The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-22

party together, once wrote an eol-
4 torial outlining all the kind and decent
things that happened to be true of
| Curtis at the time, emitting the unkind
things that happened to be true. and
printed it for the sake of party har-
| mony."
But, party harmony is thing of the
past in Kansas and as the Emporia
editor recites in his second edition of
stands for something entirely different
from it's ideals of other days" And
with this in mind, White proceeds to
fay the Indian and dovetail his votes
with those of Lorimer and march him
in the parade hand in hand with Gug-
genheim AIdrich and the interests on
Wall street.
Curtis and Lorimer Alike.
Curtis and Lorimer are alike in so
many things" says White, that it was
not strange that Curtis stood by Lori
mer through thick and thin, until
Curtis vote would help Lorimer no
longer. Curtis, like Lorimer, prob
ably is personally an honest man,
good and kind and charming to his
friends, his family and his neighbors.
Each is what is known as a hand
shaker-one of those soap-selling gen.
tlemen who smile and pretend to be
tickled to death to see men whose
names they are trying their best to
remember. Curtis, like Lorimer, lives
an exemplary personal life. No one
ever accused him of any personal dis
honesty. When Curtis and Lorimer
were in the lower house of congress
they voted together. No one paid
them for their votes. They were con-
trolled by the party machine, which
ten years ago was more or less I'M
der the domination CT the men who
made big campaign contributions. 1t
was with campaign contributions that
the big interests bought congressman
without bribing them. Thus Curtis
and Lorimer were regarded by the
system that Iegafzed the penny plum
dering Of the people, as safe, reliable
and conservative. In 1908 Curtis was
lined up for promotion to the senate
But the interests that control those
things gently edged Curtis aside and
elected Long. The railroads defeat
ed me in 1903 said Curtis in a
speech at Parsons in 1906, and months
later the railroads elected Curtis, and
sent him to the senate to do their
work under the guise of party regu-
larity. Curtis went to the senate IN
1907, with the support of the party
machine. and with the active, adver-
tised support of every railroad attor-
ney in the state.
Curtis Bound, Bristow Free.
1.-TWO years later Bristow came to
the senate; he was opposed by every
railroad and every political corpora
ton in Kansas politics. The differ
ence in the record cf Curtis and Bris-
free-is enough to open the eyes of
every Kansan. On The votes in maxi
ing the Aldrich tariff bill-not in
passing it, of course-on the votes ON
making the postal savings bank bill,
on the votes to reduce the wool
schedules and various other extortion-
ate tariff taxes, Curtis voted with AL
drich, Smoot, GugEenhcim and PEN
rose, while Bristow voted with the
free men of both. parties in the SEN
ate.
Then Lorimer- entered the senate,
and Curtis in the roll calls Glove to
Lorimer like a brother. The same
interests that put LorimCr in the sem
ate in Illinois were behind Curtis In
Kansas And the two senators, Curtis
and Lorimer, grew in beauty side by
side, and filled one house with joy
but it was the house of Mammon
Wall street had made two senator's
1t voted them as one 1t is not Curtis'
record in voting for Lorimer that
makes his record misrepresentation of
Kansas. Curtis voted for Lorimer I'M
til Curtis feet lost their temperature
as election day came nearer and near
err and then the interests considered
1T expedient to cut the strings on
Lorimer and released their men, vet
those votes for Iorinier prove less
against Curtis than his answering
record with Lorimer. Curtis now saws
that he believes Lorimer's election was
some one paid money for it Some
one got his money back-not from
Lorimer personally, but from Lori
mer's vote. Curtis, like Lorimer was
elected by the help of the great puh-
lie service corporations"
united States Senator Charles Cur
It's, who spent Saturday in Clifton.
made strong impression with the
voters in that district and his visit to
the town was followed by the organ
1zat1on of Curtis club of more than
100 charter members. When Curtis
arrived in Clifton, he was met at the
depot by delegation of business men
and citizens and taken to the hotel in
an automobile. Later in the day an
informal reception was held in a down
town office building and progressive
ana regular Republicans alike prom
lsed their support to the senior 1ena-
tor from Kansas. In less than three
hours, the names of 1O1 Republican
voters were attached as members of
the Clifton Curtis club"
Peter Pyle of Kensington has kent
Governor Stubs busy the last two
weeks and the Kansas executives task
of answering questions is not ended.
Only last week Stubs answered a long
list of questions concerning his attf-
tude toward certain issues; but those
replies did not meet the requireme nts
of the kensington man. This is an
extract from the latest communication
from Mr.. Pyle to Governor Stubs:
In regard to the Stubs platform
referred to in your letter, we find
nothing new in it and if you will turn
to the platform adopted by the Peo-
pies Party at Cincinnati, Ohio. May
20, 1891, you will find practically ev-
erything in it that is advocated by you;
in fact, it looks like you had 'swiped'
it bodily without giving the Peoples
Party credit for your measures
I'm your letter you say: If there
are any questions of public concern on
your mind I will be glad to answer
them for you and in response to this
invitation. I would be glad to have
you answer the following questions:
First. If the Taft electors are on
the Republican ticket in November