The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-11
SHOT FROM WHITE
Charges Curtis With Trading
Off Positions.
Effo. to Capture Kiff Of Atchi-
son and Senator Young.
HOW THEY LINE UP.
Senatorial Situation Is Still
"In the Air"
No Candidate Has Enough Votes
to Win.
THE ANTS ARE FIRM.
Have Enough Votes to Defeat
the Railroads.
Showing a Disposition to Unite
Forces.
No Candidate Has Enough Votes
to Win.
HE ANTS ARE FIRM.
Have Enough Votes to Defeat
the Railroads.
Showing a Disposition to Unite
Forces.

William Allen White of Emporia,
IN an interview today, publicly de-
clared that Charles Curtis, candidate
for the office of United States senator,
is charged with having offered bribes
in the shape of jobs to William Kiff,
representative from Atchison county,
and Senator I. D. Young of Beloit. in
order to get their votes for senator in
the caucus this evening.
Kif was to get the postoffice at
Atchison to dispose of as he sees fit,
and Young was to be made congress
man from the Sixth district succeeding
w. A. Reeder, according to the story
of the propositions as given out by
Mr.. White.
Kif is the Atchison representative
who was elected in a distinct Curtis
and anti-Curtis fight He was elected
as an anti-Curtis candidate.
Senator Young is one of the prom
inent Square Dear' senators. and has
been frequently mentioned as a pos
sible candidate for congress in the
Sixth district.
Mr.. White says:
There is rumOr which comes from
one of my good friends in the First
district that a deal has been consum-
mated by which Kih of AtchiSon, who
was nominated and elected as an anti
for Curtis by the promises that he
could name the Atchison postmaster.
1t is said that the Atchison postoffice
appointment was made in ChiShams
name and that Chishar- put his resig-l
ration in Curtis hands to be used for
trading purposes in just such an em-
ergency as this. This whole deal is
part of the vicious system OF debauch-
cry of the public service which has
characterized the whole career of Cur
It's since he entered politics fourteen
l., s1O.1 NfT T7r,N- RrNr-
votes with men who would not take
their Doodle without that sugar coat
ing.
His audacity knows no limits. He
has had the effrontery to offer the
Sixth district congressional nomina-
ton to man of the high character
of Senator I. D. Young. 1t is needless
to say that Senator Young is the kind
of a man to know when he is offered
a bribe and there is no question about
his action in the matter. But this
shows what kind of campaign of
corruption and debauchery is being
waged by Curtis in this fight
The charge that the postoff1ce at
Atchison stands in Chisham's name
merely for trading purposes is not
new story. 1t was reported some days
ago in the Atchison Globe that such
an arrangement had been made by
Curtis and Chisham, and this Chisham,
as might be expected, promptly de-
MED The report was at that time
that Chisham was to give way to Shelf
field ingalls,, the other representative
from Atchison county, as soon as the
legislature is over.
Curtis rooters have been sent for
from all parts of the state, and are
f1ocking in to Topeka today on free
transportation furnished by the rail-
roads.
Many of these Curtis people come
from the Sixth district where the rail-
road influence dominates affairs to
such an extent that Curtis looks upon
that section of the state as his per-
sonal property.
This remarkable condition exists in
spite of the fact. undisputed by those
best informed as to Sixth district con-
ditions, that in most of the counties of
the district, the people are five to one
against Curtis. 1t is simply the old
story of railroad influence controlling
the actions of representatives, rather
than what the people want.
Today the Curtis crowd is claiming
the election of Curtis at the caucus to-
night They will be very much disap-
pointed if the fail to carry out this
programme. One strong Curtis man
from Shawnee county said today:
Curtis will have As votes on the
first ballot. and will be nominated on
the second or third ballot"
Mr.. Kin this afternoon made the
following statement concerning Mr.
whites 1nIerNleW-
'HThe statement that I have been
given the postoffice at Atchison as
consideration for voting for Curtis for
United States senator is absolutely
false. I have no intention of voting
for Curtis for senator. though 1 do not
say that the condition might not arise
under which I would do so. Nor do
say that the postoffice fight is not
entering into the senatorial PROPOSE
tfon. We think that the people of
Atchison should have something to
say about the appointment of post
master.
A well known Sixth district man
who is in the house of representatives
said today:
'I am for Curtis, but it is because
Curtis has befriended me, and 1 can't
afford to turn against him. But I
know that the people of my county
are against him. and I really think It
is likely to bring about the defeat of
the Republican party in the next state
election if Curtis is elected
One of the anti-Curtis people said
this morning: Curtis is in the race
Just as long as he can continue to gain
strength. The moment he ceases to go
forward, he is lost. His strength will
begin 10 fall away at the slightest in