The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-30
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Kansas Day Club Arranging for
Annual Banquet.
Officers Expect Record Break
ing Attendance.
YOUNG OUT OF WAY.
Withdraws From Race Against
Congressman Campbell.
Judge Rees Formally Announces
His Candidacy.

The Kansas Day club executive COM
mittee is holding meeting this after
noon for the purpose of discussing the
programme for the January banquet
Nearly all of the district vice presidents
and other officers are in the city.
The Republicans will look over the
Held and decide who they will invite to
come here and make the principal
speech of the evening. The Democrats
have secured Bryan for their Jefferson
banquet on February %, and the Re-
publicans will try to get a man of equal
prominence.
Secretary William Vernon said today:
This is the year when we usually have
big attendance at the banquet 1t is
the year that candidate are made, and
lieve that the abolition of the passes
will not interfere seriously with the
banquet. We will have large attend
ance. The Democrats claim that they
will have 1900 at their Bryan banquet,
and we ought to do better than the
Democrats
The Coffeyville Journal says: 1.-THE
withdrawal of P. c. Young of Fredonia
from the fight against the renomina-
ton of Congressman Campbell has
caused terror in the camp of the poll
ticians who have been trying to prevent
Mr.. Campbell from succeeding himself
as the Third district Republican mem
Der for congress next year. Young's
withdrawal probably means the end of
the fight against his denomination for
without Wilson county the congress-
mans opponents will be seriously and
probably fatally handicapped"
Judge r. r. Rees of Minneapolis,
has given out an official announce
ment of his candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for congress in the
Fifth district. The statement is digni-
fed, but decisive, and shows that Mr..
Rees is in the race to stay. He says
in part:
that L have no personal grievance or
ill will against the Hon. W. A. Calder
head, our present repreSen tative, but
I do have some convictions on public
questions that may, or may not, agree
with those entertained by him. I be-
Iieve that the sovereign power of the
government should be exercised to
control, to a reasonable extent, the
operations of corporations engaged in
interstate commerce. In theory
corporation is the creature of the par
ttcular state that grants it's charter;
but In practice the business and social
ten carried on in some other state.
Many of the corporations which OPP
crate almost exclusively within this
state derive their legal existence from
the territory of Arizona or the state
of New Jersey. When these corpora
lions engage in interstate commerce
and demand and receive the privileges
OF citizens OF the United States, so far
as to permit them to sue in the feder-I
al courts on the grounds of diverse
citizenship in states other than the
one to which they owe their legal ex-
istence, 1t seems to me that they be-
come legitimate subjects for proper
federal control"
Judge Rees cites the Union Pacific's
Utah incorporation and other in
stances and advocates a federal IL
cense. Continuing, he says:
"I believe in the principle of a pro-
tective tariff, but the amount of the
tariff and the objects on which a tariff
is laid should be subjects for revision
from time to time. While the country
should not be kept in constant
state Of uncertainty and turmoil by
reason of agitation and legislation,
yet I think the time is now ripe for
revision of the tariff along some lines,
particularly with reference to lumber,
paper pulp and some of the products
Of iron and steel.
ST believe in the election of United
States senator by a direct vote of the
people, and I believe that an effort
should be made to secure thorough
going direct primary election law to
determine the nomination OF all Of
ficers in this state, and that 1t should