The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01
John Dawson Makes Red Hot
Reply to Neeley.
Calls Stubbs' BrOther-in-L Law a
''BIatherskite.'
THREE CONFIDENT MEN
McNeal, Mitchell and Jackson
Had JOllificatiOn.
Tom MOrgan's Prophecy and
His Rebuke.

John S. Dawson, attorney for the
railway board, read the attack made on
him by George Medley of Hutchinson
in the State Journal last night and
made reply at the depot before leaving
for Wichita on a business trip for the
railway board. Dawson draws word
fpictures in his public addresses and
dips into history and literature for his
metaphors, but in handling Governor
Stubbs' brother-in-law he took off his
gloves and used plain and emphatic
English words of abuse and scorn.
Dawson pointed to his record of TWEEN
ty years in the public eye in Kansas
and then held up Neeley's carpet bag"
residence here of few months in con-
traSt. Mr.. Dawson said:
Touching the letter of G. A. Neeley
in yesterdays Journa. denying that
he admitted to me his connection with
the lumber trust as a lawyer, l beg to
state that the Journal news item was
true and correct in it's material aspects
and did Medley no injustice. 1t is but
crude lodging for him to declare now
that he has not been attorney for the
trust since he came to Kansas. He
has been a citizen of this state but
short time, So he told me, but admit
that he is not very trustworthy
source of information.
"As to all the rest OF his slanderous
diatribe, 1 viii make but this answer:
I have resided in Kansas for twenty
four years; as pioneer boy in the
homestead country, as a country school
teacher, as principal of high schools,
as Woodworking lawyer and public
Officer-Which last includes my par
tieipation in all the battles and vic
tories of civic righteousness in the at
torner- generals office during the last
six years-all in the full blaze of pub
lie scrutiny. l have discussed my pO-
litical views and predictions in pub
lie and in private in ore hundred and
two Kansas counties in the last dozen
years; and if all these patent facts will
not preserve to me the good opinion
of the Kansas people against the gra-
tuitous SANDERS of a bushwhacking
carpet Dagger, i would not want to
serve them as attorney general or in
any other caracity
eff 1 am to report progress to the
people on all my projects for their
amehoration against inadequate rail-
road service and unjust freight rates,
the people will surely present their
demand to know by some one who
speaks with more authority than an
irresponsible blatherskite like Neeley.'
Three of the insurgent candidates
for congress were gathered in town
Monday evening-McNeal, Mitchell
and Jackson-and they all appeared
to be happy and satisfied. They de-
clare that the insurgent sentiment in
their districts out at the grassroots is
gaining ground every day. They feel
more confident now of nomination
than at the time they announced their
candidacy.
the old time congressman. then no
other square dealers in the state can
turn the trick, excepting Governor
Stubs himself, and he would find the
job big one. These three, the flower
of the square deal forces. announced
their intentions of conducting a-thor-
ough cam aign in every township in
their districts and will make an ag-
gro cfx 7crI0f a fI7n
Tom Morgan in his ottawa Repub-
Nc prophesies Democratic victory and
commiserates Democratic deserters as
follows:
Its too bad but a few good fellows
who have been loyal to Democracy
during long years of defeat and dis
couragement are hopping out of the
party just at the wrong time. The
people of Kansas and of the Union
are at last realizing that Democratic
principles are the foundation of good
government. AS a result of this con-
viction the present year will see the
election of a Democratic congress and
1t Is altogether probable that a Demo
crat will be chosen to succeed Taft in
1919. It is a good time for Democrats
TO stand by their co1ors.'
The Olathe Mirror condemns Will
liam Allen White in no unmeasured
terms for his abuse of Congressman
Seoul Inc M1rror gives the high
apostle of reform q dose of his own
bitter invective as follows:
What is there about a reform po-
1itica1 movement. that robs the men
who come under it's spell of common
fairness and decency, makes them
traduce their friends and abandon
every instinct of ordinary civility
There is William Allen White for
example Nobody has treated him
with greater consideration, we might
n xryd& for off Il
regard, than Congressman Scott. And
yet White has recently published an
article in his Emporia Gazette that is
filed with the most vicious and veno-