The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-01

cerned, 1t was the small competitors OF
the trusts who were injured and IN
put into practice by the present admin
istration has chiefly benefited foreign
rivals and competitors. It has done
grave injury to the business COM
munity and the farming community
and has caused suffering to the wage
workers ana the whole policy Of the adj
m1n1stration has been one to cause our
people in business, our people on the
farms. our people with dinner pals. to
look toward the future with grave con-
Germ and apprehension.
Leaders Should Be Rebuked.
1T is Of course essential to rebuke
those leaders who by their action helped
to put the present administration In
power, and, moreover, it is OF vital con-
sequence to the future wellbeing OF our
people to drive from public life all men
; whose political activities in state and
nation alike have been such as those
OF Senator Penrose. This is not only
political but a moral issue. mention
the name of Senator Penrose. merely
because he typifies a class. 1 am NOT
concerned with him as an individual;
am concerned with him az a type. Mr..
Penrose stands in Pennsylvania as Mr..
Barnes rtands in New York. and Mr..
Lorimer in Illinois. When We fight
these men and their activities. we are
fighting the battle of all decent men
| and in particular. we are fighting the
battle Of the honest Republican rank
ana file, whom these men have misrep-
resented and betrayed.
1T is we'll to keep in mind that we
now have Mr.. Wilson'S administra-
! ton, that we now, suffer from q
| wretched foreign policy and from
home policies in national affairs
which have seriously impaired the
well being of our people, primarily
because of the action Of Senator Pen
rose in associating with men OF the
same type like Mr.. Barnes. .ss
Penrose and Barnes.
''Messrs. Penrose, Barnes and their
associates at Chicago, taking advan-
tage of the fact that national nofnt-
mating conventions are not protected
by law, followed a courss Of conduct
morally every whit as bad as that
which at elections result in wrong
doors OF humber rank being put In
stripes. They sto,e from the rank
right to govern themselves; to nomi-
nate their own candidates and pro-
mulgate their own platform. They
took their action with the deliberate
purpose of electing Democratic
president, because they Infinitely pre-
ferred the triumph # their nominal
party foes to seeing the control OF
their own organization crested from
their hands by the rank and file of
their own party. They are foes OF
decent citizenship. Their political
lives depend upon their keeping poll
cannot succeed them and that the or
binary citizens cannot get control OF
their own government.
Rather than see this control brok-
en-, Messrs. Penrose, Barnes and their
associates deliberately put the Demo-
too
into power at Washington.
Must Drive Out the Boss.
"Of course. our contest must al
ways be primarily one for principles.
It must always be q contest to enact
into law and reduce to the domain of
executive action those principles. But
it il impossible to do this effectively
until we drive rom political leader
ship the boss whose very existence In
politics 10 the negation of these prin-
ciples. There Is no use In endeavor-
ing to put into effect our platform for
social and Industrial justice If the
legislative and executive officers of
government are mere sub-ofhcers OF
q boss, whether this boss be Mr.. Pen
rose. Mr.. Barnes. or Mr. Murphy.
Much Of our effort is to secure
laws protecting tie labor OF women
and prohibiting the labor Of children
| in mines and factories. providing for
| workmen's compensation and the like.
This effort is bound to come
to naught If. in its actual working.
! the forces of government are admin
| istered by men whose whole theory
of action is based on the alliance of
crooked politics with crooked wealth.
much of our effort is to help the
men who live on farms. This
state and nation is controlled by men
who treat with derision the very idea
OF seriously studying the conditions
| in the open country that need rem
edying.
| dustry We propose to make the con-
ditions such that honest men can
earn a fair living for themselves and
| their families without the haunting
, fear of being prosecuted for viola
lions of law which they did not and
| could not know were such and which
were not violations Of sound public
policy.
"Much Of our effort il to help men
| and women workers. Just as we be-
1ieve in cooperation among the
farmers and the business men SO we
believe in cooperation among the
wage workers. And we further be-
Eeve that the wage workers and the
| business men must cooperate togeth-
er and work closer together for their
mutual advantage. It has been the
| cut-throat competition of the past
the competition that Mr.. Wilson is
determined to preserve by law
which has not only hurt business and
prevented the business man from
working most effectively for the COM
mon good. but which has forced the
working man to work for ruinously
small wages. We propose to substi-
tute the era Of cooperation for the
era of competition among the bust
ness men and farmers and wage
workers: and as q necessary corrol-
larry we believe that the government
must In thorough going fashion SUI
pervise and. regulate this movement