The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-05
ssHe Let LaFOIIette Bite Him.
Declares William Allen White.
Leaders Over Kansas Com
plain of Slur on State.
KANSAS COPPERHEAD- OMAHA
Declare SaIina Journal Should
Be Printed in German.
Senator Mahin Demands Re-
moval From Utility Board.

| Branding Joseph L. Bristow as
copperhead, the Omaha Nebraskan
| editorially declares the Kansas pubic
utilities commission head should pub
lish his editorials in German and have
them circulated from Berlin printing
houses The editorial of the Omaha
publication is but one OF numerous
thrusts which have come TO Kansas
/ from other stateS-States which now
| laugh at Kansas for maintaining a
man of near reasonable beliefs in one
of the highest appointive positions of
state government.
| Bristow's friends of yesterday in
Kansas politics are aroused over his
recent hostile utterances and editor
ials concerning the government war
program. o. w. Dawson, for years a
friend of the former United States
senator and utilities chairman, be-
greet his utteranceS. Dawson chart
tably suggests that Bristow's express
sion was a slip of the tongue, rather
than a settled conviction
He's Mad, Says White.
William Allen White, who fought
and bled and died for Bristcw in
the senatorial fight of 1908, dismisses
with the remark: Tho whole truth
about Bristow is that while he was
at Washington he let LaFollette bite
him and he is mad" Added to the
White remark is a timely suggestion
by Eugene Howe in the Atchisor
Globe to the effect that Governor Cap
er can ado to his present popularity
by losing Bristow. 'Kansans are
proud of the fine patriotism of Gov
ernor Capper, who has shown himself
above the chickering's of party politics
when the nation is at war, says
Howe, but the governor can add to
his popularity by oustirg j. L. Bris-
tow. If Bristow can "e regarded as
patriotic American, it should be
friend OF humanity"
"a Kansas Copperhead,"
Under the caption "A Kansas Cop
perhead," the Omaha Nebraskar talks
cold turkey for Bristows benefit
Commenting on the Bristow editorial
in his Salina Evening journal, the
Omaha paper says:
The Journals editorial is the same
sort of an editorial which the copper
head editors of Mr.. Lincoln's day
wrote fortl e embarrassment ofthe I'm
| ion. Efforts were made by the Bris-
lows of those days to make it appear
that the government was in the hands
of the financial interests an. that
Lincoln was doing the bidding of those
| interests. Efforts were made to stir
| up the prejudice of labOring men just
as the Salina Journal is now trying to
do with respect to a very necessary
/
Wilson'S day.
THE Chicago Republican and the
Salina, Kansas, Journal should not
be printed in the English language
They should be printed in the German
language and issued from Berlin
printing houses"
o. w. Dawson. mayor of Great
Bend. former Progressive and twice
candidate for congress in the Seventh
district, expressed amazement today
! !,
ments as appeared in his own paper
over his own signature Dawson, who
is one of the strong men in political
affairs in the Seventh district, was for
years a Bristow admirer.
Il am amazed that such an express
sion should come from Joseph L. Bris-
tow" said Dawson, land would like
to believe it is not an expression of
settled conviction on his part, but
rather a slip of the tongue and pen.
which he will deeply regret. There
certainly will be no response to such
sentiments in Kansas and the people
will not be slow to give voice to their
utter reputation of such expressions
and such a course on his part. That
he should visit Washington and there
witness the feverish activities of this
nation of more than a hundred mil
lion people, centered as they are I'M
der the direction of Woodrow Wilson
our president. and with congress in
session endeavoring to provide the
needed legislation to carry out the will
and purpose of the nation in a death
struggle between democracy and free
dom on the one hand and autocracy
and oppression on the other. and see
in these activities only a period of
grab and plumber seems incredible"
Remove Him, He Says.
If Bristow does not retract his
statements he should be removed
from the service of the state, accord
ing to 1. NJ. Mahin of Smith Center
prominent lawyer, former state sena-
tor and a Republican lender in the
Sixth district. Mahin declared that
had n German published the senti-
ments expressed by Bristow, he would
be arrested Immediately for treason
Il want to endorse every word a ~
sentiment of the State Journal editor
al IA An Enemy in Camp" said Ma
hin. IF Bristow has said what the
papers claim he has said in regard to
the war, he should be summariIy re-
moved from his place at the head of
the public utilities commission If he
expects to win in his senatorial race
by opposing the war and the admins
trat1on, in my judgment he misunder-
stands the Kansas sentiment am
not Democrat. But we are, in this
war and it is the duty of every loyaI
cluzen 70 give the national admins
trat1on his full support
The men who stayed at home dur-
ing the Civil war and opposed every
thing that President Lincoln did, were
worse enemies to the country than the
rebels who fought in the trenches
The man or woman who attempts to
create sentiment opposing the war
with Germany or to discourage enlist
ments or CONSUMPTION, my judg-
ment, is as bad as the copperhead of
1s61-65. If German would publish
| the language attributed to Senator
Bristow, he would be arrested imme-