The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-28
War of Words Between POlit-
ical Chairmen Continues.
Populist Leader Replies to Re-
publican Chief.
MODERN PRIZE FIGHT.
1t Is Sometimes Called Long
Distance Talking Match.
Why Two Parties VIII Not Meet
in Debate.

The plan For Joint campaign first sug-
gested by challenge from the Popuiists
to the Republicans viii fail because there
seems to be no disposition on the part
of the two state committees to get to-
gether. The Republican committee first
declined to accept the challenge as first
made by the Populists. and wanted it af-
ter the state conventions Chairman Al
baugh wrote a caustic letter 10 the chair
man, Taylor Riddle who today replied
to Albaugh as follows;
I am in receipt of a communication
from you, replying to one addressed to
of Kansas by the undersigned. in which
a challenge was made for joint debate
sentatives of the two parties The debate
to be held within sixty days from January
ignore that provision of the challenge and
hold out that your statesmen and orators
may be able to meet representatives OF
the Peoples Party later in the year
u realize that you were not ready to
cause you had not had sufficient time to
consult the bosses of your party.
''The bosses of the Republican party al
ways decide these matters in executive
session. l was a member of the Repub-
lican party for nineteen years, and
know what 1 am talking about The more
secluded the place. the darker the room
the better for formulating ideas and pro-
mulgatlnP the great principles npon
which the Republican campaigns in Kan
After you have consulted. in executive
session. the Lifts, and the Cys. and the
Franks and the Georges, and few other
towering intellects who promulsate the
ideas and formulate the principles upon
which the Republican campaign in Kan
saS are conducted, II may be that you can
state definitely the intention of these
managers concerning the challenge to de-
bate. As one of the little cOterie who
meet in the Blossom House for counsel
and comfort, ] can understand your de-
sire for delay in this matter of debate
From all accounts you have been ex-
ceedingly busy down In the Seventh con-
gressional district trying to stem the tide
against boss rule and machine methods
and while thus engaged the newspapers
of the state tell us of other trials and
struggles in another corner of the state
where one of your managers appears TO
have had little more than he could
In addition to all these worries and
vexations your business down at En-
poria. recently seems to be OF press
Ing nature. and taking all these things
that you really intend TO accept the chal-
'ffhe truth is that the Republican party
of Kansas enters the approaching cam
not defend fbe infamous currency bili
soon to be enacted into law The great
masses of the people are not in favor of
placing the money of the country in the
gold standard currency Will do. This act
of the present congress and president Will
be fifty denominated as the Crime of 1900.
ana ana when the people OF kSns3s speak at
the polls they viii record their votes
against the party that foisted this in
Your spell-binders who would not rec
OgnlZe q pdtTlOtc ldeA II lneN Snoulu
meet one in the public highway, may
claim monopoly on patriotism. wrap
the flag about them and howl. Who dare
to haul it down. but the fact remains
that the national administration stands
for the same principle in its Philippine
policy that England stood for when the
British government forced upon our col
onies d war of greed and conquest. Ia
the approaching campaign your states
men must face this question.
THE Declaration of independence and
the constitution. to a Baker or "A Burton
or a Crum or a Stanley, may be obsolete.
but with the honest citizen of Kancas
they are regarded as the foundation stone
of liberty and justice.
And while these, your ators ana
oracles are defending the policy of the
national administration in the Philip
| pines. will they also defend the war Of
| greed and plumber now being waged
against the Industrial band Of German
| farmers in the South African republic2
! Such course would be entirely consistent
with the policy of the administration at
/ washington"