The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-24
PINGREE SCORES BURROWS
Michigan Governor Declares the
Senator Unfit for Office.

Detroit, Mich, Dec. 24.-Governor Pin
gree has issued a proclamation address,
ed to the people of the state of NGichi-
gan, in which he says he feels it his
duty as a. citizen of the state to place
himself on record as opposing the cleo
ton of julius Caesar Burrows of the
United States senate. The governor
then enumerates his reasons. The first
is as follows:
During the 20 years that Mr.. Bur-
rows has served in the congress of the
United States diligent search and in
quiry fail to reveal the record of a sin
gle disinterested act of any Importance
whatever performed by him for the
benefit of the state of Michigan. OF the
men who have seen 20 years service in
congress his alone is the only name I
can recall which has been identified on
ly with mediocrities and peanut poll
tics"
The second is the governors opposi-
ton to the Atkinson bill, which Cover
nor Pingree says he helped to defeat
through his federal patronage.
Supported by Tax Dodgers.
The third and fourth are that the
senator during the state campaign
stumped the state and said that nation
al issues alone should be considered
when the issue was that of equal taxa
ton and that tax dodgers are Senator
Burrows supporters. The fifth reason
is in part as follows:
st am opposed to the reelection of
Senator Burrows because almost his
has been directed towards the promo
ton of the interests of monopoies and
trusts.
ssAs a member of the finance commit
tee he assisted in preparing the bill that
exempted the telegraph monopoly from
the payment of all manner OF taxes Tor
the support and maintenance of the
United States army in the war with
Spain, Notwithstanding the fact that
the company was receiving millions OF
dollars from the government, from the
newspapers and from individuals as
direct consequence of this war.
by his vote and by his work he has
been a partner to the payment OF eXces-
sive tolls to railroad companies for the
carrying of United States mail, 1.-The COM
panies receiving from the government
six times as much for such services as
they receive from the express compa-
MES for similar services on the same
trains.
Hurts Industry to Aid Trusts.
'sAs member of the conference COM
mittee on the Dirgley bill he manipu-
lated the tariff on plate glass so the
furniture manufacturers in Grand
Rapids, Mich, and all others who are
obliged to buy their mirrors of the
plate glass trust, pay that concern
a tribute of 20 per cent thereon.
LAS a member of the same commit
tee he assisted in running half of the
lum Der business of Michigan in the in
terest of millionaire lumbermen whose
holdings consist almost entirely or
southern and western pine, but VINO,
nevertheless, pay Senator Burrows
election expenses in exchange for his
legislative services, while the farmers
and lumber consumers are taxed for the
benefit of this unhOly alliance"
The sixth reason is the use of the
senator of telegraph franks and rail-
road passes. The seventh deals with
the senator's intimacy with Nat Nc
Kay. In the eighth clause of the proc
lamatiOn the governor accuses senator
Burrows of being q traitor to the He-
publican party in the following lang
uage:
I am opposed to the reelection of
Senator Burrows because he and his
chief supporters during the recent cam
paign proved themselves traitors to the
mai