The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-06


otners for using oaths and question
able epithets. I know of no exigency
IN the present political contest that
warrants such a charge against the
no decent citizen of your ability can
nope for political advantage from
| personalities so foreign to sober pub
! lie discussion
II wish you would compare the quo
| tation you made from the governor :
article on taxation. under date of
January 16. with his real statement. as
| printed, to see how cleverly the writer
OF your letter forged a word that was
/ necessary to give an erroneous mean
Ing TO the governors statement. While
/ this is not a very material untruth in
this phase of the discussion it will serve
| to caution you against the danger of
| adopting as your own the statements
o. irresponsible and INSCRIPTIONS press
| agents.
You say that the governor has stu
diously discredited the administration
| of President Taft. Can you, truthfully.
| point to single utterance of his that
can be made to Justify such a state
ment? If so 1 will be obliged to you
| if you will state the time, the place
| and the connection.
Can you point to a single utterance
of his thct iustifies the charge you
make that he holds the supporters of
| Tom Wagstaff to - influenced by i'm
! proper mot1Ves?' Has he no. repeated
| ly and invariably referred to the lead;
ers' instead of the 'supporters?' And
can you tell me a leader who is not
Influenced by improper motI|esf
| do you not know. as a matter of
| fact, that among the leaders is the
man who drew 500 q month from the
state treasury in clerical hire while he
did no service whatever for the state
but worked all the time as a reporter
on an old machine daily paper, and the
man who sought to have his monthly
grocery bills paid for out of state
funds?
Can you tell me of one single lead
err who is not fighting the governor
as service to corporations desiring
special favors from the state, or to
serve their own personal or selfish
ends?
"Can you tell me why a certain rich
man who was given a fat Indian
agency in Oklahoma by Senator Curtis
is taking such a prominent part in
the antt-StubDs movement?
Standard Oil Banker?
do you think the innuendo you throw
out that the governor is now opposed to
the Standard Oil company because he
has as you say. sold out his oil inter
ests, is just? Do you not know, as the
head Of the Standard Oil bank at In
dependence and the keeper of all Stand
ard Oil funds in your section, that the
governors interest in the Oil fields has
=
word in relation to that transaction is
false? How can you, in decency, with
your intimate knowledge of Standard
Oil manipulations, allow such a state
ment to be supported by your sigma
ture?
How can you endorse the statements
of your leaders that the governor has
been extravagant with his contingent
fund when you know that from So
900 fund he has, due to the neglect of
the legislature, supported and main
tanned the state fish hatchery which,
under the machine rule you desire to
restore, formerly cost $4,000 a year to
operate?
do you think Governor Stanley was
sincere il, making this charge of eX-
travagance when he knew that the
governor was paying large demands on
his contingent fund by the enforcement
OF state laws which he, himself. when
inaugurated as governor solemnly
swore to support?
State Secrets Given Out.
Il have myself heard Governor Stan
ley call the Christian ministers of this
state 'blubbering Pharisees' for earn
estly trying to enforce this law when
it conf1icted with his interest and the
interest of his friends. And for fear
some one may doubt my unsupported
statement in this respect l call upon
Henry Allen Of Wichita, formerly his
private secretary, for corroborative ev-
idence.
You intimate that Governor Stubs
has 'standin' with the Standard Oil
company and that the appointment of
sam Fitzpatrick, Is its attorney, was
referred to him. Why, then, is every
attorney for the Standard Oil company
in Kansas fighting him so bitterly?
You say that the governor had
never, before about a month ago, criti-
cised the Standard Oil company. AS
far back as six months ago a Standard
Oil attorney came to me privately with
a proposition that if the governor
would ease up on the Standard Oil
company he would get Sam Fitzpatrick
to abandon his fight on the governor
and give him his support. Another and
greater Standard Oil attorney repeat
ed the proposition to me in a different
form. Both propositions were allowed
to pass by without any serious consid-
Grafton either way in this office.
II will ask you to inquire of Attorney
General Jackson and the governor
where they would expect Governor
Stanley to be in this campaign if they
would be willing to allow the harvester
trust greater facility to violate the
laws and plumber the farmers of this
state. 1t is their attitude towards Mr..
Stanley, as attorney for this trust and
not as a citizen of Kansas, that makes
him weep for the decadence of party
loyalty in this state.
A Shot for Stanley.
do you think it was as a citizen If
Wichita rather than as attorney for the
harvester trust that he went into the
conspiracy of recent date in room 231
of the National hotel of this city, TO
defeat his young townsman, Victor
Murdoch, for congress?
Your leaders intimate that the gov
ernor has built UP the most powerful
political machine in the history Of Kan
sas. Do you honestly think that Mr..
Stubs who lived thirty-four years
within fWpntT-SiX miles of TOnPka
without ever entering the state house
and was As years of age before he at
tended a political convention is poll
tician of machine inclinations?
That Stubs Machine.
''Mr. Stubs has no machine but the
people of Kansas and if that has be-
come the biggest political machine IN
he history of the state il Is hecauSa