The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-15
Senior Senator Back to Open
Campaign.
Will Speak at GreenIeaf Next
Thursday.
HE is STRONG FOR TAFT
Thinks President Is Only and
Regular Party Nominee.
Party Record Should Win in
November.

| Charles Curtis, senior United States
senator from Kansas. who returned to
Topeka today to prepare for the i'm
mediate opening Of his campaign, is for
Taft for president and he will make
strong reply to william Allen White.
That Curtis will talk the plain. unvar-
nished Kansas language in the primary
campaign for denomination, is the in
ference which the Topekan gives in dis
cussing his work of the next three
weeks. He will make his first speech
of the campaign at GreenIeaf Thursday.
/ Curtis came to Topeka at 1O:45 this
morning over the Santa Fe. He left
Washington Immediately following the
| Lorimer vote-when he voted for the
unseating of the Illinois member. at
| the depot Curtis was met by a large
number of his personal friends and he
was taken to his home at Topeka ave-
nue. and Eleventh street in the lead
car of a procession of dozen motor
cars loaded with Curtis boosters. He
discussed the work of the session with
men who attended the informal recep-
ton at the Curtis home and this after
| noon received a number of personal
| friends.
+ Il can't say just what course the
campaign will take as yet" said Curtis
with a smile, as he discussed the
! Roosevelt movement in Kansas and .ke
Stubbs, his opponent. But it is quite
probable that will have something to
say soon-something that will interest
Kansas people"
That Senator Curtis will meet the
attack on his record by William Allen
| White, is probable. Yet even that
matter is not being discussed at this
time by the Kansas senator. Curtis
will also make several speeches before
| the primaries. AS yet the Greenleaf
date for Thursday, July 19, is the only
speaking engagement that has been ar
/ ranged.
! Senator Curtis declared his allegiance
to Taft and expressed regret that
Roosevelt should disturb the political
situation at this time.
VIII support Taft.
In discussing the political situation
and his personal work in Washington,
he said:
II am a Republican and shall sup
port the niminees at Chicago, and my
| Republicanism is the kind that
would have caused me to support any
| candidate nominated at the Republi-
| can convention at Chicago.
| "As a friend of both former Presi-
| dent Roosevelt and President Taft
am sorry that there is a disagreement
between them, and as such a friend
| l was in hopes any misunderstanding
| between them might be settled.
! have been friend of Mr.. Roosevelt'S
for 19 years and was one of the mem
| bers of congress who supported him
| and his policies for the little over sew
en- years he was president.
'I am sorry he thinks conditions
are such as to justify him in leading
in the organization of a new party.
Party Is Progressive.
| "If one will study the legislation OF
| the last sixteen years he Will admit
that the Republican party has been
progressive. 1T is entitled to the cred
| it for all the progressive legislation
| which has been enacted. Just consid-
| er some of the acts that have been
write upon the statute books-alI the
| achievements of the Republican ad-
ministrations. The repeal of the Will
son tariff law; the enactment of The
| Dingley law; the establishment Of a
| successful rural free delivery system;
| the successful prosecution of the war
| with Spain; the enactment of the gold
! standard law; the proper management
of our foreign possession; the enact
| ment of legislation and making pro-
vision for the construction of the
| Panama canal; the Hepburn-Dolliver
| railroad law: the national irrigation
| act: employers liability act; the safe
! ty appliance act: regulation of rail-
! road employees hours of labor; pure
| food and drugs act; establishment OF
department of commerce and labor;
prosecutions of violators of the anti
| trust laws; conservation of natural re
| sources; further amending the railroad
| laws and extending the regulation
| power of the government over COM
| mon carriers, including telephone and
| telegraph; the postal savings bank;
| statehood for Arizona and New Mex
| leo: further extension of conservation
| laws: creation of a bureau of mines:
publicity of campaign contributions;
forbidding corporations fromcontfibut-
/ ting to presidential. senatorial and
| congressional campaigns; the creation
of a special commission to investigate
/ the extent to which railroad stocks
are watered; the appropriation OF
| S45O,OOO to enable the tariff board to
gather data in regard to the cost of
| production in this country and abroad;
| law penalizing the white slave traf-
| hc:' a law siren gthening safety apph-
| ances: an act authorizing the issuance
| of bonds to complete the irrigation
| projects; the establishment of a chill
| dren's bureau; the creation of a tariff
/ board: the enactment of law. which,
| isfactory to many, yet It gave the
| country a larger free list than was
given by the Wilson act, an act that
| reduced ine duty on 700 articles pr1n-
! cipally necessaries. and increased the
duty on 200 articles, largely luxuries.
a tariff that was a step in the right
direction, and one that has turned a
5S,0OO,0O0 deficit into a $3O,000,OOO
surplus: the enactment of a corpora
ton tax law: the submission Of an
amendment of the constitution to the
legislatures of the various states so as
to permit the levying of a graduated
income tax and the subm ission Of an
amendment to provide for the election
Of senators by direct vote of the peo-
ME. The pension laws were amended
several tinea TO make them more lib