The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
STUART IN RACE.
DOniphan Judge Will Try Con-
clusiOns With Anthony.
Makes Formal Announcement Of
Congressional Candidacy.
He is A PROGRESSIVE
Would Have the Anti Trust Law
Amended.
Also Wants the Tariff Revised
Downward.


candidacy for the Republican nomlna-
tion for congress for the First district.
Judge Stuart is a progressive and his
platform is clear cut and to the point
Judge Stuart believes. that the loss
Of the house of representatives to his
marty at the last election was due TO
fhe fact that the standpatters In con-
eress refused to keep the party promise
10 revise the tariff downward 1iie
Judge favors the amendment Oh tHe
Sberfr1an antitrust law and OF court
procedure in order that speedy as Wen
ae sure Justice may be administered
without the interference of tecinlcallty.
lie believes in reciprocity, out tnlhNs
that the American farmer shoild Hot
have to pay too great a price Tor TINS
measure, the manut2' lurer ousHO -
bear part of the load.
fndge stuart has served on the bench
Of the Twenty second judicial district
for Ia years and mas been regarded
Throughout the counties Of Brown. Don
iphar and Nemaha as an aple ana pop.
MAR Judge. The influential county sea-
naDers of all the farmer counties ol
fhe First district have been urging
Judge Stuart to make the race anu
nledred him their support before hand
He Is known ir Topeka as a strong
man and will be sure to be rormlda-
lie candidate for cohgressloila4 "O''04 .
Judge Stuart's Platform.
The Following is the platform upcn
which judge Stuart will make his race;
''Troy, Kan, july II, 1911.
''To the Republican voters Oh tHe r lISl
Congressional District of the State
of Kansas.
For the past two years or longer
Il is generally conceded thers has been
a feeling among Republican; through
out the district that the true sentiment
of the Republican party has not peeit
correctly represented by the present
representative from the First congress
sional district and many representative
citizens belonging to tho Repuolcah
party have urged me to become a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for representative in congress from
this district at the primaries to be held
next year.
Il am convinced that the public good
REQUIRES that the congressman from
this district should advocate and vote
in congress for those progressive meas
ures now agitating the public mind,
and which the failure to pass by the
Sixty-first congress, controlled by the
Republican party, caused our party to
be repuGiated at the polls in the gen
cral election of 1910.
"The people of this country de-
mand and should have a constitutional
amendment that viii give them the
right and opportunity to vote directly
for United States senator's, and thus
make it impossible for any state to be
without its full representation in the
senate of the United States, as Colo
RADIO is al the present time, and what is
Of more importance, insure to the peo-
pie that the senator selected will truly
represent the sentiment of the con-
stituency sending him to Washington.
When United States senators are elect
ed by a direct vote of the people it
viii no longer be possible for the in
terests, lumber or others. to buy a
seat in the senate for a man whose pri-
mary duty it viii be to look out for
the financial welfare OF the business
which paid for his election.
The time has come when the public
welfare requires that there should be a
strict and wise regulation. supervision
and control of public service corpora
lions. both in the nation and state to
the END that rates charged for serving
the public should be, not as much as
the traffic viii bear but only such as
wiz insure to the corporations a fair
return for the service performed and
for interest on actual capital invested.
Amend Antitrust Law.
THE Sherman antitrust act should
be amended making it impossible FOR
the courts to read into tine statute Ian
guage and meaning not there and never
intended. All combinations in re-
straint of trade are unreasonable. If
the courts are to be allowed to say
there may be combinations in restraint
of trade because not unreasonable it
takes but little foresight to see that the
many combinations viii soon clog the
business "f the courts by so many suits
the Ostensible purpose CT which viii be
to have the courts adjudge that their
particular combination is Teasona bic
but the real purpose of which will be &c
delay their control, that it viii prac-
ticaHy mean denial of justice. The
penalty fer a violation of the United
states statute by a corporation should
re a jail sentence for the corporate Of
ficers. Justice demands that the small
stockholder In corporations. who have
little say IN the selection of the officers
of the corporation should not have
their dividends and stock jeopardized
by heavy fines to be paid by the cor
poratiOn for violations of law. 1t would
seem to me to be wise that in addition
to term in jail for the officer of
corporation who violates the law that
there should be the additional penalty
Of depriving such person Of that Office
and making him ineligible to hold Of
flee in such corporation.
L believe in reciprocity. But do not
believe in a reciprocity treaty that VIII
in effect increase the inequalities of the
Payne Al6rich tariff act 1t does not
seem to me to be fair that the farmers
of this country. VINO get but little bene-
fit as compared with that received by
the manufactures of the east under the
tariff act 1909. should now surrender
tina. benetit without receiving anything
in return. Under the Psyne-Aldrich
act all that the farmer buys is burden
ed with duty tax and it is ROW pr =
posed to 1alSe away the little protection
he has on the products raised by him.
Reciprocity IS all right. out the price to
10 paid for it should not all be paid by
the American farmer
1.-THE expression of the platform Of
the last Republican national conVen-
tion with reference to revision of the