The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-04

tions of the legislature or for the levy
made by the state tax commission.
$50 taken as a whole and upon the
facts as they now exist, Governor
Stubbs is giving Kansas an able, con-
scientious and valuable administration.
There is a suspicion in many quarters
that he is displaying politics too strong
ly and is looking well to his own po-
litica1 advancement. But there is no
evidence that he has bartered any pub
lie interest for political support. 1t is
probably true that when he has an ap-
pointment to make and finds number
of applicants equally qualified and
honest that he selects men who are in
sympathy with him personally and with
his ideas of administration. But there
is no evidence that he has in any in
stance sacrificed the interests of the
people or stultified his own campaign
promises to court favor with hostile
political forces. In fact there is evil
dence that he has failed to use import
ant appointments which he might have
used had his ambition outrun his sense
the election of a Democrat from Mis-
souri, for president of the State Agri-
cultural college.
while we do not endorse this selec-
ton and believe that Kansas could
have furnished as good material for
this position as Missouri, yet we do not
question the integrity of the governors
motives So in summing up we con-
clude that this first year of Mr.. Stubbs'
administration ought to find him
stronger with the people, and that so
far he has made good"
Arthur Cranston. member of the last
legislature from Labette county, who
announced himself last fall as can
didate for congress in the Third dis
trict against p. P. Campbell has come
to the front again. this time with his
p atfOrm for the coming campaign. He
basis his bid for public favor on his
anti-Cannon and anti-Aldrich senti-
nents.
Mr.. Cranston is a lawyer and poll
tIcian of Parsons. In the last legisla-
ture he out-popped the Populists in
his support of bill providing for the
Initiative and referendum. and by the
end of the session had gained the title
Of Initiative and referendum" Gran
ston dis a bright and energetic young
lawyer and made a good impression in
the legislature He has the hardest
task of any of the square deal candi-
dates for the places held by the ''regu-
lars" of the Kansas delegation in Wash
ington. for of all the districts in the
state the square deal doctrine has made
less headwa- in the big Third than in
any of the others. The Cranston plat
form is as follows:
t'To the epublicans of the Third Con-
gressional District.
'It is destructive of free government
and western interests. It means ring
rule and party ruin. Every true Re
publican is ashamed that his party
speaker should be suspected of Tam
many alliance. Compelling a congress-
man to get permission in the speakers
private room to be recognized on the
floor Of the house in urging measures
in behalf of constituents is not only an
insult to the member but to every con-
stituent of that member in his district.
Cannon's rules have no place in free
government. convention or organized
body. 1t is ring domination syStema-
tized.
by manipulation of tariff schedules
an unjust proportion of burden of cost
OF federal government is thrown upon
the consumer of necessities. The man
of millions of property uses the law a
hundred times where the man of little
property uses it once, yet they contrib
ute nearly equal to maintenance. A
level poll tax would be only a little less
unjust, considering the ratio of use by
each.
Rhode Island has abundant repre-
sentation; Kansas needs some. Stand
patism in 1907 meant congressional de-
fiance to demand for downward re-
vision. At the special session of 1909 1t
meant reputation of party platform
promises by defiantly revising upward.
Manufacturers prices can remain the
same and then some. Stand-p -patism is
off the platform. it is out of step. Re-
pudiation never was, and when true
Republicans control congress, never
will be a part of our doctrine. Re-
publicanism redeems. Republicanism
should not be judged by the hypocriti-
cal mask placed on it's face by Cannon,
Aldrich & Co. 1t demands protection,
to labor and agriculture and only rea-
sonable manufacturers profit.
'I urge an immediate fulfillment Of
our party platform promises by lower
ing tariff on those schedules on which
trusts have fattened, and to that point
where foreign competition will enter
and beat down the price until there is
left for the greedy manufacturer only
his reasonable profit on actual invest
ment; but I would demand also that
tariff on all schedules be high enough
to protect all domestic goods sold at a
reasonable manufacturers profit. safe
from foreign competition. 1 believe the
tariff has been used as shield to
trusts, but that henceforth it should be
used as a sword to protect both the
honest producer and the helpless con-
sumer.
Every defender Of our flag should
have a pension when advanced in age,
and an officer should not receive more
than a private 1 favor minimum of
$50 per month for every honorably dis
charged soldier after so years of age,
and believe the Curtis bill ought to be
amended so as to grant that amount.
Il favor the election of United States
senators by the direct vote of the peo-
pie.
with these principles 1 am willing to
submit my candidacy to the Repub1i-
nf 11n ct iof