The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-06-03
them through. In fact. this year any
thing would go in Kansas.
BOSS BUSTERS FEARFUL.

thing would go in Kansas.
BOSS BUSTERS FEARFUL.
"But what 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
state, at the lawless methods 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 prom
ises, throw out sop here and there and
FRY to bridge the thing over until after
election, and then it will all be smooth
sailing for them again. L direct your
years. Have you ever seen the rail
road officials visiting the people and
asking about their grievances be-
fore and making promises to right
them? Not bit of it. Why, our
wholesalers, millers, grain men, ship
pers and municipalities generally have
spent 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 commits
siOners only to be fOu yht to the bitter
end. And now, my friends, there is
an awakening among the people aud
the boss buster railroad gang are try
ing to put them to sleep again with a
few promises and a sop mere and there
until after election. And so they are
out, as said, among the people, they
are trying to fix it up with the stock
shipper by giving him return trans
portatiOn that they took away from
him. They are trying to fix it up with
the wholesaler by giving him 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.
Regulator in the Daily Eagle of
April 10, concerning these promises,
and the effect of them, which is as
follows:
w atch 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 a new
sheet can be cut out, etc. But as soon
as the election is over they won't have
a train that they can run fast enough
to put the rates back again higher
than they are now. and get the reduc-
ton all back again
81 don't know which one of the
Murdocks it is that writes this City
Regulator stuff, but he hit the bulls
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 Wich-
tia, Winfield, Arkansas City aud
other points to Kansas City, that the
rate has been until the matter was
taken up by the interstate commerce
commission, 81 cents per hundred
cheaper to Kansas City than to Wich-
tia and these other points? That
from Conroe, Tex, lumber point, to
GAINESVILLE, Tex. 342 miles, the rate is
184 cents, and to Ardmore, Okla, 382
miles, the rate is % cents? Soyou
see by this rate that in Texas, where
they have railroad law, they hauled
it for 342 miles for 1Sa cents, but when
they struck Ardmore, Okla. Oklahoma
having no railroad laws, 3S2 miles
only 40 miles further, the rate jumped
to % cents, raise of 64 cents, and at
! Wichita the rate reached the high
point, PSI cents: and at Topeka, haul
ing it 162 miles farther, it costs Tope-
ka q cents less than Wichita; and if
carried to Lawrence, q miles farther
than Topeka, it costs cents less than
if left at Topeka, and if still carried
on to Kansas City, Mo-, 10 miles fur
Their than Lawrence, it costs l cent
per hundred less than if left at Law
renee, cents less than if left at To-
peka aud 81 cents less than if left al
Wichita. And if carried on to Chica
! go, Ill.,, more than twice the distance
I from Conroe, Tex, than TO Wichita.
! the lumber would be hauled for cents
! per hundred less than if unloaded al
Wichita. In other words, my friends
Z the same company that starts the lum
Der hauls it over its own track:
through these different cities ant