The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-06
NJ NEAL IN AUTO.
Begins Whirlwind Campaign of
First District.
Farmers Appear to Approve In
surgent Doctrine.
TALKS OF TARIFF.
Says Speaker Cannon Framed
the Schedules.
Candidate Given Lesson in Long
and Short Haul.

Sabetha. Kan, July 6.-Tom AIcNeal,
republican candidate for congress,
MADE whirlwind tour of jackson and
Brown counties Tuesday, speaking to
] the voters at Natawaka, Whiting Pow
haitian. F'airview and Morrill,. He was
given cordial reception all along the
me. the farmers especially expressing
their approval of his insurgent sent!-
.nents en- government for the people
hrst and the interests afterwards.
IN his PoWhattan speech Mr.. McNeal
said: Throughout all the ages this in
| surgent struggle, as they call it now,
! has been going on between the COM
| mon people and the few persons in
power. 1t is the old struggle between
| those in power who believe that gov
| eminent was established in the inter-
est of property rather than for the pro-
lection of the liberty of the people,"
There are few if any more interest
| ing speakers in the west than Tom Nc
Neal He mixes a leaven of humor with
| his logic and his earnestness and his
plain, common sense statements go
| home with his hearers and remain fix
ed in their minds. His appeal for ia
Vor IN this campaign is very strong.
and whether speaking in hall or in the
| open air he commands the closest at
tention and receives liberal applause.
At Powhattan Tuesday he came out
squarely on his early proposition that
ne Favored a policy that would result
In the invacuation of the Orient by this
country as soon as we can do so with
honor. my enemies accuse me of
wanting to tear down the flag" he said,
but this is not SO. 1 was too young
to follow the flag in sixty-one being
but years old, but my older brothers
marched away, and one was killed at
Stone River and another was desperate
ly wounded in that same battle. I am
proud OF the record they made and too
proud OF the flag they fought for to
ever favor the withdrawal of it's pro-
tecting folds from any land where it
can do good for mankind. But our mis-
sion in the Philippines is nearly accom-
pushed and we are now spending mil
lions for an army and navy and run
ring the risk of foreign complications
when there is not justification for such
a policy.
THE important thing is not so much
party name as what that party stands
for. Not the wagon but the load on the
wagon. The party is only a vehicle to
carry forward the policy of the govern
ment, the policy is the all important
thing.
1.-The standpatters believe that the
party should stand on it's record alone,
while the progessives believe that their
party should go forward and keep
abreast OF the country in its growth
and Improvement and new conditions
that arise every few years. The pro-
sressives also believe that the party
should carry out its campaign prom
ises, while the standpatters during the
last session of congress did all they
could TO retard the carrying out of
those promises
The New Tariff Bill.
Everyone of the 1000 schedules of
the new tariff bill were dictated by
Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrich
in the interests of the few and against
the mass of the consumers of the
country The standpatters are the
party boilers and not the insurgents
who insisted upon the fulfillment of
partv promises. President Taft said
he signed the bill rather than disrupt
the party, but that it was not what
he had expected and hoped for. Who,
then, would have disrupted the party
had Taft refused to sign the bill, the
Standpatters who forced 1t on the peo-
pie or the insurgents who fought the
bill in the interest of the people 2"
Mr. McNeal said he was a protec-
zionist in the same manner in which
a city council protects home mer-
chants by imposing a tax on peddlers
or the sale of bankrupt stock of
goods brought in from elsewhere, but
when home merchants raise prices to
home people and sell cheaper to peo-
pie of other towns, protection is no
longer virtue. He applied this plain
and homely illustration of tariff pro-
lection with telling effect, making a
| complex proposition simple.
He declared that the first insurgents
were the three Hebrew young men
who were cast into the fiery furnace
| by that old original standpatter Nebu-
chadnezzar. king of Babylon. because
they would not bow down and worship
the golden image.
| He exposed the duplicity of the
trainers of the tariff bill when they
apparently reduced the duty on lum-
Der by enacting clause declaring
| that all lumber not squared by saw
ing should have duty lowered SO per
cent How are you going to square
| lumber unless you saw it," asked Mr..
McNeal. GO back to the old broad
axe method? The fact is they in
creased the duty on all sawed lumber,
and SO per cent of the people of Kan
ass favored free lumber"
| The speaker prefaced his discussion
| of the sugar schedules by declaring
| that 1.-THE poor people consume more
sugar than the rich-there are more
of them.n
His Campaign Is Effective.
There can be no doubt that Mr.. Nc
| Meals speeches and personality and
active canvass are winning him many
| First district The sentiment of a
! large majority of the farmers is in
favor of the progressive policies and
there is no man in the state that can
present those policies with more force
and clearnesse than Mr. McNeal.
Trip by Automobile.
The insurgent apostle and his news
| PIPER correspondents made the entire
trip by auto and passed through some
of the finest farming land in the world
The old Duke of Burgundy, who plant
ed vineyards in the valley of the Loire
| in sunny France, never saw a valley or
hillside half SO rich and fair as those
lying between F'airview and Morrill, in
northern rown county. There are
more farm products raised between
these two towns alone than in any New
England state. They say that land is
worth from 800 to s175 an acre there.
No wonder, wheat, corn, oats and al
| falfa fields from both sides of the road
| look like they had been conjured from