The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Chairman Ryan Sends ScOrch-
ing Letter to Chairman Hanna.
Berates Him for Trying to De-
liver POpulist Party.
is REAL IMPUDENT.
Asks Hanna to Tell Who Fur
nished Money and Passes.
Representative Murdoch Stirs
Up Excitement in the House.

w H. Ryan. chairman of the Demo
cratic state central committee, has ad-
dressed a sort Of an open letter to
George Hanna. the chairman of the
executive committee of the People S
party, in which he urges Mr.. Hanna
not to attempt to deliver the goods and
chattels Of the party over to the Re
puDlicans as he has expressed his in
tentions of doing Mr. Ryan goes on
to say further that he does not believe
that Mr.. Hanna and his friends can
deliver the Populistic goods to the Re
publicans even if they so desire as the
Pops are in sympathy with the things
for which the Democratic party
stands In his communication to Mr.
Hanna. Mr.. Ryan says. among other
things:
Il notice you are going to deliver
the remaining LOO Populist votes in
a lump sum over to the Republican
party. Do not do that now but tell
the public who gave you that $500 to
run the Keefer campaign and let Mr.
Keefer have the balance of the money
as he says he only spent about $1I5
and made a good fight. Also advise
the PODulists who furnished the passes
for the Fourth of July convention. and
do not try to deceive the honest Popu-
lists longer You cannot deliver them
to that lawlcss Hoch element that
furnished the 1000 plurality which
elected him. You ought to know by
what Mayor Ross of Wichita says, that
the governor has zone back on his
friends and promises However.
Mayor Orr thinks that the governor
will stand Pat bv AtchiSOn as the Joint
element did good work for him there
You say President Roosevelt is do
ing what the PoDulists advocated ten
years ago. They never advocated a
ship subsidy bill nor do they believe in
It now. The Populists of Kansas are
more interested in cars to ship their
grain to market in than they are in
warships or the steel trust with en-
phasfs on the word steaD. You know.
we Democrats and Populists did many
good things of which President RoOse-
veit is taking notice. We drove the
book trust ont of Kansas. Governor
Hoch brought them back and appoint
ed their agents on the school book
commission. Then the book trust
drove our mutual friend George Crane
girls a very inferior class of books.
You would not advise a Populist to
Join that gang would you?"
I'VE passed an antitrust law that IS
being violated every day by the lumber
trust. drug trust. beer trust. whisky
trust and railroad trust. The latter is
now engaged in shipping coal and
grain on all roads in the state and the
small dealer is compelled to sit idly
by and watch the railroad elevators do
business. He can talk about the war
ships that are going to be taxed UP to
him. Don't YOU think he is more in
tereSted in the government furnishing
him some cars than Warships? The
president is in favor of an income and
inh eritance tax You will remem Der
in 1897 / introduced a resolution ir
the senate asking congress to favor q
Ct Institutional amendment along those
lines and it passed the senate with
good majority You did not vote for it
You were then as now bushWhacking
with the special privilege class Roose-
welt is coming our way If we stand pat
You know in 1895 you and I were in
favor of revising the tariff tax. That
is responsible for breeding those un-
reasonable incomes Now is the time
TO act George Do not wait until the
battleships are built and the income Of
the Andrew Carnegies become unbear-
able TO the tOiling millions of our coun-
trvmen. George, we did more. In
1897 we elected a man to the United
States senate that represented Kansas.
OF course you were against him to
start with but you got right The re-
cent vote shows we did the right thing.
and Republicans, Democrats and
P0pu1fsts endorsed our actions. and we
naacs a. net gain on all the Democratic
ticket of more than ten thousand votes.
Again ycu will remember during the
special session of 1899 when you re-
signed under criticism Of your con-
St{tuents and Governor Leedy So
promptly accepted your resigna ton.
r vas the Democrats and POpulists
who came to your rellef and saved you
from being sent home in the middle Of
the session. They may have made a
mistake However, we are excusa Bile.
We thought YOU were a Populist
.sThere is no reason for you asking
those POpulist friends of yours to join
their enemies. You can not fool them
any more They know that the tariff
Il q rax They have confidence now in
men like Bryan and Harris, as much
as rhev had in 1896. because time and
events has proven that these men are
honest. They have no confidence in
Won. as the recent vote shows They
think. and SO do I. that you tried to
1,se them for personal gain during the
last campaign, and to the detriment of
the principles that they believe in
Now. George, you and I have been
friends / do not want you TO make
any mistake now. helped you out
0''sT .sTbe people of Kansas are in favor
of a so1are deal They favor revision
of tbe tariff taxes. They are not ask
ing for any battleships. They do not
care what party gives them what they
want. and don't you tnlnk ITO. Tor one mo-
rnent that you can fool them
washington, Dec Representative
Nr,rdock. OF Kansas, started a fire un-
ar the postoff1ce department in a
sDeach in the house yesterday when he
cbarred the government IS paying on
false weights for the hauling of mail.
As he figured it, about Is per cent Of
the money paid railroads for the trans
portatfon of mail is graft pure and sim
pie Every four years the government
weighs the mall on each road for a
certain period and bases its contract on
the average weights of that period. On
one big eastern line the last weighing
was for 80 days.
This took in u Sundays. In comput-
or,rr he fafT1CfaI