The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Chairman Brewster Gives Out
a Statement.
Tells What Congressman An
thOny Has Accomplished.
FAVORED THE DIRECT PRIMARY
Was One of Pioneers in the
Movement.
Lived All His Life in First
District.
FAVORED THE DIRECT PRIMARY

ment:
| The friends of Congressman D. r.
| Anthony, Jr., of the First d1strlcIa OF
| Kansas, take pride in the fact that DUR
ing his four years service in the ma
tional congress at Washington. he has
| made a record with which his constl-
| tuents can we'll feel gratified. There is
nc member of congress with the COM
| paratively short service that Mr. An
| tlcnv has had who has risen to posi-
| ton of greater influence in the House
/ of Representatives than has the MEM
\ be-: from the First district. And not
/ only has Congressman Anthony the
| confidence and respect of both the Re
publican and Democratic leaders of the
! house in which he serves but he enjoys
| as we'll standing among his colleagues
OH the floor which ordinarily takes L
new member years of service to secure.
| It is proverbial that the first years Of
| service of the average congressman are
of but little value to his constituents,
and one of the greatest assets to the
people of the First congressional dis
| trict of Kansas is the fact that Mr.
Anthony has now secured such an ac-
qUaintance and an appreciation of his
worth in all the various departments of
the government at Washington, from
the president in the White House down
through the cabinet officers to the
chiefs of bureaus, as to enable him to
render the very highest type of official
congressional representation to the pep
pic of the eight counties he represents.
1t has been Mr.. Anthony's pride and
boast that he believed absolutely in the
usefulness to the people of this country
OF the Republican party and that the
great economic and political reforms
which the people of Kansas have been
demanding in recent years could be
carried out and enacted into law by the
means of, and by the use of. the or
ganization of the Republican party. He
is one of those representatives who be-
lieve in the preservation of the great
party instead of it's destruction, and
the record of reform legislation which
the Republican party in congress has
accomplished in recent years.. and for
every piece of which Mr.. Anthony cast
his vote, is a vindication of the cor
rectneSs with which he has carried out
his political promises to the people of
the First district who sent him to
Washington as their representative.
As a young man in politics in Kansas
the first political efforts of Mr.. An
thony We're directed toward freeing the
Republican party in the state from the
control of the bosses, who through the
influence of the railroads and the great
corporations had so long dominated
10th the political parties in Kansas.
Mr.. Anthony was one of the pioneer
advocates of the principle of the direct
primary which has so effectively taken !
this power from the corporations in
Kansas and placed it where it belongs.
i'll the hands of the people.
The record of reform laws enacted
during the sessions of the Goth, 61st and |
Sind congresses, and for which Mr. An
thony cast his vote is a remarkable |
one and should convince every voter in |
the First congressional district of the
faithfulness of the representation |
which has been given them at Wash |
iHgton.
Mr.. Anthony voted for the enaction of |
these:
General Laws
For the conservation of the natural |
resources of the country; for the i'm
provement of Waterways; for the
reservation to the government of |
WaterpOwer sites; for laws in aid of /
irrigation; for pure food laws; for the |
establishment of postal savings banks:
for submission to the state legisIa-
lures for ratification of the income /
tax amendment to the constitution:
for the law prohibiting gambling in
the District of Columbia in the price |
of stocks and farm products when |
done through interstate combina-
tons and intended as a model for |
the states; for a law to destroy buck
ct shops and get-rich-quick concerns;
for a law providing for bond issues
to complete irrigation projects; for
the law creating a non-partisan tar
if board to report on the difference
in cost of production at home and
for a corporation tax law
which yields. $30,000,000 annually to
the government; for a law providing
for close examination of corporation
methods; for the stocks and bonds
In regard to the tariff, Mr.. An
thongs votes have always been for
the principle of general downward
revision of the tariff to a point equal
ing the difference in cost of produc-
ton at home and abroad, thus af-
fording effectual protection to the
American producer and the American
consumer.
Labor Laws.
Due to the efforts of Congressman
Anthony practically all of the civilian
employees of the government in the
institutions at Fort Leavenworth have
been placed upon the basis of an eight
hour work day. He secured the eight
hour day for the guards at the fed
eral penitentiaries and for civilian
employees of the government at Fort
Leavenworth. He voted for an eight
hour work day on the Panama canal;
for the law which provides an eight
hour work day on all contract work
work day for all government en-
ployees; for workmeniS compensation
act; for the adjustment of peonage;
for the employers liability law; the
law to create a bureau of mines to
safeguard the lives of miners and
provide rescue cars for that purpose
In the Interest of the Soldier.
No representative in congress has
done more than Mr.. Anthony in the
of the veteran soldiers of the
He has at all times cast
his vote in favor of the most liberal
pension laws TOR the veterans of the
Civil and Spanish wars He voted for
both the Sulloway bill and the Sher-
wood bill, General Sherwood having
praised highly in a letter addressed
to Topeka veterans the active service
by Mr.. Anthony in helping
TO secure the passage of the Sherwood
LaW The interests and -1ralfarl, of 1