The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-30

would have a candidate for every Of
flee in Kansas in 1914, and made it
clear that there would be a RepubL-
can candidate for United States sena-
tor.
At the banquet Wednesday night
were many Republicans of prominence
in Kansas, as well as several Progress
sives and Democrats Among the Dem
ocrats who attended the feed were
Governor George H. Hodges and his
private secretary, Grant Harrington,
James w. Orr of Atchison and Sena-
tor Benjamin E. Wilson of jefferson
county. Music for the banquet was
furnished by the Washburn Glee club
and Miss Theo Jewell and Mrs. Addie
Jewell-Newton.
President Geddes.
The speech of President x. NJ.
Geddes was short and right to the
point. He spoke less than ten min
utes, but he told proudly of the ad-
Yancement and achievements of the
Republican party in the state and ma
ton. In part he said:
THE Republican party has been in
control of this government, with slight
exception for the past 90 years and
during that time it's guiding hand has
largely determined legislation enacted
in these United States, yet not a sin
gle statute has 1t written which has not
resulted In being of great benefit to
the whole people; its wisdom has been
policies has enabled the people of this
country to enjoy a period of prosperi-
ty extending Into every phase of hui
man life such as the mind of men had
never dreamed of before.
''The past so years has been the
greatest period of constructive govern
nent building in this country that this
nation or any other has ever Witness
ed, greater strides of progress in gov
eminent have been made and the peo-
pie as a whole have enjoyed greater
degree Of personal liberty and of pro-
lection under the law than ever before
and in all that time the Republican
party has not taken a position upon
any question of public concern from
which 1t has had to retreat and time
has proven the correctness of our at
titude upon all Of these questions.
This, briefly is the legacy which the
Republican party has handed down to
us, the young Republicans of this ma
ton and state. and / submit to you
that the fundamental principles of Re
Dublicanism as enunciated by the i'm
mortal Lincoln, as emulated by the
lamented Garfield, as personihed by the
revered and beloved Mckinley, and as
advocated by that patriotic states
man, distinguished jurist. and great
leader, our beloved president, William
Howard Taft, are still the fundamental
principles of our great party which you
betterment Of the whole people,"
James Troutman on Defeat.
Senator James A Troutman of To-
peka, told in forceful language of 1.-The
Triumphant Defeat of the Republican
Party and he urged for the future
that Kansas Republicans stand under
the old banner for the defeat of the
Democrats. He said to Kansas Re-
publicans IN part:
The Republican party is the forum
OF living thought; the Democratic
party, the sepulchre of dead tradi-
lions; the Socialist party, the pantheon
into which the nebulous gods of DO
i1tical reform are driven; the Bull
Moose party, the scrap pile where the
defeated and unclassified mavericks of
1872, repose in innocuous desuetude.
The Republican party bows in pa
triotic submission to the popular will
but ii still stands erect undaunted
and undismayed, a triumphant force
in the life and history of the great re-
public. In the carnage of war, in the
arbltrament of peace. in all of the per-
lis and mutations of our national life
1t has maintained an unsullied record
Repulsed, but not beaten; defeated
but not Inundated, it stands up to-
night to be measured by it's record
The cynical philosopher and superb
cial observer say its work is done; that
its star has gone down in eternal
night. Philosophy and sentiment are
ASSlAAlSs EHeIOFIC ana ueClamat1On are
evanescent; truth and justice are eter-
nal.
81 affirm an automatic truth, when I
say the progress, the prosperity the
pre-eminence of this nation are in
separately connected with the protec-
tive policy of the Republican party.
Protection is fundamental element in
the life and history of the Republican
party, and of the nation itself. It is
one of the incongruities of political
been the source of our national wealth
and power, and the fortress of the Re-
publican party, for fifty years, it was
the primary cause of its temporary
reinforcement Thousands of men de-
nounce the present tariff law who
haven't the slightest conception of any
of it's schedules. The law is unjust in
many of its provisions, but the popu-
lar discomfort is not due to it's inner
ent defects. 1t grows out of the belief
that there were arbitrary and unfair
methods in passing it. Without
claiming for the law, perfection in de.
tail, I challenge your thought for a
moment, to its accomplishment.
THE Progressive party was nor
founded upon principle. but a pique.
1t is the exponent of no new doctrine
out assumes a proprietary interest in
policies already popularized, by drawer
and ADLER men than its leaders. Every
principle seriously promulgated in its
platform, is an infringement upon Re
publican rights. No party can live up-
on spoliation and plumber. As an in
dependent organization the Bull Moose
party is a satire upon political his
tory. The cohesive force of it's tenn
porary existence, is an ambition for
power, an infatuation for leadership.
n frenzy for fame. As now consti.
tuted it is a defensive coalition of agi-
tators, bound for the mythical plains
of Armageddon. 1t is a heterogeneous,
conglomerate and dyspeptic aggrega-
ton of spectacular, picturesque and
splenetic exploiters.
1.-THE Progressive states of the nation