The Topeka state journal., 1908-10-28

So With these concessions I still fail
ed to get Mr.. Botkin to address the
convention.
Mr.. Stubs has for a number of
years peen supporter of the State
temperance union. Mr.. Botkin has
likewise always supported the union.
There Is no question as to the per-
sonal sentiments of each of these gen.
tlemen. but somehow the wet and
lawless element of this state are ac-
lively up against Stubbs and Jack
son." 81.
Harry B. F1eharty. who was pri-
vate secretary to Ex-Governor Leedy,
and one of the picturesque products
or Populism, is now candidate for at
torney general of the. state of Ne
braska on the Democratic ticket. The
head of the ticket is Ashton c. Shall
lenberger.
The news that Fleharty is a can
didate for attorney general of Ne
braska is the first that has been heard
of the famous Harry for some time.
While a resident of Kansas he was
known as a preacher, later as a pol
itician, and only incidentally as law
yer. He set a pace which 1t would
doubtless have hurried the average
preacher to maintain, and his career
in politics was filled with spread
eagles and figure eights. He was 1o-
vial, talented, good mixer, ana eV-
erybody's friend. He was proDaDly tne
only one of his kind in the Populist
party. He lived at number OF
places in Kansas, but when the great
white light of political prominence
burst upon him, he was a resident OF
Marion.
]. Ralph Burton claims that he is the
real author of the Sherman antitrust
law. and that Attorney General r: >.
Jackson is the only one VINO gave MN
due credit for the antitrust law en- en-
acted in Kansas in 1889. known as the
Burton antitrust law. In an interview
in the Garden City Telegram, Mr.: Bur
ton was asked concerning Tafts de-
cision in the Addystone Pipe case IN
volving the Sherman antitrust act. He
said:
There isn't any Sherman antitrust
act; it's my act, and there isn't a
lawyer in Garden City who couldn
write Just as good decision declaring
| it's validity as Taft did; ,-,.
1.-THE legislature of 1889, of whlch i
was a member, passed an antitrust
| law. 1 wrote 1t. I took 1t from. the olu
common law, with only this exception;
| I left out the word unreasonable. IL
a trust or combination is in restraint
| of trade. it's unreasonable, anyway, l
had thought a good deal about TINS
subject, and had had many talks Win
Judge Usher, who, you know, was gen.
eraI counsel for the Union Pacific and
had been secretary OF the interior III
President Lincoln's cabinet
THAT law of mine is on the stat
ute books today though somewhat
amended in 1897, by State senator H.
p Farrelly. -ooo
THE following year. June, $780, CON
gress passed the socalled sherman anu anu,
trust act but the language, II you VIII
examine the statutes, is Identical WIN
my law. IL. +h;s
49,, For nv naper. No one ever gave
me credit for this except Attorney Gen
| eral Jackson: he once made the State
ment that the credit of the enactment
of the antitrust act should go TO me
who was its author.
Cvrns Leland and Charles Curtis put
in fhe day together in Brown county
Monday. campaigning in the lnteresls
Of the Republican members OF the ieg-
| is1ature.. There is a fight on the Re-
publican nominees in that1counsy1 ssHeSwortb M4s'
night Mr.. Curtis was al heaoei%Ui We St,,hhs -,
and spoke strouglSsin favor OF StuoDs
| and BriStoW-