The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-20
FUSIONIST'S TURN.
Open County Campaign With
Wakarusa Picnic.
John BreidenthaI and Maj. A.
Il. Harvey Speak.
TALK ABOUT TRUSTS
Maj. Harvey Says Republican,
Favor Them.
Mr.. Breidenthal Attacks the
National Banks.

so lar IN the shawnee county campaign
the elements have not been partial to
either political party. The Populists ex-
perienced the same kind of weather at
their Wakarusa meeting Wednesday that
the Republicans found a week ago.
The ground muddy and the seats
wet, pools of water stood in the grove.
and early in the morning the sky was
cloudy. but by noon the sun appeared. No
special train was run from Topeka, but
about 20 people went down on the reg
ular trains, and the country folk who
came in wagons brought the attendance
at the meeting up to s00-
Major A NJ Harvey, who has served
as lieutenant governor and is again
candidate, was born and grew up near
Wakarusa. in Shawnee county, and is well
was held. Probably 100 of the people who
attended the picnic went to hear Alex
his efforts on the school room rostrum,
and they wished to hear him spellbinding
Two deputy sheriffs had been sworn in
to preserve order, profiting by the ex-
nothing to do. cane rack" was all
MAJOR HARVEY SPEAKS.
After a basket dinner Major Harvey
spoke. He said:
There are only two elements that go
property. All of our political issues grow
out of the controversies between prop
4 wish to call t Your latte attention to the
laws placed upon the statute books when
in Kansas. The laws have all been in
the interests of the investors and the cor
fii iii with cases to see whether Corpora
ton laws could be passed against the in
terests of the people You remember
when we considered the Is months re-
demptiOn act to save the peoples homes.
IT was not to destroy the investors rights
but to give the people a chance to build
homes The Republicans said that If we
would pass trust deed law that It would would
filed with articles to prove that the trust
deed would be the best. The Republicans
was passed it would take the investors
money away from Kansas. but since 1t
down and investments have been more
secure. We caused to be made a law that
insured and it burned that the insurance
should be paid in full Governor Morrill,
enforced until the Peoples party put Web
McNan in power and he said that the
or get out Of the state DO not charge
Governor Morrill, with being dishonorable,
but he was in sympathy with the insur-
1--WE made it crime to bring Pinker-
tons into the state We made it a crime
for men to be forced to take scrip to trade
at company stores. The people who
have championed the laws in the legisla-
the people have been fought by the Re
publicans- You can take the statute
books for the past 10 years and find that
every general law has been passed by the
Peoples party.
Governor Stanley wants to be re-
elected on his record. I shall make no re-
marks on Governor Stanley personally,
but politically. When he was made gov
ernor he sent message to the legisla-
ture and said. give me a small contingent
fund; I will not be like some governors
I only want a little The legislature took
him at his word Now he has gotten out
a report showing that he has turned back
part of the fund into the treasury He
didn't need it ALL He is telling that in
his campaign literature, and his SPELL
binders are speaking it. Governor Stan
ley spent some of that contingent fund
to have Jim Troutman file charges
against Web McNall. and he spent part
of it to hire two well known resubmis-
sioniSts to enforce the prohibitory law in
the Leavenworth Klondike.
1.-The barb-wire and nail trust came to
Kansas and closed up the Lawrence barb
wire and nail mill, and the farmers of
Kansas are now paying three times more
for nails and barb-wire- We have good
antitrust law, as good as any in the
union, yet Governor Stanley says he is
afraid to tackle the trusts He did not
spend cent of his contingent fund to
prosecute the trusts, but turned part of
1t back into the treasury. The zinc and
lead trust has made it impossible for the
best mines at Galena to max cent You
mi ght own the best oil well in southeast
ern Kansas. but you could not operate
it without the consent of the Standard
Oil company. The latest organization to