The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-05

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tions the town has been united on for
yearsTwhere 1T was a question of men"
he continued. But here we find in To-
peka a union against him. Every rail-
road interest, every element of machine
| politics, every agency of graft, is lined
up to man against Stannard 1t is not
a matter of mere politics. The whole
state is interested in the success of
Stannard. For he stands, as no other
| candldate does stand. uneQuivocally
pledged for the direct primary law.
| which will break the back of machine
politics; for the anti-pass law, which
| Will break the back of the railroads in
politics, and for an equitable assess
ment law, Also, he will favor maxi
| mum freight laws on certain staple com
modittes, such as coal grain cattle
lumber and the like.
No other candidate in this fight will
say that he is for these things because
| they dare not. Stannard is free to do as
| ne pieases He is asking nothing from
politicians. He is depending for his
| candidate and does not want such
votes. He wants the unpledged, un-
bought, unprecedented votes Of every
| honest man in the legislature and he
proposes when he gets to town. not to
! go to the fxers and to the men who
control and handle members, but the
members themselves: He will not send
men to them. He will make a personal
appeal: He stands for the things that
are interesting the people and he ex-
poets the people in the districts to line
| their members up"
Frank stannard, the newly elected
senator from Franklin county, arrived
IN Iopeka Friday. He was accom-
Senator Benson's lifelong friends, and
ms FORMER law partner. Mr.. Stannard
Will be one of Senator Benson's sup
porters in the state senate
I'VE who have known Benson so
long, said Senator Stannard, feel
that ne is just the man the state needs
In the United States senate. He is
scrupulously honest and a man of
great ability He is not a politician.
but people will find that when A W.
Benson makes up his mind that a
thing Is worth fighting for. he will
fight about as long and tirelessly as
anybody. Benson's chances in the |
present contest I believe to be excel |
lent. He is in a better position than |
any of the other candidates, in my
opinion
The report that ]. S. Simmons is a |
Missouri Pacific attorney is incorrect |
pending against the Missouri Pacific |
He is, however, the attorney for the |
Santa Fe in Lane county but his |
friends insist that this should not |
prejudice him in his fight for the |
speakersnip.
]. H. Howard of Wichita, a leading |
miller of Kansas, declares that Curtis
lar with legislative matters of being a |
staunch friend of the railroads. Mr.. |
Howard says:
1--WE were never able to get his help |
until the president demanded a rail-
road law and now Mr.. Hepburn wants /
to claim the credit for the whole thing, |
just as Curtis is trying to do. We had
bills introduced into congress every |
session. Senator Elkins saw what was
coming and drew up a bill that would |
help the shippers ssQme. But not a
single thing could we get out of Hep
burn, who was chairman of the COM |
mittee. Our bills sawere lost some
place. ars c%a .a
I'VE have been fighting for this
meaDure since 1900. I have made 4
trip to Washington every winter ex-
cept one to help boost the bill. The
secretary, Frank Berry, has almost
made his home in Washington every
winter and I never heard of Mr.. Cur
tbs being in favor oft bill. Mr.. Ber-
ry saw him and never could get any
satisfaction out of him. 1t seems fun
ny to me that we have been working
all these years and never heard Of
Charles Curtis bsirg. with us until
read about 1t in heFpapers a few days
ago. If he was with us. why didn't
he come around and help.
Curtis was too busy taking care of
his brothers in the territory to pay
any attention to the shippers of Kan
sas. He devoted all his time to the
Indians and has not done a single
thing of benefit to the state. I defy
him to produce one single bill which
helped the condition of the shippers of
Kansas which he introduced in con-
gress Curtis, like Hepburn, was a
recent convert to railroad regulation
and they did not become converted I'M
til the president forced the issue. They
saw that they had to get behind the
and then became very active.
''Mr. Curtis ought to, ask E. P. Ba-
con, chairman of the executive COM
mittee, about how much help he gave
US in getting the railroad bill passed.
We have worked with congress six
years to get a bill passed and we have
failed until last session. We had a few I
friends in congress all the time, but
Mr.. Curtis was not one of them. He
lid not help US a bit until after the {
present bill became an administration /
measure, when Roosevelt got behind !
md gave 1t a push And Mr.. Hep
BURN cannot claim any too much credit
'or that bill, either" '
There is rumor going the rounds /
oday that the Curtis men have prom {
sed to DAM Anthony the Republican
for congress in the First
district If Anthony were able to turn I
he Leavenworth county delegation to I
Curtis Curtis has a powerful ma +
hine in the First district and he needs Z
help. The indications are r
hat Anthony has accepted the prom 6
Sc in good faith, as he is already at S
york and it Is announced at the Cope t
and that Senator Vinton Stillings and S
representatives Snyder and Umholtz o
f Leavenworth county were going to T
Import Curtis for the senate. n
John Cory, of Leavenworth, has de- s
Jared himself a candidate for con- d
ress in case of Curtis election. He c
avs:
at am in favor of Leavenworth peo- c
lie selecting a candidate who is not a y
nember of the political ring. and If t
UGH a man is nominated by the peo- I,
lie of Leavenworth county, I believe
70 will be the next congressman" o