The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-22

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Doniphan county man declared thai
! Stubs majority in 1910 had been cut
| down for no other reason than that
| he advocated the radical measures
that were written in the party plat
| ford. He said that the Republican
policies of 40 years had beer swallow
ed up in the vagaries of new popu-
! lism and said that the administration
! forces were the ones guilty of political
| crookednesS and not the standpats.
He defined the tactics of the party
| council as political treachery. The
| Brewster speech was one of the
strongest appeals made on the floor
| in the present session and the Troy
lawyer was given hearty applause
when he took his seat.
1t was Editor Brady, Governor Stubs
fellow townsman, who arose to de-
| fend the sincerity and f--~~ty of the
| Quaker executive. He denied most
| bitterly the allegations of the regulars.
I'm his recent campaigns declared
! Brady, Governor Stubs never dOdS-
ed a single issue. He was open and
| above board on every subject and top
| ic of the day. His pos'"'o-1 on every
question from salt rising bread to the
affairs of church and state and the
most intricate matters were expressed
and understood in every remote and
| distant corner of the state. 1 deny
most bitterly the statements of the
gentleman from Doniphan and wish to
state that the attitude of our chief
executive is and at all times has been
fearless and above suspicion
Then Price fought back at the in
surgents and closed the final chapter
of the controversy.
Il deny the right of any senator
said Price. Ito measure my Republican,
ISM by some plank in the Republican
platform. I defy any man to say that
L am not a better Republican than any
man or any paper that is so ardently
advocating this measure. 1 want the
senator from Douglas to show his sin
certify and love for the platform and
vote with me for the printing of the
blank books at the state printing plant.
/ want you to get that matter squarely
in your mind SO you won't forget it.
No newspaper in the state dares go
on record tomorrow morning in favor
of that platform plank want the
newspapers to print an editorial and
call on the senate to fulfill that pledge
If they fail to do this am / to be con-
denmend in their columns for political
cowardice? 1 serve notice on this sem
ate and lobby that I will obstruct any
effort to adjourn before that promise
is enacted in law.
'One of the opening clauses in this
platform is and was intended as
slap at President Taft. 1t directs the
poison at Speaker Cannon and Sena-
tor Aldrich. l want to know this brand
of Republicanism. And yet, within the
last As hours the trainers of that plat
form have rushed up and handed back
to Speaker Cannon the power they adj
Vocated taking away that business
might be conducted in an orderly way.
You violated the spirit of that plat
form when you criticised me when L
voted to have the senate name its own
committees. Members called me trait
or because 1 did the things you COM
manded to be done in Washington.
Yet. 1 do not forge that we had a
representative form of government 80
years ago and that slavery was seized
upon. 1t did not ro~Tire an initiative
referendum to do that and the same
brand of men who ruled our country
then are mere today. We have given
our people the highest standard of
education and business government
and fulfilled every promise without
now as saying that g this measure is
passed that within six months after ii
is in operation it will be denounced
by every church and temperance or
ganization in the state We are talS-
ing the temperature of the people at
a high state of frenzy and 1 want to
wait till this thing wears Off s
There were a dozen lengthy explain
ations of votes. The statutes were en-
numbered by long typewriter docu-
ments and slowly the bill went down
to it's customary defeat. When Senator
Is votes for the amendment and four
against. The word was passed to the
state offices that the senate was about
to adopt the l. and r. and within a
few minutes the Hobbies were crowded.
With Hunters name there was
change. Gradually the vote changed.
When Stavely's name was reached, all
but four members had voted. Two
votes were needed to kill the bill.
Three to pass it All of the four men
1n nF ho CT
The roll call was as follows:
For-Anderson. Avery, Bender, Brady.
Brown, Cambern, Cooke. Denton, Fow-
Ter, Ganse, Glenn, Harris Hamilton,
Hodges, Hostrup, Huffman. Milton,
Murphy, Myers. Potter Quincy, Rob-
ertson Smith, Stannard. Total "a
Against-Brewster Caldwell, Carey,
Fagerberg, Hunter. Lower, Milligan,
Overfield, Porter. Price, Reed, Stavely,
Stewart, Stillings. Travis. Total, Is.