The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-09
Senator NighswOnger Certainly
Tried to Make Them Do So.
Sedgwick Scion Took Wichita
Editor Over Red Hot Goals.
HIS ANSWER TO EDITORIAL
Upper House Members Says He
Never Changed His Mind.
But He InSinuateS Allen Did for
Some Other Reason.

Under the old-fashioned theory that
talking about" one causes the ears
to burn, the auditory appendices OF
Henry j. Allen, editor of the Wichita
Beacon should have suffered one hot
flash after another during the noon
hour today. For, during that time,
Senator Nighswonger of Sedgwick
county, speaking on question OF
personal privilege, paid his respects
to the Wichita editor
1t was all due to Senator Nighs-
wongers vote an the question OF a con-
stitutional convention, which was
against it, and a resultant editorial
in the Beacon asking the question:
why did he change his mind %
Senator Nighswonger read the edl-
torial, then he removed his gla asses,
deliberately polished them on his coat
sleeve, and proceeded.
This eminent publicist, this states
man, this sometimes wail-flower of
the senate, asks why I changed my
mind" said the senator from Sedg-
wick q ask, who said l changed my
mind? 1 have never at any time Civ
en- my word to any person that l
would vote for a constitutional Goa
vention resolution.
I'm all the five or more years l
have been a member of this body l
have received just two communities
tons from this eminent newspaper
publisher One of them was a let
ter urging me to vote against a GER
tain bill hostile to a certain kind of
questionable advertising in newspa-
pers. 1 take it that the editor was out
somewhere addressing a Sunday
school when some emp]oye wrote me
that letter urging me to help save
that questionable advertising to his
paper.
4 Letter This Session
THE other letter, received this ses-
sion, directed me to railroad the city
manager bill thru the senate. This
senate knows I did everything in my
power to hurry the action of this body
on that measure and it was disposed of
! with dispatch. But from the tone of
| a letter l have just received 1 draw
the conclusion that my efforts to push
| the city manager bill thru were not
satisfactory to the distinguished edi-
TORI
! Senator Nighswonger then read the
| Il tier, reading that the writer ques-
I toned whether Senator Nighswonger
really was for the city manager bill.
apparently the idea of this eminent
editorial enthusia ST." continued the
| senator, lis that ought to jam the bill
thru the senate in about fifteen min
utes. rush it over to the house and put
it thru there in about the same length
| of time. 1 ask you, senators, of what
value are the opinions of a man who
knows so little of legislative proceed
ure; what are they worth on legisla-
| tive matters?"
| The editorial asked why Nighswon-
ger had changed his mind. Senator
| Nighswonger, in turn, asked why the
Wichita editor had changed his mind.
Allen Hopper!
HE is the man." said the senator
'who less than three years ago de-
i clared the Republican party was as
crooked as a barrel of snakes; so
crooked that he could no longer as
sociate with its members. He is the
man who went to those twin conven-
| lions in Chicago, went into one for
Teddy with an ear to the telephone
and the next day supported man
Teddy had refused to endorse for the
presidency. Why did he change his
i mind? And a few days later it was