The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-16
Missouri Man Says the People
Are Up in Arms.
Tariff Bill Has Caused Some
thing of a Revolt.
THE MAN is FOUND
VIM. James of Cherokee County
Candidate for Governor.
John Marshall Has Some TrOu-
BILE of His Own.

Kansas has been regarded as the
home of the square deal or progressive
movement in politics in the central
west and it was in this state that the
Ioudest wall over the failure of con-
gress to revise the tariff downward
was expected to be heard. But it is
not so. Bourbon Missouri. the myster-
ious stranger in the Republican ranks.
is worked up more over the short
conings of the special session OF con-
gress than is Kansas.
w s. Jackson, a prominent Repub-
lican politician and lawyer of central
Missouri, speaking today of Missouri
sentiment on this matter. declared that
the progressive Republicans of his
state We're UP in arms over the fake
Tariff bill. He felt that his party had
failed utterly to redeem its promises
made to the country at large last fall.
He was disappointed in President Taft
who had, in his opinion, made a weak
stand for real tariff revision, and who
had trained all through the tariff fight
with the old reactionaries and turned
the cold shoulder to the reformers and
pr9cressives who had forced his NOM
in3tlon year ago over the efforts of
these same fasteners who juggled the
tariff schedules all summer.
II was a Taft man." said Mr.. Jack
son. ''and expected even greater things
from his calmness and firmness than
had been accomplished through the
fly of the Republicans of Missouri are,
1 believe, in favor of real tariff re-
vision. and the Democrats. too, for
that matter, yet our senators. Warner,
Republican. and Stone, Democrat.
trained with the Aldrich crowd. Had
the Democrats in Congress been pa
triotic and far sighted enough to have
stood firmly with the Republican in
surgents all the way through my state
would have been lost to the Repnbli-
cans at the next election. AS it is.
there is little to choose from between
the two parties when it comes to tariff
revision.
You folks in Kansas are doubtless
proud of Senator Bristow and Repre-
sentative Murdoch and the fight they
made for the consumers. You can
hear more praise of these two men in
Missouri at this time than of Taft and |
his entire cabinet and all our congress
sional delegation thrown in for good |
measure.
Missouri looks to Kansas as a lead
er in the tariff revision fight and the |
woods of my state are full of Republi-
cans who will continue to talk and !
vote for tariff revision.
THE eastern branch of the Repub- !
hcan party cannot or Will not see that |
cloud in the west, no bigger than |
mans hand at this time. it is true, but |
X will grow quickly and the AIdrfch |
crowd will have to hustle to get to the |
cyclone cellar in time when the storm |
breaks.
Had President Taft vetoed the |
Payne tariff bill that action would |
have made him the biggest and strong |
est man this country has seen since
Lincoln"
At last man has been found who
has the nerve to come out suuarelv
and announce himself as Candidate
for governor before the next primary
against w R. Stubs. This patriot
Is none other than DR.. James William
James of Columbus Cherokee county.
He is an old resident of this state |
having come to Cherokee county with
his family in 1866. DR.. James was
assistant surgeon in the L. S A for
several years and was stationed in
Texas His other claim to fame is
the fact that he voted for Abraham
Lincoln for president in 1864. His
regarded as a joke by him but it will
be by others.
The Pittsburg Headlight is re-
sponsible for this story of how John
Marshall, assistant attorney general
came near to being arrested in Craw-
ford county the other day for viola
tion Of the law regulating the reck-
Mr.. Marshall was being driven
about Crawford county by A. D. Con-
der and had Deputy Sheriff Gus
Walsh along for good company.
When the noon hour arrived they
stopped at a school house to feed the
team. During the recess taken by the
attorney general he happened to think
of the new "A caliber "gat' that was
rubbing the skin off his right hip
It seems that Mr.. Marshall is not
an adept in the use of firearms, and
that being unsophisticated in this
artillery stunt he suggested to Walsh
that he try out his new blunderbus.
Walsh produced his artillery and
they proceeded to shoot at target
placed on an outbuilding behind the
school house. Marshall had taken
one shot and was blazing away on
another when suddenly the door of
the clubhouse burst open and out fell
an old man partially disrobed.
by heck, what you fellers trying
to do?" he ejacuioted. "I'II have the
law on you.
Walsh was too startled to say any,
thing but Marshall attemptd explana-
tions. The old man, however, wouldn't
harken to explanations.
Don't you know it's against the
law to destroy public property" ex-
claimed he. This here clubhouse be-
longs to this school district and here
it full of holes.
I'm deerector of this school dees-
trict- I'm going to have the law onto
you.''
The old man started off threaten
ing to telephone to Girard and have
the sheriff come out and arrest the
two when Marshall took the old man
by the shoulder and said:
Look here, we can't either one hit
barn door half mile away. We
didn't shoot any holes into that build
ing and we couldn't have hit it if we
wanted to.
my names Marshall. assistant at
torney general, and I'm too busy send
ing other people to Jail to spare any
time for myself
The old man Immediately grabbed
MarshalFs hand and apologfzed-
''Glad to meet you Mr.. Marshall"
he exclaimed. II belong to the Tenn