The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-07

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"A difference of $3.50 per mile. or
SIS, 1913, 100 in favor of Missouri and
against Kansas.
'Will Mr.. Bailey answer the follow
ing questions
do you endorse the administration
of Governor Stanley as does the plat
form on which you stand?
DO you question the accuracy of the
reports of the auditor of state, Cole. for
1899-1900, and the sixteenth annual re-
port of board of railway commissioners
of Kansas, for 1898?
do you intend to enforce the prohib-
itory law and all other laws on the
statute books of Kansas. if you are
elected governor?
do you believe the railways of Kan
sas ought to bear as great a proportion
of the tax burdens of Kansas. as they
do in Missouri Texas and Colorado?
IF President Roosevelt were in Kan
sas advocating taxation of public util-
ity corporations of this state at income
value of their property. would you sub
scribe to his views ?"
When Mr. Craddock mentioned the
name of Roosevelt it was greeted with
great APPLAUSE from the Republican
side. AS soon as it subsidized he said:
My Republican friends, 1 am proud OF
| that tribute to the great man who in
New York started the great reform that
l am here to advocate tonight. Is that
reform less necessary here in Kansas,
because it was first inaugurated by
OGIlOCIdllC lCc Wd&Ol anu IOW dONO-
Gated by the same man who happens to
be the fusion candidate for governor"
MIR. BAILEY'S SPEECH.
As son as Craddock had finished
Bailey, who was greeted with applause
from both Sides 1t is evident that
Bailey is a favorite with Kansas audi
ences. He has great amount of per-
sonal magnetism which readily wins an
audience for him.
Mr.. Bailey had prepared no set speech
as had Mr.. CraddOck. Being on the de-
fensive his speech depended largely on
the arguments advanced by Craddock.
I am here he said, mot to defend any
particular interest in Kansas: neither
am here to make any impossible prom
ises, but I do promise that if I am
elected governor I viii endeavor to
euualize the tax burdens so that they
shall rest equally upon the high and the
low, the rich and the poor. As Re
publican l am here to defend the good
name Of Kansas against any comDarl-
sons with them. I will not sit silent and
hear the good state OF Kansas unfavor-
ably compared with old Bourbon Mis-
souri,"
Referring to Craddock's claim that If
he is elected governor he will reduce
taxes so per cent. on the property of the
people as a whole, Mr.. Bailey said when
he first heard OF that he was scared.
Then he thought he would promise to
take all the taxes off. But / found on
investigation" he said. that I could
not keep the promise if [ made it and 1
don't believe Mr.. Craddoek can keep
his. He says he can reduce the taxes
so per cent. by taxing the railroads the
same as other property. but the COM
parsons of assessments made by Mr..
CraddOck are unfair. He compares the
trunk lines of Missouri with all the
roads of Kansas. good, bad and indif-
ferent, punched together If he wanted
to make comparisons why did he not
select roads of equal value? Let me
quote you few facts. Take the Santa
F'e main line in Kansas and also in
Missouri. In Kansas the Santa Fe pays
| $432 taxes, while in Missouri it pays but
1 1924. Another thing, compare the taxes
of farm and personal property in Kan
sas and in Missouri. In Kansas land is
/ assessed at an average of $719; in Mis-
souri,, $12:30; hogs in Kansas S119, in
! Missouri 50 80. Does that look as if the
farmer is getting the worst of it in
Kansas? What do Mr.. Craddock's state
ments amount to when the facts show
that the railroads are assessed equally
4 nigh in Kansas as in Missouri and farm
and personal property much less?'
! DENIES CHARGES OF EXTRAVA-
CANOE.
Bailey denied that the Stanley admin
istration had been extravaganza, and
/ said Governor Leedy left deficit for
Stanley to pay. Mr.. Craddock says
we have been extravag CANT. We have
not been extravaganza We have spent
a lot of money. but why? The Leedy
600, and we met it. The Leedy legisla-
ture made an arbitrary tax rate of
4 Ito mills and then appropriated $780,,
| 900 more than the levy would raise. Not
a building was erected during the Leedy
administration. During that period the
windows of the state house were nailed
up. Since then we have put up build
/ ings at all the institutions and compile
ted the state house. That was not ex-
! traVagance; it was necessity, and I be-
lieve the people of Kansas believe we
did the right thing. The people are in
favor of maintaining the dignity of
Kansas institutions
Mr.. Bailey also denied that Governor
Stanley has appointed fewer old sol
dierS in the state of Kansas than Mayor
Craddock has in Kansas City. He read
a statement saying that of 253 appoint
ments, Mayor Craddock has given only
five to old soldiers. He said in reply to
one of Mr.. CraGGOck'S questions that
if he should be elected governor he
would enforce all laws. and Mayor
| Craddock could not ask ANYBODY to do
more. On the question of the taxation
of franchises he said the Democratic
Republican party. He referred to the
commission appointed by the Republi-
can legislature to make a new tax law,
and that law or something better would
be passed by a Republican legislature
and signed by Republican governor.
LAS to the enforcement of the prohibi-
tory law" said Mr. Bailey, well" and
he reached for water pitcher, Il guess
I'll take a drink on that. It isn't up to
the mayor of Kansas City what is be
ing done in Wichita and Leavenworth,
but it is uD to him as TO what is heinz
done in Kansas City where he can en-
force the law. The joints in Kansas
City are allowed to run wide open and
l am of the opinion that the people be
lieve as I do that the mayor can close
them in dav of he would. I want to
know what the people viii do with a
man who is a candidate for governor
and talks about law enforcement and
can't enforce the laws in his own city?''
TALK OF NATIONAL. ISSUES
Mr.. Bailey talked on national issues
for sometime and then came down to
answering the questions which Grad
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