Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-11-01
JUDGE THOMPSON
ANSWERS CRITICS
Explains Speech in.Which He Refer
red to Sl6,OOO,OOO Expenditure
THE SHOE Fits ROOSEVELT
At Least Stubs Gave It to Him and
He Walked OF With 1t at
once-Thompson Asks
Questions.

fcs who have made much ado over his
recent reference to the expenditure Of
. 100000 to secure the election of a
president, Judge W. H. Thompson,
Democratic nominee for United States i
senator, dares Roosevelt and Stubbs
to show just how much money was
expended in 1904 to secure the cleo.
ton of Roosevelt. Judge Thompson
charges that Stubs, as usual, has
been buster attending to the business
Of others than to his own business
or that of the state of which he is
governor. Judge Thompson says he
mentioned no names in connection
with the $16,OOO,OOO expenditure, but
that Stubs Immediately thought the
shoe fit Roosevelt, and handed it to
him, and Roosevelt put it on and
walked off with. it.
Judge Thompson's reply is as fol-
lows.
: Governor Stubs seems to have got.
ten considerably excited over state
ment he claims / made at Melvern,
and wired Roosevelt about it. Roose-
welt, instead of giving the facts the
governor asked for. did as he always
does when freed" pronounced the
statement false. Not satisfied with
that. when he came to Kansas Stubs
induced him at Ottawa to call me a
liar, which does not take much coax
ing with Roosevelt, for that seems to
be his favorite pastime with every
body who does not agree with him.
He says he does not know who | am
nor care; but promise the people Of
Kansas and. the nation that he will
ind out who / am if get into the
United States senate and demand that
10 explain where. he got the three
million dollars which it is claimed he
spent in his last contest for the Re-
publican nomination for president.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Governor Stubs, as usual, has tried
10 make much to do about nothing.
H.he had spent more time attending
TO his own business and the business
Of the state instead of the business
Of others he would have a better
chance to be elected United States
senator and would not have gotten the
beloved Roosevelt into such a predica-
ment. He has opened up discussion
Just srch as. want and gladly well
come For the more you stir up the
Roosevelt corruption funds, the more
Odoriferous they get and the more
dlsgusted the honest, intelligent peo-
pie OF the country become with him
and all those who seek Office under
. dis third term movement.
What | said in the Melvern speech
rs shown by my manuscript, is as
follows: 1T is as much disgrace
for candidate for president, by him
self or others, to expend $l6,0OO,OOC
to secure election as it is for a can
didate for the United States senate
10 expend 100000. No such expendi
..ture is Legitimate, and the man whit
makes it should be disqualified from
: holding the position he seeks. ant
certainly ineligible for third term.
Now. Governor Stubbs thought thi
shoe fit Roosevelt, and he handed |
to him, and Roosevelt put it on AM
walked off with it. If the shoe fit
It is no fault of mine. When W,
know that one state out of fOrty-si,
: expended more than one-half milliol
dollars Of which We have record, t
corrupt the voters in the interests 9
Roosevelt. outside of the enormOu
contributions to the national commit
:. tee the amount fixed is none too higf
. Senator James A. Reed, who is ft
miliar with the campaign investigi
tons in Congress, and who made II
- greatest speech in the United State
senate, on the subject August %. las
says that the amount I fixed is nc
high enough. If my figures are wron
challenge Governor Stubs and NJ
Roosevelt to show the people exacti
how much it is. dare Mr.. Rooseve
70 instruct his former secretarie
Loeb and Cortelyou, to set out unde
oath in detail the amounts they kno
were actually received, where the
came from. and how they were spen
RooSEVELT'S "LlAR" MEANS Ii
+. TIE.
But for a man who has been caugl
y IN so many misstatements as Roos
welt has, to call another liar doe
not amount to much after ALL til
New York World states the case be
ter than can:
but if we are to believe one WI
Is often detected in misstatement
Mr.. Roosevelt knew nothing abol
what was going on Corruption fund
then, are the only things in tn
world as to which the ex-presidel
admits ignorance. He can regula
everything, from the size of familit
to the contents Of a spelling boo
He can rewrite all our constitution
and laws single-handed. In one ID
he can upset the jurisprudence of
thousand years and make a bett
one. But when 1t comes to the que
ton Of tainted money that elect,
him in 1904. his mind is blank"
. II ia mt In he exnected that a m;