The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-18
support. Mr.. Dolley seems to forget 4
that now as we have a primary law"

support. Mr.. Dolley seems to forget
that now as we have primary law"
Miami Republican: The effort be-
ing made to defeat Attorney General
Jackson for the nomination for a Sec
ond term should not succeed and will
not. The character of his opponent
and the plea put up for his nominal
are that Mr.. Jackson is doing his duty
with real courage, integrity and
ability, and the people of Kansas will
not stand for his defeat. His success
fui prosecution OF liquor suits, the
harvester trust and other corporations
are the prime causes of the opposi-
ton that has been worked up against
him, and should he fail of renomina-
ton 1t Will be a declaration by the
Republicans of Kansas that thew are
opposed to law enforcement and in
1avor OF the trusts. The party dare
not put itself in that attitude and will
not. 1t would mean certain defeat.
William Allen Whites piece" about
The Strange Case Of Senator Long,
is attracting much attention It is a
very long piece, and occupies several
columns of newspaper space. In it MI.
White cites from the Congressional
Record many instances in which it is
claimed Senator Long voted for the
wall street. interests and against the
people.
White gives Long the fullest credit
for personal integrity, and then says:
And the best proof of his personal
integrity is that he is running entirely
upon his record. A dishonest man
would dodge, and say that times had
changed and he had changed with
them. But no-Long claims times have
not changed, will not change. and can
not change, and he stands upon his
record. 1t cannot be called an attack
upon Senator Long, therefore, to go to
that record to prove that he represents
not Kansas and the progressive Kan
SaS people, but that he represents that
intangible opposition to progress in
public and private morals called Wall
street.
Now, Wall street is not a place; it
also is a temperament. 1t is found in
the east and the west, wherever man
who unfairly has robbed his neighber,
and desires the title to his plumber to
remain unQuestioned. there is Wall
street, whether he be making a fortune
on railroad rebates, or whether he be
making a fortune gambling in grain,
or whether he be selling poisonous food
unlabeled. or whether he be selling wa
tered stock upon which the public has
to pay interest in usurious charges, or
| whether he be riding on a pass for
| which he gives no return while others
are overcharged to pay for his ride, or
whether he holds a political office for
which he gives inadequate service for
| the money received: wherever there is
| loot there is Wall street, and wherever
| the legal looting of the people is OPP
posed, there Is progress. And Senator
| Long represents Wall street
"And yet for all that he is an hon
est man-personally. He takes no
money for his vote; he receives no
benefit for his influence except the
return influence of the railroads in
Kansas politics. 1t always is best to
| fight fair, and those who accuse Sena-
| tor Long of personal dishonesty are
making friends for him. The story
that he has bought a magnificent man.
sion in Washington should not be used
against him. In the first place he has
| bought no mansion. 1t is an ordinary
| house. and he has only small equity
| in it. He is paying for it in INSTALL
! ments, little more than his rent. and
| is depending on the increase In value
| to bring him a return when he Is done
with it.
''The issue is not one of his per-
sonal character at all. The issue
| looms bigger than Long-and for that
| matter bigger than Bristow, who is
Longs opponent in this race. The is
| sue is whether or not this government
shall make itself the mentor of the
public conscience, and shall outlaw
certain forms of stealing, now legal,
| by which men with vast wealth are
| taking from consumers, without g1v1og
value received, millions of dollars an
|
stock. 1t is a question whether the
price of commodities in the main shall
| be governed by their cost-plus a rea-
| sonable inventors profit, or whether
the price Of modities-whether
railroad rates, insurance. food prod
ucts or what not, shall be charged to
consumers at all the traffice will bear
"Bristow says that cost of service
shall govern, and Long, standing for
the Wall street idea. the idea of the
thief who has the nine points of the
law in possession-Long in every vote
| for sixteen years. during which he has
been in public life, has said clearly,
bravely, unwaveringly and consistent
ly, that the value Of the service and
not the cost of service. shall determine
price. 1t is the question of whether ii
shall be legal to gouge, or whether as
| between man and men commerce shall
be fair.
Long and Wall street one and in
separable now and forever stand fol
the gouge. Bristow and Kansas be-
lieve in the golden rule.
at is indeed a strange case-this
case of a public man who for sixteen
years has consistently voted against
his constituents, following dead faith
la faith in the good Of the things
that are $3.50
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