The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-05-06
Stubs Replies to Charges.

Samuel Fitzpatrick and associates.
The Governor says SO in a statement
issued by him yesterday. The state
ment is directed to the three men
mentioned and their associates and
is a.reply to the many charges made
against Governor Stubbs and bis
administration during the progress
of the ~Wagstaff meeting held In
Topeka last Thursday. The Cover
nor cengratulates the men for
appealing "to the voters on real
popular ISSUE" the "revision OF
taxes downward" He also points
out that it is their duty, having
come out of the brush, to throw
away their gum shoes and make
real open campaign. In the state
ment the Governor answers the
charges of extravaganza made
against his administration. lhe
statement reads:
Messrs. David Mulvane, Morton
Albaugh, Samuel Fitzpatrick and
Associates
NV Dear Constituents: l have
noted with mach interest your
great movement for "Revision OF
Taxes Downward" commencing
with the open attack last summer OF
Senator Charles Curtis, who sue
ceeded ex-senator Long as corr
mander-in-chief of yoGr forces,
and followed up by your persistent
and almost pathetic efforts to find q
candidate for governor to oppose
me, first, in ex Governor Stanley
second, in Judge Lobdell, third III
ex-Congressman Bowessock, fourth
in F. M. Nation, fifth i'll Ewing
Herbert, and sixth in the young
man who heard the call of your
forces in the Kansas Day Club
meeting aud became your leader
and standard bearer.
desire to congratulate YOU ana
S>ths great financial end business
interests which you have so ably
represented in Kansas for coming
out in the open and making an
appeal to the voters on a real
popular issue.
1t seems almest toe good TO be
true TO see the high priced attorneys
and political managers OF the
Staodard Oil Co. and Harvester
trust, together with an army OF
railroad attorneys, postmasters and
corporation political fixtures give
nm their valuable time and spend
their money for the good of the
state. During three or four terms
of the Legislature 1 have seen the
members of the late "Seaate Lodge"
and the corporation lobbyists who
are leading their great movement
fight to the last ditch to keep raR-
road freight and passenger rates as
! high as possible in Kansas, and to.
prevent any legislation beingenaeted
that would make it possible tor the
state to control the big Harvester
trust. the Standard Oil and other
monop lilies, which are operating
within our borders.
have seen these same attorneys
and .obbyists use every strategy and
maneuver and trick known to pro-
fessional politics to defeat, delay or
annul by poisonous amendments,
our primary election Law, aAti pass
law, board of coatro law and every
ether good wholesome measure that
was calculated to make Kansas free
from the dominion machine politics
and its associate evils
This preliminary statement brings
me to the principal question in
volved in this situation. This great
pepulsr movement of you gentle
men and your associates can not
possibly sue -eed in "Revising Taxes
Downward" without you control the
incoming legislature. The sole
power to make appropriations is
vested in the State Legislature. Not
one dollar can be expended for any
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