The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28

\ anu Squandefed the peoples money
/ Governor Bailey was not a member of
/ it; Stubs was. Why didn't Stubs
stop it? 1t seems that if the state
ments of w p. Hackney can be be-
/ lieved, he was too busy getting in his
own work on the state treasury.
Bailey and Leland.
"Ahl but they said, Bailey stayed
4 by his friends and he consulted Cy Lee
land. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
/ have never met Governor Bailey nor
/ Cy Leland, but 1 have yet to hear of a
single dishonest act of either, or of
any appointee of BaiIey's. And when
l think of Burton, Kelly and some
others of this boss buster crowd, I
should hesitate to make the same
statement concerning them. And do
you wonder at the Republican press
being Sc outSpOken concerning the
convention run by such a combination,
and do you wonder that the people
generally are I'D in arms against a
ticket put out by such a combination?
! They distrust their honesty of pur-
pose, and judging by their past, know
that there is no hope for them in the
future II those people, surrounded as
they are with such influences, ever
take charge of state affairs. They
pass resolutions in favor of lower
taxes in the face of their past record
raising them. They resolve in favor
of primary election law to prevent
them stealing county delegations and
yet they steal all that is necessary to
carry out their purpose. They deal in
g1tterIng generalitieS relating to rail-
road laws and the very convention is
absolutely dominated by the railroads.
They did not care for the commercial
interests of the state. This was presi-
Dental year and no matter what they
did, Roosevelt would carry them
through. In fact this year anything
would go in Kansas.
Boss Busters Fearful.
But what a change has come over
the spirit of their dreams. The press
of their own party is so shocked at the
manner the convention handled by the
boss buster railroad combination, at
the unholy crucifxion of Governor
Bailey, at the insolent treatment of
the great commercial interests of the
nominating board and the mass of the
voters of the Republican party are
seemingly off the reservation and so
the boss buster gang have called upon
their railroad comrades to come out
among the people and make promises,
throw out sop here and there and try
and bridge the thing over until after
election, and then 1t VIII all be smooth
sailing for them again. I direct your
memory back over the past twenty
years Have you ever seen the rail
road officials visiting the people and
asking about their grievances before
and making promises to right them
Not a bit of it. Why, our wholesalers,
millers, grain men, shippers and
day after day and dollar after dollar
trying to get a small part Of their
rights, only to be defeated. They have
carried their grievances into court and
before the railroad commissioners only
to be fought to the bitter end And now,
my friends, there is an awakening
among the people and the boss buster
railroad gang are trying to put them
to sleep a gain with a few promises and
a sop mere and there until after cleo
ton. And so they are out, as 1 said,
among the people. they are trying to
fix it up with the stock shipper by
giving him return transportation that
they took away from him. They are
trying to fix it up with the wholesaler
by giving him a rate temporarily on
sugar from California points. They are
trying to fix it up with the grain men
by promising them something. And l
am reminded of a prophetic statement
made by the City Regulator IN the
Daily Eagle of April 10, concerning
these promises, and the effect OF them,
which is as follows:
A Republican Prediction.
Watch the railroads for the next
three or four months. They will cut
rates all along the line; will seek in
terVieWs with their traffic managers
will publish abroad reductions In rates
in month or as soon as new sheet
can be cut out. etc. But as soon as the
election is over they won't have train
that can run fast enough to put the
now, and get the reduction all back
Il don't know which one of the
Murdocks It is that writes this city
eye in this article. And you know
that every word of it is true
Some Lumber Rates.
"Do you know that on the lumber
shipped from Arkansas and Texas
points right through the city of
Wichita Winfield, Arkansas City and
other points to Kansas City, that the
rate has been until the matter was
taken up by the interstate commerce
commission 5 p cents per hundred /
cheaper to Kansas City than to Wlch- |
tia and these other points? Ihat
from Conroe, Tex, a lumber point, to /
GAINESVILLE, Tex, 342 miles, the rate /
is 1S% cents, and to Ardmore, Okla, !
382 miles, the. rate is % cents? So
YOU see by this rate that in Texas, |
where they have a railroad law, they /
hauled it for 342 miles for IS y cents, /
but when they struck Ardmore, Okla, /
Oklahoma having no railroad laws
$50 miles, only 40 miles further, the |
rate Jumped to 25 cents, a raise of !
So cents, and at Wichita the rate |
reached the high point, 2S14 cents; |
and at Topeka, hauling it 1872 miles /
father. it costs Topeka " cents
less than Wichita; and if carried |
to Lawrence, 81 miles farther than |
Topeka, it costs , cents less than if
leII at Topeka anu IL sun t-dIIleQ on /
to Kansas City. Mo, Al miles further
than Lawrence, it costs cent per
hundred less than if left at Lawrence |
3 cents less than if left at Topeka, and |
u cents less than if left at Wichita |
And if carried on to Chicago, Ill, |
more than twice the distance from /
CourOe, Tex, than to Wichita, the /
lumber would be hauled for cents |
per hundred less than if unloaded at |
Wichita In other words, my friends /
the same company that starts the
lumber hauls it over its own tracks |
through these different cities and |
charges Wichita dealers cents per