The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-14
Gives Reasons Why He Is a
Logical Candidate.
KANSANS CAN RALLY TO HIM
Formerly Was a Citizen of the
Jayhawker State.
Graduate of TX. T.. and q Con-
sistent Republican.

Senator James A Troutman of To-
peka, wants Senator Borah of Idaho
"a formerly of Kansas man-nomi-
mated for president by the Republic
cans in their national convention in
1916. The Shawne county senator be-
lieves senator Borah is the best avail
able candidate for the presidency
among all the Republican possibilities
and probabilities.
Above it all, Senator Borah is prais-
ed as a Kansas man with the Kansas
viewpoint, the Kansas s. irit and "a
K. u. graduate who can yell Rock
Chalk Jay-HaWk, K. d." louder and
longer than anybody. By unanimous
consent, Senator Troutman believes,
the Kansas delegation should go to
the Idaho man. He is not without his
following IN boosting for Senator
Borah, but he is the first of the Re
publican leaders in the state to ex-
press positive preference for pres
idential candidate who might be nomi-
mated. Several Kansans took up the
Hughes cry earlier in the year, but
Justice Hughes was never a candidate
and himself waived aside any desire to
start a boom in his behalf.
Senator Borah is the best man for
the Republicans to nominate said
Senator Troutman. He is funda-
mentally right upon all important ma
tional issues and would be an irwin
chile candidate
to the Idaho senator's service for the
Republican party in bringing about
true harmony program on which both
the Republicans and Progressives
might unite. The Borah record in the
senate is also pointed out by the To-
peka man.
A Leader in Congress.
"He occupied a position of COM
handing leadership of the progressive
forces in congress-" urged Senator
Troutman, and was a strong cham
piOn of Roosevelt at the Chicago con-
Vention, but never lost his head nor
his Republicanism. He was a forceful
factor at the national harmony con-
ference in Chicago and has done more
than anyone else to unite the Repub-
lican party and put the Progressives
out of business. He has been a loyal
Republican at all times and in all
emergencies
Nomination of Senator Borah would
mean the lining up of the progressive
ly inclined western states in his be-
half, according to the judgment of
Senator TrOutman. The western man,
it is claimed by his Topeka champion,
would also be a force in the east. Last
and far from least, in the opinion of
many KanSanS-Senator BOrah is a
former KanSan, a Kansas university
graduate and a former Rice county
lawyer.
Senator Borah will poll more votes
in the pivotal states of the east than
any one named says Troutman, DE
cause they know and appreciate his
great ability, his candor, his fairness,
and his unremitting loyalty to the Re
publican party. He is not only strong
in the east, but would enter the cam
paign with the conceded support of
at least eighteen central and western
states where the progressive strength
was the most decisive in 1912.
HE is also an old Kansas boy who
started on the road to fame as a law
yer at Lyons, Rice county. He is a
graduate of K. U. and can yell
ROCK CHALK JAY
K-U' louder and longer
than anybody.
why not give him the Kansas dele |
CATION by common consent urged
Senator Troutman. at would be a
to a Kansan who deserves
it, and would be an honor to the
state
Senator Troutman has declared that
he will work for a Orah-for-preSi- |
dent delegation from Kansas in 1916.