The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
MENACE, HE SAYS
William Allen White Gives
BristOw a Drubbing.
Warns Kansas Not To Send
"BOlsheyik" to Senate.
HE'D TRAIL WITH LA Toilette
Emporium Declares Salinan
Would Be With Peace Crowd.
Review of What BristOW Stood
for Before the War.

Warning Kansas not to send Boil
shevik to the United States senate,
William Allen White in his Emporia
Gazette has given Joseph L. Bristow
the worst drubbing the public utilities
commission chairman has received
since he entered the Republican sena-
torial fight. White was one of Bris-
lows most ardent supporters in the
1908 campaign against Chester I.
Long, but in an editorial in his En-
porla Gazette declares Bristow would
be &. menace to the state during the
war.
In peace times, White declares,
Bristow would be a valuable public
servant. In times of war, with Bris
tow against the declaration of war,
White says the Salina editor would
stand with the peace at any price
crowd. In fact, White declares Bris-
tow and La Toilette will ultimately
head a peace at any price party.
Whites editoria, is by far the most
scorching arraignment of Bristow by
a Kansas publisher since the retiring
public utilities commission head wrote
his anti-war editorials in May last
year. Yet in former days White went
thru the valley and the shadow in
state politics that the cause of Bris-
tow might live. 1t was White who
wrote THE Sad Case of Chester I.
Long"-all in the interests of Bris-
tow.
Whites Editorial.
The hand that wrote of Bristows
virtues ten years ago pens the follow
ing editorial of Bristow's shortcom-
ings in the war crisis:
Former Senator Joseph L. Bris-
tow, in announcing what he is for in
a signed editorial printed this week in
his paper-says he was against the
nf oil a -
not have war, what did Bristow want ?
Did he want Americans to keep off
the seas? Did he want us to skulk be-
hind the British navy and let England
do our fighting for US? Or did he want
England licked and then a war on
American soil. with a prepared nation
like Germany landing in Mexico and
marching up the Mississippi valley,
turning this country into a Belgium i?
i For certainly England and France
could not whip Germany. and if they
were whipped, as they would be by
now with America out, it would be
, Americas turn next.
THE man who says he was again Il
a declaration of war by this country
against Germany, after all the insults
we had received, does not ring true
as an American. No matter what
| party dominates him, he should not be
| permitted to sit in the United States
| senate and vote on terms of peace with
! Germany. The time is coming in this
country when such men like Bristow
and LaFollette will head a peace at
any price party. The war is not well
begun. We must fight for two or
/ three years, and we must not have in
the United States senate any man who
would cry, over our list of dead: For
/ Gods sake haven't we suffered
enough The man who opposed a
declaration of war will not have the
CUTS to go thru to decisive peace
/ Kansas has had many d.sgraceful
things happen to her; but she never
has had such a disgrace as would
come to her if she should send a Boil
shevik to the United States senatei
''In six or eight years from now
/ when the war is over, Joseph L. Bris-
| tow will make a valuable public SER
want. But with the views he holds on
this war now, his candidacy is a
menace"