The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-28
FIGHT AGAINST THt LOBBY


Governor Campbell has net hgm
self the task oi banishing the pro
fs-xsoual iobbyIs, from ID. state
capital We arr not sgffIswntly IA
mii!af wlth The situation 20 uud*E
tAa. 10 define uhat il fpeant ia
T'esaa sy The iaihY bat pT.sum-
ably sh. term lobbyist applies ~
any one who gosz 10 Aastin a. tb.'
paid representative II some special
interest sud last camps there We
don't Ano~ II this would catch Gus
good friends Isff Montgomery aud
Walton Pctest and Ed Curtis and
thro~ them over the garden sail
along ~iih Jake Woliors and posi-
bly, Frank Andrews But evidently
,hs lobby conditions are hutiful TO
The public welfare OF Tom Campbell
wouldn't be- 80 atfeuueusis striving
To uproog them joe Foik IL max
iug the same effort In Missouri, rs
disclosed hy the following utfeFaGce
OF the Kansas City Star
To offset the governor recon-
mendatiou for an anti-pass law tho
railway lobbyists are thick M JEFF
ferson CITY giving out railway trans
portation with more liberality Than
n has oyeg be@n distributed before
Aud that exhibition of arrogance Is
only one Of the many that the
agents OF special interests have in
dulgad in this winter The profess
ional lobby has never worked more
industriously and more dangerously
than at this season. when man Is
In the executive office who hiss fore
ed the fighting
The people of Missouri ought Ia
be aroused TO the sogt of pressure
that is being brought to bear
against the fidelity of their repre-
sentatiyes This lobby is not known
to be of the brazenly corrupt kind
# II has resorted 10 other bribery
than that OF railway passes 10 mem
bers and their families and friends
that fact has not been made patent
But it has brought in its train an as
founding number of individuals of
the old democratic machine and
lesser number of republican politi-
clans who used to work in connection
with the discredited senate combine
and all these are let loose upon
the country and city representatives,
each playing skillfully on certain
prejudices or party affiliations and
seeking to turn harmless predictions
of honest Legislators to the base
uses of special privilege or corrup-
ton
The people at home ought TO
force their agents in the general as
sembly to pass the anti-lobby law.
Never was there before a greater in
dictment of the lobby and the lobby
methods than the lobbyists themsel-
yes have this year presented. They
are putting up desperate fight.
They have men on their staff who
for years and Years drew their sus-
tenance from the public treasury of
Missouri. And now the people ought
to get into the fight. DO not leave it
all to the strong man in the COVER
nor's chair who has assailed the
powers of organized privilege for
the credit and for the material pros
perity of Missouri.
"The peoples interests are at
stake. With their support Folk and
his helpers in the general assembly
will be invincible. viii not Missouri
take up the Big Stick against the
lobby forces of turbulence and de
ceit that are right now seeking to
debauch or mislead the people S
representatives at jefferson City
For our part we do not see how
the evil is to be reached by legisla-
ton; the legislator who is Suscepti-
bic can always be got at. Besides, it
will be very difficult to draw the line
between the professional lobbyist
and the citizen who has the consti-
tutional right of petition. Neverthe-
/ less, as 1t is the expressed wish of
Governor Campbell to have law
passed in Punishment of the lobby
lists, the legislature should comply
with his request and thus test the
adequacy OF his remedy Waco
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