The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-03

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mayor for betraying the people and
drove him out of office.
You know that this man Root is op-
posing me because 1 have fought the
corporations that own him. the street
railway trust and the whisky trust. the
steel trust and the sugar trust and the
gas trust who employ him.
and you know this man McCarren Is
opposing me because have fought the
STANDARD Oil and the gas trust and the
brooklyn Rapid Transit. These men
and other corporation tools like them
are the best proof Of the truth of what
nave said, that men who are trying to
defeat me in this campaign are the men
who have been trying to rob you for
years.
He objected to my opposition to Je-
rome and he praised Jerome as a Dem
oerat of independence above all others.
I have no personal feeling against
Jerome. have opposed him because
he has been faithless to the people and
has betrayed the peoples confidence.
Mr.. Root objects to my opposition
to Mcclellan and calls him a worthy
heir to an honored name
st say that Mcclellan has stolen the
Office he now holds and ne knows that
he has stolen 1t and that the proof OF
his theft is in those ballot boxes, ard 1
challenge him now to allow those bal
lot boxes to be opened and those votes
to be honestly counted.
L see how Mr.. Root, the corpora
ton lawyer and empiOye of Thomas F.
Ryan, can indOrse George B. McClel-
Ian. the political pupil of Mr.. Ryan and
errand boy of trusts that Mr.. Root
serves but can Mr.. Root indOrse the
theft of the election in New York and
the crime by which the rights of citi-
zens were outraged and the liberties OF
citizens everywh ere threatened2
Mr.. Root objects to my opposing
Senator Knox. I have no personal hos
tility for Knox, and I do not think that
i have ever met him or seen him, but
/ do know that when l sent him docu-
mentarys evidence that absolutely con-
victed the coal trust of crushing out in
dependent coal mine owners he pocket
ed that evidence and refused to act for
two years, although his United States
district attorney Burnett had reported
to him that this evidence sustained all
my charges against the coal trust and
warranted their prosecution, and al
though he recommended to Knox that
the government institute proceedings
against these roads in the eastern dis
trict of Pennsylvania.
Il was finally compelled to proceed
outside OF the attorney generals office
and brought my evidence before the
Interstate commerce commission and
because of intermina BILE delay and in
adequate powers of the interstate COM
railway rate bill in congress which the
Republican party takes the credit for.
I positively assert the Republican par
ty stole the greater part of my bill and
that they would have had a better bill
if they had stolen all of it.
And that is also my answer to Mr..
Roots criticism Of my course in con-
gress.
Mr.. Root objects to my criticism OF
Thomas Taggart and goes over from
Ill
party TO defend the national chairman
of the corporation. wing of the Demo
cratic party
I have no personal feeling against
Mr.. Taggart I have opposed him be-
cause he conducted a gambling resort
where women and children We're allow
ed to play. This gambling house has
been closed up by the Republican gov
ernor of Indiana. I have opposed Tag
CART because he is a corrupt politician
and represents Belmont and the cor
porations on the Democratic committee.
I have opposed him because he stands
in opposition to honest Democracy and
American citizens everywhere I have
opposed Parker, Williams Woodruff,
ToWne. Cannon and others only when
they have opposed the people and I al
ways will oppose them when they op-
pose the people.
4 do not conduct my campaign or my
newspaper according to my personal
prejudices. but for the interest of hon
est citizens
Finally 1 say that the same reeog-
nized and unwritten rule that makes
the president the president of all the
people and not of any faction or section,
should apply to the officers of his adj
ninistration and that when Elihu Root,
secretary of state of the United States,
drags his high federal office into a state
election and into a personal and partisan
attack he degrades his office to his own
level"