The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-02

oiiu the chairman OF the senate COM
mittee become great friends. Any
thing the chairman asks he can have.
So we can see that In choosing this
craftsmanship Senator Long was fol-
lowing his clay feet and not his
analytical mind. Now do not mis-
understand this statement Long
made no corrupt bargain with the
powers of the senate to sell his vote
for the Craftsmanship of the census
committee. That came to him as a
reward of merit for his excellent SER
vice In the lower house. But he took
tnat committee because with it he
could satisfy his machine and his ma
chine would re-elect him. 1t is the
old game of giving the people the Jobs
and the powers the votes for the CEN
sus officers in any state fit a machine
IN that state to perfection. In the
first place there is supervisor for
each congressional district. A ma
chine is organized by having a cap
tain in each district Then. there is
county organization of the census,
just as there is in a machine. and
the census takers handle the census
by wards and precincts lust as the
machine has its ward and precinct
workers. And here is an Important
th1ng-a most important thing-the
work or the census will not be done
until 1910; Long must be nominated
in 1908; he is demanding service be-
rough are those clay feet when you
examine them closely.
But let us examine them still more
closely. Let us. look at Long and his
machine. 1t reached it's perfection in
the old Seventh district. Long him
SELF will say all there is to the ma
chine is this. THAT I stand by my
friends through thick or thin, and
that when man does me a service
reward that service according to it's
value. That is the machine, and moth
ing more or less" And the senator
is telling all the truth When a man.
no matter how corrupt he may be,
helps Long, by no matter how corrupt
a transa ction, Long will take pub
lie office, paid for by the peoples
taxes and give it to that corrupt man,
just as kings used to make army of
fcers out of their mistresses That is
all there is to the Long machine. All
over the old Seventh district men live
who by trading in county conventions
to help Long, gained his favor, and
finally got their reward according to
their service. If the man stopped at
nothing-Long stops at nothing If
the people protest, Long knows that
the man has prevailed over the peo-
pie in politics to help him once, and
that the man can do it again So the
public service, where the Long ma
chine rules, is service of men who
"do things" Public esteem counts
nothing; public service counts moth
ing. Business standing counts moth
ing. Service to Long is the criterion,
and given that a man may be every
thing disreputable, and Long stands
by his friends, and that is all there is
to the machine; for which heaven be
thankful, for if there were anything
more the people would have to move
out OF the country.
Now in the fight that is going on in
Kansas to get senator not owned
by Wall street, the machine is Longs
reliance. He has given up whatever
OF public affection he might have had
by his Wall street votes. and the CEN
sus committeeship and the machine
are his mess of pottage. In each con-
gressiona1 district except the Eighth
Long has captured the congressman's
machine, though in the First he has
not captured the congressman with
the machine as he has in the six oth-
ers. In the First district Long has
the old Curtis machine manned by
Mulvane and Billy Biddle. In the Sec
ond district he has the attorney for
the brewers and the representative of
the packing houses who 90 not for
get Longs help in the dear dead oleo-
margarine days. In the Third district
Long has DOC" Moore, chairman of
the state central. committee, an editor
of a paper that has no editorial page,
and Fitzpatrick, leader of the state
senate lodge; in the. Fourth district
Long has Harry Richter and I. E.
Lambert, the best trial lawyer that
the Santa Fe ever has employed; in
the Fifth district. there is United
States Marshal Bill Mackey. and in
the Sixth John Thomas does most of
the running about and is probably Of
ficer of the day; in the Seventh Mort
Albaugh, clerk of the federal court,
who though division commander, also
has charge of that particular brigade,
with Billy Morgan second in COM
mand; in the Eighth district Jim
Simpson, United States revenue col