The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-11

Why close your-eyes to the obvious?
Why not admit to yourself-what
every man of political vision already
knows-that there is one Republican
who can sweep the CONTRIBUTORS
nomination will carry with it the abb
solute certainty of election?" The plat
form alone, he said. won't win an cleo
ton. It's the candidate the people vote
for.
Dark Horse Cannot Win.
"A yellow dog is impossible, and a
dark horse cannot win. II you expect
their vote, do not offer to them a cold,
capable, neYerless, unsympathetic,
business administration"
He defended johnson against
charges of being a Red" saying that
he was a radical only in his attitude
toward financial ghouls," wealth be-
sotted men" Red anarchists of de-
PRAYED finance" and ''profiteering
knaves," whom. Wheeler said, John
son would handle without gloves and
without mercy" if elected.
This is the answer which our Da-
-vid of the Golden Gate hurls at the
head of He'll Gate" Wheeler declared
1T may be true that our near Off
GERS class-the captains of industry,
the disbursing officers of the primary
army, and the colonies of commissary
who advance the sinews of war
would prefer military leader" said
Wheeler. But I am here to say for
the rank and file of the Republican
party that the plain Yanks. who fill
the ranks, that have the votes, are
calling for the son of California.
Not Rich Mans Bauble.
1.-The time has come when a doubt
ing nation is asking the Republican
party to say whether or not the high
est office in the world is to be treated
as the baubIe of rich men. You can
answer that question by nominating
the man whom the people want.
IF you shall select this son of Cali
fornia, remember that in the conduct
If his campaign he has placed no bur
den upon the back of the Republican
party. He has saddled it with no old
man of the sea to gall the withers of
the party turnout the campaign. With
him as n candidate, the party will
have nothing to explain, to palliate, to
repudiate or to excuse. No 100000
angels have been lowering over
him; no $4,000 'tip/from the friendly
hand of a Standard Oil king has found
its way into his political treasury;
purse has been stalled in the gluey
pocket of a show me- politician.
Call on Roosevelt.
BE It clearly understood that Cali
fornia makes no pretension. no claim
that her candidate is the political heir
of Theodore Roosevelt. But if it
should happen mat the claim is here
made that the political mantle of
Theodore Roosevelt was bequeathed
to anyone, then. before you accept or
believe it, California asks that you re-
member that Theodore Roosevelt. in
the presence of an assemblage of
fifteen thousand people. said of her
son:
He is fitted at the moment to be
president of the United States
And that so recently as the 18th
day of January 1915, over his own
signature. he made this deliberate
declaration:
My Fellow Citizens the hour has
struck, the time has come to scourge
the last of the bosses from this great
temple OF the Republican party. Men
of the south. if it be true, there are
men in your number, hand picked
men, who have forgotten the obliga-
ton they of all men owe to the flag of
freedcrr; men of the north, if it be
true that there are in your ranks
political slaves who are being dashed
into lineS by the black snake of some
party
The sovereign state of California
now rlaces before you in formal nomi-
nation Hiram w Johnson"