Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-10
BR|S1OW EXPLODES;
HANDS BUNCH TO
Mr.. RIPLEY
Average Railroad President
Does His Cause More Harm
Than Good, Declares Senator
From Kansas,
Especial Correspondence to Morning Journa,I

IsreciaI Correspondence To Morning Journait
Topeka. Kan. Nov. 4--"Niek Chiles
has better political sense than Presi-
dent E. +. Ripley of the Santa Fe
railway company" declared United
States senator ]. L. BrstoW while in
/ Topeka Yesterday. ANY 1olntist has
better political sense and Judgment
than the average railorad president
i railroad attorney or railroad doc
tor
senator Brstow made these state
ments in the governors office, haV-
ing dropped in for fifteen or twenty
minutes between trains lie was on
his way to Bonner Springs. He was
all worked up over the part the liquor
element is taking in the campaign
against Governor Stubbs and the re-
mainder of the republican state ticket
and county tickets.
"It Is my opinion" said he. that
the liquor element is going to have
more Influence in this election than
the railroads. / believe the iointists
viii be able to accomplish more for
the railroads unintentionalN than the
railroads can possibly accomplish for
themselves
senator Brlstow's opinion of rail-
road officials as politicians is not at
all complimentary. He believes they
do more harm than good for their
own cause He says the railroads with
all of their speeches from their Of
ficials and all the harmony excursions
are not going to make any showing in
the coming election.
''They don't know anything about
public sentiment" said the senator.
.They fail to see the human side OF
questions that come up. The iointist
is a far better politician, He knows
public sentiment and while he may be
running counter to it he Is in close
touch with the situation. He keeps his
ear to the ground. In every county
where there are joints there is king
iointist. He Is the man to 20 to for
political Information. He can tell you
more in Il minute than can President
Ripley in year.
Would Be Poor Office Holder.
Senator Bristow said that ii presi-
dent Ripley was holding public Of
flee or was politician and made the
statement contained In a recent open
letter to Governor Stubbs he would
annihilate himself. That statement
had reference 10 the fixing OF rates
Ripley admitted in the first para
graph that rates We're not fixed on
The values of the property" said the
senator. He admitted that they were
fixed with reference to the value of
the service competition and the lack
Of il, and In fact were nude as high
as the traffic would bear
Tint proves what / have contend
ed; that President Ripley is no poll
ueian and knows nothing about it, No
jointist would have made such an ad-
mission. 1t was suicidal statement
as will be realized when people have
thought it out | recall an incident /
learned Of two years ago which illus
tfates the manner in which rates are
fixed, as admitted by President
Ripley.
Il was riding on a freight train in
the western part of the state, having
been at Goodland. Some coal was side
tracked at Goodland ANA found three
carloads of the same coal billed for
Salina. Upon inquiry | found that the
coal came from the same mines in
colorado and that the rate was fifty
cents per ton higher from the mines
10 Goodland than from the mines to
Salina. The coal. If hauled through
Goodland to Belleville, from Belleville
10 Mcfarland, from Mcfarland to
lierington and from Herington to Sa
lima was delivered to the dealer fifty
cents cheaper than If set out at the
side track at Goodland, just half the
distance
What Competition Does.
Here's the reason. The Rock Island
Is the only railroad running through
Goodland. The people living there
must have coal. There is no wood
within hundred miles The railroad
company knows il can charge what
ever 1t pleases ana get it. At Sallna
there are other railroads There is
competition. The railroad must make |
a rate that win give it its share Of the |
business. Hence the lower rate. There |
you are. The railroad takes advantage |
OF the location and climatic conditions /
at Goodland and makes its own rates |
And President T.. = Ripley attempts |
to justify that very thing in his letter
to Governor Stubhs | consider II /
ridiculous. No jointist would attempt |
that sort of thing. He would make no
such admissions and then try to iusti-
fy them. He would know it was an