Evening star., 1926-10-09

but were not moved. Next day the
president of the State Farm Bureau
Federation assailed Jardines reason
Ing as clever" hut INADEQUATE and
wholly unconvincing
Capper Summarizes.
The writer asked Senator Capper,
who visited White Pine in August.
and whose loyalty to the President is
interchangeable. to summarize the
Kansas viewpoint toward Coolidge.
1T can be done in few words Cap
per replied. We Western people have
begun TO feel that the Vests welfare
Is not as fully considered at the
White House as 1t should be. Why
does Washington SO often treat us
like step-child in legislative affairs?
Or as If we had not grown up and our
interests were not as vital or impor-
tant TO national welfare as those of
the East? BY blood and tradition. we
are today the most truly American
part Of the United States. and yet.
eight years after the worldwide emer
gency of the great war and after
seven years of struggle for agriclIl-
ture's existence. the East cannot see
or will not see that the farm relief
issue will not down until it has been
settled on the basis OF a squarer deal
to the West Our feeling out here
that the administrati ton is too much
under the influence Of big business
was strengthened by the Pennsyl
vania and Illinois primary scandals.
and by Secretary Melons assaults on
the farm relief bill. followed by the
decidedly sectional defeat of that
measure, which found united East
ba liking the wishes OF a solid West
Senator Capper is a firm advocate
of tariff revision downward on farm
necessities. insisting that until it
comes the highly protected industrial
East will remain in enjoyment OF un-
fair advantage.
Curtis Opponent.
Senator Curtis opponent is q
forceful Democratic lawyer from Co
lumbus named Charles stephens.
Stephens has strong support from
organized labor. especially the rail
road hrotherhoods. because OF Cur
tis vote against the Watson-P Parker
rail labor bill. now law. The Demo-
cratic nominee is asSailing Curtis
record on the Fordney- McCumher
tariff bill contending that on Ga diff
ferent occasions Curtis supported
higher duties on farm necessities like
agricultural ma achinery, white Sen
ator Capper was voting against those
schedules.
There is widespread anti-World
Court sentiment in Kansas. largely
of klan instigation. Stephens is
making capital ont Of Curtis vote
for the Court. although international
issues fade Into insignificance in
Kansas alongside the burning queS-
ton of farm relief. Stephens also
is trying to excite the multitude over
Curtis vote for cancellation of the
Italian debt" Stephens. an optimis-
ator Curtis last ran in an ff-year.
1914. he was minority" victor
with only 10000 votes against his
Democratic opponents 10000 and
against Republican Progressive Vic
tor Murdock's 117.Onn.
That Curtis 1920 landslide ma
jority will be heavily cut is certain.
Stephens pins hope on Republican
lethargy and thinks curtis will be
the victim of Kansas farmers re-
sentiment against President Coolidge.
whom. of course. Curtis is valiantlE
defending.
GubernatOrial Race Intense.
Kansas has an interesting guberna-
torial race. The Democratic candi-
date. Jonathan NJ. Davis. is fighting TO
get back to the State House on a vim
dication platform and to defeat the
present governor, Ben s. Paulen. who
threw him out in 1922. Since then
Davis has been tried and acquitted on
charges of trafficking in criminal par
dons. To the CONSERVATION Of Repuh-
leans, Davis has just assatled Gov.
aulen's own pardon record. and the
latter now promises to take the lid
off his opponents practices in throw
ing open Kansas prison doors. The
ku kluX Khan issue. which brought
"Bill" Allen White into the guberna-
torial race as an independent in 1924.
is quiescent In Kansas just now,
thanks. to large extent. to the cour-
ageous fight the editor of the Emporia
Gazette waged against Klux domina-
ton in state politics. Prohibition is
also not at stake in the Kansas cam
paign. This prehistoric dry Common
wealth is irrevocably on the water
wagon"