The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
TAKES UP CUDGEL
Bale Waggener Makes Reply to
Stubbs and White.
Defends Railroads From EIec-
ton Charges.
'.MONEY AND BOOZE"
Denies They Played Part in
Hodges Big Vote.
Suggests Governors Term Be
Four Instead of Two Years.
MONEY AND BOOZE"

Bale Waggener of Atchison, railroad
| attorney and ex-senator, pays his re-
| spects to Governor Stubs and w. a.
! White today in a red hot statement
| covering the important features of this
| weeks election. Mr.. Waggener regards
| the Hodges vote as the next thing to
| a reputation of Stubs and his policies
! and he defends the railroads from the
| charge of taking part in the election.
| Mr. Waggener, in his statement, says:
| To the Editor of the State Journal:
| Governor Stubs and Mr.. Bill White,
| in an attempt to explain the humiliat-
! ing reputation of Stubs, are pretend
! ing that the railroad companies are
| largely responsible for it. AS a mat
| ter of fact, the railroad companies 80
| far as I know, took no part in the
| campaign whatever, and the gratuitous
| insult by Mr. Stubs and Mr.. Bill
White to forty thousand railroad en-
| pIOyees in the state ought to be re-
| scented, and should never be forgotten.
Mr.. Bill White says that:
when one looks at the shop vote Of
the railroads in Shawnee, in Wyan-
dotte, in Wichita, in Emporia,-one
realizes that the railroads united with
the brewers, and made the common
fight against Stubbs."
Mr.. Stubs says that his majority
whatever it is-"represents the unpur-
chasable vote of KansaS,-the men who
could not be influenced by money Or
booze"
SANDER Against Railroad Employees.
In these statements Mr.. Stubs and
Mr.. Bill White, in effect, charge that
the railroad employees of Kansas were
controlled by the railroad companies
by money and booze" My intimate
association with railroad employees for
more than thirty-five years has sat
isfied me that there is not in all this
land a more honorable, highminded,
way employees of this state, sought to
be discredited and blacklisted by the
insinuations of Stubs and White.
challenge Mr.. Stubs and Mr.. Bill
White to name a single railway EN-
pIoyee who was intimidated by threats
or bribbed with money or booze to
vote against Stubs It is right that
forty thousand railway employees
should be slandered and discredited,
and made the scapegoat for a discred-
tied and repudiated politician and
\ demagogue?
Abuse of Decent Men.
Is it just or decent to abuse and libel
such a class of men because they had
the manhood to go to the polls, and
vote their conscientious convictions as
to what was right and what was
wrong?
How did it happen that the first con-
gressionaI district gave Dan Anthony
a majority of $4,000, and repudiated
Stubs by giving Hodges a majority?
Were all these voters in the First dis
trict bribed with money and booze?"
If so. where did the money come
from? Where did the booze come
from? Who furnished it?
The fact is that MIR. Stubs has been
fooling with the business end of n
humble bee. AS a matter of fact the
humiliation of Stubs IS revolt of the
people against hypocrisy and cant.
what Stubbs Had Pack of Him.
Never in the history of this state did
any man go into any campaign for
governor with such strong influences
back of him as Stubs
He had a perfect political machine in
organization. Every one of the state
employees. selected with reference to
their peculiar fitness. were for him.
Nearly all of the most widely circulated
newspapers in the state were for him,
including the Kansas City Star
He had in his favor a nominal ma
Jority in his own party of over so. 900.
He had all the money he needed at
his command.
He had a salary as governor of five
thousand dollars a year, and his chief
political agent, his private secretary
was paid a salary of eighteen hundred
dollars a year by the state, and a con-
tneent fund of $10.000.-the use IF
which has never been explained
He had, or claimed to have. the sup