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

the Republican party and protection
were there. Go back few years, ana
you find COxey'Sf army encampeds IN
the national capital, and pleading with
the Goddess of Liberty to appease their
hunger; paralysis of trade and stag
nation of industry, everywhere. tx
anime your political almanac and you
will find that Democracy and free
trade We're there. Come down to
later period, when the wheels and the
spindles were humming, from ocean to
ocean, our fields redolent with the
fruits of agriculture, our pavements
worn by the tread of industry, and
our markets burdened with the con-
tr1outlonS of commerce. Look at your
political calendar again, and you will
find that the Republican party and
protection were there. This is not a
mere coincidence, but a fixed fact in
the political history of this nation. 1t
takes two things to make good times
in the United States, abundant har-
vests and remunerative prices. The
LORD gives US abundant harvests, and
the industrial and financial policy of
the Republican party, good prices. 1t
takes a combination of the Lord and
the Republican party to make good
| times in the United States.
THE Kansas Day club came into
life coincidentally with the 16 to / ag-
ltat1on There is no money issue now
before the American people, for the
reason that 16 years of Republican
history have been perpetual vindi-
cation OF the triumph of Mckinley and
the gold standard in 1896. But, as
Rudyard Kipling would say, Lest YOU
forget, l want to make a passing al
fusion to the development and perfec-
ton OF our currency.
II divergent views grow out of or
game doctrines, or fundamental prin-
ciPles, new party is iustifis HE IF
they grow out of mere methods or
leadership, the remedy is a change of
methods and leaders. Burke said,
Wnen PAD men conspfre, good men
must combine There is q conbina-
ton of good men, within the RepubIt-
can party, and 1t is infinitely more
potential than any conspiracy that was
ever formed, or ever can be formed.
by designing men. The political obit-
uaries at Washington, for ten years.
emphasize the efficacy of this remedy.
This battle for progressive thought and
laws has been waged within the party
Tor years, and has been meas urably
won. All parties and all ad-
minlstrations will now be progress
sive As lifelong Republican, 1
would like to see this cause reach its
fruition through a united Republican
party.
Il have a right to speak to Kansas
progressives, for have stood in sup
porting distance of this movement.
w
in the narrow limits Of my influence
and power I have contributed to the
progressive history and legislation of
Kansas. And 1 stand here tonight as
a progressive Republican, and deplore
the attempt to distract and divide the
party in the state and the nation, Boys
there are more of US when we are all
together. In many campaigns, We have
stood shoulder to shoulder against a
common foe. Let us stand together
-, i
may ratify the greater triumphs of the
future. If you believe in the principles
and policies of the Republican party,
and endorse its progressive accomplish
ments, you are a moral coward to de-
sert it's ranks now"
Fred Washbon's Speech.
Fred Washbon, of Anthony, an An
thony lawyer of prominence and
speaker of note, responded to the toast
The Constitution and the People," In
his speech Washbon struck the key
note when he declared:
What is to be the future policy OF the
Republican party? Every step is
fraught with dangers and pitfalls, not
the least of which arises from another
inherent weakness of human nature,
an almost Unsuitable desire for imme-
date victory and a consequent return
t. power and place to emolument au-
thority and control, an ever abiding
temptation to compromise some part of
our cherished principles and to accept
in some degree the fallacious doctrines
of those We would bring back into the
party's fold. Certainly we should not
encase ourselves in shell of bigoted
opinions. Let US fairly and frankly
treat with our disaffected brethren up
on all general questions Of governmental
policy. Let us meet them in fair
and open minded spirit of compromise
on all such questions as the tariff, the
h. lam Ia
ton of public utilities, control of cor
porate wealth and all questions of gen.
eral legislation regulating our ever
changing commercial conditions, but
lie. us stand firm as the eternal hills
in unyielding defence of, and loyalty
TO. the constitution, and particularly to
that greatest of all constitutional
boons the absolute and unequIvocal in
dependence of our courts II under
such standards and for such ideals we
are able to win, our victory VII! De
sublime, and if we lose, we shall at
least have wrought in a noble cause.
If the people, blinded by their passions,
will not return to sanity and reason, IL
victory shall perch upon the standards
of progressive heresy and error, it can
but hasten the day when our consti-
t1ltional government shall be broken up
and destroyed, when our splendid re-
public shall be shattered as an egg
she'll and the people unrestrained, ever
tr11e to their natural passions anu
Impulses will be figuratively graphing
at each others throats-
w. S. Roark on the New Party.
..Vyhv a New Political Party?' was
tho toast to which w. S. Roark, of
junction City responded with credit.
Discussing the affairs of the recent
campaign and campaigns of former
wears, Roark declared:
Both history and reason teach US
essential
controlling conditions that give rise to
the substitution of a new party for an
old one. without these necessary at
tendant conditions a wouldbe new