The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
CITY WANTS TAX FOR THE RABBIT
Judge Thompson Would Substi.
tute 1t for the Rooster
For the Democratic Party EN-
bIem-DOlIey'S Comment.

| Judge Thompson of Garden City
| Democratic candidate for United
States senator, has issued a IRA bbit
book on the campaign. He has had
picture of a rabbit printed on the
cover of this book and declares that
he prefers the rabbit to the rooster
for the party emblem and wants this
change made by the party. The Dem
Ocrats who regard the rooster as the
gamest of birds or animals, and the
rabbit as the most coWardly, will be
furious at the proposed change.
Chairman Dolley of the Republican
committee takes instant advantage of
the slip in the following letter to
the chairman of the Democratic state
committee:
Mr. Henderson Martin, Chairman
Democratic State Committee.
My Dear Mr.. Martin:-This even
ing either your committee, or your
to-beat- Stubbs'' survivors of the old
machine regime in Kansas, sent
through the Topeka postoffice ten mail
sacks full of pamphlets telling the
people of this state where William H.
Thompson. your so-called Democratic
candidate for United States senator,
stands on the public questions Of the
present political campaign.
On page % of that pamphlet. there
are seventeen numbered paragraphs
cipal planks in Judge Thompson's
platform
In plank No. IS Judge Thompson
declares that he "favors national in
heritance tax" and the repeal CT the
estate inheritance tax law"
The statement is in plain English
and cannot possibly be either lodged
or repudiated.
Mr.. Hodges. your candidate for gov
ernor-and- all other Democratic can
70 "a
denouncing all inheritance tax laws"
as infamous.
They are falsely accusing Governor
Stubs with being the author Of the
present inheritance tax law when ev-
erybody knows that in his message to
the last legislature he asked for the
repeal of the present exem ption
clause and the substitution therefor
of a clause that would catch only the
very rich-large corporation stock
holders and so forth-instead of the
poor widows and orphans.
Wants an Explanation.
What I desire you to explain now is
this, why does Judge Thompson, your
candidate for United States senator,
favor a national inheritance tax law
that would take the money of the wild
ows and orphans of Kansas into the
United States treasury instead of haV-
ing it go into the state treasury, as is
the case now, where it would help to
tighten the burden of taxes upon the
backs of the taxpaying people of Kan
sas-
IF it is Infamous to tax the wild
ows and orphans of Kansas for the
support of state schools and other
state institutions, how much more in
famous would it be to adopt Judge
plan and tax the widows
and orphans of Kansas for the bene-
fit of the national government which
n ~f7h a
mits is already wasting 800 million dol |
lars of the peoples money every year
Governor Stubs plainly, and very |
forcibly, points out that it is the pur- !
pose of the free traders whose inf1u- |
snce dominates the present manage |
nent of the Dem ocratic party in the !
south and east to raise revenue for :
the government from other sources .
than tariff in order that they might /
more easily go to a free trade basis !
IN the scheme of tariff for revenue |
only. For instance, If they can derive
enough money for the support of the +
government from a national inherit (
ne favors, the country will have no |
Use for tariff duties and hence it must, !
according to the pledge of the Demo- |
cratic platform. go to free trade and /
.hus completely destroy the whole pro-
-ective system. And if the protective I
system Is destroyed Vital Will USCOltlS
IF the farmers and labOrerS when they /
will have to compete with the pauper .
abor of Europe and the cheap grain F.
producing lands of Canada and South /
America. We all know that the threat /
If free trade when we would be rails
ng all the government expenses
through an Inheritance tax and would .
nave no use for tariff duties.
for one believe that the Canadian
armer the South American wheat
md beef producer and the European
manufacturer should support our gov
,rnment rather than that the widows
# Kansas and other states should be
to do it.
You will oblige me greatly-and I
NOW you will enlighten the public, if
-ou will state why Judge Thompson
avOrS the taxation of Kansas widows
md orphans for the support of the
rational government when your party
avs it is Infamous to tax them for
he support of their own state govern
nent and its institutions?
I again call your attention to para
raph fifteen in Mr.. Thompson's plat
plan.
90 Many s'Rabbits'' in the State Now.
In the cover of the Thompson
amphlet there is a picture of a rab-
it, and under it in large black-face
ype. he says he is 'for it, as a party
mblem instead of the Rooster" If
udge Thompson prefer to go to the
Trited States seante as rabbit" it
his taste no doubt, but I want to tell
GU that Stubs does not want to go
here representing that animal-or
that he stands for-and I believe the
eop1e know it. The trouble with the
enate in recent years-and the reason
has become unpopular with the
rabbits and too much rabbit spirit
here Already Very reSpectfuIIv