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


gave the railroads over a million dol
lars the best of the government. More
over this is the vote which Long cast.
which, according to Curtis, made Long
voted the other way-and the railroads,
according to. Curtis, defeated him for
senator and railroad attorneys who
were Curtis lifelong friends were told
sert Curtis and go to Long. If that
was a clean vote, why did the rail-
| roads pay Long for It IN influence?
The next charge reads:
Long is found voting with the
Packing trust and against the farmers
and dairymen on a proposition to table
a resolution asking for information as
to what the packers were putting into
Wall street against the people and
Long voted with Wall street.
Long makes the defense of all his
oleomargarine votes together and 1t
pure food law later =directly disproves
that he was right. What is more. on
these oleomargarine votes Long is
| found voting against the honest votes
of the rest of the Kansas delegation
except one-and moreover Long voted
( in the minority. 1t was not legal
question as he claims for some of the
best lawyers In the house voted
against him. 1t was a question of the
beef trust against the people, and
| Long lined up as ne always does Win
the special interests.
The next charge reads:
ION page 6499, volume 33, Long is
| found voting against allowing the
president of the United States to sus-
pend tariff duties, on. any article found
affect securities in Wall street. 1t
would act as a big stick over Wall
street, but the trusts needed vote
and Long gave them. one. The people.
had to whistle"
| His defense of his vote of no con
| fidence in the president was that it
was Democratic measure. 1t would
certainly seem as though If the Dem
ocrats had confidence in the president,
| a man who is always Dragging of his
lining up" with the president might
! have confidence enough in him to let
him suspend duties on trust made ar
ticles unless, Of course, Long favored
| the trusts. But a Democratic measure
| favoring the people is different from
| indorsing Democrat for circuit
/ Judge. In that case the Democrat
had a railroad Endorsement and was
a railroad attorney. In the case of his
vote of no confidence in the president,
the Democratic measure was opposed
| by the trusts.
| The next charge reads:
| Long is recorded as voting against
a bill on page 6501. to require corpor-
atoms doing an, interstate business to
1 file statements of their financial con-
| dition with the government The bill
was along the line of publicity advo-
d., Gated by Theodore Roosevelt at the
time but Wall street is against pub
fiicity. and so Long voted with Wall
| street" ~
| His defense is that the measure was
overwhelmingly defeated. Yet Long
was not afraid to stand with the min
! nritx in tic artv m re
| with the beef trust. and he was not
afraid to be one Of eight who voted
| against the provision of q proposed
antitrust bill which would have ex-
empted farmers and labor unions
from the provisions of the bill. Two
| hundred and sixty congressman voted
the other way. - See page 6501 of the
! record of the Fifty-sfxth congress. He
lis willing to stand3Hith the min ority
/ against holding a big stick over the
| trust, against making the packers stop
poisoning the people. and against or
ganized labor-see page 1856, vol.
"a. part L. of the Record also 1854.
vol 3d. p. 5-but he Is not willing to
stand with the minority to make the
trusts tell the secrets of their robber-
thinks they are sacred.
The next charge reads:
1.-The grab of the Pennsylvania rail-
road in building the Washington sta
| ton is one of the most notorious in
the country. Scores of honest men in
congress protested, but Long did not
protest. On page 1850, volume So.
part 8, of the Record, Long is found
voting for a gift of over million dol
lars to the railroad. 1t was place
where Wall street needed a vote and
Long was dependable"
His defense for giving away moro
than million dollars more than was
demanded by others to the Union sta
| ton steal is brazenly defended be-
cause 1t makes a beautiful station.
The Pennsylvania railroad was asking
congress for three mills on dollar for
vacating-not the railroad's own land.
! but public streets of Washington
| which the railroad never had paid for,
and agreed to use the stolen mil
lions for a depot. Long voted to give
| them 4 millions, and stands up and
says If I am a thief Roosevelt who
signed the bill, is also a thief. But he
| does not say that in the bill other
things were carried, and that to veto
the bad Roosevelt would have had to
veto much that was good. But he has
| his machine to claque at this, so he
| blackens the character Of Roosevelt
and they howl with delight. The next
! charge reads:
| ION page 5133. volume IS. part 5,
Long is found voting for PROPOSE
ton which allowed an asphalt outfit
| to retain claims in the Uintah
| reservation that under the law be-
| longed to the people and represented
unestimated values. But it preserved
| things as they are and so justice and
! equity were not considered" ~
His defense is that he was merely
| carrying out contracts. The truth as
| shown by the record on the page
| which records the matter is that the
contract expired when the lands were
| opened to settlement, and that the
| outfit wanted the contracts renewed,
| and Long voted against giving the
mining corporation had camped there.
and because the mining corporation