The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-23
Has Framed Up Slate OF 10 New
Charges.
COVERS LAST SESSION.
Six of Charges Relate to A!drlch
Currency Bill.
Calls Senator Long the Tool OF
Aldrich.

n now series of Is charges against
Senator Long. covering Longs record
at the last session of congress. The
first six charges relate 70 Longs att--
tude on the Aldrich currency bill
Briefly summarized, the fifteen new
charges are as follows:
/ Voted against Neison's amend
ment making first mortgages on I'M
proved farms a basis ror currency
2. Voted against an amendment
setting aside one-half or federal taxes
of banks as a depositors guaranty
fund.
8. Voted against provision requir-
ing banks to pay interest on govern
ment deposits.
4. Voted against giving depositors
priority in claims against failed banks.
5. Voted against provision to pro-
hibit loans by banks for speculative
purposes.
{. Voted for the Aldrich bill con-
tanning railroad bond provision.
Z. Voted for delay in measure
providing for election OF United states
senator by direct vote
s. Voted against Roosevelts s
recommendation for four battleships.
8. Voted against allowing govern
ment to buy material for battleships
in the best market.
10. Voted against LaFollette en-
ployers liability bill.
II. Voted against measure pro-
hibiting railroads removing damage
suits from state to federal courts.
12. Voted against provision allow
ing jury instead of judge to decide as to
negligence of employees of railroad.
13. Failed to assist Murdock in
fight against mail Weighing graft.
IA. Voted against bill to reduce
price of gas in District of Columbia.
Is. Opposed regulation requiring
Washington city railways to issue uni
versal transfers.
In concluding his renewed attack
on Long. Mr.. White says:
Now these things are merely cor
roborative. They show Longs ten
dency. When 1t comes to revising the
tariff he votes with Aldrich and Wet
more and not with the western Repup-
lfcans who will represent Kansas He
votes on transportation matters with
Aldrich and Wetmore; on currency
matters with Aldrich and Wetmore:
on administration matters with Aid
rich and Wetmore. When is he going
to begin to vote for Kansas and not
for Rhode Island? Either Aldrich
and Wetmore are divinely inspired
leaders or Long is wrong on some of
his votes.
This year President Roosevelt has
asked congress vigorously for a num-
ber of things-physica valuation of
the railroads, reduction OF capitaliZa-
ton, laws preventing anarchists from
coming to America. campaign pub
licity laws-and though Long claims
to be a special friend and champion
of the president. not a line of legisla-
tion has he introduced along the di-
rection of the presidents requests; not
a vote has he on record differing with
Aldrich, the presidents archenemy, on
any proposition demanded by the
president. As well might Aldrich
come out to Kansas and run for con-
gress as the friend and champion of
the president as Chester l. Long, for
on every important question this year,
Long has lined up with Rhode Island,
and against Kansas, and in no case has
his voice been heard defending the
legislation recognized as peculiarly the
presidents policies. Kansas certainly
needs one senator worse than Rhode
Island needs threei
Now, Senator Aldrich has been rec
tional politics of Standard Oil and
kindred interests. More than that
Senator Aldrich is father-in-law OF
John d. Rockefeller. Jr. Senator AID
rich shows no tendency in his votes
he shows the sinister influence of the
Standard OIL and 'law-defying wealth
He is recognized as the most i'm
placable enemy of Roosevelt in the SEN
ate. Aldrich is bound by ties of blood
and business to these cunning mer
working for evil through and behind
puppets who. according to President
Roosevelt, threaten this republic with
dire evil. Yet when it comes to votes
In the senate, Long votes with AID
rich. and when it comes to talk ir
Kansas for reelection Long talks fol
Roosevelt. Now, Long may try tc
justify his vote by claiming it's party
regularity Yet, in the very votes
quoted herein today other Republicans
are found voting outside of the Aid
rich Wetmore list. These other Repub-
licans are at various time: Beveridge
of Indiana, Borah of Idaho. Brown and
Burket of Nebraska. Bourne of Oregon
DUPONT of Delaware. Dolliver of Iowa
Flint of California. Fulton of Georgia
Guggenheim of Colorado, Gamble OF
South Dakota. Hopkins of Illinois
Hansbrough OF North Dakota. Heyburr
Massachusetts. Smith of Michigan
Smoot and Sutherland of Utah. warne,
of Missouri, Dixon of Nebraska, Nelson
of Minnesota, Curtis of Kansas. La
Toilette and Stephenson of Wisconsin
Clapp OF Minnesota. But never Long
Why? Why are other Republican
United States senators free men to gc
and come as they please, and why /.
Long bound to New England and Wal
street? 1t is not his Republicanism-
Tor In this list who break away from
Aldrich are just as good Republican,
as he is. 1t is his Bourbonism, his in.
herent belief that the great law-defy.
ing corporations are right, and the peo.
pie of Kansas wrong. He has not one
speech, nor one bill introduced to curl
the power of lawless greed. His record
and Aldrich's tally-and Aldrich stand.
frankly for all that is menacing and
sinister In this republic. Why should
Kansas. free state. send a tool O,
Aldrich back to the senator"
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