The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-19


such, to single Republican who is
suit of the election.
1 have told the Democratic national
committee that Kansas is safely DEM
ocratic at this time and that 1t will be
Democratic, in my judgment, on No
vember 8. While the signs of a land
slide are supposed to be hard to detect,
1 am confidently expecting land
slide are supposed to be hard to detect,
in Kansas this fall
Ralph Faxon, in the Garden City
Telegram, declares that the friends of
Senator Long are doing everything in
their power to elect Republican MEM
bers of the legislature. He says that
the report of a secret alliance between
the Long leaders and the Democrats is
false Mr. Faxon says in his paper:
Now the writer does not deem 1t
necessary to brand as entirely ridicu-
lous and absurd, and even more than
that as absolutely false and uncalled
for, the insinuation that any of these
three men is lending aid and support
to the anti-Bristow movement. Mr..
Albaugh made a statement the other
day telling what he was doing, and
what Long men generally were doing.
The writer assumes that 1t is generally
known what his course is. AS for Mr.
Morgan, he is himself a nominee for
the legislature, and his newspaper
speaks for itself.
There is one point the Telegram
has tried to make throughout this
campaign: The Long men. the so
called machine men, are not boilers;
they nevr were; they never will be.
They are the regulars, the stalwarts,
the Tenth legion in Kansas politics,
and they are supremacy and unQuali-
fiedly proud of it. Their boast is their
party regularity. 1t is not they who
sulk and bolt and refuse to act when
the internal fight is over. They are
on the firing line until the evening of
election"
w. r. Stubs has issued lengthy
statement in which he denies that lat
est Democratic story that he was mixed
up in some sort of discreditable trans
actions concerning Indian land sales.
He declares that the Democrats are
making a mud-slinging campaign out
of it because they lack any political is
sues of merit. Mr.. Stubs says in
part:
Rev. Jerry Botkin's campaign must
be in desperate shape. His state COM
mittees are resorting to desperate and
with his knowledge and consent. When
Governor Hughes of New York, whom
every gambler, thug and crook is Tight
ing, came to Kansas he was harassed
and insulted at his meetings with an
onymous dodgers sent out and dis
tributed by Mr.. Botkin's campaign
committee.
Yesterday this same committee made
the following charges against me in a
public statement
First-That 1 am under indictment
for attempting to defraud the Indians
of the Cherokee nation out of their
rights as landholders."
Second-That Just such an act" as is
charged against me half century ago
would have prompted an uprising
xr,1,if 70 cnt
Elements within their domain out of ex-
istenee."
Third-That at is seldom that a viler
record of unvarnished dishonesty is
uncovered by the United States gov
eminent"
But, Mr.. Botkin's committee was wise
enough not to state specifically what
crime 1 have committed. They did not
dare to go into details and tell the
truth; they have deliberately attempt
ed to deceive not only the Republicans,
but also the Democratic voters of Kan
sas by false statements that have no
foundation whatever in fact.
The truth is that 1 have never pur-
chas ed for myself or any other per-
son, one single acre of land. right or
wrong, from any Cherokee Indian or
Indians. The suits that have been
brought against me by the govern
ment are for the sole purpose of clear
ing the titles to lands which certain
Indians claim to own, and involve in
solar as 1 am concerned only 40 acres
of rough, unimproved land in which l
have an interest.
This land was purchased and paid
for in cash and in full value from an
American citizen and not an Indian,
and. through changes in the allotments
over which I had no control, and about
which 1 had no knowledge whatever,
the title to this 40 acres of land be-
came defective and no one except my
self has been defrauded or can lose one
dollar in this transaction.
There are two other cases, each one
a duplicate of the other, involving
land that 1 never heard of until these
suits were filed, which are nothing
more and nothing less than clerical
error which was made in deedlng
these lands. The lands involved in the
last two cases 1 never bought, never
authorized anybody to buy the same,
and never heard of it in any way,
shape or form until the United States
government brought suit to quiet the
title.
There was no act on my part in
connection with this transaction that
any minister of the gospel, or any
other citizen of Kansas could not do
with perfect propriety.
1 challenge Mr.. Botkin and his
committee to name one single dis
honest act or one single wrong mo-
tive on my part in connection with
this whole matter. 1 demand that
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