The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-02
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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hicted will be pleased to furnish the
vaSelina.
The expense account of this Office is
| kept in systematic and up to date
| lie inspection and invite you to cali
as would be pleased to show them to
| you.
Men of small caliber and of small and
| limited ability dwell on small things.
advised you in my former letter that
| it would be much more manly for you
in this campaign to be a man and act
| the man and tell the truth and thereby
| have the respect of the Kansas people
and not practice under the diploma
that you received from the Ananias col
lege Of which you are postgraduate.
One of your very closest 1ieuten--
ants drew graft out of the state
treasury for several months and has
for this graft.
/ will ask you, Mr.. Kramer. why
Mr.. Wagstaff surrounds himself with
this class of men? will ask you
whether or not you know, and I sup
you do, for If you do not you ought to,
that there is no comparison as to the
management and direction of the
states affairs today as compared with
only few years ago when graft and
crime were rampant in the state
house and public institutions. I re-
peat that the men who were respon-
sible for these CRAFTS are leaders in
the Wagstaff movement?
Do you know, Mr.. Kramer, and
suppose you do that If you were to
ask the. brewers, the gamblers, the
political con" men and the short
change artists, not who they are for
for governor, but who they are against
| that with loud voice they would cry
'Stubbs.
in. DoLLEY.
George H. Hodges of Olathe, Demo-
cratic candidate for governor, and
Grant Harrington of Kansas City, can
Oh late Tor congress from the Second
district. will be the speakers at a
Grand hotel in Kansas City, Kan. by
the Wyandotte County Democratic
club.
Tom Cordry, who is cutting a wide
Swath through the state as a candidate
for the Republican nomination for state
printer Is one of the best known edi-
| tors in the state, although he has never
worked on any Of the metropolitan pa
pers. He has always preferred to work
In the smaller towns, and his long suit
has been editing papers where the own
er, on account of other business, was
unable to look after them.
COrdry'S ambition is to own a coun-
he says if he is elected state printer
he is going to have one of the best
weekly newspapers in Kansas and for
the rest of his life say what he pleases
and not be simply an editorial mega
phone for SOMEBODY else. If he wants
without asking anybody's permission
and taking out a license from the own
ers of the paper and if he wants 70
stand pat'' he will do so without hay
ing some one put props under him to
make him stand.
William Allen White has issued an
other bulletin, this time devoted prin-
cipally to the congressional candidates.
In it he says:
There is no reason why any man
who is for Stubs should vote for
either Anthony. Scott, Campbell, Mil
Ter, Calderhead or Reeder. These
Cannon congressman are for Cannon.
Cannon has declared for reelection.
He will have their support in the fu-
| ture as he has had it in the past. They
| voted under the leadership of Fitz-
patrick, Tammany man in congress,
| to save Cannon in the last session.
They will vote under Cannon's leader
| ship in any party under any disguise.
| They are his cattle. Why should any
Kansas Republican vote for them?
Moreover these men have been
against Stubs and the progressive
movement at home. They are against
him now.
Every postmaster rooter for the
| Cannon congressman is for WagstaH;
every Cannon congressman is Tned up
at home with the machine. Why, in
heavens name, will they change when
they get to Washington again?
"They are lined up with the rail-
roads at home Won't they line up
with the railroads in washington?
Haven't they served the railroads in
Washington? After Victor Murdoch.
on the floor of the house, had warned
congressman that the resolution I'M
der which Miller defends himself for
| flooding the mails with widowed
documents was in the interests of pad
ding the mails to help the railroads,
| didn't Miller go ahead and send liter
ally ton of musty, unnecessary docu-
| ments through the mail? When the
| railroads desired the recent rate bill
| thrown into conference. and when all
the newspapers heralded what was
| happening, didn't every one of the self
| confessed Cannon congressman who
voted at all vote with the railroads
under the leadership of Fitzgerald,
/ the Tammany Democrat, again to
| throw the bill into conference as the
railroads wanted it?
| when a man is with the corporate
| interests at home. when all the big
railroad attorneys are working for that
| lrran-they know what they are doing,
those railroad attorneys They never
make a mistake. The people should not
| make mistakes, either.
1.-The Republicans Of Kansas should
| know that, when congressman are
| against progress at home. when they
| have violated their party platform and
voted with Cannon against that Plat
| form, they will keep it up. The rail-
| roads know this. The packing houses
| know this
1.-The packing houses are for Mr.. Scott,
| Just as the railroads are for Mr.. Mil
| Ter, just as the lumber men are for Mr..
| Caldarhaad inst as the hreuvars are for