The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-27

! county the Kansas governor was OPEN
~ demanding that the president of the
United states throw the holder of a
liquor permit into Jail who had allowed
! only one day to elapse without renew
ing his license. I want to tell you
! that In every one of the wet counties
/ in Kansas this sort of thing has been
| going on and that the Stubs political
| ring has secured not less than 100000
| of this kind of money. If the truth
| were known some of these members or
the Stubs machine would stand before
| the people of Kansas today as the
| greatest political grafters this state has
ever known.
I'm the last session of the legislature
| the effort was made to pass law d.
Iecting that money obtained in this
| the state but this legislation was de-
! feated by the Stubs, Jackson, Dolley
| political combine.
"And 1 want to say right here that
so far as the whisky question is con-
cerned 1 would be glad to see every
drop of whisky poured into the Missouri
river. and as member or the Iederai
| congress I want to say that l shalt
| stand at all times in favor of every pos
| sible federal prot ectior being extended
to a state in the exercise of its own
police power"
Senator Curtis Pyrotechnics.
| The real fireworks began when
Senator Curtis took the stand. There
\ was no stunt TO MS ONdllOH. 1OpOhd
people were glad to see him and kept
| him silent for a while as the Audi
| torium echoed with applause at his
appearance. He opened with a tribute
| to American patriotism and sounded
| the booming brass and the t1nk11ng
| cymbal above the record of the Re
public party since the time of Abra-
! ham Lincoln. Having achieved a
seemly eminence of oratory he
bounced down with thud upon the
| vito lc # i'm
| Senator Curtis paid tribute to
William Allen White of Emporia as
| follows:
81 am glad to see presiding over this
meeting a man who represents so Well
the admirable body of men who make
up the great rank of Republicanism.
am surprised that Republicans
| should have invited a carpet Dagger
to preside, as they did last night Gre
ferring to the Stubs meeting). man
who vilified the great Mckinley and
who has voiced the sentiments Of
those un-Republican reactionaries who
have opposed the great administering
measures of President William H
Taft
Plunging into matters of national
administration Senator Curtis answer
| ed the cry of the insurgents that the
Taft policies were favorable TO the
| Interests and took up the cudgels
in defense of the tariff measures of the
| last congress.
The Tariff Law.
''When we gathered to pass tariff
| law the national treasury faced a de-
| felt of s6O,OOO,OOO which necessity de-
| manded should be PROVIDED against IN
our immediate legislation. 1 have
been in congress for seventeen years
and l want to say that never IN my
recollection did that body work narder
and more conscientiously than IN the
| preparation of the new tariff bill. We
made 500 reductions in the duties on
necessaries and 800 increases on the
| luxuries. One hundred OF those IN
| creases were in the duties upon wines
and liquors. Are the people of kansas
opDosed to that? On July /, just pass
| ed, 1 am glad to be able to tell you
| that instead of deficit there was a
surplus of 100000. l am glad be
cause I remember the time Wnen IN
| 1879 we faced a deficit of $71,0OO,00
| and we'll 1 remember that it was you
who helped to make it up. A portion
| of that deficit was covered by cutting
| of the pensions of old soldiers ana
reduction of the payments made in
memory of the valiant services OF the
men who preserved our country In the
| battles of the Civil war.
Il wish" continued Senator curtis
| producing a copy of the Outlook Mag
| azine of recent date, that the unfr1end-
ly papers would be honest enough to fol-
| low the example of this magazine IN
| its commentaries upon the tarln meas j
| ure. 1t frankly confesses here that IN
it's earlier estimates of that law it had
| criticised 1t unfairly. but that 1T had
| found upon subsequent investigation
| that tire provisions of the tariff law
were necessary and honestly made. He
shook the magazine at the press table
| and said: 81 wish you would put that
down, Mr.. Newspaper Man. You haven
heard the unfriendly newspapers say
ing anything about that tariff meas
ure lately.
Bristow for Free Trade.
| Every insurgent who voted against
| that tariff measure voted against the
| American laborer, the American farm
er and American industry, and when
| Senator Bristow stood up in opposition
! to it he held the brief Of the American
| importer N his hand. Just put that
down. Mr.. Newspaper Man! Put thar
| down!
II am not surprised that the junior
| senator from Kansas voted for free
trade. Within the past three years he
| printed in his own newspaper an ed1-
| tarial advocating the admission free OF
Chinese labor. For my part 1 stand for
| American labor, the American farmer
| ard American industry, and [ will con-
tinue to stand SO as long as 1 have a
dice to express my feelings in con-
| eTess or out of It.
Moves on Stubs.
Senator Curtis then moved on the
| Stubs works.
I'm his Berryton speech" he said
governor StubbH told his auditors that
if he were to be held responsible for the
| increased appropriations by the legis-
lature he should be given the power tic
cut down the items Of the appropria-
ton bill. b1atantly ignoring the law al
ready IN the statute books when he
took office empowering him to do that
very thing. Governor Stubs called
upon the state treasurer and the state
| auditor but a few days ago for state
rnent of the unexpended balances and
the expenditures during his term of Of
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