The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20

Mulvane. It is also said that w. z.
Morgan owner of the News, has SO
per cent of the stock Of the indie
pendent
The people who endorse Mr.. Georges
The people who endorse Mr.. Georges
president Of the commercial club,
Mayor Paley J. Harsha, and nearly ev-
cry prominent business man in town.
This endorsement of Mr.. Ryker, signed
by about $50 business men, was secured
when it was supposed that Mr.. George
would not be candidate. AS a matter
OF fact, the sentiment of the town is
overwhelmingly In favor of Mr.. George
I'VE need men like George on the
state board of railroad commissioners.
He knows more about rates than any
other man in the state of Kansas. He is
an expert. He knows so much about
rates that he would be able to avoid
making any rate which is unfair or con-
hscatoTv. All he wants Is square
deal. He took an active part in the
passage Of the railroad law, and he was
a leading witness in the grocery cOmmo-
dity case and other cases. He was
witness against whom the railroads
hurled their attack in vain He knew
his ground. This is the reason the rail-
roads are so bitterly opposed to him
He knows the rate business too Wei TO
suit them. They can't lead him around
by the nose.
His Arms Too Much AI1fmbo.
Il went to see n. H. LOOMS once,
and asked him why he was so much
opposed to George for railroad com
missioner. I urged him to go down
and talk to George. and see what an
intelligent and able man IS he. Looms
did so. and when he returned he said,
George has his arms too much ak1mbo
TO suit me- I don't know what he
meant by that, but suppose he meant
that he couldn't snuggle up as close
to him as he wanted to.
Two years ago Mr.. George was a
candidate for railroad commissioner,
and was beaten for the nomination by
only 26 votes. He was beaten simply
BY the railroad influence, in a cam
paign when the railroad question was
not the issue. This time the Repub-
lican party is on trial, and the rail-
road question is the issue. In the last
convention the railroads framed 1t up
for WheatIey, Walker and Robson to
be the men, and they put their slate
through. I don't believe they can do
it this year. I think that the people
know what they want. They will
not allow the railroads to put the able
men of the state aside by attacking
their character and villifying their
regulations. For ten years the rail-
roads tried to subdue LaFOllette in
Wisconsin, but he finally triumphed,
and it. will be the same way in this
state. 1t would be worth thousands of
dollars to Kansas to have a man like
]. s. George on the board of railroad
commissioners"
Asked to make a statement concern
ing the Robson interview in which
Mr. Robson stated that If Taylor had
been more respectful in his treatment
of the railroad attorneys. the rate
cases would not have been appealed,
Mr.. Taylor said:
Everybody seems to take the same
view Of the matter. They don't consider
that Mr.. Robson is to be held RESPONSE
bic for such things. OF course Mr.. Rob
ison intimates that If had gone to
the railroad attorneys and said, Please
grant US this new rate. and we will be
real good, we might have secured con
cessions without a fight. But I don't
propose to humble the state unnecessary
/ ". We are entitled to reductions in
rates as right not as a favor"
DEOFgan's Comments.
". z. Morgan. editor of the Hutehin-
son News, who was in Topeka Monday,
said:
/ II expect we win have quite a fight
down in our county on the railroad
commissioner proposition. We brought
out i. F. Ryker. who IS a strong. clean