The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
SCOTT OPENS THE BALL
Holds Meeting in Kansas City with
W. r. stubbs.

There were only. $50 people present at
the stubbs-Scott meeting Tuesday nig-.e
in the Kansas City. Kan, auditorium
It would seem that this is a remarkably
small attendance for a meeting of such
Importance in a city the size of kan
sas City. This is the opening speech
of the Scott campaign in Wyandotte
county
Mr.. Stubs was not as fierce in his
attack on Henry Allen as usual He
confined himself to general statements,
and simply declared that all he had
charged against Allen could not be dis
puted.
Congressman Scott. in speaking of the
work Of congress on the railroad BILL
took occasion to say some rather sharp
things about certain Republican sena-
tors. He said:
The last of the three administration
measures to go over to the senate was
the railroad rate bill, and you know
what happened to the man who went
down to Jericho. I do not wish to say
that the Hepburn bill when It went to
the senate fell among thieves. It only
fell among Aldrich and Foraker and
kean and Elkins, and after kicking and
cutting it and trying by amendment to
rob 1t OF all the value it possessed, they
tossed IT with contempt into the hands
of Tillman, the one Democrat on the
committee who was thought to have
personal grudge against the president.
Il do not wish to speak diSrespectful-
" of Senator Aldrich or of those who
voted with him. They are very able
men. Some of them in war and some in
peace have served their country well.
But / do say that when they took this
great measure. which had come to them
with the earnest recommendation of the
president and the unanimous indOrse-
ment of the house of representatives,
and turned 1t over to a Democratic SEN
-1-s 4
minded meanness as surprising as it was
contemplate.
Their purpose, of course was to
weaken the measure and embarrass the
I want to say for Senator Tilman that
he is very far from being the clown or
the hafrbrained agitator that the cOun-
try once considered him. On the con-
trary, he is a very honest, a very earn
est and a very able man. The railroad
bill is immeasurably safer in his hands
than 1t would have been in the hands
of those who, pretending to be for It,
would really have sought every means
to weaken or kill it.
mo one can tell, OF course, what the
final action of the senate will be / can
only say that personally I most earn
est1y hope that it will pass the bill as
it came from the house ! am not an
anti-railroad acranlz-and will not be,
even If every railroad attorney in the
district is lined up in this fight against
me. I recognize thai the railroads are
Indispensable adjuncts Of our industrial
and comemrcial life. and I would not
take from them one penny that is hon
estlv theirs But I dc believe that they
ought to tote fair "
Representative Scott went from kan
sas City to Osawatomie and win spend
several days in speaking in various
counties in the district The last two
weeks of the campaign, which ends
March "a will be 'ent by MI Scott IN
Wvandotte county. The speaking dates
go far arranged are.
March 12-Quindaro
March 13-Bonner Springs.
March 14-AFgsntine.
( March f5-2Ch siseas park
March 16.-Rosedale.
Mr.. Scott will speak March II in the
Armourdale district in Kansas City,
kan. ana Will spend the next week
speaking in the city.