The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-14
FOR CURTIS FOR CONGRESS
FAVORS GIVING SENATOR BAKER
ANOTHER TERN.
Says Imperialism viii be the Chief
Issue in 1900, With Is to on the
Side. First Question Declar-
ed to be Most Important.

DfeeIe, hnuOuuCos Juhl no p'VpOseo W
re-euter Kansas politics; that he will
endeavor to bring about new deal'
in Repub lean poitics; that he will
support Charlie Curtis for Congress
in the First district aud Senator
Baker for re election as senator.
When asked If he would enter the
cong res sioral race in the First DIS
trct, he -Sid:
"The u.e of my name in that con
nection has been without consulting
me. 1t IL a proposition upon which
am wholly uninfcrmed."
"But wilt you he a ,udidate ?"
81 am for Charlie Quits. | think
he is a most valuable man. whose
retirement from congress would be "a
serious loss to THE state 1 hope to
see him renominated, and hope my
friends will support him, l have
heard of an alleged agreement at
the Horton conYention, but so far as
1 am able to learn that matter re-
ceives little or no attention in this
part of the district
"Then you may be candidate for
United states senatOr?'
g. am for Mr.. Faker. / under
stand the race is between MIR. Burton
and Mr. Baker. | have nothing
against Mr.. Burton, but il Baker and
Burton are the only gentlemen in the
contest l am in favor Of giving the
present senator a second term"
"Then you expect to take hand in
Kansas politics ?"
81 certainly do" replied the sena-
tor. "When the campaign comes on
/ shall do my share in the work 10
secure Republican ascendency in
Kansas, as 1 have always done in the
past. / am for q reorganization of
the Republican party in Kansas, To-!
new deal, as the boys say. l think
we are badly in need of some new
blood in Replican politics in this
State"
Continuing his talk on Kansas poll
ties, Senator Ingalls, said: "The Pop
ulist party lie rapidly disintegrating.
The mem bers of the party who have
Repu blican sntecedents will resume
their relations with that party. The
green hackers, union laborItes, anti
monopolists and kickers generally
will form another opposition party.
OF course in thisIstate we nave an in
corrigible and implacable element
that will always be hostile to the Re-
publican party as it would be to the
Democratic party if it was in power.
But the Populists as party will dis
integrate; and as a matter of fact,
they never had any occasion to exist.
| regard Kansas as safe Republican
state, in the future, and If the real
sentiments of the people had been ex-
pressed it always would have been a
Republican state.
"McKinley's denomination is just
as certain as il the decree were al.
ready registered by the national con-
vention and at the present time | re-
gard the denomination of Bryan by
the Democratic party as just as GER
tain. The Democracy will blunder,
as usual, and oppose the war In the
Philippines as imperialism and mill
tary domino ion. That will be the
chief issue ef the next campaign,
with l6 to ] on the side. But the
trust question is really the most inn
portant and significant of all the
political problems of the times in
which we live. Both parties will
doubtless inco' porate in their plat
forms planks against the restraint OF
trade and the destroying of the OPP
portunities for American citizens in
the race for life. Unless the trust
epidemic is arrested, at the rate
things sre how going, we will have a
financial crash within five years that
will make the panic of 1913 seem in
significant"
"What, in your judgment, is the
solution of the trust prohlem?n
1.-The practical solution of the whole
matter rests with the state legisla.
lures The solution is taxation; just
the same as the government under
took TO prevent the sale of oleomarga-
rine by taxing the product; just the
same az the government destroyed
state banks by Imposing the 10 per
cent tax, The law already existing
is practically sufficient. 1t declares
all binatiOns In restraint of trace
illegal aud void. If that is supple
menled by taxation the matter will
be disposed OF promptly. No problem
is simpler than dealing with t.o
trusts