The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-24
POLITICAL GOSSIP
w. H. Thompson, Judge-elect
32nd District, Here.
Thinks District Judges DO Not
Get Enough Par.
BAD FORT HOSE WEST
They Must Spend Large Sums
for Expenses.
BAD FORT HOSE WEST
Mr. Stubbs Makes Formal an
nouncement of Candidacy.


judges may have their expenses paid
while in the discharge Of their official
duties
Mr.. Thompson and his family are in
Topeka today on their way to Seneca
| to spend Christmas With Mrs. Thomp-
sons parents.
Il am not asking, said Judge Thomp-
son today, that the salary of the dis
triet judges be increased so that it will
AFFECT the term Of Office which is about
was simply after the extra pay. But
believe in the western districts the
judges should not only be allowed
enough to pay their expenses While
| travelling on the railroads, out enough
to pay eSspe nses at the hotels, and liv-
cry hire when livery Is necessary.
In my district there are very few
railroads, and I have to do most of
my travelling with q buggy. However,
would not use passes anyway, as l
made my campaign on that promise
/ The. salaries Of the district Judges
should be increased SO that a lawyer
can afford to take the Office without
! having an outside income to help pay
prises nine extreme western counties
am away from home practically the
whole year. 1t will cost any judge from
/ $50 to 800 month for hotel bills and
leaves a judge only the ordinary wages
of a clerk for his services. For the good
of tie public and the state the salaries
of the district judges should be in
creased"
Mr.. Thompson was asked concerning
the attitude of the representatives In
his section of the state On. the senatorial
question. He said:
.sIhe sRepublfcaus we're petty nearly
all for Murdoch until Murdoch made a
speech in which he favored free tariff
on sugar from Cuba and the Philippines.
That touched the BEEF sugar raiSers in
a tender spot. They have all gone back
on Murdoch. and l think tkey will most
of them be for Bristoy / Go not believe
that t1aV will he l1nC6r
circumstances"
Friends of Hopkins. tne defsated cam
d1date are making q bitter tight on
some of the editors and politicians of
the district who beflieuded Thompson
in the campaign. They have had one
man named Moore arrested for ciTcu- |
latlng 5ibellors statement about Hop |
kins, and have threatened to have |
Judge Thompson himself arrested.
Il am not much worried by the !
threats of these people" said Judge |
Thompson. Il have hopsG that they /
would go ahead and carry out some OF
the threats which they have made. l
personal work and by having a good
organization. I carried seven of the
nine counties in the district, and had
the fight won before Hopkins knew that
he rad any opposition"
w. R. Stubs has finally decided to
make a formal announcement of his
candidacy for the United States senate.
urday night, and is as follows:
Lawrence. Kan, Dec. %, 1906.
I'm fairness to my friends, and my
self as WELL 1 make the following
toriai situation. I have during the
past year stated openly in public print
and private conversation that / was
not a candidate for the United States
senate, and have not directly or in
directly attempted to nominate or
elect one single member Of the legis-
lature in any interest of mine. My in
clination has been to assist in COM
pleting the work which inaugurated
at the last session of our legislature.
together with the enactment of some
other important laws at this session
[ find however a large majority of
my best political friends throughout
the state are decidedly in favor of my
being candidate at this time. and I
have decided to do So Any man who
seeks an office of trust and RESPONSE
bility should state publicly his views
on important public questions
IT am strongly in favor of using the
federal constitution and the federal
law making power to protect the
masses of the people and competitive
business against combinations and
monopoHes rather than to protect the
unlawful methods by which a few men
have obtained or are seeking control
of practically all the railways. all the
steel coal, iron. lumber forests, mines.
oil sugar and every other necessity of
life, and are thereby legying an unjust
tax upon the earnings o4 every labOrer
and the income of every family in
America.
al believe that it is one of the most
sacred duties Of government to secure
to men and women who labor whether
they be enga ged in farming, stock rails
ing, railroading, mining. manufactur-
ing or any Industrial or other pursuit,
their proper share and division of the
results of their labOrs. These classes
Of our people produce the necessities,
comforts luxuries and in great
measure the wealth Of our country;
they comprise nine-tenths of our pop
ulatfon and are therefore the founda-
ton and support of our nation, and
am in favor of fostering to the fullest
extent their rights and opportunities
and their protection from unjust ana
unnecessary burdens This may be
done and should be without taking
from a man of business genius and the
man who performs exclusively mental
labor one single comfort or luxury
which civilization justly owes to him.
The relations of the Independent
manufacturers and the merchants Of
the country. as I see It. are The same
as that of the masses Of our people to
these all absorbing gigantic combina-
lions and trusts. and heir -ndepend-
ence. and the business they have given
lifetime of labor to build up is
there is federal regulation which eff
fectually protects them The whole
system of competitive business is
menaced by the growing power of
monopoly in the hands Of compare
lively few men,
81 am in favor of federal control of
tho railroads and al operations en-
gagged in interstate commerce, and il
elected I propose 10 fra me bill that
will place them under the same control
which the governnen now exercises
over national banks with beneficial re-
suits to both the banks and the peo-