The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-01
c. E. Cory Has Plan TO Repu-
date the President.
Give Wilson Chance To Take
Some Republican Money.
NO OTHER PRESIDENT PARTISAN
He Says Lincoln and Mckinley
Didn't Play Politics.
Calls Wilson Insulting and
"Foolishly Impudent."

c. f. Cory, of Fort Scott. wants to
give President Wilson a chance to get
his Democratic fingers on some good
Republican money. Or rather. he
wants H. H. Motter, state chairman
to give the president this opportunity
In letter addressed to Motter, Cory
suggests that the Republican state
chairman offer one dollar per word,
or one hundred dollars per word, as
his purse and conscience may dictate.
to go to any good cause the president
may name. for every word~the presl-
dent himself will construe into an ex-
preston of partisan politics by any
president except himself.
Cory asserts in the letter that Lin
coin did not ~ anything about swap
ping horses in the middle OF the
stream until after every chance to
swap had passed and that when
Roosevelt plead with the country to
not repudiate President Mckinley by
electing Democrats to congress Roose-
welt was not president and had not
even been thought of as a presidential
possibility.
COry's Letter.
Cory's letter to Motter is in full as
follows:
Hon. Harvey Motter, Chairman Topeka.
II have a suggestion to make to you. Mr..
| c. N. Price, with whom l have consulted,
thinks the idea a good one.
MFR. Tumulty says that he speaks Tor
| the president in his recent letter or defelse
| concerning Mr.. Wilson's recent ungracious
and unnanly slap which he gave you and
me and some millions of other good Re
publicans. As excuse, he says that he
! has abundant precedent for his insulting
/ demand that no Republican be returned to
congress. He quotes Roosevelt, and Gar
/. field, and Mckinley. and even has the
nerve to refer to Lincoln. He quotes
Roosevelt. however. when he had not even
; ity. He quotes others when they were not
| president but private citizens.
when Garfield and Taft and Mckinley
! were in office. not one of them so far forgot
| the dignity of the office as to talk partisan
! politics. tho poor Mckinley had reason to
do so. God knows, with every Democrat in
! with numbering our boys down in Cuba
and refusing to vote supplies for the army.
At that time. the Demomcratic speaker OF
the house viciOusly read out of the Demo-
cratic party three or four Of them who had
the nerve to merely keen still and vote
for the supply. bills. But Mckinley. sweat
! ing blood as he was. kept still and never
| let anybody know how it hurt him.
Foolish Impudepce. He Says.
! ''Mr. Wilson, thru his spokesman. even
has the foolish impudence to refer to Lin
| Republican. If you search his written or
| spoken and quoted words, from the very
/ first to ais death, wherever he touched poll
| tics, you cannot find one sentence indtcat.
| publicanism. If he were alive now on
! snivelling non partisan peighbors would be
sneer TO it. And vet, while president, with
all the good excuse for it, with every
single one of his opponents calling him a
butcher and solemnly and unanimously
| resolving in national convention that the
| war was failure and demanding instan,
| peace without victory. there was not a word
from the White House about his wishes.
The Horse Swapping Joke.
| at did not comport with the dignity OF
his high office. After his reelection, he is
| credited with the joking remark that he
! supposed that the people: were like the old
/ Illinois farmer who did not like to trade
| horses when crossing stream. The story
may be true or not 1t is good enough t.
| be true, but that was after election.
/ Now my suggestion is this: Flatly chal
I lenge Mr.. Wilson's remark about precedent
/ Offer a dollar per word, or a hundred dol
lars per word. to go to any good cause hi
may name, for every word OF what he him
self will construe into an expression O.
partisan politics by any president excep
himself. Make the challenge open, flat ant
unequivoeal. Give 1t the widest publicity
Il am not omniscient. but really believ,
this entirely safe. If it is not should hk'
to be corrected. Very truly yours,