The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-22
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LONG AS TIE PRESIDENTS FRIEND.
IA. NJ. mURDocK. Editor.

LONG AS TIE PRESIDENTS FRIEND.
The Topeka Capital OF Yesterday criticzes the Eagle
for asserting that the proprietor Of Chicago Record
Heraa-vhch parer is for Long for Senator's close
friend Of Roosevelt Tie Capital INDUCES in another crit
cism in effect that Longs friends not warranted in
claiming that the Congressman from tho Big sevnta IS
special friend Of Roosevelt and his policy The tgou-
bic with the esteemed is its prejudice the one hand
and its lack Of information CT ether There IS no
question touching the correctness Of both claims men
toned Roosevelt during the Mckinley funeral obse-
quss uudisguisedy showed his especial friendship for
and trust in the proprietor Of the Chicago ecorderal
It might have been piece OF silly demagogy. as the
Capital asserts for the Eage to drag the Chicago Rec
ordHerald into the support OF Long Re thai i may
the Eagle did no such thing The Recorderald dropped
itself into such support very emphatic way
And further the Reoorderald holds just what The
Eagle claimed and that is the neonroverble fact
that Long as a member Of the House, as member Of
the ways and means committee ana champion of
the Administrations Cuban reciprocity policy stood high
in the favor Of President Roosevelt Ara WHAT'S
the proof is within easy reach that Long still stand esDec
Tally near the President Why shouldn't he indeed? In
supporting the Presidents Cuban policyand which was
the great issue-he never funked doubledealt The
Republican Congressional committee printed and scat
tered an hundred thousand or more copies Of Longs
speech throughout the United States important
reciprocity campaign document ably sustain
ing Roosevelt If the Capital thinks it prick" either
the foregoing "bubbes7 iab H. As for the Capt.
tails closing reflection the Eagle inmated that
the President had publicly indicated any preference in
the Kansas Senatorial contest But all the there is
not doubt Of such preference and that is
for the member who voted continuously in
the Republican caucus against RooseyeIts effort to
deem in the the Republican party ard the honor
Of the nation McKine5a promise to the Cuban commits
sion
As for anything else Of course the Eagle knows that
Topeka is against Long for the United States
Long halls from the short grass country ana in befng
brany and souaretoed could never under any condi
tons probably become the tool Of the combine which
failed to turn Long and Bailey down the Wichita
venticn Topeka is short for Topeka ana next
to Topeka man for someone TO whom the combine
aforesaid attach ering The design the Topeka
combine to array all the other arldates for the
United States Senate against Long Topeka wants to
own control both Senator'S IN preferring Charley
Curtis or Dave 1Iulyane or r. A. Low, Topeka would
under certain stipulation accept any other from
thai Of the state ana be in sympathy
with the old coterie.
While Chester l. Long ana his friends have nothing
against Topeka as the Caral Of the state ne they
be buaed by the crowd that failed to down them in
the Wichita convention. While Long and his friends
view with contempt the efforts of that same crowd to
have appear that he and his friends fighting stan
ley. and double-dealing with caderhead he and they
too well grounded in their honorable intentions, in
their integrity and recude be betrayed into doing
or saying anything OF which they might feel ashamed of
later on
Both the Chicago Record-Herad and the Eagle there
fore esteem Chester l. Long as an especial friend of
President Roosevelt and champion Of his policy,
most enphatcally recognized by the late
Republican state ention