The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-08
As MAN TO MAN.


banks and the city hall change gov
errors and governments. But the
strangest things that he ha4 seen, the
ones that make him feel like an old
time resident, are those that relate to
the politics Of his state as viewed from
under the shadow of the state house
dome.
Shades of Cicero and Tallyrand and
Pitt: When the newspaper man came
to Topeka E w. Hoch was governor
Then came Stubbs of Lawrence. also
. square, dealer. Stubs succeeded him.
self as progressive and then Hodges,
the Democrat, came Three different
dynasties in a swfrling procession in
six fieeting years And the consuls
ruled Rome with one lone brand OF
government for two hundred years and
then the emperors came and held forth
there in power for another couple of
centuries with another single policy OF
newspaper man come to Topeka to wit
ness three different and separate poll
cies OF government in six years. Six
in contrast with four hundred
Away back in that dim and misty
past when the newspaper man came to
Topeka town Stubs and Bristow and
Capper and Dolley and John Dawson
and Jackson and William Allen White
were lined up in a Macedonian phalanx
fighting Long and Scott and w. T.
id Mulvane and Cy Leland.
1t was a noble fight, and men fell on
every hand and Jobs were won and lost
by the score, and platforms were built
over night, and new planks were sawed
out by the hour. 1t was a fight within
the Republican party The Democrats
were not considered at all, at ALL They
lacked forty thousand OF an even break
in the voting in the SunflOwer state
Time rolled on like the wheels Of one
|oR q forts Of o..
day became the ruins OF yesterday.
Men changed like the seasons. To the
watchers on the hills the battle shifted
like the sands in the valley. New
forces came up to fight with Stupps
and his army and 1t looked Ike efnch.
Clarion calls were heard and Stubbs
fired his military band because he did
not need the notes OF horns to cheer
his men.
Then these same lighters hustled to
new uniforms.
White, who had helped Bristow beat
Long, is now fighting Bristow. Morgan.
who had been Longs campaign man
ager against Bristow, is now Bristow
supporter.
Dolley, who fought and bled and won
fat office with Stubs and White,
is now a Capper man and stands not At
all with Stubs or White.
Jackson. who had hammered Whites
political enemies with a club that had
spikes sticking out of its big end. is
now walking arm in arm with Whites
enemies
Capper. whose pen was a quill picked
from the eagle of freedom. is now
washing the elephant with a big brush
and water from the pail and cake of
SapOlio.
Look at the lineup now: Capper and
Morgan and Dolley and Curtis and
jackson and Mulvane and Scott and SO
I he {c Lawrence. DAW-
son is being measured for the ermine
| of justice Of the supreme court
| And of all those who went out with
him there remains alone William Allen
White to shrek for freedom William
| Allen the noblest Roman of them all
Gone, all are gone. the old familiar
faces Henry Allen is with him now.
but Allen was paying more attention to
his newspaper than to politics six years
ago. Murdoch is on the firing line
with this Brutus of Emporia. but Muir
dock was little known six years ago.
| Capper Stubbs, Jackson, Dawson.
Dolley. all these. my brethren, prophets
! in the progressive school OF Ramah'
these are gone. And Cy Leland climbed
the wall between the old armies and
now fights with White.
! The newspaper man feels that his
hair is gray and his eye dim with age
He seems to feel that he was here when
! the Shawnee Indians fought the buf-
| faloes from the west and the Fort
Leavenworth traders from the east He
| has seen 50 many changes that ne
knows the time must have been long
/ Surely so. 1t was history that he saw
| in its serious making, and not Italian
mummers at masQue or NORMANDY
| players in pantomime-
| The average life of cause or
great public issue is seventy years,
based on the history of the world since
Z 10 foundation nj ROVeYnmAntR. linen
has this newspaper man lived in To-
peka while 20 solemn years flowed
| down this pilgrim valley through the
| worn arches OF time. The paltfy six
dar is but a Authorization in the form
of a mighty contraction of time
/ The armies are still fighting in the
valley. The Newspaper man watches
ION the hill He looks towards the spot
where he saw the old army OF right
eousness six years ago and he sees in
/ the front line Of battle the face Of VIII
liam Allen White shining like the moon
shone when Joshua commanded It to
stand sim to witness the slaughter Of
the Philistines- And neither beside It
or behind it IL a single other familiar
face OF captain. colonel or general that
/ was IN that army six years ago. Not
!: a plume or helmet or hauberk N q
token New men are there at Arma-
| geddon- The others. seeking ONCE.
/ have gone hack to the place Of the ele-
plant whence they came
White has been called insfncefe, but
he seeks no office. He has been called
cratic and impractical but az an the
branded him, not one Of them has been
/ So consistent IN their political positions
during the East SIX years ~ has shc
/ EmpoFia editor ara Progressive com
tnitteeman- He hAs been called : Qulse
ter ~ NuittesA buts - xscsEd IN ~