The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-27
CAPITAL, ENEMY
OF COURT LAW,
GOVERNOR SAYS
Allen in "Just Before the Battle
Comment on Train.
Labor Friendship for Act VIII
Increase, He Asserts.
HAPPY CROWD ON SPECIAL
Confidence in Success OF Gov
ernOr and the Law.
New York Delegation Ready to
Meet the Kansans.
Confidence in Success OF Gov
ernOr and the Law.
WITH THE SPECIAL
1Rr staff correspondeht.l }

(By staff Correspondent.)
Chicago, May 27.-A second dining
car was added this morning to the
Governor Allen New York special.
This supplemented the fine equipment
of Pullmans and observation cars.
There are two particularly happy men
on the train--Governor Allen, VINO
made the occasion for the train-and
]. II. Lee, who filled the train with
Kansans en- route to express by per-
sona1 attendance their confidence in
the Kansas industrial court TO settle
differences without body blows to the
public and with justice to all. 1t is the
new Kansas way to adjust difficulties
between capital and labor.
Won't Pack" House.
New York. May 27.-There will be
no packed" house to stampede the
debate between President Gompers OF
the American Federation of Labor and
Governor Allen of Kansas, which is
scheduled to take place tomorrow
night.
Neither side can line 'em up and
rush the seats to the exclusion of sup
porters OF his opponent.
The committee in charge of ar
ransements for the debate has equally
/ divided the tickets of admittance to
AGarncgie hall between the labor par
tfsans and Governor Aliens hackers.
Alton B. Parker will preside over
the debate and among those on the
platform will be Warren S. Stone and
William C. Lee. executives of the rail-
roud unions recently participating IN
the nationwide transportation strike.
"capftal is to be the ultimate enemy
Of the Industrial court law. Labor's
friendship for the law will increase rs
its operation continues. Opposition TO
regulation comes always from the en-
lil0yer and not the employe. l
mighty happy and proud because oil
the spirit of Kansas and kansans, But
n Alex Huwat and his followers had
bccu less extreme and given this law
chancc for test this debate might
never have been held. True. Kansas is
for an honest test in the settlement of
industrial disputes In which the public
IS always the innocent bystander and
victim. .'-GOvernor Aliens inst Before
the Battle" comment on his debate with
Samuel Gompers.
Nearly $50 ardent admirers and
supporters of Governor Allen and the
industrial court law were aboard the
special train which left Kansas City
Wednesday night for the Allen Com
pcr5 debate in New York Friday
tight In the minds of the Kansans
aboard the train is a deep rooted con-
Viction that the arguments in Carnegie
hall may be echoed in the Coliseum
in Chicago two weeks hence. In any
manufacturers, lawyers. publishers
and doctors are going to New York
to assure Broadway that Kansas is
behind her governor and her new law.
There wasn't the least bit of small
town stuff in the launching of the
special. The Kansans won't go up and
down Broadway and Fifth avenue with
bands and banners. They will wear
rather dapper kansas badges. And
there will be a really, truly testimonial
10 the down east folks that Kansas
recommends the labor court law 10 the
nation.
Three Pullnans loaded with Kansas
men and women left Topeka at 2:5O
wednesday afternoon. 1t was raining.
Maybe this fact cut down the size of
the farewell crowd at the station. But
II didn't dampen enthusiasm of the
crowd headed with Moo Yawk town.
Every Kansan aboard the train appar-
emily had a prediction. Some OF the
predictions were to the effect that the
debate would win for the Kansas gov
ernor the Republican residential
nomination. Others compared the ar
guments with the Lincoln-Douglas de-
bates. Most conservative of the busi-
ness men forecast a national enact
ment framed after provisions OF the
state law.
At Kansas City. the spec al train wa
assem- bled after wait of ninety min
utes 1t left the union station at 6:42
five standard Pullman sleepers, OBJ
servation car, diner and baggage car.
This morning an extra diner was to be
y added in Chicago sort of assurance
that the food supply will be ample.
Have n Full Grew.
I'VE apparently have a fuh crew,
said J. H. Lee. of Topeka, president of
the Kansas Day club, who organized
the special train. Lee spent his time
checking up reservations with Tom
King, Topeka city passenger agent,
who accompanied the train to Kansas
City. J. NJ. Connell, general passenger
agent, and J. r. Koontz, general
freight agent of the Santa Fe system
will make the entire trip.
movie operator boarded the train
in Topeka. He stood in the rain and
gathered pictures of the Kansas celeb
rites as they entered the coaches
When the train stopped in Kansas City
he filmed the governor and group OF
special train patrons who were as
sembled on the observat'o on platform
Not until after he left Kansas City
was the governor able to give atten-
ton to official business of Kansas He
spent his time visiting with Kansans
aboard the train and made trip tC
the SPECIAL coach from Wichita, hi:
own homo town. The Wichita GROVE
chartered a special car for the trip
At the union station the crowd did mo-
leave the building. The special wa.
met by a delegation of Kansas Cit,
business I'd professional men. but thu
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