The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-17
Wichita Eagle Claims He Is in
League With Enemy.
Helping Curtis and Burton to
Sidetrack Reciprocity.
WHAT GOVERNOR SAYS.
Can't Make an Issue of What
Everyone Wants.
Garden City Imprint Takes
Down Kelly's Name.

Congressman Curtis is not the only
senatorial candidate who is having
trouble in his home congressional dis
trict. The Wichita Eagle has SEEM
ingly started a war on Governor STAN
ley and claims that he has combined
with Senator Burton and Congressman
Curtis to sidetrack Cuban reciprocity
as the principal issue of the coming
campaign.
AS Wichita is Governor Stanley's
home the action of the Eagle is peculiar
even more so than the insurrection OF
the Leavenworth Times against Curtis
The Eagle is enthusiastic supporter
of Congressn an Long for United States
senator, although Sedgwick county posi-
lively instructed for Governor Stanley.
The Eagle says editorially:
THE Kansas City Journals Topeka
bureau of correspondence represents
Governor Stanley and Congressman
Curtis as uniting in the declaration that
the Cuban reciprocity question and the
endorsement of the president will not
be a principal issue in the Kansas cam
paign this fall, but that the Philippines.
the trusts and the tariff will. In other
words the Republican state convention
did not know what it was talking
about The Philippine incident is prac-
tically closed, and it was sealed for
good by President Roosevelts Fourth
of July proclamation The tariff ques-
tion was hardly hinted at in all the
long debates of the congress just closed,
except as it affected Cuba AS for the
trusts. President Roosevelt having Sc
lected one of the most eminent attor
neyS of the country to assist the at
torney general in making up cases
against trusts, we hardly think there
will be much political interference or
attempted party instruction to the ad-
N NJ lOr1cr hot Ii,ln Srx-O ,rt,
Stanley and Congressman Curtis had
better interview Senator Burton. He
can give them pointer as to whether
McKinley's promise and Roosevelt's
policy are to be an issue in Kansas. The
first thing Senator Burton ran up
against, the uppern1ost thing in the
minds of the Republicans of Kansas,
was Cuban reciprocity about which he
proceeded to make speech explaining
why he had failed to heed the instruc-
tions of the Wichita platform.
The secret of Governor Stanley and
congressman Curtis attitude towards
Cuban reciprocity and their small esti-
mate of it's Importance will be found to
lie in the fact that Congressman Long
IN having been the presidents cham
plon on that question, is also it's rec
ogn1zed exponent in this state.
senator Burton, Governor Stanley
and Congressman Curtis, combined, can
not s1detrack reciprocity with Cuba, as
principal issue in the coming cam
paign. The Republican party of Kansas
IN short will brook no dictation from
the gentlemen named nor from any
other combination or trio, as to what
shall and what shall not be the issues
to be discussed and settled. Kansas is
with President Roosevelt, which fact
will be made very plain by the time the
campaign is througl with"
The Wellington News comes back at
the Eagle in defense of Stanley by re-
citing the fact that nearly all of the
legislative candidates in that section
are for him.. 1t says:
the Wichita Eagle, like an angry
serpent, has begun to bite itself. w. E
Stanley, the foremost citizen of it's town
and the best governor of this state in
all it's history, is far in the lead in the
senatorial race. He has all the Republi-
can representatives in Sumner on the
south, Harvey on the north. one in But
Ter on the east as well as all the repre-
sentatives in his home county. The con-
vention in the Eagles county declared
for Stanley for senator and demanded
that its representatives in the legisla-
ture support him for that position. This
puts the Eagle in with the insurgents
or boxers, and it may be expected that
at some later date the Eagle will an
nounce that If 1t finds out that all of
the people in Sedgwick and surround
Ing counties want Stanley for senator,
1t will give him a loyal support not
withstanding such action may conflict
with it's judgment and the postoffice.
when 1t is remembered that Stanley
is the choice at his own home and all
the surrounding counties, the somewhat
VICIOUS opposition of the Eagle to his
candidacy and its vigorous support of
Long leads to the conclusion that the
Eagles conduct is inspired not only by
its gratitude to Long for good office
twice bestowed. but also by its old
grudge at Stanley
The "old grudge" referred to is said
to be the failure of Stanley to appoint
T B, Murdoch. brother of the editor of
the Eagle, as railroad commissioner
during his first term.
Might Just as well try to make the
Golden Rule the principal issue in the
coming campaign as Cuban reciproci-
ty," said Governor Stanley TODAY.
Nearly everybody in Kansas is in fa-
vor of Cuban reciprocity and you can't
make an issue out of what everybody
wants: There are a few people here
and there who may be opposed to it,
who kick on the Golden Rule. but there
are not enough of 'em to make it an is
sue
The reciprocity question is a good
deal broader than the Cuban phase of
it That is only a detail Reciprocity
as whole means the extension of
American trade all over the world
Wherever We can make a good trade,
and that's what it's coming to-
The Garden City Imprint Republi-
cam sets out the name of the confessed
embezzler in this language a good ex-
ample for other Republican papers: sT.
I. Kelly, the Republican nominee for
state treasurer, has just paid into the
: treasury of Miami county the balance
of his shortage at the time he was
county clerk We have been waiting
and watching for an explanation in ex-
tenuation of Mr.. Kelly in this matter.
So far, with many others, we have wait
ed in vain Now we would like to be
shown why he should not withdraw
from the race. 1t is folly for Mr. Kelly
or his friends to think that the simply
paying back the amount secured by