The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-02

800 LOT Kansas. is the moving spirit
n O era Morse. receiver Of the Uncle
..o1u Oii company. and Billy Edwards,
postmaster at Wichita, officers of the
! me excepting Lambert, who is help
! ing Long in return for q good turn
oone py Long two years ago, entirely
proper and in full line of duty, and al
/, SO excepting Billy Morgan. who is the
/ sanest, shrewdest, most unselfish and
patr1otic adviser Long has in Kansas
the Hne and staff officers of the Long
army are OF one type. They are poll
t1cians. They live off the public.
When the people of Kansas desired
primary these men fought it.
when the people desired an anti
pass law these men came to Topeka
| tics.
When the people desired to cut down
the state printers fees these men and
their kind opposed it.
When the railroads needed help to
fight the maximum freight laws they
found these men sympathetic.
When the people desired to follow
other states and put on a two-cent
fare law this kind of men refused to
give the people the benefit of the
doubt.
They have fought every bit of pro-
| gresslve legislation that Kansas has
ADOPTED Tor five years. Long controls
them absolutely They do not breathe
L.
ana all they have stood for in Kansas,
are part of the record he is running
on They are mixed indissolubly In
ms mess OF pottage, and he must take
tnem. Also they are consistent parts
of his record. They are the same
kind of men that Wall street uses
Tor the same purpose in Pennsylvania
and in Ohio and in New York. They
scheme of Things as They Are in every
part of this Union. Wherever there Is
Wall street-there is the "organiza-
ton" the clay feet of some gentleman
with an analytical mind like Long.
And it was for such as they are that
Chester Long gave up his birthright.
In every Kansas county where the
Long machine dominates some man of
this type represents Long. 1t avails
commercial clubs nothing to pass res
olutions. AS he has said: You may
agitate; you may pass resolutions, but
finally, in the end, I vote Il am the
state" said the king. Therefore, if you
would influence king or a man with
an analytical mind, go not to business
men; go not to commercial bodies; go
not to preachers or churches or stores
in any communicable go to the politi
cal demi monde. They have "influ
ence." They have ways of getting re-
suits. "They do things!' Long stays by
the men who do things. These men
who do things have furnished him
list of the decent men in every Kan
sas community. And now that election
is drawing near Long is writing letters
to the better element The senatorial
signature has wondrous virtues. But
will it heal the breach between Senator
Long and the people? Will "organi-
cation" suffice? Will the theory work
that this is a material world, and that
spiritual powers have no practical
value? Will this man-honest though
he is, clean of personal life though he
may be. efficient in service to Wall
street though he has proved himself
be able to stand up and mock God,
and scott at the views of men and sue
coed in it? He is appealing to the old,
old god of mammon. He has power
He has men to run at his beck ana
call, because he has public offices with
which to reward them. With that ma
terial strength, with armies and ban
ners. with captains and Hessians, he
is going into this fight, trusting in the
God of the Established Order.
Is this lonely man Bristow, capable.
efficient. who has done great service
to his country, but who is Without or
ganization, without political friends,
despised by politicians, owning no
Wall street master is Bristow. who is
trusting the God of, Things as They
Should Be, is he to find no response to
his call? Is Kansas the Kansas of
old John Brown, the man of faith in
Gods eternal Justice; or is it the Kan
sas of those who sit in the seats of
the scornful?
This is practical question for prac-
teal voters 1t must be met in a prac-
teal way If the people of Kansas are
flattered by the royal senatorial sig
nature; are wooed by the sirens of
politics, are deceived by the JUNCTION
of smooth words-then they deserve
no better than they get. To be a free
state industrially and politically KAN
sas must smash the machine. 1t is a
matter for each voter to decide; the
people or the machine.
Will you help?
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.