The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-10-24
FRIDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1902.
Do Right.

The "Do Right" club is not liv-
ing up to its name, no not exactly.
They are publishing lot of stuff
purporting to be speech of Con-
gresham Calderhead. Mr.. Calder
head says he never said any such
stuff. Even the immaculate ALI
son, of the Blade, has pretended to
quote this bogus speech. Mr.. ALI
son has also been straining his prln-
ciples IN another direction.
Now we think Mr.. Allison is
gentleman of veracity and honor
and would not do a mean thing or
misrepresent in the least (unless it
was for the purpose of securing
vote) and of course it is matter of
Indifference to him whether he re-
ceives any votes or not, so we must
conclude that he has taken the word
of some dishonest or designing
person with reference to MIR.
Nations vote on that railroad bill,
H. B. No. 225, or that he is in
capable Of reading and interpreting
correctly plain Eeglish. We are
satisfied that treachery and deceit
are foreign to the nature of our
worthy contemporary and therefore
will have to conclude that he can't
understand plain English.
Mr.. Nation worked earnestly and
faithfully for this bill and voted for
it on every occasion and the house
journal SO records his vote. We
have in our possession the report OF
the Legislative committee of the
state society of labor and industry
for 1901. This report was made to
the officers and members of this
labor society after the close of the
legislative session, by this COM
mittee who were at Topeka during
the session and had particular
charge Of all bills affecting labor.
On page SO of their report, in
speaking of this House bill No. 225
occurs the following: "On Feb. IS
Mr.. Nation, who was strong
friend of the bill, moved that itsbe
printed and placed on the calender,
which m otion prevailed" Further,
"Mr. Lawrence, on February 7oth,
moved that the rules of the house
be suspended and this bill be made
a special order for o'clock that
afternoon. ga viva voce vote
was taken and the motion lost.
"Mr. Nation and five others de-
manded a roll CALL" Mr.. Nations
name was given as one voting for.
On page SO of the same report
We find the following: again on
February IS, Mr.. Nation moved
that the house resolve itself into
committee of the whole for the pur-
pose of considering House bill No.
22s." Mr.. Nations name is given
in the list of those voting aye. This
labor committee was composed of
three gentlemen, Ross Perkins,
chairman; w. o. Van Pelt, Sec
retery; Francis Fern, asst. secretery.
Two of these gentlemen, the chair
man and secretery are well known
Democrats.
And we are informed the other is
also a Democrat. They were the
committee chosen by organized
labor to look after legislation in the
interests of labor and take occasion
in their report to especially COM
mend Mr.. Nation for his action on
this bill. We are inclined to the
opinion that our friend Allison will
not assert any more that Mr.. Nation
voted against this bill. All Char
ley needs is to be set right occasion
ally. He gets a little enthusiastic
at tunes. especially when he's look
ing for votes, and gets outside of
the record. He don't mean any
! harm, nv II he c5runl,- wants a FEW,