The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-02
REPLIES TO MILLER.
Attorney General jackson Finds Fault
With COngressman's Record.

Burdick, Kan, July attorney
General jackson, speaking in Miller's
home county, has answered the latter's
Usage City speech on national issues.
About four hundred people assembled
to hear the square deal candidate for
congress make reply to the assertions
of his opponent. Mr.. Jackson said in
part:
my opponent, Mr.. Miller, has
reached home and has commenced his
defense of his record and the defense
consists principally of 'bluster and
pretence. Mr.. Miller says he is the
only congressman who ever obtained
public building for this district. Tat
is so because he is the only congress
man this district, as now constituted,
ever had. Before Mr.. Miller we had
Mr.. Curtis as representative and
Shawnee county was in the district and
Topeka, of course, had federal build
ings and that is SO long ago there
were no other cities of the district
large enough to 'sarrant the expendi-
ture of the public money for buildings
under the more careful management
of the pork barrel appropriations in
those days.
MIR. Miller says he voted for free
lumber. If he did. that vote is care
fully concealed in the Congressional
Record, for it can not be found. On
April 9. 1910, Record 81 Cong. P. 1894
and 1895, Mr.. Miller voted twice
against free lumber. once on an
amendment to admit all American
lumber free of duty and again to
strike all reference to lumber from the
tariff bill. The next day, however,
some of the standDat congressman
from the west discovered they had
left a bad looking record, and know
ing from the vote the day before the
standpatters had enough votes without
them, arranged for another vote. Mr..
Tawney offered some sort of make
shift which may or may not have
meant an enlargement of the lumber
free list. Miller and some of the west
ern standpatters voted for this amend
ment. If they had really favored free
lumber, they would have voted for the
amendments which they had a chance
to win.
"Mr Miller says he has not stabbed
his party in the back. 1 do not know
how he can strike his party more
serious blow than to help make its
platforms and then violate them. He
helped make our state platform, which
demanded a reformation of the rules
of the house of representatives, and
then joined the Tammany Democrats
to prevent an honest and fair revision
of the rules and retain Speaker Can
mons power to dominate congress. He
has voted since then to allow the
speaker to name the Ballinger investi-
eating committee and half a dozen
/ times against the spirit of that plat
form and the WISHES Oh ms district, TO
say nothing of his votes on the tariff
BILL which violated the national Re
publican platform and every principle
of honest protection to American in
dustry. Mr.. Miller now says he will
not vote for Speaker Cannon again in
the party caucus if the sentiment of
his district is opposed to it. Does he
mean to repudiate his own record
How does he expect to settle what the
people want, like he has in the past by
consulting his own wishes? When
| there was a certain way for him to
learn the sentiment of his district at
| the Usage convention, he smothered a
resolution declaring against Cannon
| ism. Does this promise on Mr.. Miller
part mean only another pretense to get
another chance to support Mr.. Cannon,
who has recently announced his can
/ didacy for speaker