The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP
F. L. Platt Makes Sensational
Attack on Senator Haskell.
Apologies Through Paper for
Having Supported Him.
ANTHONY'S PLATFORM
Is for Revision of Tariff and
ANTHONY'S PLATFORM
Is for Revision of Tariff and
Control of Railroads.
Afro American League Throws
Bouquet to Bale Waggener.

kansan, at Kirwin, Kan, is creating
sensation among the Republicans of his
senatorial district by publishing the fol-
1 lowing statement. IN his paper:
An apology to the Republicans of
Smith, Phillips and Norton counties.
THE undersigned was delegate and
acted as chairman of the state senator
ial convention at Smith Center which
nominated w. H. Haskell for this dis
trict. We voted for Fred Morse until
| he withdrew from the race. We then
voted for w. H. Haskell who as we be-
lieve, in the last session of the legisla-
ture has persistently misrepresented
nine-tenths of his constituency. Mr..
! Haskell is a banker warden of the PEN
itentiary, and an all around politician.
| The writer is only the editor of small,
country Republican newspaper, and
without any political influence aspira-
tions, but he desires to apologize for his
| part in nominating and electing the
! aforesaid w H. Haskell to the office of
state senator. We realize that the pub
| fishing of this letter is mighty poor pol
| tiles, but it will ease our conscience in
a measure.
Papers in Smith, Phillips and Norton
counties will please copy.
Mr.. Platt's invitation for the papers of
Smith, Phillips and Norton counties
to please copy is being generally ac-
cepted, and some of the papers are
commenting extensively on Mr.. PIatt's
position. Some OF the papers are stand
ing by Senator Haskell and abusing
Platt for boiling" Among these pa
pers are the Gaylord Herald and the
Osborne Farmer.
D. R. Anthony has been obliged to
write his own platform, in the absence
of congressional convention to do it
for him. This is rather an improvement
on the ordinary plan of platform max
ing. Mr.. Anthony says exactly what he
thinks, and being newspaper man,
and having had experience with the
publication of platforms, he cuts 1t
very short There are no fowery exhi-
billions of language. Mr.. Anthony says:
While I recognize that the protec-
tive tariff and business prosperity go
hand in hand. yet there can be no
doubt that the time has come for a
schedules at the hands of the friends
of the protective principles. Tariffs
which are unfair, to the people should
be readjusted. The tariffs on iron
especially should be reduced to a
point which will cheaper these prod
ucts to the consumer in Kansas
and prevent the further extortion
of hundreds of millions of dollars of
unfair and excessive profits to the steel
kings of the east and the lumber
barOnS of the north.
IF elected as the representative of
the First district in congress shall
favor the government control of rail-
road corporations along the lines advo-
Gated by President Roosevelt.
81 shall also favor proper legisla-
ton to restrain the criminal trusts. By
criminal trusts I mean those corpora
lions and combinations of corporations
which are organized for the purpose
of crushing out legitimate competition,
and which nv the. crRa ff0N~ of
olies, demand excessive prices from
the people and exact swollen profits
and dividends.
ct believe in the nomination of all
candidates for office by direct vote of
the poole, and think the next Kansas
Legislature should pass statewide law
providing for the direct nomination of
all candidates for office, from road
overseer to United States Senator, by
the direct vote of the people the only
restriction to be for the preservation
of party lines, the division into great
political parties being one of the neces-
stiles of the American system of gov
eminent.
This country can never adequately
repay the debt of gratitude it owes
to the veterans of the Civil war. The
First congressional district of Kansas
contains more veterans of the Civil
war than any other congressional dis
trict in the United States. At my home
town of Leavenworth is located the
western branch of the National Sol
diers' home, containing nearly 1000
old soldiers. If elected to congress it |
shall always be my aim to advance
the interests of the old soldier and to |
favor all legislation which tends to- |
ward making the declining years of the |
nations heroes both comfortable and |
happy.
1.-THE plan for the construction of a |
macadamized military road between |
Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley by |
federal convict labor is feasible and |
i IL
civil standpoint. There will soon be |
a surplus of prison labor at both the |
military prison and the federal peni-
Tertiary at Fort Leavenworth. and |
for the building of this road to con- |
meet the two largest military posts in |
the United States.
aside from its military value this |
public work will prove OF great benefit |
to the farmers of Leavenworth, Jeffer- |
son and Shawnee counties, through |
which the contemplated road will pass
The Afro-American league met Sat-
urday and passed some burning reso-
lutions about Senator Stewart. who.
it is claimed by the league, attempted |
to secure the enactment of Jim |
Crow school law at the last session.
1t is fair to Senator Stewart to state
that he disclaimed any such intention
for his bill. and held that it would
have made no change whatver in ex-
listing school conditions.
The resolutions follow:
Whereas, State Senator J. H. Stew
art of Sedgwick county, and many of
his Republican colleagues in the Kan
sas legislature. made vicious and [
cowardiy attempt in the closing hours
of the legislative session to foist a /
general Jim Crow school law upon
the statute books of the state to the
humiliation and degradation of the
colored citizens, and,
Whereas The instieators and abet-
tors in this action would have been
successful in their nefarious designs
had not Senator B. p. Waggener of
Atchison county been alive to our in