The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-13
POLITICAL GOSSIP
VIM. Allen White Gives Anti
Curtis Crank a Turn.
Says All Old Politicians Are
Supporting Topeka Nan.
RAILROADS IN LINE.
Attorneys Working for His Ele-
vation to Senate.
Questions His Record on New
Railroad Bill.

William Allen White has added an
other chapter to his anti-Curtis cru
SADIE 1t is about the most vitriolic af-
fair which Nj White has turned out
Tor some time He says:
"a W. Smith is out in an interview
declaring in favor of Charles Curtis for
senator, II. E. Richter is for Curtis for
senatoEs Dave Mulvane declared for
Curtis recently George Findlay. Frank
Grimes. Dave hanna and every one Of
the little band Of faithful that was for
Burto7. through thick and thin is for
Curtis now More than that. every
professional politician il Kansas, OF
whatever former alignments. IS for
Curtis because Curtis represents all
that attracts the professional pollt1-
clan Curtis is an organiza ton Of poll
tietans pitted against the people. More
than that. Curtis is backed by every
railroad attorney in Kansas and every
one of the politicians in Kansas who
are for Curtis also are for the rail-
roads
"a W Smith, who defended the
PASS system in the state convention;
Dave Muivane. who Iobbied against the
shippers bill in the legislature; J. B.
Case. who is the ph geographic repro
ductson Of NJ A Low, and 50 on down
the line. wherever there is a railroad
attorney or d terrier who listens 10
his masters voice, OF wtnd-broken,
spawned. old political Warhorse, who IS
doped up every year with railroad
pass and sent out on the road to pull
the Stop wagon of rotten politics IN
Kansas. there you find a Curtis man.
And Why2 Because Curtis has given
ard Is giving value received He Is
valuable to the railroads, they need
him IN their business The noble red
man OF the forest covers his tracks. but
his nOccasins stink for all that
When the Frisco-Rock Island in
terests were getting some special legiS-
lation through congress last winter
consolidating some Oklahoma and IN
dian Territory roads they went to Cur
It's The roads were not Kansas cor
iporatIOns- They have general offices
in Missouri and in Texas Did they go
TO the Texas delegation or to the Mis-
souri, delegation2 Not much They
went TO Curtis and not only had him
introduce the bill and report the bill,
but steer the bill, and Curtis lowered
like messenger boy around the hotel
where Attorney Evans who was push
ing the bill, hung up
More than that although Curtis
claims he voted for the anti-pass
measure, he did not vote for it when it
first came up. When Iowa congress-
mon and Wisconsin congressman and
Minnesota congressman were voting
for an anti-pa measure, Curtis, in the
house, was voting against 1t and only
after he was pushed to it did he get in
the band wagon But if the anti-pass
measure was right, why did Curtis ride
home on a pass and why is he now
riding on a pass and why did he send
carloads Of strikers to Topeka on
passes to rustic for his senatorial can
didacy2 And again, Curtis insists that
he was against the railroads in the re-
cent fight for the rate bill If that is
so, it VIII be easy proved.
1.-THE shippers of the United States
had an organization in Washington to
look after that fight. This organiza-
ton in Washington, of which Mr.. Ba-
con OF Milwaukee was president, made
a record of every congressman, those
who voted right and worked wrong.
The men who were trying to drive the
people and the towards who protected
their records and tried to throttle leg
isiation were known, and the Gazette
states without the slightest fear of con
tradiction that Charles Curtis was one
of those men. If he is, and he says he
Is, one OF the leading men of the house,
he must have some real influence in
passing the rate bill If ne had any
real influence in passing the rate bill
Mr. Bacon will say So
THE only way the open prostitution
Of politics in Kansas can be maintain
ed is for the men who lived in the
House OF Mirth. under Burton, to
gather around the only wide open sen
atorial candidate now in the house
whose vote does not count. They
know that he did not mean it, or else
they would have none Of him If Cur
It's Is what he says he is, would Low
be for him ? Would Bill Smith be for
him Would Joe Richards and Alex
ander Cochrane be for him Would
LOOMS be for him Would Dave Null
vane be for him? Whenever was
Dave Mulvane for q man who was
really what Curtis claims to be?
THE decent people of Kansas are en-
tering the same fight against the poll
publicans OF Iowa and of Nebraska
have just fought and that the Demo
Gratis Of Missouri fought two years ago
And today the only way the people can
express themselves is in voting for leg
lslative candidates. It is a contest
above party. No man. whether he be
Democrat or Republican should be al
lowed to go to the legislature this year
who is under any suspicion of being
allied with the railroad combine
"A vote for Curtis is not vote for
the Republican party, but against it.
Tor the railroads know no party And
q railroad senator will hamper the Re
publican party in the United States sen
ate more than Democrat would: for
the Republican party stands for the
people. and a traitor in the camp would
be worse thar an open enemy. The way
to keep out the traitors is to see that
no man goes to the legislature who is IN
favor Of that kind of man.
T. s. Jackson. the Republican can
dfdate for attorney general. has antic-
lpated the arrival of the Stubs
questions" by writing a letter in
which he answers the questions fully.
and no doubt satisfactorily to the
Square Deal Republicans. Mr. Jack
son is the first Of the Republican
Nominees to come out with a square
endorsement of the position taken by
the revolutionists.
Mr.. Jackson's letter is as follows:
ct can see no possible reason for
can toward the so called square deal
movement. There has been much ban
ter among Republicans of apparently
different opinion, but it has been good
natured. There is no real opposition
10 the movement and no OPPOSITION to