The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-24

followed by majority of the senators
the thousands Of small corporations
question as they have been for the last
two years and it would have saved
them many dollars they have been
compelled to pay under the law for not
having made their reports in time.
OF course you know that religious,
fraternal and benevolent societies are
exempt from the provisions of the cor
poration tax but you try to make the
people believe that they are not.
When you allege that every railroad
attorney in the state supported ME you
know you state a malicious falsehood.
You and your friends made this same
false charge six years ago. You knew
then that it was untrue and know now
that 1T is false.
You deliberately misrepresent my
vote on the question of publication of
campaign expenses. I voted for the bill
and after and I voted to prohibit cor
porations from contributing to the
campaign fund of candidates for either
the senate or house.
1 am surprised that you should be
so indiscreet, as to refer to the vote
in the senate on the question of elect
ing senators by a direct vote, because
you compel me to show that your
friend voted on both sides on a very
important amendment. The Congress
sional Record shows that I voted for
the Sutherland amendment and that
Senator Bristow voted against it. (See
Cong. Record, Feb. "a, 1911, p. 1852
Voted With Bristow.
1t further shows that on May Is, 1911,
when the question was again presented
that Senator Bristow offered the Suth-
erland amendment (the one he had vo-
ted against in the previous SESSION. as
his own and this too without change
in the language, and if you will ex
anime the Record for June IL, 1911,
you will find that we voted together
for the amendment. So you see I
voted consistently while Senator Bris-
tow voted on both sides of the ques-
ton. He said during the last session
that he had been convinced that those
of us who had voted for the Suther-
land amendment we're right. Why can't
you give the facts and stop trying
to deceive the people as to my votes?
have voted to elect senators by
direct vote whenever the question has
been up during my service in both the
house and senate
His Vote for GaITinger.
You object to my vote for Senator
Galinger for president pro tenn, yet
you are not fair enough to tell the
people that his was the choice of the
Republican caucus. Your main objec-
ton to me seems to be because 1 have
voted with the Republican majority but
in view of your attitude toward the
party no one will be surprised and if
you were an honest man YOU would not
be a candidate for nomination on the
Republican ticket. 1 am a candidate
for nomination on the Republican tick
ct. 1 am a Republican and if re-elecs-
ed to the senate, which expect to be.
shall continue to vote to write Repub-
lican principles into law.
Now, Mr.. Stubs, as you have re-
ferred to my record L desire to let the
public know something about your
record.
Stubs as Taxpayer.
In your public speeches. and in your
interviews you have claimed that when
you entered politics (and that you had
not voted until you were 40 years of
age) that you were making a million
dollars a year. In your interview in
the Worlds Work for May, 1912, you
boast of having two to three thousand
teams. In your speeches you said you
did five million dollars worth of work
and made a million dollars. Accord
ing to your own statement this must
have been in 1902 or 1903. Yet the