The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-20
STUBS VS.. CURTIS
Their Senatorial Fight Has
Ended, but
The Controversy Between
Them Continues Still.
SENATOR MAKES A REPLY
Stands Pat on Tax DOdging and
Primary Assertions.
Still Insists That Stubbs Is
Wrecking G. o. p.


Wrecking G. o. p.
Senator Charles Curtis makes reply
to the last Stubbs letter as follows:
Editor State Journal
In your issue OF September is. you
print letter from Governor Stubs to
Mr.. Dolley- and in the head lines it is
stated Governor Answers Senator
Curtis Charges" / submit a reading
of the article will convince any one
that he does not answer the charges
and makes only a feeble and absurd
attempt to explain-iu fact the COVER
nor cannot answer the charges except
by pleading guilty. When the COVER
nor states that taxes were paid on
his personal property in other states
he fOrgets that under the law they
are taxable where he resides. then
further he can never make the people
believe that if he was the millionaire
he claimed to be he only had sS60
personal property in Douglas county.
Kansas, in 1903. He would naturally
have more than that in the banks
and his money was taxable the same
as other property. 1 don't believe the
governor paid his tax and having faileu
to list any of this stuff in his home
county it is up to him to produce the
receipts from other states. If he does
not do SO he stands branded as
tax dodger.
l again state that under the law his
personal property was taxable where
he lived and the records of Douglas
county. Kan. show that ne returned
personal property for taxation In the
township where he lived as follows:
1900 Valuation was..-..-..----.--.-..--Sl Sl'2s9-uN
1901 Valuation WaS-.................-- ilne2-Ni
1902 Valuation was..................-.- l-sel-nJ
1908 Valuation was. as.....-............... $500
1904 Valuation was ....-.......-....... l,s5o.u
The Primary Jaw Again.
He tries to explain the district pri-
mary law by saying he introduced a
bill but he does not explain his speech
in favor of the district primary plan
of nominating senators-the Topeka
Daily Capital would not misquote him
and 1 call attention to the following
taken from that paper on January So
1908:
''Stubbs was satisfied and said you
have no right by a primary election TO
deprive the western part of the state
of due representation under the con-
stitution. / believe the provisions in
this bill are fair and just and in ac-
cord with the constitution OF the
United States"
The following from page 81 of the
Worlds Work for May. 1912. taken
from the Stubbs interview is interest
ing in this connection: But Stubbs
controlled enough votes to bring about
an adjournment without any measure
IL t1G compete primary law foMAl ANN
be passed. That was the big fight OF
February, 1908, when Stubbs con-
quered the compromise" Mr.. Stubbs
says in his letter that the interview IN
the Worlds Work referred to the pri-
mary law of 1907 session but the in
terView closes with the statement
'"'hat was the big fight of February.
1908, when Stubbs conquered the
compromise"
some more evidence on this subject
may be found in Mr.. Stubbs' interview
in the Saturday Evening Post of No
Vember 19, 1910: He had made a
fight for "A primary election law. start
ing before he became governor and
finally getting the law in fairly salts
factory shape for him including a pro-
vision extending TO the election OF
United States senators"
The governor has referred so often
to the liquor question that it is time
for him TO produce his record and I
challenge him to comparison Of rec
ords on this question. When I be-
came prosecuting attorney for shaw
nee county. January II. 1885, there
were los open saloons in the city OF
Topeka. on February 10, 1885. the
last open saloon was closed and re-
mained closed for the four years / held
The Office.
1t is true the governor lost some
counties in which he had made or pre-
tended to make an effort TO close the
Joints, but he overloOks the fact that
he carried both Sedgwick and Wyan-
dotte, so that apparently that ques-
tion was not considered.
Worlds Work Interview.
The governor says he did not give
the interview to the Worlds Work.
The article of May. 1912. is headed
what / am trying to do" "An in
terview with Honorable w. r. Stubs,
governor of Kansas, by Dana Gatlin."
The governors picture, which he can
net deny, appears on page 65 and
again on page 81 and a picture Of a
number of his teams, on which ne did
of DOUGLAS ~
pears in the article.
He also refers to the charge that he
admitted and boasted that he was a
that he did not vote until
ed to have given $4,000 to the state
az being absurd silly
There are 10000 men in Kansas who
have heard him boast while speaking
to the public that he was a millionaire
and have heard him make the state
nent that he had not voted until after
he was 40 years old The following
taken from his interview in the
Worlds Work May. 1912, should settle
the question-page so. He had lived
to be nearly so years old without even
taking the time or interest to vote
at election, being too 'engrOssed in bus
mess"
In each Of his interviews he boasts
# being rich and powerful man and
that he made million a year He
also says page 66S Of the CosmopoH-
tan. May. 1904 Vol 37-"He called up
his Chicago Offices over the telephone.
found how much was the balance there.
and calmly ordered 500. .OOO.'' This
must have been in February or March.
1903, because it refers to the trip he
made after the cut Of $4,000 in the un-
versity appropriat ton and this is the
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