Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-13

publican party to dodge aud sbraddle
There are great many men and wo-
men in Kansas who are anxious to
discover where different candidates
stand on the resubmisSion question:
Is it a matter to be lodged or avoid
ed' Why cannot men come out
frankly and say, Here is my stand.
ard; l plant it here The people are
entitled to know. Yet I challenge
your attention to the fact that not a
man on the republican ticket has
specified in clear and certain terms
his attitude on this question. WhyH
Simply because they may gather
votes in from the north, from the
south, from the east and from the
west In a prohibition community
the candidate is a prohibltionist; in a
reSubmission community he is q re-
submissionist. He shapes his sails to
catch the various winds. This kind
of politics is not along the lines that
will keep the people,
"The school book law which was
passed by the reform legislature of
1897, had been clamored for by the
people for twenty years, but the book
trust had stood in the way and uni.
formily it La i failedEin each succeed
ing legislature. This law had failed
not because legislators elected by the
people had been dishonest, but be.
cause the power behind the party
which had elected them was not in
sympathy with the movement; the
party machine was closer to the book
trust than to the people. Then there
came q movement from the people
themselves who created party un.
hampered by bosses and when 10
got control of the Legislature it passed
the law demanded. So with the scrip
and screen law for the relief Of the
coal miners, and the stoCkyards law
for the relief Of the cattle shippers. -
The people had been clamoring for
these laws, as for the scloolbook Jaw,
but for the same reason that law was
not passed, they were not passed un.
til the reform movement came and
throttled the machine and gave ear
to the people.
Referring to Webb McNall's Gght
on the insurance companies, Mr..
Boyle said that he was not in q posi-
ton to know whether it had resulted
in the reduction Of insurance rates,
but he know that now for the first
time In the history Of Kansas the in
surance companies had been taught
they must obey the law and also that
they must settle losses as promptly
and as fully for the poor man as for
the rich man. All corporations will
be taught by the reform movement,
if the people by their SURFACES will
permit 1t to continue in power, that
they must obey the law as individu.
usls are compelled TO obey it.
"The supreme court Of Kansas and
the supreme court Of the United
States have decided that all laws
must be accepted as valid unless 9th
erwise declared by the courts, When
men go on strike the corporations
say to them that they must submit Ia
the law or the strong arm of the state
will be directed against them; that
they must submit first and test the
constitutionality Of the law afterwsrd
But let law be leveled at a corpor.
alton and it Immediately sets il at de.
tance, disobeys it, ties up the execu.
tive officers Of the state with iDiunc.
tons, and at it's leisure tests it's con.
stitutionality. Mr.. Boyle said he had
been tied up in the script and screen
law, but he did not believe that any
court could suspend the operation Of
the criminal end of that law, and he
proposed to cause some arrests TO,
violating it, although hia hands might
be tied in proceeding BY civil process
Referring to the stock yards case
Mr.. Boyle SAID; "0ar oppon entS
claim that we have driven the Kansas
City stock yards out of Kansas, and
they seek 10 throw a red blanket over
the stockyards law and the contests
incident to it's enforcement by striv.
ing to aiarm the people, declaring
that we have driven this great insti-
tuition out OF our state. Let US exam.
inc b lefty what Kansas has lost and
what Missouri has gained and for
the sake Of clesrness / will state the