The Chanute times., 1908-07-10
THE s EN- Alto RIAL
CONTEST,

senatorial contest is the question of
whether Kansas shall have a senior
senator, or whether Rhode Island
will cast three votes in the senate
and take one from Kansas. Aldrich.
of Rhode Island, and Long, of
Kansas, are of one mind-and it is
Aldrich's mind. Kansas needs a
senator. On the proposition to
abolish the long and short haul, by
which Kansas, Nebraska, the Da-
kotas and the Missouri valley states
are kept agricultural states, Nebras
ka senators voted for their con
stituents. But Long this last May,
voted with Wall street against the
proposition. He voted against the
explicit recommendation Of the
interstate commerce commission,
against the best Kansas experts,
against the judgment Of big Kansas
shippers, and he said at Emporia,
explaining his vote, that ESQ long
as continue in congress, l shall
vote against such a proposition"
He votes thereby to tax every
| bushel of wheat, every pound of
beef, every hoof of live stock and
every bushel of grain raised in
Kansas. For the Missouri river
rate makes it impossible for any
large manufacturing city to grow up
under the domination of that rate.
Why is it that between the Missouri
river and :he Rocky mountains there
is NO large city? 1t is because the
Missouri river rate absolutely chokes
industry and compels the farmers to
sell their products raw and ship
them to the large cities of the
| Missouri river, and then have them
shipped back to the consumers
thus making the double haul. The
railroads get the profits of these
doule hauls. They dribble these
profits back IN campaign contubu'
tions to elect senator's and congress
men and keep political machines
going.
Ia Nebraska they have smashed
the machine.
In the Dakotas they are smashing
the machine.
The Republicans of South Dakota
have Just defeated Senator Kittridge
at primary because he stood IN
with Wall streetAnd against Dakota
Kansas Reps blicans have beer
de6ed by this man Long who says
he will vote against reenacting the
long and short haul clause of the
rate law, and they must defeat him,
if Kaasas goes forward.
The question is whether or moi
Kansas shall have the senator from
Kansas or whether Rhode Island
shall vote the seaator from Kansas.
What Kansas needs right now is
not a man who stands in with the
big bugs. What Kansas needs righ,
now is a senator who will vote for
Kansas. So long as Long is in the
senate, Kansas will not line up with
Nebraska and the Dakotas for the
interests of the West, but will line
up with Wall street for the interests
of the East.
Long cannot show one single
vote which has helped Kansas and
the Middle West as against the
interests of Wall street.
Will the people of Kansas con.
tinue this machine control of Kansas
any longer1 Will they vote to have
their votes cast by Aldrich in the
seoate2 Why should Rhode Island,
not much bigger than Lyon county,
have three votes in the United States
senate and one of them from great
free state of Kansas Bristow
fought graft and corruption and put
crooks in Jail. Long has stood in
with graft and corruption and put
crooks In office. Waen the test
came, he endorsed Alexander Cech
rain, a Missouri Democrat for the
United States circuit judgeship, and
did not give his endorsement to a