Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-08-19

The questions propounded to ].
L. Bristow, republican candidate
for United Safes Senator, by H.
P. Farrelly, his Democratic oppo-
nent, are as follows. Bristow won
over Senator Long in the recent re-
publican contest, and one of his
chief hobbies was to ask the Sena-
tor horrid questions. Now the
tables have been turned. BriStow
asserts that he will answer Mr..
Farrelly's questions in due time:
Are you IN favor Of bank guaranty
law?
Are you IN favor OF an income tax?
Are you in favor of the ship subsidy
proposition?
Are you in favor of the trial Of con-
troyersies arising under state laws in
state courts hrstp
In the regulation of interstate com.
merce and private monopolies, do you
propose to substitute federal laws for,
or add them TO state lawsp
Do YOU believe private monopoly is
ever justifiable?
Are you in favor of radical reduc-
ton OF the tariff on the necessities of
life?
Are you in favor of removing the tar
If duties from all trust controlled
goods and placing them on the free list?
Are you in favor of publicity of cam
paign funds before election?
Did you not evade the Kansas law
relating to the publicity OF campaign
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committee?
Are you in favor of the election of
United States senators by direct vote Of
the people?
viii you join me IN a request to the
secretary of state to cause our names TO
be printed upon the official ballot and
abide by the result?
Are you in favor OF the election of
federal judges by direct vote Of the
people?
Are you in favor of the election of
postmasteTs by direct vote of the people
whom they serve?
Are you in favor of electing tax Off.
GERS and other public officials, when
ever practicable,b direct vote of the
peopleP
How do you propose to protect
American labor against the importation
of cheap Oriental labor?
During the year 1907 did you not ad-
vOcate editOrIally in your newspaper
the importation Of Japanese and Chi.
nese laborers to compete with Ameri.
can lab0rers, and if 80, are you still in
favor of the propositions
When charged with indirect contempt
of court, are you in favor of granting
the defendant jury trial?
II you are elected and your party as
s0ciates disagree with you upon any or
all of the above propositions, Will you
stand with your party2
Are you Standing upon the Republi.
Can platform In this campaign
When you were seeking election to
the United States Senate two years ago,
did you not indorse Senator Long 8 con-
gTessional and senatorial career, per
sonally and editOrially, in your paper?
And did you not request Senator Long
to procure a sinecure position for you,
whereby you might draw 81 500 a year
from the public treasury TO carry on
your campaign, and assure him that
you would stand by him?
Is it not true that you and Senator
Long were both wrong two years ago,
and that you have recently adopted a
few Democratic doctrines for the pur-
pose of counting favor with the people
and defeating Senator Long?
If you were wrong two years ago
when you were indorsing Senator
Longs record, and are right now, will
you continue to be right in face Of
your party's opposition?
When did you experience a change
of heart upon the Democratic doctrines
you have recently embraced?