The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
Formally Announces
for q. s. Senator.
Attacks Senator Curtis Vote
for LOrimer.
WILL KANSAS ENDORSE IT?
The Governors Platform Is
Progressive, Every Plank.
Gives Startling Figures on Big
Corporations.

/ Governor Stubs has made public his
platform upon which he will run fol
the United States senate. He makes
| Senator Curtis vote for Lorimer one
of the chief issues. The governors plat
| form, every plank, is progressive, ano
| he states his views clearly and en-
phatically on all the great issues nov
| before the people. The governor says;
| I shall be candidate in the Repub-
lican primaries next August for the Of
flee of United States senator to sue
coed Senator Charles Curtis.
| Second only to the office of president
of the United States. the senate is the
most powerful influence for good or evil
in our national life.
In announcing my determination to
undertake the duties of this post
am influenced, as 1 have been in the
governors chair, by a sincere desire
| to serve my state and country to the
best of my ability. In an age that is
becoming more and more distinctly pro-
greSsive it becomes the paramount duty
! of a United States senator to guard
jealousy, the good name of the state he
represents. The Importance of this has
impressed itself upon the country, and
particularly upon Kansas, in the Lori
mer incident.
Senator Charles Curtis and As other
United States senators, including Gug-
genheim, Penrose, and Bailey of Texas,
representing both Standpat Republ-
cans and standpat Democrats, voted
to give Lorimer the right to represent
the American people in the United
States senate, when Lorimer's election
had been obtained by corrupting mem
bers of the legislature of his state.
These 46 Lorimer votes represented es-
sentiaIly selfish interests and influences
of this nation, rather than the will anu
wish of 80 million people.
Before these votes were cast for Mr..
Lorfmer, Senator Root, a standpat SEN
ator who refused to cast his vote in
the United States senate to make the
rights of a senator, whose election had
been bought with corrupt money, as
good as the election of a man who had
received the honest vote of an honest
people, made this statement:
Either way that tho result is pro-
duced, it is produced by corruption
That cannot stand, or if it does stand
the senate cannot stand; or If the SEN
ate does stand with it's members hold
ing their places by such a tenure, the
government of the United States can
not stand If we would preserve the
government of our fathers-if we would
preserve the honor and integrity OF
the senate-if we would do our full
duty to our country unOor our OdluS
we are not at liberty to reject the tes-
timony in this case which shows this
seat to be filed here as the result OF
corruption. Hard as it is, but as we
have had fathers who have made sacri-
fees for our land, as we have children
to whom we hope to hand down a gov
eminent of peace, and justice, and lib
erty-it rests with the senate of the
United States to do it's duty now and,
hard and unpleasant as it may be,
purge itself of the results of this foul
conspiracy against the integrity and
purity of our government
One of the principal duties of Uni
ted States senator is to recommend
and confirm the appointment of federal
Judges. Mr.. Lorimer and senators of
bis kind, who are elected to the senate
for a term of only six years, recon-
mend for appointment as federal judges
and confirm when appointed, men who
hold their Office not for six years, but
fox life.
One of the principal reasons the great
corporate interests of this nation en-
deavor to elect such men as Lorimer to
the United States senate is because
through them they can procure the ap-
pointment of judges for life on the fed
eraI bench sympathetic with their point
of view.
In the approaching primary those
Republicans who vote for Mr.. Curtis
must, necessarily, approve his vote for
Lorimer, and the corruption of the
members of the Illinois legislature
through which Lorimer's election was
effected.
Since the vote for Loriner, last year.
every United States senator who voted
for him. and who has since faced the
public for office, either has been de-
feated in his state or has declined to
become a candidate for reelection on
account of the violent opposition
which he encountered at home.
Guggenheim of Colorado, Bailey of
Texas, Hale of Maine, Aldrich of
Rhode Island and Crane of Massachu-
sets, are some of the most prominent
senators who refused to be candidates
for reelection.
In consideration of Senator Curtis
members of the United States senate
who represent the big corporate inter
ests of the country in the senate, and
his recorded votes with the Guggen-
helm Aldrich -Bailey-Penrose class of
senators on almost every important
public question, it is generally accept
ed as an assured fact that the Repub-
licans of Kansas will follow the .ex-
ample of the Republicans of Nebraska,
South Dakota, Washington, California
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois,
Michigan, and other great Republican
states, and refuse to endorse the votes
and the record of Senator Curtis in the
United States senate.
of United States senator, I desire