The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

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/ lette, Bristow, Dolliver, Cummins,
| Clapp and other progressive men in the
/ United States senate. It was the brains,
| the indomitable spirit and the force IF
I intellect furnished by these fighting
progressive senators from Republican
| western states, that forced out the vic
| iouS provisions of the Taft-Wiekersham
4 railroad bill. In discussing this bill as
\ amended, Senator LaFollette made the
i following statement:
1t is no longer the presidents bill
or the Wtckersham bill, or the Elkins
| bill. Against all the influence of the
railroads. combined with all the power
| of the administration, many bad pro-
visions have been stricken out and
| many good provisions have been adopt
ed. In other words-excepting as to the
court of commerce-the administration
bill. framed in the interest of the rail-
roads, has been torn to pieces and re-
written in the interest of the people |
here on the floor of the senate
Through the influence of Senators |
LaFollette. Bristow. Cummins, Clapp
and their associates, nineteen inn |
portant, effective amendments were |
made to this bill. s- --s.@-
Curtis With Machine Crowd. :
1T is interesting to note that Sena-
tor Curtis of Kansas voted with the |
Aldrich- genheir1-Penrose senators
in favor of the railroads and against |
practically every one of these most i'm /
portant amendments, proposed by pro-
sham railroad bill. He also voted for
the wool trust and the cotton trust in
the big tariff reduction fight, which |
means higher cost OF all wooden and
cotton goods worn by every man, wom-
an and child in the United States, in /
the interest of the millionaire manu-
facturerS of these goods. Even Presi- /
dent Taft himself condemns, in the |
Senator Dolliver in the most scathing
language describes the fraud and
crime of the cotton schedules, all of
which Senator Curtis voted for.
He also voted for Lorimer of Il1i-
nois, Reed Smoot, the Mormon apostle,
and Stevenson of Wisconsin, to hold
their seats in the United States senate.
Senator Curtis was elected to the
United States senate six years ago with
the support of practically every rail-
road attorney in Kansas. He now has
the support of these same railroad at
torneys. the Standard Oil attorneys,
Dave Mulvane, Dumont Smith. Chester
/. Long, and the old machine crowd,
who are the political representatives
of big corporations in this state, and
his votes in congress. as shown by the
Congressional Record, show that he is
entitled to their support.
1.-The supreme court of the United
States and the interstate commerce
commission have both called public
attention to the need of physical valu-
alton of railways as a means OF deter
mining equitable railroad rates. On
three different occasions Senator Cur
tbs has voted against physical valuation
of railway property.
That Theodore Roosevelt did not
drink drop of liquor while in Chi
cago, is not drunkard and that the
charges against his character are I'M
true, is the meat of letter which
H c. Sticher, editor of the Usage
City Free Press, has received from
the Rough Rider. The letter is backed
by testimony from DR.. Lyman Abbott
a close friend and family physician of
the Roosevelts, and another letter
from DIR. Alexander Lambert.
When the charges that Roosevelt
was addicted to drink and was in
toxicated on several of his trips were
circulated in Kansas Sticher wrote
made public both his own letter and
the reply which was received last
week.
On June 81. sticher wrote TO
Roosevelt as follows:
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. New York.
Dear Mr.. Roosevelt: I am con-
strained to write you few lines con-
corning a matter that is of vital in
terest to great many Kansans- I
am a Roosevelt partisan both in my
newspapers and on The street and any I
thing that affects the Roosevelt !
cause is a matter of concern to me.
L have no confidence in the stories ]
that are being persistently peddled
ed both on the stump and at the Chi
cago convention. 1 was at Chicago .
attending the convention, and saw
nothing. of the kind
But, nevertheless, the story grows :
by the persistence with which it is
being circulated and 1t is hard to re-
pudiate it without something definite :
to work from.
II enclose a sample CT the stuff !
that is appearing in some of the pa !
pers.
Il am going to take The liberty of :
this suggestion: Reply to this Z
letter, giving me permission to print
same. The fact that you have taken t
the trouble to make this reply through ]