triumph over menacing and sinister
forces. The action leading up to Presi-
dent Taft's denomination was such as
to maintain a party spirit and traul-
ton, its forms of organization and Its
effectiveness for future public service,
against one of the most terrific assaults
Republicanism has ever been called TO
face. In the defeat of Colonel Roose-
welt, and his Wanting ambition to
make himself a party dictator, the
''only mar in sight" for the declaration
of it's purposes and the formation CT
its policies, there was defeated an
effort to grasp the organization and
make it subservient to the will Of a
whose real sympathies and asso-
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generalities about popular rights and
were open to serious question.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
AND PLAY OF ROOSEVELT.
MI. Roosevelt has given ample evil
dence that his faith in himself is with
out limit; that no matter wha he may
the people will rally to him in suffi-
Gent lumber to elect him. His re-
lection by the Republican party's con-
has not weakened that faith.
And so he is a candidate standing ON a
platform of his own and determined 10
rule or ruin.
Well, we do not believe that he is
destined to rule. Surely, large num-
hers of those who have been following
him can do so no longer now that ne
has become practically an assistant
Democrat. He will have his fling. He
will carve for himself a most unenvi-
able niche in history. He will be known
the American citizen who did his
utmos to destroy the wise custom that
a president to two terms, and the
record that will be remembered long
all else is forgotten concerning
him will be that of a man who de-
himself through an egot'sm
that closed his eyes to all save his own
self-importance. - Philadelphia In
qEirer.