The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-01

as Cox and Roosevelt.
The Republican delegation in congress
from Kansas is a close corporation united
for office and defense. The whole body,
congressman and senator's alike, conducted
an offensive eampaiep In mach each district
contest, and in favor of the return OF pres
emit Republican incumbents. We\do not
believe a United States senator should at
tempt to dictate to his associate nor pre-
vent the people of the congressional dis
trict from changing their representative,
and We do not believe that a representa-
tive in congress should attempt to dictate
who shall represent Kansas in the senate
We indorse the Volstead act and COM
mend President Wilson for his vigorous
and unrelenting enforcement Of same.
We urge state laws that will curb profit
eering and favor the extension of the
power Of the federal trade commission over
this subject. 1t should have the power to
create such local or state commissions as
may be necessary effectively to control
profiteering and to protect the people.
We denounce the actions of men in high
official positions in the railroad companies
in holding stock in banks. tie companies
supply companies and equipment com
their railroads buy at exorbitant prices.
The people are now guaranteeing the earn
ings of these companies, and we demand a
law which will make II as much a crime
for these officers to belong to such COM
panies as 1t would be for an officer Of the
United States or any state.
The young men of this country freely
and partirotically laid aside their prepara-
ton in the schools, their professions, and
their business to offer their life, If need be,
upon their Country's altar. The whole ma
ton was in a frenzy of patriotism. The
boys came back without schooling, pro-
fession or business, many wounded or
manned. The nation bought liberty bonds
until 1t hurt But in the meantime the
the hundreds of thousands This nation
should not permit such a condition. Taxes
should bring back to the people the great
mass of ill-gotten gains which they abb
sorbed while the great mass of people were
fighting the common enemy.
For the first time in a quarter Of a CEN
fury, this state has been restored to the
spoiis system of the days of the old Re
publican machine. land the schools and the
helpless and unfortunate patients IN our
state institutions are under the control
and direction of a partisan political board,
This has resulted in the removal of every
man from the public service who was not
factienal follower Of the present governor;
such institutions shall be made bipartisan
and denounce the action of the present
governor in his wholesale removal Of those
who do not belong to his faction Of the
We denounce the prostitution Of good
and demand an abolition of political jobs
in the automobile license. blue sky, fire
sist that the local officers shall be made
fully responsible for the enforcement of all
laws and that the power repose In the at
tnrney general to cause the removal OF any
sheriff or county attorney who fails to en-
force all laws shall be strictly enforced.
By this means the state may save many
thousands of dollars in travelling expenses
and salaries of special law enforcement or
ficers and investigators.
We denounce the plan of the Republicans
to foist upon the state of Kansas a con-
stabulary force destined to serve the spe-
cial interests of Kansas as the censtabulary
force of Pennsylvania served the interests
of the steel trust. and helped to make pos
Sible the deplorable conditions shown by
the inter-church world movement commit
tees report.
The Democratic party IN Kansas takes
pleasure in presenting to the people OF this
great agricultural state real DIRT farmer ne
for governor who really appreciates the
need of the states principal industry and
is pledged to energetically. promote the en-
fOrcement of the great basic farming INDUS
We urge the appointment of high class
commission and representing the best
thought of the state to thOroly study the
farm problem as it exists in Kansas since
the close of the war. and recommend such
terests of those who till the soil
We favor laws permitting municipalities
to build or equip ice, cold storage and gas
We pledge the Democratic administration
to the passage of an effective compulsory
mothers pension law, to be administered by
a bipartisan commission of qualified
The present workman's compensation law.
tardily and weakly framed by Republican
legislature in response to the overwhelm-
ing demands of the people, is wholly and
| entirely inefficient and we pledge the DEM
ocratic state administration to the passage
OF law similar to that fathered by Gov
ernor Cox in Ohio.
The action of the railroad companies in
discriminating against and holding back
cars from the farms. mines and other In
dustries until they obtained an advance In
rates is a crime against civization. 1t sub
jects to waste the necessary food, throws
| iaborers out of employment and threatens
the comfort Of the people by withholding
| their fuel The legislature should pass a
| law providing that any railway company
| that refuses or neglects to furnish cars
within a reasonable time may be taken
charge of by the state and operated by a
receiver until it Is willing to give the pub
lie service.
We favor more liberal laws protecting the
interests of producer and consumer and
state encoura cement of all cooperative bus
| mess
Governor Allen. with n total disregard for
the feelings of labor and the welfare Of the
state has used the industrial court as q
| press agent story to advance himself po-
| iticafly. In accordance with his old line
machine training. he has appointed pari-
san boosters and press agents TO Jobs
of employees The court has made every
franchise scrap Of paper by revoklnf
a franchise made within the year and un
/ der conditions that are the same now al
when made, between Kansas City, Kan
and its telephone company and has awarded
| increased rates that will mean millions o.
| dollars to the telephone trust. 1t hal
| raised telephone rates thruout the state ant
1t has not forced the telephone company
1
! prove its service. 1t awarded DohertI
for his threat to freeze the people last win
ter by giving him millions of dollars thru
increased gas rates, while at the same tim
it was press agenting" its determination
| to imprison the miners who demanded
| toierable working conditions and rules. l
has forced the people Of Kansas to pay ex
cessive freight charges on coal from Colo
RADIO, Oklahoma and Arkansas and allowed
the coal barons to prevent the mining o
coal until prices reached the maximum b,
maintaining intolerable conditions abou
the mines.
It has granted corporations every in
crease asked for and has refused to sur
round the increase with proper require
ments Of better working conditions an
better service.
The administration Of President wilso
has marked the great advancement in tn
history of the world in regard to the vel
fare OF labor. 1t has raised labor from
commodity to the place where IL stand
shoulder TO shoulder with capital in thei
joint efforts for the benefit of humanity
and We denOunce my effort that tends [