Barton County democrat., 1914-10-23

know that Mr.. Billiard cannot be
elected, and their one desire is to
defeat men for reelection. Can
the temperance people Of this state
afford to have it said that the
Whiskey interests have defeated
any man? If | am defeated then
the man who is elected will be IN
der obligations to the whiSkey
vote that defeated ME.
Before | went to Columbus, o.,
to make my speech for national
prohibition and nationwide Suf-
.frage, the liquor interests sent a
man to me and threatened that if
| made that speech for national
prohibition, they would put Bill
lard in the race and defeat rue.
said to them that | would make the
speech if | only received 500 votes
in Kansas. made the speech
and they have put Billiard in the
race-but will be reelected, for
the people of this state stand for
fOrality, for uprightneSS, for
good schools, for more churches,
for good dirt roads, and they
stand as a man, for the general up
lift and upbuiIding of our great
state of Kansas. They will not
cOunlenance e-SubmisSlon, open
saloons, and the attendant evils
crime, pauperiSm, ignorance and
vice, the direct results of the Ii
quor traffic. The public will not
be fooled or blinded by the Cap
per-Billard trick.
In conclusion | wish TO say that
the statement made by Mr.. Cap
per and Mr.. Allen that stale taxes
have been increased, is absolute
ly false. | wish to call your at
tention to the fact that for the first
time in years, the state tax levy
has not been increased. wish to
emphasize the statement that in
departments over which Republi-
cans and ProgreSSiveS are preSid-
ing-and these very men who
have increased the appropriations
in their respective departments
who are spending more money
than ever before, are the very
men who are bowling and con-
demning the Democratic legiSla-
ture for making the apprOpria-
tionS that they asked for and beg
ged for. The governor is not re-
, spOnsible for the appropriations,
but it will be noted that praCti-
cally every Democrat, Progress
Sive and Republican, voted for
the various appropriations that
are now being criticised by a few
Capper followers. and ii is moi
strange that Mr.. Capper, with his
great newspapers, did not criti-
else these appropriations while
they were pending in the legiSla-
tllre. Mr.. Capper is converting his
Mail and Breeze and his farm jour
nails into political papers. Eie has
in the laSt 20 months been flood
ing the state with his nauSeating
falSehOOdS, hoping to prejudice
the voters of Kansas against this
administration, and during all this
time he has been telling you wnat
a wonderfully clean man he is.
l would ask you to set a pam
phlet containing a reproduction
of his vulgar advertisements, his
whiskey advertisements, his Gig
arctic advertiSementS-frOm
which advertisements he gets his
principal source Of revenue, and
after reading these advertisements
compare them with his declara-
tons for purity aid morality.
Your own conscience will then
settle the question as 10 whether
you think he is sincere or not.
| hope to have your support for
reelection. We are proud of the
record we have made. We are
proud of the fact thai we tool;
a state that was way. way behind
in it's indebtedness, and have prac-
tically wiped out that indebted.
ness. That we have finished all
buildings left uncompleted by the
= former administration; that we
have increased and built up Oul
great schools and have enforced
the prohibitory law as 1t has lie.
yer been enforced bofOre. We
did all this without an increase ir
the state tax levy. l firmly be
lieve that we could, with two years
more, using the careful attention
that we have been giving the bus
mess interests of the state, plac,
the state upon a cash basis-hav,
all Of these debts Maid and haV,