The Topeka state journal., 1908-05-26
VIM. Alien Whites Estimate of
the Man.
Takes Some More Shots at Mr..
Longs Record.
CANDIDATES FRIENDS
Argues 1t Is Best to Beat Sena-
tor With Friend.
Mysterious Crime of BristOW
His Goodness"

His Goodness"
''The Mysterious Crime of Joe Bris-
tow is the interesting title of Will
liam Allen Whites second epistle on
case with Mr.. Whites literary produc-
tons. it is entertaining and well writ
ten, and the mysterious crime" is
explained at some length.
Mr.. Whites article follows:
LAS for a deal between me and
Long" writes Joe Bristow. candidate
for the Republican nomination for
the United States senate, addressing
the writer hereof. "as for any deal
or understanding, directly or in
tween any friend of mine and Longs,
by which 1 am to help him If he is
defeated. and he is to help me, If
am defeated, you may deny absolutely
that there is thing in the world
in it. The man who repeats such a
story is peddling a falsehood."
Some of the strikers for Senator
Long. seeking to belittle the growing
tide Of popularity of the Bristow
movement, are saying that Long and
Bristow understand one another
that Long has it in black and white
that Bristow will get off the track
when it is too late to get another man
on; or if that sounds too improbable.
the strikers are saying that Bristow
and Long have mutual agreement
that the defeated man is to help the
other into the cabinet; also that Bris-
tow really doesn't expect to beat
Long.
81 am in the race to beat Chester
1. Long for the senate" said Bristow
in Emporia the other day; "to stay in
to the end and to make fight so hot
that before the summer is a month
nI "a fa Eo -
kind of stories, will be ashamed to
show their heads
There is, however, an element of
kindness in Bristow's candidacy; for
by it he will save Chester Long from
being defeated by a Democrat For
whoever may be the next senator
from Kansas, it is pretty certain that
it will not be Long; for If Leland and
Long wfn-even Leland cannot
imagine victory in that case and Long
does not expect it. And If Stubbs and
Long win, Stubbs as a gubernatorial
candidate, will be making the kind of
speeches-anti-railr and machine,
anti-boss speeches, that will by con-
trast, make Longs defense of him
self look like a confession With
Long going up and down the state de-
Tending his vote on the Aldrich bill,
and his Wall street record, and with
Stubbs going up and down the state
denouncing all that Long is defend
ing, the result is pretty easy to figure
out. And what is more Stubbs won't
be handed; won't listen to talk about
harmony and sticking to the ma
tional platform" Roosevelt's messages
will be Republican platform for
Stubbs; Stubbs will talk Of Kansas
issues, in the Kansas language, and
will paddle his own canoe.
He's q Friend of Long.
So that by defeating Senator Long in
August Bristow is really performing a
friendly office to- one who for many wears
has been a personal associate and a
friend And it is entirely possible that
Senator Long would prefer to be com
fortably chloroformed by a friend rath-
er than to be kicked to death by
mule.
This fact will become more and more
apparent to Kansas Republicans as the
campaign warns up. They will realize
that if they desire to have a Republi-
can senator from Kansas they must
nominate one who can be elected. Dur
ing May and April has been the lull be-
fore the storm. People have been wait
ing to see what congress would do;
what the Big Interests dominating the
speaker and controlling the senate
would allow congress to do. The lull
has deceived the politicians. They have
thought 1t was reaction. But before
August the storm will break and the
man who stands for Wall street will go
down. The storm of rage at Senator
Long two years ago still Is in the Kan
sas heart. His smug,s owlish contempt
for the people when his voice was
needed to make sentiment in the SEN
ate to secure the passage of the rate
bill has not changed. Kansas still is in
the forward column; Kansas still be-
lieves in progressive government and
has not slipped back. Kansas is with
the whole Mississippi valley in that. |
n inl,
BriStow stands, is not sporadic; 1t is
not isolated in Kansas alone. Senators
Brown and Burkett Of Nebraska repre- |
sent that movement. They are among |
the new members of the senate who |
are in revolt against Wall street dom
ination. They have Joined the insur- |
gents. Nebraska has a primary. The |
title of the United States senators in |
that state has passed from the rail- |
roads to the people. Missouri is on the |
firing line of the new movement SEN |
ator Warner time and again has voted |
away from his party and with the in
for decent government and |
good laws. Every state in the Missis- |
sippi valley except Minnesota has the |
kind of laws that Kansas has-the
primary law, the two-cent fare, the
anti-pass law and the strict state reg
ulatiOn of railroads Kansas is mere
y in line with her neighbors in the |
system of city government.
Ana Br1StOW In his programme is only
in line with the best Republicans in
other western states. 1t will pay to
reread and consider this Bristow plat
form. 1t was announced last winter. /
It is frank declaration of principles.
There is no dodging-no demagogic
pandering to cheap popularity; it is the |
platform of man who is not afraid
to stand with the people and against
Wall street. The platform reads:
First, declaration for the immedi-
ate revision of the tariff at this ses-
sion of congress; second. a declaration