Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-10-02
FarreIIy and Corporations


During the past week or so the
Republican press Of the state has
persistently circulated the story III,
Senator H. P. Farrelly Is a corpora
ton lawyer, and is even at the pres
ent time employed in this capacity.
A more malicious, vicious and mtru
story could not have been invented,
or one more entirely devoid of a four
dalton.
Just who was responsible for the
first publication of the story i 8 not
known. 1t was started for the pur-
pose of discrediting Senator Farrelly
and erecting sympathy for J. L. Pvis-
tow, who is remembered as the man
who importuned Senator Long to
get him a job in Washington at T.
500 a year without much TO do, SO
he could be in Kansas one-half of his
time and resign when things got too
hot. Senator Farrelly has challeng-
ed the truth of the story and brand
ed it as false at every opportunity,
but the country papers continue to
republish 1t.
In Chanute where Senator FarreIy
lives, he is known as the lawyer who
has the cases against the corpora.
tons and railroads. He is to Cha
mute what Joe Waters is to Topeka;
a man whose hatred for the trusts and
railroads is so intenes that he gets
the prosecution end of the case in.
variably.
The Kansas City Star has given
wide publicity to the story that
Senator Ferrelly is a trust and corpo.
rdCion attorney, but has failed to
specify a single case where he has
been employed by, or has defended
a trust or corporation.
Henry Allen in the Wichita Bea.
con says that Senator Farrelly is at
the present time local attorney at
Chanute for the Santa Fe railroad
and W. E. Blackburn of the Antho-
ny Republican states that he is
Standard Oil attorney. Both of the
charges. are entirely false and their
truth or falsity could have been YER
filed If either editor had so desired
The only connection Senator Farrell.
ly has ever had with the Standard OF
Company was a few years ago when
ne appeared for the Producers Oil
Co., and prosecuted the Standard Oil
Company.
Realizing the probable defect of
their candidate for Senator, the Re-
publcans have commenced the early
and malicious circulation of stories
calculated to strengthen him with
the voters. Senator Farrel1y's rec
ord along the trust and corporation
lines has been so Numerically op-
posed to them, that the charges seem
absurd to one familiar with the life
and practice of Senator Farrelly.
While member of the Senate in
1897 he secured the passage of the
antitrust law, which is at this time
the only effective law, of this kind
strong law and calculated to regulat
the trust situation and has done so.
Its validity has been attacked by
the best corporation attorney in the
United States and the United States
Supreme court has declared that it
is a good law and constitutional.
Numerous minor convictions and en-
forcements have been secured under
the Farrelly Antitrust law, besides
a number of important ones. Secre.
tary B. j. Smiley Of the Kansas Grain
Dealers Association was convicted un
der the law and though the case was
carried to the United States Supreme
Court he was fined and imprisoned.
Cases were brought against the hum.
Der and Miller's trusts of Kansas
under this law and the management
begged for quarter and a compromise
was effected. Fines amounting to
IN the Kansas statutes. It is a
$l2,6OO the largest ever given In Kan.
sas were assessed against the Inter.
national Harvester Company BY
Judge Dana Of the Shawnee County
District Court last year and several
cases are now pending against the
company. All Of them were brought
under the Farrelly Antitrust law. A
law placed on the Kansas statute by
the man who Is said by the Repub-
hcan press to be corporation attor-
ney. The law has restraied and con-
trolled in no other State excepting
Texas and this law has cost them
hundreds Of thousands of dollars.
The residents Of South Rend TOWN