The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-20
VALE, WHALEY, VALE.
The Erstwhile Republican Boss
Clasps Hands With Populists.
HE REVEALS SOME STATE SECRETS
or the william Higgins Admins ira
ton Places HIs Bolt on High
Grounds OF Principle.

ton Places HIS Bolt On kAA$h
Grounds OF PrAncfpIe-
The Republican party has lost one OF
it's most active workers in Topeka in the
person of E. B. Whaley. He has an
nounced that he will not support the
Republic ticket but will render the
PopuIists all the assistance in his power.
Dir. Whaley served several terms in the
city council and was a candidate for the
Republican nomination for the legisla-
tuFe ia the district which includes the
Fifth ward and Potwin, four years ago
and was beaten in the convention by only
a few votes- Last year he was defeated
for the nomination for county CLERK in a
close contest in which Chas- McCabe was
nominated. He has been a member of
both the county and state central COM
mittees and was always considered
successful political worker.
The Populists are jubilant over the &C
QUESTION of Whaley, and the secretary
of the state central committee, r. III.
Semple, says that he has agreed to take
the stump against the Republicans in
Shawnee county.
A JOURNAL reporter called upon Mr..
Whaley and found that the rumor of his
desertion was a fact. Il shall not sup
port the Republican ticket" he said Il
am sorry that HOch was not nominated
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my support As il is | am done. | have
worked as hard for Republican success
as any one in Shawnee county, but | can
no longer support the Republican party
when il has gone into the hands of the
railroads. There are only two men on
the state ticket who we're not nomi-
mated by the railroads-they are Stanley
of Lawrence and Cole of Girard. / can
say nothing of Cole because l don't
know him, but l understand that he has
never been a railroad lawyer.
Il understand that Morrill, first got his
start in disposing of railroad lands in the
northern tier of counties, and he did that
so successfully that he was one of the
big four nominated and elected to con-
gress by the influence of the roads.
1.-THE railroads own the Republican
party. l was in position on the state
central committee where found that to
be fact II as the railroads that run
the last Republican campaign. anG they
viii run this, and that is why | am tired
of this thing.
Il believe that the mass OF the voters
do not know this and that ninety per
cent do not know the facts, but the other
ten per cent do know all about it and
oft from the result.
1T was the railroads who were respon-
sible for the legislative war two years
ago They knew that with a Populist
senate and house the minimum freight
rate bill would be passed and they set
about to change the complexion of the
regularly elected house Why did the
canvassing board have w. ]. Stage, one
of the shrewdest manipulators of figures
on hand when the returns came inI Do
you know that when those ties were
drawn that Bill Higgins had mucilage
on his fingers and the right paper stuck
to them?
"Why was Geo. L. Douglass turned
down in the state convention? Simply
hPnauEa ia IA raj IA Ha n
that from the time he was first elected to
the legislature and of course he couldn't
be nominated. He is not the kind of
men the railroads want
SIN the recent primaries in this city
it was the joints and railroads that NOM
mated Veale. They voted 500 Demo-
Gratis and no one will ever know how
many repeaters- Our primaries can
never be pure until the registration of
every voter with the county central COM
mittee is made.
'PeopIe will say l do this because I |
am sore but that is not true. / don't |
ask for any thing from the Populists-
1 don't want any thing but am tired of |
the way things are going in the Repub- |
lican party.
"Now look at the two old parties in |
congress. They are together on the |
money question and by the time the |
Democratic senate gets through with the |
tariff bill there will be very little diff
ference between it and the Mckinley |
bill That is pretty hard on the people |
who have listened to men who told them /
they must whip the Democrats and then /
told the Democrats that they must whip |
the Republicans to find that after all !
there Is no difference and that the old |
parties are alike in principles.
"Tbis talk of the Populists running the /
state makes me tired The present con
1ition extends over the entire world and /
i was the Populists who were the
prophets who told US it was coming. /
They haven't hurt this state for we find |
the same conditions existing in the states
not controlled by the Populists and in /
New York and some of the other states |
It is worse.
Il have thought of offering my services
% Breidenthal, but / haven't done so as |
ret and do not know that / will, and do 7
not know whether they would be ac-
eepted if offered My physical condi-
ion is such that | would probably not /
stand the work of a campaign, but will !
10 what | can in Shawnee county any /
how"
Sunday Excursion TO Kansas City
santa Ee Route.
Sunday. June "A, the Santa Fee will run
another of their popular price excursions
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