The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-11
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which Long voted the government lost
over million dollars of it's just debt.
President Mckinley made the best pos
sible settlement under the law which
congress gave him. But Long and the
railroad crowd voting for what was
VIGOROUSLY the railroad project and
against the plan advocated in congress
by those who meant business with the
Union Pacific, kept the matter out Of
congress and the president did the best
he could do. Long cannot get away
from his Union Pacific vote. It gave
him his seat in the senate. But he
must bear the brand of it. These facts
have become too well known in the
last few years, for Long to try to hide
behind President McKinley's coat tails.
Longs oleomargarine vote also
rises to greet him., He voted in favor
of colored oleo. He was in the unfor-
tunate minority And in later years
the pure food law proves that he was
wrong, and all he offers in contradic-
ton is "a representative of a Penn
sylvania Dairy association, who testi-
fies that he thinks perhaps Long
eventually may be right. Longs de-
Tense on this question is silly. He vot-
ed with the famous Wadsworth, whom
President Roosevelt's letter on the
pure food bill sent to private life.
That Cochran Endorsement.
His defense of his vote against
empowering the president to suspend
the duties upon trust made articles Is
that it is a Democratic measure. But
when the railroads wanted a Demo-
cratic circuit judge, Long recommend
ed Democratic candidate, without
much hesitation. In the other case
the people might possibly benefit by
Democratic measure and Long re-
fused to give them the benefit of the
doubt. But when the railroads would
benefit by a Democratic candidate for
federal judge Long fastened to obey
his master though it took him out of
his party.
when at attempt was made to
make labor unions exempt from the
provisions of a proposed antitrust
bill Long was one of eight out of 260
to stand against the provision and
thereby against organized labor He
is willing to stand with the minority
against holding the big stick over the
trusts but voting on the same bill he
stood with the hopeless minority
against organized labor. Wall street
never needs Long that she does not
get him, and get him clear to the
ditch.
His defense of his vote giving a
million dollars more to the Washing
ton Union station steal is brazenly
chara cteristic. The Pennsylvania
railroad was asking congress to pay
them three million dollars not for
their own land, but for the public
streets the roads occupied. Some
congressman decided that two million
was enough. but Wall street wanted
to go the whole hog and Long showed
his bristle and went with the Wall
street min and checked the in
famous bill up to the president so
that to veto it he would have to lose
her of pnOd thjno9 worth
than the steal. and yet Long stands
upon his record and says that if l am
wrong then Roosevelt who signed the
bill is wrong. The unconscionable
brass of his attitude has few equals
in American politics. But he has his
machine to claque for him. or hood
wink the people for him, and he de-
tends this steal and then blackens the
character of President Roosevelt in
the same breath.
"His defense of the notorious stock
watering operations OF the Washing
the same kind Of cloth. Watered
stock means that lower fares are i'm
possible, and Long and Wall street are
against lower fares, so he defends the
stock jobbers. On the floor of 80 the
house Mr.. Hepburn speaking of this
transaction, which Long defends said:
4 insist that it is to flood the market
with immense issues of stock. Cen
tlemen know that capitalization of
$1.200,000 in bonds and 100000 in
stock every dollar of that is water Yet
Long voted with the interests and
held up the people"
But the boldest Misrepresentation
which he perpetrated on Kansas audi
tors was to say in defending the Jim
tab reservation deal that he was mere
ly voting to carry out contracts. The
very contracts which he was perDetu-
ating by his vote expressly and in terms
terminated when the lands passed cut
of the Indian reservation and became
part of the public domain and in order
to keep those valuable asphalt lands in
the hands of the outfit that was oper-