The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-30
OUR DUTY.
Nail Up the Doors to the State
House for Long Term of
Years.
Progressive Republicans Referred to
as Revolutionary, SeIf-SeeEdng Nal
contents.

OF Beloit, made a speech. Discussing
the speech in its issue of January Both,
following the banquet, the Topeka
Daily Capital said:
'fIn talking on the subject, "Our
Duty" R. M Anderson of Beloit, de-
clared the ordinary voters would glad
ly welcome complete embargo upon
political activity; the mailing up OF the
doors of the state house for long
term of years. He referred to the
Progressives as revolutionary, self
seeking malcontents, and expressed GU
riosity as to how they managed to get
in the Republican party
Mr. Anderson was referring to that
large Republican army in Kansas that
had turned its face to the front in de-
handing and enacting into law the pro-
gressive policies that are now advocated
by practically every voter of the state.
For at that time W. r. Stubs was
governor, and Joseph L. Bristow was
United States senator. These with
countless thousands of other Republi-
cans of Kansas who, for forty years,
have fought the party's battles and
swelled its majorities are the ''revolu-
tionary self-seeking malcontents"
Mr.. Anderson had in mind when he
declared in that speech, as published in
full in the Beloit Gazette:
''Of recent years they have pretend
ed to be holier than thou reformers.
They have overworked it until the or
binary citizen is disgusted.''
Mr.. Anderson was not candidate
for congress in the Sixth district when
he made that speech at Topeka, in 1912
and said:~ GAS matter of fact we of
the common herd, would gladly well
in general" Probably no greater in
suit was ever offered to the intelligence
of the farmers and business men of
Kansas than the fippant and fool-har-
dy statement made by R. M. Ander-
son in that 1912 Kansas Day speech at
Topeka, when he said:
''There is not a farmer or business
man in Kansas who wouldn't welcome
with great glee the mailing up of every
way of ingress and egress to our very
state house fol-. a long term of years. .
The farmers and business men of the
Sixth congressional district who have
builded within the boundaries of it's
twenty-five counties a great empire,
are among those included in Anderson s
Indictment as ready to welcome with
glee' the mailing up of the state house
doors. They constitute the voters who
in 1916, will nominate and elect a Re
publican congressman. VIII they send
to Washington man who stands on a
platform demanding that the doors of
the state house be nailed up, and then
be compelled to explain that he advo-
Gated this because in its executive de-
partment and legislative halls progress
sive policies were advocated and pro-
gressive laws enacted?
Again speaking of the progressive
Republicans of Kansas, Mr.. Anderson
said in his Topeka speech: AS mat
ter of fact 1 have always been cur
ious to know just how these revolu-
tionary, self seeking malcontents hap
! pened to land within the ranks of the
Republican party. The only reason !
have been able to find is that just at the
time of their political sanctifcation we
seemed to have the most votes" And
then speaking for the Sixth district,
Mr. Anderson made this statement:
Give us more of that kind and man
ner of man with the consumate cour-
age to exercise the veto on half baked
political measures blindly thrown to-
gether as so much ground glass for
the Presidents meal by vicious and
bloodthirsty adversary. This is what we
of the Sixth district pronounce courage,
poise, and judgment. This is what
we as Republicans want. We want
more Taft -
In his Kansas Day Club speech Mr..
Anderson used the term, he-virgins. -
Whether he referred to the great ma
jority of Republican voters in the Sixth
district who have stood for the progress
sive policies and principals of the par
ty, or whether that inuendo was aimed
at the noble womanhood of the district
and state, who are now voters, he
did not explain. But he did not fail to
cast slur at prohibition, yelled with
sarcasm that would only appeal to the
baser side of life. Mr.. Anderson said:
But, take it, we would no sooner
enter the threshold of this much to be
desired and almost utopian scheme,
busy with our individual concerns,
toasting our feet by the family freside
in blissful communion with wife and
tskiddos' when with din and rattle
and roar of charavari canister, I'D
would dash some illiterate, publicity
seeking politician upon his quixotic
steed of political exigency, and in re
Spouse to our anxious queries of what
it was all about-demand in thunder
tones that we turn out the homeguards
forthwith; our neighbor is about to
take drink. -
Woman Cures Horse Collie.