The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-12
FLAG STILL There
Gov. Stubs Adds More Words
to the Record.
Abuse for Senator Curtis in
Place Of Explanation.
THE RAISE IN TAXES.
That Still Remains Much Of
Mystery as Ever.
Contingent Fund Like the Leaves
That Fed Multitude.
THE RAISE IN TAXES.


On Senator Curtis in the tax contro-
versy last night and got out the second
1 edition OF the last answer. The extra
was probably the most sensational
! statement of the list and places a re-
| quest for an answer right at the door
| of the senator and with a Now there"'
spirit tells him to defend his country
and his reputation.
The governor says that there is only
| one way for Senator Curtis to- stop the
tax controversy and that is to sacrifice
his personal honor. He charges the
senator with making false statements
and says that he can not withdraw
from the fight with decency until he
admits that he willfully garbled and
misrepresented" the printed statements
made by the governor.
The main part of the statement de-
mands that the senator apologize for
the Quotations he has made. As
usual the vital part of the million dol
lar rise in state taxes is lodged and the
people of Kansas do not know any more
about the increase than they did at the
beginning of the explanation
The statement, which should have
been personal letter to Senator Curtis
as far as public value is concerned, fol-
lows:
I'm his last attack on my administra-
wanted to stop the tax controversy 1
say to him that he can not stop it with
out sacrificing his personal honor I'M
less he withdraws the false charge that
my administration will cost the tax
payers of Kansas nearly a million dol
lars more this year than the cost of the
preceding year. Senator Curtis made
this charge, in a scornful attack on the
reform movement, at Eskridge, Kan,
last month in the presence of many
reputable citizens of this state. He
does not deny this statement and 1
challenge him to dispute it. Neither
can he in decency withdraw from this
controversy until he also admits before
the people of this state that he wilfully
garbled and misrepresented my printed
statements concerning the value to the
people of the reform movement in
Kansas.
Pretending to quote from my first
statement published September 81, Sen
ator Curtis said in reply:
In the same statement he (mean-
ing mel refers to having saved the
state millions of dollars in freight and
passenger rates alone. When the gov
ernOr takes this credit to himself he
knows that he is claiming what is not
his due
The Senator's Cunning.
Thus the senator cunningly misquoted
and misinterpreted what said in or
der to place me in the attitude of
claiming the credit due a great many
others for the victories won under the |
banner of reform in this state. He did
1t mischievously: for he had my word
before him which 1 quote below in or |
der that the people of this state may
know that he maliciously intended to |
injure me by placing me in a false |
light. The following are my exact
words and were so printed:
These men who are making gen.
eral assault on the reform movement III |
this state, If they want to be fair and |
tell the truth, should admit that this
movement has resulted in saving our |
people more money every year than the
entire cost of the whole state govern |
ment. The saving in freight and pas
senger rates alone amounts to millions
or dollars annually to say nothing OF
the businesslike methods which have
been established in every department Of
the state government
IF a man will pervert a plain
statement in print-a statement
read by thousands of people-how
can he be credited with truth and sim
cerity when he is making statements
outside of the records?
Il am confident that the people of
truth and fair play to allow their
senator to stop the controversy until
he retracts this misstatement
II challenge him to deny the abso-
lutte truth of the above quotations as
[ give them.
Calls Me Extravagant.
Caught in his own webs of mis-
representations about taxation he
-ries to get away from them by max
ng it appear that 1 am extravagantj
and wasteful because my contingent
fund is $4,000 as compared with
$4,000 given to my predecessor. He
does not pretend. nor does he dare to
say, to what extent 1 have used this
months of my administration 1 used
Just $1,372 of this fund. Why did
not Senator Curtis, if he wanted to
be fair and friendly to my adj
as he pretends to be,
eall attention to this fact?
Senator Curtis knows that there
was no appropriation made by the
legislature for the fish hatchery-an
great many thousand of dollars. He
Knows that from the nature ot this
Institution it would go to ruin if {
lad not taken care of it out of my
contingent fund, and yet he not only
has not the fairness to give me credit
'or protecting this valuable property
If the state but he insinuates extrava-
sance when, in trying to save it, my
fund showed expenditures !
n the last three months-including s
everything-of not more than S1,19O, {
is anybody can ascertain by writing {
,or the information to the auditor of
state. If l had not a reasonable
amount of money in my contingent t
,und to protect this property-worth '
probably 100000 special session
IF the legislature would have to be
called to provide for it, and the peo-
pie know what that would mean in
Inn ecessary cost to the state.
st is possible. also, that the wis
lom of the legislature in allowing the
governor reasonable contingent
'und will be emphasized very soon in
another way-a way that the great
1eart of the Kansas people will ap-
prove. We are trying to suppress in, i
'antile paralysis in certain sections of
he state-a disease of horrible con- | ,