The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
HARRIS AT GREAT BEND.
Candidate for Governor says Enforce
Every LAW.

-1t[-t law
Great Bend. kan, Oct. 1s.zColoneI
| ". A Harris spoke to a crowded house
here Wednesday afternoon. In the
! evening he was given a banquet by the
Commercial club.
When the Introductory noise had
subsidized. Senator Harris. said. in part:
The weather has been so threaten
ing aid the roads are so bad was
really not prepared for an audience OF
this kind. If one-half the number had
been here should have felt gratified,
but as it Is I am almost overwhelmed
It's q great compliment and 1 wish you
to know how thoroughly L appreciate
It. In what I say today I want 1t ufl-
derstoOd that I do not talk from the
standpoint Of any political party. The
rank and file of the people OF Kansas
have the same honesty and patriotic
purpose whether they are Republicans
or Democrats or Populists 1 abhor
and despise this claptrap in which one
party resorts to mere abuse or the
other party. We intermarry 50 far as
Republicans and Democrats are con-
eerned and so far as denomination in
religion is concerned and there is no
excuse for party abuse. We are all
working TO a common end to have a
better government of our affairs wheth-
I er the persons in power are Democrats
or Republicans.
The last conversation I had with
Z
1 thoroughly. 1t was directly after the
Spanish war. He said: The thing
that pleases me about the war par
| ticularly is not the victories on land
and sea, not the ease with which we
won, not the complimentary things
said by other nations about our dem
cnstFa ton of power. but the fact that
we had a demonstration Of the absolute
end to sectional strife, 1t was as if the
entire country had stepped forward on
the firing line "
Senator Harris then told of the fight
that had been made in Missouri for
decent government.
Missouri he said, has set US a
splendid example. At the same election
it elected Roosevelt, a Republican, pres-
ident. and Folk a Democrat governor.
Let US follow her lead"
He then mentioned what had been
done along the same line in Pennsyl-
vanfa, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Mime
sofa and New Hampshire, where the
fight is much the same as in Kansas
the elimination of the domination of the
railroads Ia politics and legislature H.
told OF the rottenness of the great in
surance companies in New York, and
said: Under the leadership of Mr..
Hughes a lawyer of bravery. ability
and conscience, they were unmasked.'
Bringing his feet down to Intensity
the earnestness, Senator Harris said.
THE paramount issue in this campaign
is not as President Roosevelt has said,
a better and honest governme n1. 1t Is
the enforcement of the law upon which
we are making this fight Not one law
here and there. but the obedience to all
laws. Unless this is done and decided
upon by the people, anarchy and chaos
is bound TO result
I do not know much about poker,
remarked Senator Harris, but 1t would
seem to me that before a square deal
can be had there must be a new deal.
There must be new pack and The old
marked cards thrown away"
Speaking of the nonenforcement Of
the antitrust law introduced into the
senate years ago by Hugh Farrelly,
now candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor, Senator Harris said that while
the law had been on the books for nine
years no attempt had been made to
enforce it untr a few days ago wlren
Fred s. Jackson, associate attorney
general. candidate for attorney gen
eral, had brought a suit against the
International Harvester company
why this delay2" said Senator
Harris "Why has this suit been
brought just on the eve of election by
candidate for office and not by his
cbfef2 I don't need to answer that
question"
Speaking of the regulation of freight
rates and attitude of the railroad com
missioners in not enforcing the present
railroad law, Senator Harris said:
THE law is a good one # we had the
men behind the gun. AS I said, it is
good one but by a few amendments it
could be made better, and by the grace
OF God. we are going to see that 1t Is
not only strengthened. but that a
board is chosen with Judge Humphrey
at the head to carry out It's pro-
visions
Senator Harris spoke an hour and
thirty minutes.