The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-13
BOOST FOR DAWSON.
Standard OH Organ Calls Him "A
Kansas Blathersl1ite."

/ On the strength of writeup
which he received in the Pittsburg
OIL City Derrick, Standard Oil
semi-weekly publication, Assistant
/; Attorney General John Dawson, of
Hill City, Kan, is likely to be elected
governor of Kansas, or even president
! of the United States.
/ No man in the state has received
such an endorsement from the STAN
| da.rd Oil company in the history of
the state. It all came about through
Dawson's speech at the Kansas Day
club banquet, in which he talked at
some length about the Standard Oil
company's manipulations in the Kan
sas Oil field.
The writeup is one column in
length, and some of the choice ex-
tracts are herewith printed. The title
of the article is "a Kansas Blather-
skite'' and the article goes on to say:
For an example of monumental
ignorance, stupidity. malice, preju-
dice, fanaticism, we commend John g.
Dawson, assistant attorney general of
the, state of Kansas, who. is entitled to
rank with Roosevelt among the most
notorious Of the villifiers and detrac-
tors of the Standard Oil company
(Now what do you think of that?)
cat a recent meeting of a Kansas
patriotic society held at Topeka, he
had the gall to make the following
staten ent: In the mid-eontinent field
of Kansas, over 400 enterprises in
volving an aggregate capital of and
property Of the sum of $500, 00O,0 600
have been wrecked and destroyed in
the last three years by the unfair
methods of the Standard Oil COM
pany.'
EFF Mr.. Dawson believes that there
is any basis of fact for this mon
strous misstatement and utterly in
excusable falsehood, he is totally in
capacitated by his own mental bias
from serving the people of the Sun
flower state in any public office.
Mr.. Dawson presents a fair sam
pie OF the political demagogues who
have come into power during the past
three or four years. He is evidently
a man after President Roosevelt's
own heart
(That ought to be good for the
best appointive job Roosevelt has
lefty
''He ought to make as good a judge
as Lands in presiding over courts
where cases against the Standard Oil
company are being tried. No doubt
Mr.. Dawson will receive his reward
for this unwarranted attack upon an
organization that is the particular
'bug-a-boo' of the president. and is
e. the subject Of general hatred by the
poorly informed and malicious small
fry politici ans of the various states.
g.
people throughout the country who
have lost their money in wildcat oil
companies who will be willing to ac-
cept Dawson's mendacious assertions
as the gospel truth, and these will all
join the Coxeytte army which is heap
ing up odium and abuse against the
Standard Oil company.
Irresponsible attorneys and sensible
people realize that Dawson is a blath-
erskite, and merely talking to adj
vance his own personal and political
interests. There is not a particle of
truth In Mr.. Dawson's statement The
Standard has not cost the people of
Kansas a single dollar, wrecked no
fortunes. destroyed no property On
the contrary it has proved a source of
inestimable benefit to the oil industry
of the west, brought many millions OF