The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-06
Sixth District Congressman At
tacks the Square Dealers.
Critical Period i'm History of
Republican Party.
BENEFITS OF TARIFF.
Points to Prosperity Under the
Dingley Bill.
Issue of CannOnism a Fake to
Mislead People.

B. p. Walker, editor of the Osborne
Farmer, prints the following open let
ter from Congressman Reeder:
II had not intended to say anything
about the next political campaign until
the time had arrived when we could
more fairly judge as to what should be
done as to a representative in the
Sixty-second congress from the Sixth
district of Kansas, but 1 note that the
papers of the country are taking seri-
ously your suggestion that my silence
means that l will not again be a can
didate; therefore I write you.
I want to assure you that. the Re-
publicans and the people of the Sixth
district owe me nothing. They have
placed me under obligations that I can
never repay. The ambition that 1 hal
for years entertained and which was
the primary foundation of my determi-
nation to ask the people of this district
to elect me to congress has been real
lied. I wanted to see the government
bring. about the reclamation of the
great deserts of the west by developing
irrigation projects that were too vast
In scope for individual effort to sur
mount My desire in this direction has
been attained, and by an act of con-
gress, of which 1 was one of the chief
orfginators, there is now a grand work
going forward throughout the arid
states of the west that is annually
making homes for millions of people.
AS view it, the people of the Sixth
district owe me nothing; yet by re-
tanning me in congress for an extended
term they have made it possible for me-
by my experience and length of ser
vice to be Of a value to them that no
new member can hope to attain except
by years of service. The Kansas dele
cation, by reason of it's length of ser
vice, is one of the most powerful in
congress. Kansas has the craftsmanship
OF more of the great committees to her
credit than any other of the great
states of the Union.
Period Is Critical.
This is critical period in the his
tory of tho Republican party, and the
great policy of protection that has been
the keystone to the prosperity of the
past ten years is threatened by the
Vaccinations of individuals who have
no honest political convictions but who
are cunning and INSCRIPTIONS in their
methods. AS a result we find the pol
icy of protection fighting for it's very
existence in a state that has become
powerful, with plenty on every hand.
by reason of having lived for the past
ten wears under the provisions of the
Dingley law and the rule of the Re
publican party. Demagogues, cloaked
ir, Republican garb. are at this very mo-
ment fighting the administration of
President Taft and the party because a
II inority of less than 10 per cent of the
Republican party were not allowed tt,
dictate as to the schedules contained in
the Payne tariff bill. Three gentlemen
have so far announced themselves as
candidates to succeed me in congress.
Each of them endorse the square deal
movement that now engulfs Kansas and
which is slowly but surely impairing
her national credit. Being of that po-
litical faith they cannot successfully
deny that they are in sympathy with our
junior United States senator in his free
trade Stirades and his attacks on the
party and the administration.
THE business man and the farmer
of Kansas are largely responsible for
the political situation that is such a
menace to our great state. They have
been so absorbed in making dollars
under the present protective policy
politics. AS a result of their lack of
attention Kansas has fallen into the
hands of a band of political fakirs
who are exploiting the state to their
advantage, through a series of fake
reforms, and the people are paying
the bills. This clamor from the
Demo-Republican press ano the
square dealers for the retirement of
the members of congress from this
state, for the reason that the said
members voted for the Payne tariff
bill, is the wall of the demagogue to
catch Democratic votes. Whether
am again elected to represent this dis
trict in congress is not the vital
question. The burning question is,
will the people sacrifice the policy of
protection, under which the farmer
and the wage Garner and the business
man have prospered during the past
ten years, and turn the country over
to these malcontents calling them
selves Republicans. but who speak
for the doctrine of Byran and free
trade, and receive their applause
from the Democrats.
People of Kansas Erratic
1.-THE people of Kansas have all
ways, as history proves. been erratic.
While they have been the cham pions
of some of the most beneficial reforms
in the history of the state vet at
times they have been lured by the
voice of the demagogue to give their
verdict at the polls in favor of many
sensational so-called reforms that
have lowered the measure of the pub
lies esteem and made our great state
the subject of ridicule.
THE present wall of complaint
and TRADE. of abuse that is being
heaped on the administration and the
represe natives of the people in con-
gress by this band of malcontents
who are exploiting the state for their
own personal advantage and self
aggrandizement, is without reason
and has no foundation upon which il
can stand before an Intelligent people
KanSaS-and the middle VESTS be-
ing buncoed, and in the end the far
mer, who is now marketing his dollar
wheat and seven cent beef and pork
will be called upon to pay the bill.
1.-The issue of CannoniSm is a fake
It is only made to arouse prejudice
and mislead the people The real is
sue is Do we want present conditions
to continue? for the present condi-
lions are the fruits of protection-ol
do we want free trade and business
stagnation. These are the questions
that the voters of Kansas and the
middle west, which are now being ex
plotted by the Demo-Republican agi
fators, must settle for themselves.
'sW A. REEDER.''
81 suppose you heard what Meanley di'
In church last Sunday when the plat
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