The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

mill, timber or stock in any of them
or have any interest in any lumber bus
mess except the retail lumber business.
Governor Stubs made his great
wealth from fat railroad contracts given
him by his railroad friends, from his
very profitable commissaries SUPPORT
ed by his laborers. His income for one
year is more than George Hodges has
saved in So years.
His Legislative Record.
The following is from one of the
leading daily newspapers of the west.
is a plain and truthful statement of
the attitude, the public record and the
real claims of the Democratic nominee
for governor:
Senator Hodges speaks as an ex-
pert for he has had to do with all leg
islation coming before Kansas Iegis-
lature during the past three sessions.
Not at all boaStfully but as a needed
contribution to the truth of the history
he tells his audiences that of the nine
square deal laws for whose enactment
Governor Stubs and the progressive
NePuphcans are claiming all the credit
he himself wrote five.
Then when it came to passing the
very best of these lawS-in his estjma-
uon-the antipass law, there were
th1rty-hVe Republican members for
that measure in the house and twenty
nine Democrats. That statement alone
means little but when it is recalled that
the total of these two numbers is
sixty-four and that no law can be
enacted unless it receives sixtv-three
votes, it will be seen by how very mar
row margin that act went into the
statute book.
Nor is this the main point. The
thirty-five Republicans made only
about one-third of the nembershio Of
mat party in the house while the
Twenty-Five Democrats comnosed
nine-tenths of the membership of that
party In other words, had not nine
fQnfhC nf hn H.,
the square deal the one-third of the
Republicans who favored it would have
been hopeless outnumbered. 1hese
are facts which few partisans of Gov
quainted with.
Saved the Antipass Law.
Senator Hodges prepared the pres
ent antipass law and pushed if throupt
the senate. On it's Consideration in.
committee of the whole, his vote alone
saved It from defeat After he had
gotten through the upper house an act
| reducing freight rates on grain and
grain products in Kansas, Is per cent
which is saving the farmers of this
state more than 100000 each year, it
was stalled in the house. and A. c.
M1tchell OF Douglas county claimed
that the act was unconstitutional. but
after Hodges cited him United States
supreme court decisions where Similar
Iegislatlon had been sustained he
Governor Stubs is criticised nv
Hodges for increasing the number of
state employees after he had promised
to reduce them. for getting a con-
Iin a51a fund of $4,000 when his
| than enough and for devoting, Hodges
| alleges, nine-tenths of his time and
| energy to politics and only 10 per cent
| to the business of the state
Democrats for Oregon Plan in 1909.
In his speeches Senator Hodges
/ touches another matter which is quite
+ humiliating to Governor Stubs and
his insurgent followers. At the ses-
| sion of the legislature of 1903 II f
! Morrison, a Democratic member of the
! house, and now a candidate for attor-
ney general, introduced in that body
an act providing for the election of
United States senators in kansas nv
the oregon plan of statewide vote for
each candidate and the pledging of the
| members of the legislature to vote for
the candidate receiving the highest
vote, without regard to political affflia-
ton. This act never saw the light of
| day. Tt was defeated by the entire Re
publican vote of the house.
Not one of the Republican square
dealers, the insurgents or Stubs men
Linked with a little recent Republican
history Senator Hodges says these
statements are important: Picking
up the recent Republican state plat
form adopted at Topeka, I lind II
pledging the state senators and repre-
sentatives of that party to adopt i'm
mediately the Oregon PLAN
Regarding Publication of Campaign
Expenses.
"In the same legislature the Demo
Gratis tried to pass law compelling
individuals and political committees tc
publish the source and expenditure q
all campaign funds. The solid Repuks
lican vote was thrown against thu
measure also. The willingness and
eagerness in 1910 of these progressive
Republicans to come out and swear
| allegiance to the Democratic measures
they scorned and trampled nnder foot
in 1909 is certainly remarkable
Knicker-What is the coloners idea Of
| q Republican platform? Rocker.-An oh.