Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR
ON HIS RECORD AS
GOVERNOR
PLEDGES FOR THE FUTHER
Makes His Announcement Tel
ling People the Kind Of Ser
vice They May Expect
If He Is Elected

have become q candidate for the
Republican nomination for United
States senator, prompted, trust, by a
sincere desire to serve the best inter-
ests Of my native state. ! am urged
to take this step by belief that l
understand what Is in the hearts Of
the Kansas people, that ! know how
they feel on public questions and that
am in sympathy with what they
want done in Washington.
To every true American, the win
ming of the war is now the one, big,
vital thing-more important than the
senatorship or all else. And, as ! now
see it, our national policies immedi-
ately after the war will be almost as
momentous to US as the war itself.
These grave issues will center and be
decided in Washington. If the people
of Kansas send me there, shall go
pledged to these things:
=, To the vigorous and determined
prosecution of the war without COM
promise and until complete victory
for world freedom and lasting peace
is absolutely assured.
To an immediate ending Of war
plundering, profiteering, and price
gouging in the necessities Of life. No
one must be permitted to make money
out of this war.
To insist that the general public be
represented on all boards and COM
missions empowered to fix or regulate
prices. The fixing of prices of flour,
meats, sugar, coal, clothing, farm I'M
plements and other necessities should
not be left entirely to the men, how
ever patriotic they be, who are per-
sonally interested in the industries af-
fected.
To strip all waste. graft and parti-
san favoritism from the public ser
vice, and from war contracts and all
other public expenditures.
To the direct and fair regulating OF
all big business controlling natural
resources and means of transporta-
tion and communication, not only for
the war, but in the readjustment after
the war, and where necessary the act
ual taking over Of them.
To work for fair markets and right
conditions for our producers, with
special taxes for large holdings OF
land held for speculative purposes.
10 fight for fairer adjustment Of
the burdens Of taxation. Our enor-
nous war debt makes this imperative
Big incomes and excess war profits
must pay the big end of the wars
cost. To iquidate the war debt, high
rates of taxation must be continued
on large incomes after the war. This
is certain to be one of the hard-fought
issues in congress and if elected, ]
shall work increasingly for this policy.
To demand complete and immediate
wartime prohibition and the ultimate
banishment of the saloon.
To these and lesser measures / shall
give unsparingly Of my energy. ] am
aware this is a big contract, but it's
up to US.
l shall not be able to go out and
make an active canvass for the nomi-
nation. Kansas and the national gov
ernment are entitled to my best eff
forts in war work, and / shall de-
votedly attempt to deliver them. i
must give my time and strength to
the duties of my office, regardless
that this is the campaign year. With
the responsibility Of organizing and
promoting ways and means for in
creasing production; with the desire
to do everything / can for our thous-
ands of Kansas boys in the army and
navy; with our frequent war-fund
canvasses Red Cross campaigns and
other war activities, the duties of
governor, always numerous, have
more than trebled. / have abandon
ed the managemnt Of my own busi-
ness that ! may give my whole at
tention to this. emergency work. i
shall have no time for campaigning"
Meanwhile, as & candidate for SEN
ator, / have three candidates against
me-good men-who are making act
i've campaigns, while the forces j
have antagOniEed as governor are OPP
posing me with all the adrOitness
known to practical politics.
An this means must depend as
never before on my friends. If the
people believe have done good work
In the governors office and win serve