The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-11

entire commercial and Industrial life.
but the morals of the nation as well.
"The present system permits the
practice of over-capitalization and the
evils that grow out of it are morally
wrong and in violation of every prin-
ciple of justice. The grossest frauds
are perpetrated on the honest investor
in railway securities. The rights OF
every railway employe are violated.
Their wages are cut and they are de-
money may be secured to pay interest
on fraudulent bonds. and dividends on
watered stock. Consumers and ship
pers are robbed by discrimination and
extortfonate rates. Yet the full
weight of Senator Longs senatorial
influence has been given to perpetrate
this monstrous system.
The Cochran Recommendation.
1.-The senator excuses a number of
his votes upon these vital questions on
the ground of party regularity. He
says that to have voted otherwise he
would have had to vote with the DEM
ocrats, which to him seemed obnox-
ious. In this. however, he is incon-
sistent. When it came to recommend
ing a man for United States circuit
Judge, the highest office to which the
senator has had an opportunity to
recommend a candidate, he broke
over party lines and recommended
democrat from M1SSOuIl WHO was d
corporation lawyer and railroad at
torney, as against a Republican from
his own state whose character and
eminent fitness was not questioned.
The reason alleged for the senator
breaking over party lines in this in
stance is that Mr.. Cochran, the Demo-
crat recommended. was the general
attorney for the Missouri Pacific rail-
road, to which corporation the sena-
tor was under great political obliga-
lions. The senator so rar has not fav
ored us with any elaborate explana-
ton of this part of his official record.
again let me ask, IL Senator Long
is in harmony with the president,
should he not support the presidents
policies, and stand for. the things that
the president stands for, not because
they are the policies of Roosevelt. but
because they are right and in the in
terest of justice?
An Independent Population.
"The best thing about Kansas to-
lation; and do not believe that Kan
sas. with her independence. with her
intelligence and her pride, will ever
permit a political machine to do her
thinking for her. Nor do 1 believe
that she will consent for a dynasty of
selfseeking federal oficeholders or
political mendicants to dominate her
political actions. Coming to Kansas
as did, a barefoot and penniless boy,
battling against adversely as 1 have,
enduring the hardship that go with
pioneer life, I am free to say that
have an earnest ambition to represent
my state in the highest legislative body
of the land.
Says Has No Machine.
"In this contest I have no political
machine behind me. 1 am not sup
ported by the agents, attorneys, and
representatives. of the corporations.
with their unlimited resources, can
not roll over these prairies like an
Oriental potentate and have a coterie
of federal ohlceholders paid by the
government to transact public bust
ness. serve as heralds to announce my
coming. The money that am spend
ing in this fight have earned by hard
work. Nobody gave it to me. know
the amount is meager and that I have
not been able to make the extensive
campaign that 1 would like to have
made yet I am conscious that 1 am
standing for what is right and believe
that will win because have faith in
the discriminating judgment of the
people.
A Pledge.
If on the fourth day Of August you