Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-08-13
BRIS7OW OF KANSAS.
A New Man Who Will Stir the
Senate.
To Toilette, who Did Much to Brins
About His Nomisation. VIII Find
Him IN Able sud Vigorous Coz
sdjutor-Hovv Bristow Con.
-hucted His Campaign.


Another new member with an INFINITE
pacity for making trouble will soon be
on his way to the senate This is Hon.
Joseph T.. Bristow OF Kansas. former
fourth assistant postmaster general who
appears TO have awaited through the re-
! publican primaries Of tho Sunnowcr State
| like trans mississippi cyclone thus
sweeping away tho political prestige ~
senator Charles I. Long says the Wash
ington correspondent Of tho Boston Tran
| script. Up 10 date. the man In recent
years who has had TO o great degree
monopoly Of stirring mp things in III,
Senate and encountcring tho wrath ent
disgust Of the old ruling. trad,tion-iov,ns
senator's. is Ia Toilette Of Wisconsin, n.
may he expected to have a most inter-
est!ng and capable coad,utor In the per
| son Of Mr. Bristow
| Bristow is one Of those Caseiusos with
the lean and hungry look that has always
been regarded dangerous. II would
seem this idea has reason 20 support II.
Certainly, the experience OF Nr Lone
would warrart the notion. So also, would
the experience Of the malefactors In the
post Office department whom Brlstow
trailcd down rclentesslv and pertina-
ciously. Tall, thin, STOPPING and angular,
Brstow has great capacity for hard
work and a most amazing fund Of energy
on which he IS at all times ready to
draw.
To say that washington was surprised
at the triumph Of Brstow over Long Is
putting tho case mildly. Only " few we'll
Informed folk w irC ~
the depth Of radical sentiment In Kansas,
were prepared for what happened. In
Washington. Long has been known as
. one Of the Roosevelt senator's No one
has trekked to the White House more
. pcrsis:ently than he, and when the Taft
movement got under way. Long appeared
In the role of one Of Its most enthusi-
ast'c Supporters. He could not really
, have done otherwise, for Kansas Is
Roosevelt state and FOR Long to have
opposed Taft would have put him out
. of the running for the Senate at tho
, very outset. But the difficulty with Long
, was that while in the senate he was
going through the outward motions ~
supporting the administration. his oppon-
ents out in Kansas were bic TO make a
, showing on the proposition that ne was
Z aligned as far MS appearances would
permit him with Aldrich and the conser-
g vative republican wing of the Senate.
To charge a man with being ono Of
O. Aldrichs aiders and abetters out in the
: middle west means his political damna.
ton unless ne can disprove the charge,
and Long was not able TO do H.
a When Brstow first entered the race for
Il the Senate he was made Night OF. He had
q camped on the trail OF the post-oirice
|
: feelings Of good many members Of
8 Congress. He was practically forced out
= OF the post Office department. President
n Roosevelt. who realized what he had done
= In the post Office department. gave him a
d commission TO look into the freight rates
= In the Canal Zone Bristow went to
q Panama and evolved a long report where
n In ne scored heavily against the Pacific
=. Natl Steamship Company. No one paid
II much attention TO II. however. He went
back to Kansas. bought the Salina Journ-
G al and began TO write editorials that FAY
q ed and sinEed the political person Of Mr.
q Long. Mr.. Long warned that he
a had a man on his path who never re-
@ lentcd and that he would better look out.
q Long thought he safe but II wasn't
"a a great while before Kansas sat up and
n took notice. Kansas likes nothing better
. than to listen to the fierce fire of I'M
J. passioned oratory and TO look on the
y lambert. leapng. licking flames Of the
:, editorial that fairly burns It's QuivernS
q victim, So the circulation of the Salna
% Journal Increased and the danger FOR
10 Senator Long grew apace. Bristow went
- all over the State. attending meetings OF
=. postma sters. all of whom he knew we'll,
>, and finding some excuse for being al
~ every editorial meeting. Far and wide. he
N and his supporters spread the idea that
- Chester !. Long was a wolf In sheep !
, clothing. corporation agent in reform
20 er's guise At the same time. Rristow
- let It he known in Kansas that he HIM
self was the real. simon-pure Roosevelt
- disciple.
Long finally awoke TO the fact that his
" poI,tical existence was In Jeopardy. But
II was too late His campaign was hook
:, cd up with that Of Cyrus Leland for
. governor and Ielands record was vul-
nerabIe Along came william Allen
n white of the ready pen. and he cham
. pioned Br1stow with vigor. To make
. matters worse for Long. Senator La
Toilette Of Wisconsin went TO Kansas
and devoted his days and nights 70 de-
fcating Long. IN Kansas, Ia Toilette
Is popular and when the Wisconsin man
went ont on the platform Mt Empor,a
and other places and read TO the crowds
- all about the record OF Long In the SEN
. ate It helped the Brtstow cause, Al EN-
poria, Senator La Toilette declared: II
, have studied and Rad a good many sem
N atoral records and Of them all l have
found none so bad as that OF Senator
Long" This attack OF Ia Toilette un-
doubtedly cost Long many votes. Incl
dentally II can be said. now that Long
Is beaten, no one Is better pleased than
:, la Toilette. The Wisconsin man mas
proved the nemesis OF more than ono
member of the Senate whom he has
assaulted on his native heath. The de-
Ifeats of Dryden Of New Jersey Fulton OF
Oregon and KittredGe OF South DaKo'a
wore due in no small degree to the EFFORTS
OF Ia Toilette
Bristow will probably be received IN
chilly fashion by most OF the rhpuhi'can
serators But he is likely 10 be heard
FROM. He will never make the mistake
a, failing to be as radical as Kansas
wants him TO be. He has been elected
&c nv the radical Kansas republicans and he
can be depended upon 10 adhere to tho
n,,icios that the men who chose him
advocate; that Is. tho Roosevelt policies
without any toning down or shading.
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