The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
CURTIS TO WHITE.
Continued from Page one.1

Those Pork Barrel Charges.
Are you the same William Alien
White who wrote certain Pork Barrier
charges against the members of the
i Kansas state senate last year and then
admitted you did not mean it in the
way it was taken, and after an investl-
/ cation wrote a glowing eulogy OF some
! of the senators whom you had so UNI
justly criticised?
I Are you not the same William Allen
White whom the late Mr.. Stone of your
i city charged with having printed in the
| Emporia Gazette, the following about
the old solIiers who attended the flag
raising at the postotfice building at
| Emporia? He quoted the following:
From the Emporia Gazette.
| "A lot of mean old devils gathered
around the government building and
| listened to speeches at the flag raising
J When the flag went up they threw their
! hats up and y. hoped it up for the flag.
Some of the old devils cheat the gov
eminent out of taxes, others of these
! old devils are giving their neighbors
short weights and short measures"
Mr.. Stone charges you over his own
signature of having published the
| above.
Personally, I have no respect for
man who uses such language about the
brave men who preserved the Union.
Three Classes of Congressman.
Now as to your article: When 1 went
| to congress 1 found three kind of mem
| bers, orators, society men and workers
later they added the press agent con-
| gresham"
| 1 soon found that the men who made
set speeches changed no votes and in
my 10 years service 1 do not believe
| single vote has been changed by a set
| speech delivered in either branch OF
congress. The Record does show (see
| Cong. E-54th Cong. p. 1865 and 1866
that 1 did save the government $600,o0C
a year for ten years six million dol
lars by a IA minutes speech.
1t was my desire to do the best l
could for my country and my state and
1 joined the working branch. AS a re-
suit the Congressional Record shows
| that by my own efforts L have saved
| the government $S1,250,O00 and 1 have
saved various Indian tribes over SIS
| 000, 900 and that 1, with others, saved
| the government over 12S million dollars,
two weeks I led the fight in the SEN
ate for two days and by that fight
saved the government nearly 100000
Would it not be better to have a few
more working congressman and a few
less takers?
Denies Standing Still.
Mr.. White, you say I have stood
still, yet you know l have supported
all the progressive policies submitted
| to congress by President Roosevelt
and that I have helped with all the
| progressive legislation on the statute
book that has been written there by
congress in the last nineteen years.
have in five years in the senate attained
assignments on important committees
never before reached by any senator
| from Kansas, no matter how long they
served. 1 am on the committee on
appropriations, pensions, District of
Columbia and Indian affairs, all of the
first class and on five minor commit
tees
Voted With His Party.
You charge me with voting with
certain senators. You know they are
Republicans (Which you are not) and
you know I was elected to the senate
as a Republican. 1 have voted with
my party and not followed a weather.
expect to be, I shall continue to vote
to write Republican policies into law.
1 did vote for the Aldrich-Vreeland
financial measure. did it at the re-
quest of Theodore Roosevelt, who told
me he considered it an administration
measure. 1 announced at the time
why I voted for it and that did not
believe it would ever be needed, and
city of Topeka. Mr.. Bristow, whom you
were then supporting, Endorsed my
position on that measure. And when
you condemn it you condemn Theodore
Roosevelt who urged its passage and
who signed and approved it.
The Payne Bill.
I did vote for the Payne-Aldrich
tariff measure, and you know that it is
better measure than the Dingley law.
You know that while it was not per-
feet and satisfactory to many it was
the best measure that could be had at
that time You know it gave the
country larger free list than the
Wilson law. You know it reduced the
duty on seven hundred articles, prin-
cipally necessities, and it only in
creased the duty on two hundred arti-
cles, largely Injuries. Why didn't you
tell the people that 1 voted against
twenty eight amendments offered by
Mr.. Aldrich? Why are YOU not fair,
why don't you tell the truth? You
further know that 1t turned a deficit
of sixty million dollars a year into a
surplus of thirty million dollars a year.
You refer to the cotton schedule,
you use the same stock argument
that was first sent out. You know it
has often been refuted and now 1 wish
you would read what the Outlook had
to say about the schedule:
'Since commenting three weeks ago
on the cotton schedule of the new tar
iff bill we have made some careful in
vestigations in Washington, and are
trainers of the bill. as we'll as the pro-
tected cotton interests, an injustice.
We asserted that the Dingley duties on
ordinary cotton cloth of universal
consumption were increased. This is
a mistake. The Outlook, August IA
1909.
When you said I supported Cana
dian reciprocity you wilfully and de-
liberately lied You know I voted
against it, spoke against it and worked
against it.
Not Fair on I4orimer Case.
Why are you not fair about the
Lorimer case? You condemn my vote
in the Lorimer case and are not fair
enough to state that when it was
claimed that new evidence could De
produced l voted to reopen the case
and for another examination. You also
forgot to state that after the new owl