The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Battle of Insurgents and Regu-
lars Is On.
Begins in Earnest With Advent
Of Cannon.
NO TIME is WASTED.
BristOw, Murdoch, jackson, Cur
It's and All Congressman Busy.
Capt. Seaton's Open Letter
Causes a Stir.
NO TIME is WASTED.
Letter

The announcement of Speaker Can
mons Kansas dates has caused stir
| in the insurgent ranks. Victor Muir
| duck promises to follow the speaker
| in the Eighth district and Attorney
IsGeneral Fred Jackson will perform a
| like office in the Fourth.
Senator Bristow is girding up his
| loins and will make at least ten
| speeches in the state. 1t is not yet
| known whether Ed Madison will take
a hand in the campaign outside his
district or not.
poria Gazette comments on Cannon's
| invasion of Kansas, He says:
1.-The raid on Kansas by Speaker
| Cannon is the best luck the progress
sive Republicans have had during a
long and lucky campaign. For it
hooks up the whole standpat delega-
| ton with Cannon; it ties the federal
| machine in Kansas to the state ma
chine that is financing and booming
! Wagstaff, and makes it possible now
| for the voters of Kansas to see the
| issue plainly. On one side are Bris-
| tow, Stubs, Murdoch and Madison
and the six insurgent Kansas candi-
dates for the Republican COMPRESSION
al nominations, McNeal, Mitchell,
Cranston, Jackson, Rees and Young;
Dick Hopkins, the running mate of
Stubs for lieutenant governor, and
Plumb and White, running for railroad
commissioners, anu, on the Quiet SlQOs
there are Cannon, Curtis, Wagstaff and
Creech, with the standpat congress
men, Anthony, Scott, Campbell, Miller,
Calderhead and Reeder, and Ryan and
Ryker, the machine railroad commits
sioners running for their third terms.
On the side of the machine is the COM
bination of the railroads, the brewers,
the Standard Oil, the packing houses
and the big contributors to campaign
funds who make their contributions
fC1o
crosses and controlling executives and
courts; on the other side are the lead
ers who have fought their way into
public esteem by standing with the
people-giving Kansas primary law,
an antipass law. a 2-cent fare law. a
reasonable freight rate law.
Curtis, Cannon, Wagstaff and the
standpat congressman all stand to-
gether trying to turn the hands of the
political clock back to the good old
DAYS of the convention system, the
rule of politicians and the exploitation
of the people. There is no excuse for
a voter splitting his ticket. If he is
for Cannon and his puppets in Kansas
he should go the whole hog. He should
stand by Wagstaff and the machine
railroad commissioners. Cannon puts
the clinch on the stringer that is run
nine through the wohle bunch. What
Cannon stands for they all stand for.
1.-The influence of Cannon and the
organizations makes men go back on
their work; it makes towards of its
servants and takes from. the people the
consciences of their representatives"
senator Bristow Speaks.
Senator Bristow in his speeches
views the political situation with
great alarm He accuses Senator Al
drich of manipulating the tariff on
rubber to his personal interests, declar-
ing it shameless prostitution of pow
err and says gigantic monopolies have
In, tUh
is to promote their interests" and give
them continued Opportunities to plum
der the public" Senator Bristow
follows in the lines of his Winfield
keynote speech wherein he said:
1.-The conflict in American politics
today is based upon the same funda-
mental principles as was that which
preceded the civil war The corporate
interests of the country have dominat-
ed the affairs of the nation as com
pietely as did the slave interests in
the days of its greatest strength. The
corporate dominion has not been at
tended by such brutal cruelty, yet it
has been based upon injustice, and the
violation of the fundamental rights of
man. Just as every effort made for
the restriction of slavery was resisted
by the slave power, so every effort
made to protect the people from the
injustice of corporate greed is resist
ed by the great corporations of this
Time. Inc representatives OI tic Sl1NC
power had seats in the halls of con-
gress and contended for the perpetuity
of slavery because of their financial in |
terest in the institution. And now the
gigantic monoDolies of this day have
representatives in the halls of congress
whose sole purpose is to promote their
interests and keep open the opportun- |
ity which they now have to plumber
the American public. This was forci- |
bly, demonstrated in the tariff fight
that occurred a year ago
The Tariff Proposition.
"The Republican party in it's nation !
al convention declared for revision
of the tariff, maintaining the princi- |
pie of protection, and further stated |
that duties should be based upon the |
difference in the cost of production at |
home and abroad, plus a reasonable |
profit to the home manufacturer. |
Upon that platform the party won the |
fight and l believe that nine-tenths |
of the Republicans throughout the |
land expected the pledge to be carried |
would have been done had it not been
for the perfidy and selfishness of GER
tain designing legislators who were
more DESTROYS of favoring special in |
terests than of promoting the welfare
of the people. Under the leadership |
of these men, instead of revising the |
tariff as was promised, duties were |
fixed not with a view of protecting |
legitimate American industries or of |
securing revenue for the government |
but for the purpose of promoting the |
financial interests of certain individu- |
ais or concerns.
Grave Charges on Rubber Tariff.
Now briefly a review of the sched- |
ule on rubber and how it was manipu- |
lated discloses the following startling |
facts: Under the Dingiey law there |
was a 80 per cent duty on manufac-i
lures of rubber, and that crude rubber |
was free; that the present tariff law |
passed the house without any change
in the duty on either crude or manu- !
featured rubber; that Mr.. Aldrich's |
senate committee increased the duty |
on manufactured rubber from 80 to 8 8 |
per cent; that during the session, or
Immediately after the adjournment, he
in connection with the Guggenheims I
and Ryan, organized rubber trust |
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