The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-30
ISSUES MADE UP.
POpulists Have Already Out
lined Their Next Campaign.
VIII Attack Record of the Re.
VIII Attack Record of the Re-
publican Administration.
INFORMATION AT HAND
Leaders Have Collected Data
and Made Outlines.
KIOndike and Investigations to
Be Included in Repertoire.

The Republican politicians have been
eager for information concerning the
details of the plan of campaign pro-
posed by the fusion managers this year,
but the latter have been guarding close
ly the material with which they propose
to attack Governor Stanley and his as
sociates.
The Republican political managers
have been free in saying that there is
less material for a strong fight on the
state ticket than the Populists have
had at their command for several years.
However the Populists have accumu-
lated some thunder which they believe
will be first class as a vote maker.
One of the principal issues which the
PopuliSts viii make is against Governor
Stanley's action in causing an invesu-
cation and removal of the members OF
the board of regents of the State Agri-
cultural college. The Populist state
committee claims that there are in eX-
istence affidavits which will prove con-
clusively that the Republicans are now
permitting to be practiced at the col
lege certain policies for which the Popu-
list regents were Investigated, scan
dalized and removed from office.
The short hand notes of the inVestiga-
ton evidence are on file in the COVER
nor's office. When these were fled the
governor in passing on the case used
this expression:
I find upon an examination of the
evidence, etc"
The Populists will satirize this calling
attention to the inability of the COVER
nor to read short hand and then the
speakers will proceed to prove that the
regents were removed without conSid
Grafton of evidence or the merits of the
cases which were brought. This whole
matter will be exhibited as a partisan
move"
Then in this campaign the governor
Will be denounced by the Populist
platform speakers as a prosecutor and
the originator of an inquisition in the
case OF Webb McNau. It will be re-
membered that the governors verdict
was written in this case in advance of
the hearing at the close of which Nc
Nall was removed The fact that the
governor paid J. A. Troutman 500 for
saying nothing in this case will also be
a sweet mOrseI, so the Populist candi-
dates who expect to be nominated say.
The Populist committee is outlining
the work for some of the speakers now.
One of the best campaigners in the Pop
ulist ranks will be sent out to attack
Stanley on this proposition and he will
also be instructed to demonstrate the
claim made by the fuSiOniStS that the
governor and superintendent Church
did not decrease insurance rates. The
POpulists say the rates have been low
cred to such an extent that they are
now per cent higher than at the time
Webb McNan left the Office
The Populists have also planned to
attack the governors action in sending
a committee of three women, one of
whom was Mrs. Stanley, to investigate
conditions at the state institutions. The
fact that this committee was paid out
of the contingent fund appropriated for
the governor will also be strongly dwelt
upon by the fusion speakers.
Governor Stanley will also be de-
nounced for riding on railroad passes.
In the Information for Speakers"
which the POpulist state committee is
preparing is a slip upon which a nota-
ton that the governor uses passes is
made. Below this is another mention
ing Mrs. Stanley in the same connec-
ton. Following this is a statement that
Governor Leedy paid railroad fare; an
other that the Populist candidates for
the nomination for governor are now
paying fare and that the one nominated
will continue to contribute cash in ex-
change for tickets
The governor will be abused, too, for
recommending in an interview that the
constitution should be so changed, in
his opinion, as to have state elections
once in four years instead of every two
years. The fusioniSts want more
chances to get office than once in four
years.
The KIondike affair will be a strong
point in the Populist campaign. The
action of the governor will be classed
among the Political Farces' of the
history of the state and he will doubt
less be condemned for enforcing pro-
hibition in one place, while neglecting
others. However, the Populists will not
trespass on this ground very far be-
cause the candidates and managers do
not wish to antagonize the liquor in
terests of the state.
The school book law, the Bush cor
poration law, the Populist measure tax
ing the gross receipts of insurance COM
panies doing business in this state, the
charter laws requiring payment of
heavy fees by corporations, the repeal
of the metropolitan police law, the court
of visitation act, if it be sustained by
the supreme court, the stock yards law
and the fact that Governor Leedy made
use of no political Investigations will be
the most important issues which the
Populist and fusion speakers Will COM
mend themselves for having had enact
ed into laws.
Various other matters which have
been passed by the state administration
as unimportant will be brought up and
busted up by the Populists for campaign
use
One thing the people of the state will
be interested to know is the fact that
the manag gers of the two principal par
ties gree that the campaign shall not
be one of abuse and personalities. Off
cial records and platforms will be the
bone of contention