The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
Kansas Men of Affairs Discuss
Helm Statement.
The IL. C. Brewer Stirred Up a
Hornets Nest, That's All.
FROM EVERY QUARTER
Friends and Enemies of Stubbs
Say He's Right ON Prohibition.
ReSubmisSiOn Would Be Beaten
by 25O,O0O Says Badders.

Topeka business men deny that
Kansas will be a wet state in two
years, or that the liquor question was
an issue in the recent campaign. Shey
claim that the rebuke to Governor
Stubbs was not a slap at Kansas pro-
hibition or an endorsement of the pol
icies of the Missouri brewers.
1t is stated by many people who
voted against StubbS in Tuesdays
election that when ]. J. Helm, the
Kansas City brewer, claimed the re-
suit was gain for saloons in Kansas,
that Mr.. Helm had not consulted the
Kansas voters in regards the trouble.
Whatever may have been the op-
position to Governor Stubs in Kan
sas, said a business man this morn
ing, that opposition cannot be con-
strued as antagonism of Stubbs policy
on the liquor question. Neither can
the brewers count on the Stubbs op-
position as being for Mr.. Helm and
his interests
In an interview in Kansas City
Wednesday, ]. J. Helm said, I'VE did
not quite beat Stubbs, but it was only
because we didn't work hard enough
and didn't have quite time enough.
If we had six weeks mora we w .uld
have showed him under. Two years
from now the story will be different.
Kansas is going to be wet and the
brewers are going to make it so. Our
organization in the state will be
gone into the fight to stay. and we will
not quiz until we have squared things
with the persons over there who have
held us up, robbed us and jobbed us
for the past fifteen or twsnty years.
You bet the returns this year show
what the brewers can do, aid nothing
else"
Local business men assume that
Mr.. Helm and his fellow brewers will
attempt tt force a resu omission of the
nrnl,ihIfinn law in the state thew
deny that the liquor manufacturers
will be able to get away with a change
of conditions.
| Shows That Stubbs Vas Right.
! This statement of Helms" said
William Macferran, shows that
Stubbs was right in his predictions be-
fore the election. Mr.. Helm has un-
Willingly admitted as much. The sit
uation in Kansas is that the brewers
tare for everything and everyone that
| they are against. Thus when the rali-
roads and the standpat Republicans
Tebuked Stubs the brewers promptly
Joined hands, although their company
was not wante1 or sought in the least.
Now, the brew ers would have the peo-
pie of Kansas believe they are a DOW.
er in the stale.
81 do not believe that the railroads
would for an instant cons;dcr any al
! lance with tho brewery interests in a
campaign in the state, it would be
However, the conditions were such
that from outside appearances, the
two institutions seemed to be fighting
for the same cause. Yet each had an
entirely separate motive"
J. r. Mulvane is of the opinion that
resubmission in Kansas would be so
| overwhelmingly defeated that it would
| hardly be necessary to count the votes.
why there are hundreds of standpat
| Republicans in Kansas" said Mulvana.
/ fsWhn would vvOrlx and AGAINST
| looms in the state. although they voted
against Stubbs. 1t was Stubbs who
was an issue in the campaign, and not
| the brewery interests and the attempt
of that man Helm to claim any part
of a victory in the election is absurd
! Railroad Officials Testify.
1--WE have discovered by keeping close
records" said an Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe official, that in railroad cen
! ters where prohibition is in force we
get far better service than in places
| where it is wet. Our records show thac
the crews that live in prohibition towns
| have far fewer accidents and their
work is far more satisfactory than
those men who live and operate out of
| towns where there are saloons and
| joints. Besides, they become frugal
| and saving.
"If Mr.. Helm is foolish enough to
| think that the brewers were RESPONSE
BILE for the reduced majority given
|
years Kansas would be wet he is alone
in his belief so far as the railroads IN
| Kansas are concerned. The railroad
| officials do not admit that they were
| factor in the scare given the progress
| stves but they resent the statement
| that the brewers are in any way re-
| sponsible for the Stubs reduced vote.
If in two years the brewers attempt
| to get resubmission in Kansas they
will be all alone in their efforts for the
| railroads will not only refuse to he
their allies but they will be fighting
against the liquor interests
| Governor Stubbs Speaks.
Governor Stubs said: while the
breweries did great work against me In
some counties in getting out the wet
vote and manufacturing sentiment, the
vote shows that Kansas is overwhelni-
| ingly for prohibition. The breweries
| can continue the fight but it will be
a waste Of money, as Kansas never
| will return to the open saloon"
Rev. LoveIand Says 1t Is Silly.
'@This statement from Mr.. Heinz"
\ said Rev. Loveland reminds me very
| much of the small dog that runs bark
ing after the fast mail as 1t goes tear
| ing down the track. After the dog is
out of breath, it goes back and lies
| down, thinking no doubt that it ran
| the train out of the field
Now, the breweries are not nearly
as anxious to start trouble as they want
the public to believe. They have one
| faculty that many temperance people
| do not possess. They can distinguish
| between a fighting chance and a
chance to fight. These people know,
| or at least ought to know, too much
| about the situation in Kansas to look
! urally Democratic landslide through
| out the country and the breWerieS