The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-16

Announces That No Charges
Will BE Answered.
DO RIGHT WATCHWORD
No One will Be villffled Says
the Committee.
Democratic Committee Repudi-
ates E. E. Browns Observer.

The fusionists will not attempt to
deny the various charges made against
their candidates. They propose to ig-
more them. This Is the programme
book. advance sheets of which were is
sued today
Under the beading. "A Word to Our
People: Put the Fight on High Grounds
or Lose the Respect of the People," the
handbook says:
Fusionists are hereby warned that our
platform, ITO Do Right Will not ad-
NIT Of villifying individuals. The oppo-
sftion seek to divert attention from the
real issue by abusing our candidates.
hoping thereby to ensnare our people
into denying false assertions that will
be quickly renewed when one is an
swered; SO that our campaign VIII be
one Of negation and denial.
No apology is needed for any candi-
date on our ticket. No one OF them
sought the Office to which he was nomi-
mated: 1t came to him through two>great
conventions of representative men who
had the whole state from which to Sc
lect their nominees. No man needs q
greater Endorsement
Our campaign is one OF principle. We
are either right or wrong. The people
of the state are the jury to decide the
case. and our duty lies in presenting
Facts backed by Figures. SO that the
voters of the state may reach an intel
lgent conclusion.
We ask the people of the state to join
us in making the great corporations of
the state pay their just share of the
taxes in the same proportion as il paid
by the farmer and home owner. We
want Kansas people to derive the same
benefits from its corporations as are
| enjoyed in New York. Indiana and Mis-
souri,. In doing this it will make q d1f-
ference of about $50 each year for each
voter in the state. or about million
| dollars per year; or, where you now pay
| 500 taxes you will then pay $50 taxes, or
where you now pay SO taxes you will
| then pay IS taxes.
The pamphlet is devoted to an indict-
ment of the Republicans for not en-
! forcing the laws and an attempt to
| prove that II the railroads and other
corporations paid their full share of the
taxts other peoples taxes would be cut
down 20 per cent
E. E. Brown,ss .sObserver" has already
| been "repudfated'' by the Democratic
state central committee Brown IS the
man who . few years ago tried to orr
| ganize fhe .sSuhfloUer League, but fa1f-
| Ing to make that success he went to
| Oklahoma and started q weekly paper
which he called The Observer It's
style is somewhat like Brann's Iconoclast
except that 1t is devoted to politics and
| claims to be Democratic organ The
paper was not financial success in Ok
lahoma and a month ago Brown moved
| it to Topeka, expecting to become the
| official organ of the Democrats Of Kan
sas and at the same time covering the
| Oklahoma field. Since then the paper
has contained reasts OF everybody from
the Topeka ministerial union to the
| fusion state committees. Brown seems
to have had falling out with all the
| railroad companies and he has we'll
! developed grudge against them, partic-
! ularly the people who control the trans
portation. But the Iconoelast style does
not seem to have taken in Kansas. and
today. after only three issues have been
published, the Democratic state COM
mittee issued public address repudiat-
! ing Brown and his paper. The address
is headed. "A Reputation of Browns
Observer" and is as follows:
(! ITO the People of Kansas.
1T is not the policy of this commit
| tee to take up matters of trivial import
ance nor to give countenance or atten-
tion to attacks OF erstwhile friends, but
we feel that in this case some state
| ment is due to our people in the state
regarding the position assumed by one