The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-26
Are COMING BACK
Senator BOrah Predicts Return
of Republicans to Power.
Sees Proof of 1t, He Declares,
on Every Hand.
mai nlMlTl0u ne unTfnc
AMAlGAMATION OF VOTERS
Bull Moose Movement Was q
Protest, He Says.


Detroit. Mich. May ga glowing
picture of the future of the Republi-
can party reunited with the Progress
stve element which left it in 1912 was
painted here today by Senator William
II. BOrah, of Idaho, speaking at q
state wide conference" of Republi-
cans.
THE Republican party" said the
senator, lis coming back into power.
The proof of it is on every hand. The
trend is unmistakable. l said year
ago that the amalgamation which
would take place would be an ANAL
gamation of the voters not the assum.
cd leaders. 1 said Furthermore that
was worth while. The men who voted
the third party ticket to the number
of four million, for reasons entirely
satisfactory to them can neither De
questioned as to their integrity or pur-
pose or their patriotism. But that II
was d protest and not a manifestation
Of purpose permanently to leave the
party is now established by facts and
figures which cannot be doubted:
Now in view of this pronounced and
unmistakable purpose OF those VINO
voted the third party ticket to ally
themselves with the Republican party.
in view Of the determination to sup
port its principles and its policies, what
II the task before US? 1t is unques-
tionably to make our party equal to
the tremendous problem which now
concerns US.
Duty OF Republicans.
1T is to build up in this country,
out OF the traditions the achievements
and prestige of the past. the duties and
obligations of the present, and the
hopes and aspirations of the future, an
orga nization efficient, militant and pro-
gressive-worthy of it's old days and
equal to the obligations which now
rest upon us. 1t is our duty, in other
words. in unmistakable terms to make
1t clear that the Republican party is
to be as it was in its best days. a thor
oughly progressive party. We ought
not to assume for moment or concede
for tmoment. that because the party
bids fair to go back into power, there
Is going to be any compromise with the
forces which brought it near its ruin:
There is in this country a powerful
influence for the bad in politics and it
will take possession OF any party in the
world, If it can. which is enjoying pow
err This kind of an influence does not
fight a party in the open. 1t holds
itself in readiness to direct the course
of any party which happens to be in
power. With such influences there can
be no compromise If we are to have
party which is going to meet and solve
the great problems which new indus
trial life and a new social condition
have imposed upon us.
Curse of the Age.
mo man living in this splendid age,
amid these exhilarating environments,
can afford to permit the corroding
poison of pessimism to enter his soul.
But on the other hand, the curse of
our age is that cold cruel, selfish con-
servatism, which. living in its ease
and comfort. enjoying wealth and all
it brings, refuses to see or sympathize
with the conditions of those who, in
the midst OF world of plenty, are
bordering on the line of hunger and
misery, who refuse to see the new
conditions or the new problems which
must be met and dealt with in the
same spirit and with the same cour-
age and progressiveness that our
fathers met the problems of their
age. The great and almost superhu-
man task, my friends. is not the gath
ering of wealth but its fair and equi-
table distribution.
''What We want in this country is a
party which will do the simple but
profound thing which Lincoln did, that
is, gather up the common sense, the
common honesty, the common pat
riotism, the common courage and the
common righteousness of the COM
mon people Of this country, and or
ganize il into a militant, progressive,
disciplined force for legal and social
Justice, and do it all under the con-
stitution and laws of this blessed old