The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Congressman Calderhead De-
tends Wooden Schedule.
Attacks Primary Law as Vi0lat-
ing Citizens Rights.
SEATON AFTER STUBBS
Calls Plans to Help COnvicts'
Families a Farce.
Representative MurdOck Loaded
SEATON AFTER STUBS
Representative Murdoch Loaded
for Speaker Cannon.

Schedule K of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill has Congressman Calderhead
on its defensive in the Fifth district
campaign. In a speech at Belleville,
he devoted one hour in reviewing its
good, and criticizing the changes made
in other sections as regards the rate on
lead ore and scrap iron-both reduc-
tions.
Congressman Calderhead attacked
the primary law saying he did not be-
lieve in stirring up animosities between
friends. He characterized the plan as
"a violation of the constitutional
rights of a citizen
In reviewing the measures enacted
by the last congress he did not mention
the increase in duty on rubber, neither
did he mention the charge of Senator
Bristow that kansas had its share in
! this legislative perfidy.''
insurgency was ignored entirely.
Only indirectly did Congressman Cal
derhead take cognizanee of political
4 disturbance in Kansas. That was
when he in closing said
II have followed no man in my vote
in congress, and no one has ever die
! tated my course on any measure. Many
times I have voted against Speaker
\ Cannon. have argued over many
measures upon which we have dis
agreed, and when we could not con-
vince one another we parted good
friends
# In Illustrating his defense of the
i wooden schedule he quoted from the
books of the mill owners to shaw that
books of the mill owners to show that
| goods that retail at $3.50 a yard is
/ only five and one-half cents yard.
do you think that is an exoroltant
profit? he inquired. You have been
told that this schedule was made to en-
rich the wooden manufacturers
He defended the glove and the
hosiery schedules, with as mucn vigor
and apparently with as great pleasure
as he did the other schedules.
| Certainly" he declared. 1--WE in
/ creased the glove schedule because the
gloves were being made IN europe
ned to make the same kind of gloves,
| we're standing idle. And within sixty
| DAYS after that glove schedule was
passed. my friends, the American
| glove mills were running"
| Several times Mr.. Calderhead re-
ferred to Judge Rees, the man who
is asking US to vote for him for con-
/ gress" Once he said:
Judge Rees declares that he Is Tor
4 incidental protection. Why, that is
what Grover Cleveland and the Wilson
hill stood for, and I contend that no
man who favors incidental protection
has a right to call himself Republi-l
/ can"
President James A. Kimball of the
Fifth District Rees club has an.
| nounced that Senator Bristow will
speak for Judge Rees at Concordia
| Thursday night and at Manhattan on
July 81.
Former Representative Capt. John
Seaton of Atchison has written the fol-
lowing open letter to Governor Stubs:
| Sir: It happens ofttimes that APP
| pointees of one administration VIII re-
| frafn from criticising the subse-
| n oiv1ic fro
foolish and silly actions because of OPP
posing henchmen being prone to re-
mark in the spirit of retaliation. "Oh,
| he is disgruntled because he was not
reappointed' 1 hereby head this off
by reminding you of my Republican
standing, that 1 said to you in your Of
| flee in January. 1909. in the presence
of Warden Haskell and w. 1. Biddle;
81 am not an applicant for reappoint-
ment; have no need FOR pubic JoD;
| have Job of my own: went on the
board of directors of the penitentiary
at the request of Governor Hoch." In
your reported speeches appears the
| following: 81 hold the state should
not be permitted to take these people
| (the convicts) away from wives and
| children without making provision for
them. If 1 am reelected 1 will send
| a recommen dation to the legislature to
make appropriation for their mainte-
nance" Oh. how I would like If
! was member of the house. at such
an occurrence to make you look like
the typical thirty cents Honest
| working men, can you contribute by
your vote to the nomination of such
| dispenser of your taxes? 1 have fur
| Their remarks apropos to your short
| coming as a Republican.
/ JOHN SEATON.
| Representative Victor Murdock has
arranged to be in Winfield next Mon
day night with full load of ammuni-
ton He will follow Speaker Joseph
G. Cannon who, on Saturday night
| will make personal entrance into Kan
| sas on a speaking tour Cannon will
| tell the Emporians all about. the beau
tiful in standing pat" on Monday
night and will be followed there by
| the red-headed insurgent. The speak
er has not announced his other dates,
| but the insurgents will follow along
| And when Cannon leaves Kansas
| Murdoch will put in some time in any
district the speaker may have over
| looked
I Governor Stubs talked in Pratt last
night and met statements of his po-
| litical opponents with fairness and
| frankness He touched upon the fall
| lacy of his having raised taxes and
| cited where savings had been made in
| the present administration. In the
afternoon he inspected the state fish
| hatchery and expressed himself as
| hopeful of valuable developments
along lines planned by Fish and Game
Warden L. L. Dyche. Richard J. Hop
kins accompanied the governor and