The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
THE new PARTY.
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%sThey had Peter the Hermit, Rich
ard the Lion Hearted. We have lead
ers no less great than Teddy the Pro
team. Roscoe the Fearless and Jane
the Righteous of Chicago, and William
the Fat and Henry the Go Get EN-.
This world old war between the
progressive and the reactionary
reaches from primal days to Uncle
Joe Cannon, and in the struggle the
gods have ever been with us. We
have moved on from point to point IN
sn ever charging democracy until to-
day we have made the discovery be-
side which all others pale into 1nsig-
nificance, the discovery of the COM
mon man. in the generic sense again,
Tor the charging includes woman at
the last of the hurdle.
Probably the first lady suffraGette,
in her cave, when seized by the for
ward cosnic urge, was summary
seized by her cave mate by the hair
of her head, not the $3.50 marked
down variety at Mills, but the God
given hair of her head. and expedited
on her journey toward her heavenly
home with a club.
@Gh, that we might return to the
JOY and the fuIlness of those prini-
tive domestic days, as prated by the
ants, ere the home was wrecked and
the fireside deserted in the unwar-
ranted naught availeth search for cit
izenship. But why speak of suffra-
now. L believe there are two men in
the state who admit they voted against
it. All honor to the honesty and
courage of these lone Iorn men, One
halls from good old Wyandotte, the
other from the foreign port of Hays.
Their initials are respectively w. w.
Rose, who is an aspirant for-on,
we'll it doesn't matter what There
are only three classes in that haili-
wick, excepting the Progressives, who
speak q language alien to the native
tongue at the mouth of the kaw; the
aforementioned classes are the ex as
pirant, the aspirant and the aspirant
TO be.
1.-The other shining example, whom
Diogenes sought and nourned be
cause he found him not, is Miles
9TuIroy You see where Diogenes
made his mistake; he didn't suspect.
naturally, that the temple of truth
rested in the bosom of a Democrat.
And what of this new power merg-
ing on the world horizon, woman
Nothing gives promise of more large
ness and graciousness. An enduring
government is an idle dream until the
Woman's part be writ with the man $
brain in legislative tones. She with
this potent power. this tool of tools in
her hand. the ballot, will surely be the
CONSERVATION OF the nation, as she has
been OF the home"
Lieutenant Governor Ingalls,.
In a short speech Lieutenant-Gover-
nor Sheffield ingalls,, who presided as
toastmaster, declared that now that
the Kansas ProgressiVes have taken
their step toward the organiza-
tion of a new and independently Third
party that there viii not and cannot
De any turning back. Ingalls, words
of encouragement to the followers OF
the new party were loudly cheered. In
brief ingalls, said:
I'm this emergency the Progressive
party offers to the nation the only
genuine and comprehensive program
TO which the people may cling. It does
not propose the governmental devices
of a century ago, which have no proper
relation to present day affairs. 1t be-
Iieves in developing our government to
meet our present needs and so it offers
10 conserve the business of the country