The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-07-17

to expand its currency. The difference
between the sub-treasury scheme
which Long laughed at and the Aid
rich bill which he voted for Is that In
the sub-treasury the farmers were
wrong, and Long told them so, and in
the second case the stock gamblers
were wrong, but the railroads, accord
ing to Curtis, having elected Long to
the senate, he did not have the cour.
age to tell them they were wrong.
The next charge reads:
On page 1887 Long voted to give the ma
tional banks of the country the public
money without interest.
His defense is that they could have
interest on time deposits but not on
balances subject to check. This makes
distinction between government
money and state money held on depos-
it by banks. Banks have to pay inter-
est on dozens of large accounts on daily
balances subject to check, why not on
government money deposited with
them? But Long does not want to dis
turb things, as they are for Wall
street.
The next charge reads:
He voted with Senator Fulton against
going into the title of certain railroad coal
lands.
His defense is that he voted for the
appropriation. He did, but an attempt
was made to exempt investigation
from entries where final proof had
been made. La Toilette tried to get
the limitations as to investigation to
include only homesteads. So that in
the vast coal land swindles of the
West the department could go into
those and recover even if final proof
had been made. But Long would not
stand for it, and so voted. He wanted
the coal lands to remain in the hands
of the railroads, no matter how they
came there, and his vote shows it.
The next charge reads:
He is recorded on page 1919 as voting
against the telegraphers' nine-hour law.
The telegraphers of the country de-
sired to have law limiting the hours
of railroad telegraphers, who have
thousands of lives on their hands, to
nine hours. and the hours of station
men to II hours, where they are open
only during the day time. The con-
ference committee raised the time to
IL hours. Long voted for the confer
ence report and against the provisions
asked for by common sense and public
safety. His defense is that it was a
conference report. If Long would
stand by the people as consistently
as he stands by those who are trying
to keep their special privileges, he
would not be going over Kansas max
ing a defensive campaign
There is a record covering sixteen
years in public life, and to offset it
not one measure which would signally
benefit the people of Kansas. 1t is not
one of these votes, not two of them,
not half dozen of them, but all of
them piled up which show a tendency
to vote with Aldrich and the Wall
street control of the United States
senate that is unmistakable. No other
Western senator no Middle Western
senator has such record On each
of these votes Long can find with him
honest men who voted as he did. But
no one or two or three honest men
are found who voted all the way
through as he did. He has voted in
his party and out of his party, with the
and with the majority, but
always for Wall street. And as prov
ing his tendency to give the power of
wealth his influence as we'll
as his vote, read this letter from
Stephen Brandon, president of the
Douglas Exchange State bank, a man
three times elected from Butler coun-
ty to the legislature. On the date of
June of this year he says:
l notice you give Mr. Long credit for
personal honesty, but from what l have
heard and have reason to believe he is
not honest. Do you believe a man is hon
est who sells his official endorsement to
anybody. much less man of the oppos-
Ing party? Cyrus Leland told me in his
office that Long sold his endorsement to
a Missouri Democrat (AleN Cochran. rail-
road attorney for the Gould system for
United States circuit judge, the highest
judicial office in America except the su-
preme COURT. Leland told Long that he |
lLeland) could prove that Long got S., 900 |
for this recommendation. and that Long |
admitted that he got the money. but that |
tee.
Here is a case wherein Long en-
1orsed a Missouri Democratic railroad |
attorney, and stood for him until the |
egal department of the government |
and certain Missouri congressman had |
refused to consent to his appointment |
'or political reasons. Long stood for
Cochran while Judge Hook of Kansas,
active candidate with Kansas endorse
nent behind him, and Long only en-
lorsed Hook after Cochrain's appoint
nent was found to be impossible.
Now, what did Long do to the man
who has told many men in Kansas this
same story? Long, since the story has
become public, has taken Cyrus Lee
and as his ally in the senator-gover-
Tor fight. Long denies having got the
money, but does not deny the endorse
nent of this Missouri Democrat, who
s railroad political manipulation for
he highest Office in Longs gift, as
against a clean, worthy, competent
Kansas Republican. This shows his
endency. 1t shows that wherever he
AN he will line up with those forces
which seek through politics to keep
Unjust privileges and Cypress the peo-
lie. President Roosevelt's accusation
II these powers that prey classifies
hem, and Longs attempt to pack the
courts with railroad attorneys show
What he can do with his influence.
Again listen to this indignant protest
rom President Roosevelt at Raleigh,
Y. c., in the autumn of 1905: IF
here is in the minds of the commits
ion a suspicion that a certain railroad