The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-29

| lips Norton district. He appears to be
very popular, and will make good
race. His Democratic opponent at the
general election will be George Tan
nahill of Phillips county, three times
representative. Peter Pyle of Ken
sington has no opposition for repre-
sentative in this county He is a real
estate man. and has been active for
years in politics
DR.. j. B. Dykes of Lebanon, chair
man Of the Smith county Republican
committee, said Saturday night that
400 men were wearing Long badges IN
Lebanon Saturday and only three
men refused them. DR.. Dykes and
procession of young girls wearing
Long badges meet Senator Long on
his arrival, and had a fine band play
ing on the streets for an hour. He
predicts Senator Longs vote in Oak
township-Lebanon- be nearly
unanimous.
Passing then to his favorite theme,
the Chicago platform adopted at the ma
tional Republican convention last week,
Senator Long took. it up. plank by
plank, after he had sketched the i'm
portant details preceding the conven-
ton, connected with it's preparation.
Senator Long is tremendously enthusl-
astic over this platform. Again and
again he tells that he believes it the
strongest, the most virile, the most
progressive document of its kind in
many years. He tells his hearers that
he is proud of his part in making 1t;
of his being one of those who had TO
do with the preparation of the rough
draft in Washington after the adjourn
ment of congress; of his membership
on the subcommittee and on the full
committee on resolutions at Chicago;
and of the fact that he was one OF four
who finally revised it for the conven-
ton. The audience at Norton, as else
where, was glad to hear about this
platform, and welcomed with much ap-
plause the declarations the senator
made touching it. rf
The hearers az Norton also cheered
the strong statements Senator Long
made about Secretary Taft, the preSi-
Dental nominee, whom, again, he de-
clared to be the ablest and strongest
man named for president by any po-
litical party at any time in the history
of this country. There is no question
that Taft is a mighty favorite in Kan
sas, second only to Roosevelt himself.
and the feeling of perfect safety the
people appear to have in entrusting the
affairs of the country to Taft, once
Roosevelt leaves control, is most sig
nificant.
One day last week, a most busy day.
is worthy of reorganization, as follows:
Sixty miles of travelling, mainly by
automobile; six towns visited in the
course of the day; four speeches made;
and the whole with much profit, evil
IDENTIFY, to the Kansas senior senator.
In his speech at Phillipsburg Satur-
day afternoon Senator Long devoted
more than his usual length of time to
the Bristow- White charges against his
record, and to the methods used in the
Bristow senatorial campaign by ex-
hibiting the White document entitled
The Strange Case of Senator Long,
mailed on the 18th, instant, two days
after the Emporia meeting when Sena-
tor Long forced Mr.. White to retract
some of the charges contained therein.
Senator Longs comment was not
caustic. but it was emphatic he SAID
he would leave it with his hearers to
determine what kind of campaign 1t
was thus to. circulate charges against
his record-very serious charges-a1ter
they had been utterly exploded and as
credited. and after the author himself
before; an audience composed OF ms
own people, had taken them back and
assured Senator Long he would apollo
gize in his own paper
Senator Long. then told his audience
about these charges. giving the full
history of how the document had been
pTtpdTcu III doihh6 TN
der" as he put it. Selecting Sc of the
695 roll calls to which he had answered
in his congressional career. and then
taking only 35 of then as Sasis fol-
the charge that he had voted lin the
interests of Wall street. Senator Long
went over some of these charges. de-
Tended his career. said he did not want
to return to the senate unless the peo-
pie of the state were satisfied with MS
record and held up his Emporia speech
in pamphlet form, stating therein was
| contained in chronological order eacr
| charge and his own reply to 1t. ano
that the same could be had upon ap-
| plication.
The audience closely listened to Sen
ator Longs story of the White. charges
| and the Emporia meeting when Mr.
White was forced to retraction, and the
facts connected with that now famous
meeting. The audience also closely
listened to what Senator Long had &c
say of the circulation of the charges
as a document in this senatorial cam.
paign just as originally printed, and
since the Emporia meeting when
number of the charges We're with
drawn by Mr.. White who had fathereo
| and made them.
There could be no doubt of this strange
| campaign procedure, said Senator Lons
| exhibiting the document, and showing
| the envelope. received at the Phillips
| burg postoff1ce, and postmarked at Sa-
| lima on June II, and directed to lead
| ing citizen of Phillipsburg.