The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

theories of White, and not doing the
Job half as well as Bill did. He even
uses the charges that White took
back. Practically all of the piece is
stolen from Bill and is only an ex-
preston. of the opinion of White. d.
luted with muddy water by the gentle
man from back east. Long has an
swered those charges, his explanations
have been generally received as cor
rect, and the campaign is now on
other lines. OF course Mr.. Oskison
did not have the letter of Mr.. Bristow,
published this week, in which Bristow
tells Long that he can get job for
him (Bristow) because ne CLong) has
stood by the administration all the
time. This letter of Mr.. Bristow con-
tradicts the Oskison idea of Long and
it plays Ned with the Oskison idea of
Bristow. The letter is such any
ordinarily politician wanting graft
while he was running for another Of
hce. would hardly write.
1.-THE Golfers article also attacks
Longs 'appointees,' saying that Long
stays by his friends. Long does have
habit Of doing that. But the ap-
pointees are the appointees of Presi-
will leave it to any Republican wheth-
er he thinks Mr.. Oskison is better
qualified to make appointments than
Roosevelt. The article expresses the
opinion that Long would make "a use
ful senator at large That is quite a
compliment. But Oskison thinks
Long is not good for Kansas. Kansas
can stand having a senator with such
conceded position as Senator Long,
especially as Mr.. Oskison's bad opin-
ion of the senator is contradicted by
his admitted standing with Roosevelt
and Taft, and even by his opponent,
Mr.. Bristow, until he wanted Longs
place. 1 think the article will not hurt
Long and it is a joke on Bristow being
pure and above political tricks when
you read his letter made public re-
Gently.
1.-The kind of attack that Golfers
this is question of judgment. On
one side we have the opinion of Mr..
Osk1son. paid to write that kind and
no other. On the Lone side we have
the avowed recognition of Long by
Roosevelt. Taft and all the senators
and newspapers, friendly and I'M
friendly. There ought not be much
difficulty in coming to the right de-
cision between those two sides. Mr..
Oskison simply loaded his gun with a
lot of old shells and used up wad-
ding. 1t won't even go off.
Il notice that the other political
piece in Golfers this week Is boost
for Bryan. So 1 don't know whether
Bristow or both. but as the Bostonians
say: I think 1t will be eyether and
neyther.'
Kansas City Journal, and former pres
ident of the State Temperance union.
is backing up Charles NJ Sheldon's fight
on Cyrus Leland as a candidate for
governor. 1t looks as though the tenn
perance leaders were making an Or
ganized effort to turn the solid prohi-
bition vote of the state over to Mr.
Stubs. Mr.. Gleed says in a public
statement:
I have been very deeply interested in
10y
ever since Its passage in 1880. During
all that time have been fairly well ac-
quainted with the public men of the
state and their attitude on the liquor
question. I was, for three or four
years, president of the State Temper
ance union, and I have been a men,
Der of it's executive committee for a
much longer period.
For many years before Mr.. Stubs
had anything to do with politics he was
a heavy annual contributor to the State
Temperance union. During that same
time Mr.. Leland was frequently re-
ferred to as apple Jack Cy." Mr.. Le-
land may always have been in his Sc
cret heart, a friend to the dry side, but
1 never heard of 1t till the present cam
paign began.
J. w. GLEED.
The short registration in some of the
cities of the state is bothering the poll
ticians not a little. Only a week re-
mains in which to get out registta
| ton, and all of the large cities are
said to be Shy" This is undoubtedly
| the case in Topeka. Leavenworth re-
ports that only 1000 voters are regis
| tered.
The Bristow campaign will close with
| a big meeting at Emporia on August 1,
which will be addressed by Robert M.
| LaFollette of Wisconsin. The arrange
ments for the LaF'ollette speech were
made by William Allen White. The
speaking will be at o'clock in the
afternoon at Humboldt park, and the
speech will be purely political, entirely
| independent of the Emporia Chautau-
qua.
Cyrus Leland, w. j. Bailey and F.
B. Dawes made a final round up of
| Leavenworth Friday. In the after
noon the three spoke at the Soldiers
| home, and in the evening they spoke
| on the court house lawn. There was
an audience of about 1000 at the Sol
| diers' home, and the court house
| meeting was well attended.
| W. r. Stubs, J. L. Bristow and VIII
| AaN Allen White were the speakers at
the Hiawatha Chautauqua yesterday.
| Stubs talked in the afternoon, and
cave his usual political address. White
| did not talk politics. Bristow reiter-
| ated his interrogatories to Senator
Long, and demanded that Long answer
them in his address at Hiawatha to-
day He said that Longs remarks at
| Mcpherson concerning the physical
valuation of railroads was no answer
| at all, and said:
"These questions are plain, specific
| and definite, capable of direct an
swers. There certainl-- is no occasion
for circumlocution or indefinite state
| ments. What the people want to
know is, is Senator Long for or
against the issues set forth in my ques-
| tions?"