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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1910-
. WHO TOM WAGSTAFF IS.
Thomas E. Wagstaff, who li cam
paigning Upstate as Republi
can candidate for governor, ll s on
fit "Cncle Dick" Wagstaff, who up
to the time ot bis death a few years
go, was known to every traveling
nan In Kansas and to a great many
ether people. Mr. Wagstaff, Sr., wae
Knight of the Grip for thlrty-foui
mi and for twenty-nine years st
Ihat time he traveled In Kaniil for
. -i-.i. hmiM. He was tb head of
U,o V. C. T. in Kansas- for a time and
member of the supreme lodg of
the order. For a year, before he
organ the practice of law, young Tom
alio waa a traveling man.
nm Waastaff waa born 3 iJ -3.
1874. Hla boyhood waa spent at
Lawrence, where be received hla wu--.in
,nini through the city echoola,
the high achool and the University
of Kansas, graduating from the law
Bepartment. In 1898 Tom moved to
cnffewlll. and in 1900 waa elected
. .tinnier there. In 1902 he waa
appointed by Governor Stanley aa
Judge of the county court at Coffey
vUle. in 1904 he waa elected county
-.nm of Montgomery county and
made a great reputation for enforce
ment of the prohibitory law, winning
v. ni.i.dlta of Attorney General
Jackson for hla good work in that
line. . '
Upon hla election aa county at
torney he moved to Independence,
the county seat, and has lived there
ever .lnce. aa the district court, o
the county are located there and it It
ennvenlent for the practice ot
bit profession. He is me ."
member ot the law firm of Wag.taff
'ft Chandler.
While living at Coffeyvllle Mr.
Wagstaff waa married to Mis. Jane
llorna Wilson, ypungest daughter of
Capt. H. B. Wilson, the first white
settler ot Independence. He Is the
father of two children, a daughter
five yeara old, and a aon, six montha
old.
Tom WagBtaff baa always been a
Republican. He Is appealing to Re
publicans for the nomination for gov
ernor on the platform of "A Revision
f Taxes Downward." He polnta out
waya that the expenses of the atate
may be reduced without any losa of
efficiency In the transaction of state
business. His candidacy Is winning
new recruits every Way and his sup
porters are confident that he will be
nominated at tha primary election In
August He Is the sort of sterling,
rigorous, brainy young man that
would make a good governor, If nom
inated and elected and It la because
of this fact that tha young Republ
cans of th state, tired ot the faction
alism that baa rent the party, re get
ting behind hla candidacy and urg
ing hit nomination. .
UNFAIR CRITICISM.
Considerable criticism la being
made by unmannerly common Repub
licans because nearly all the leading
reformers In office are now using the
time for which they are paid by the
atate In campaigning for other and
remunerative offlcea. The candidates
for congress against the Republican
congressmen are nearly all on the
state payroll. Tha governor or me
state has hardly been In bis office for
weeks on account of hla candidacy
for senator. The appointive officers
are all legging for themselves or for
Stubbs, or for both. This ia sugges
ted by the critics aa hardly In line
with the declaration of the rerorm
movenlent.
We do not believe this criticism
fair. Governor Stuuos is maims
Just aa good a governor while be Is
away and Dave Leahy la doing the
governing as he doea whence ia In
the state house himself, true, me
state paya the governor $5,000 per
year and house rent, to aeciire bis
valuable aervlces, but what is inai
when considered in comparison with
the necessity of political advance
ment of Governor Stubbal Ecbo an
awers or ought to answer, "nit." And
then the appointive officers, Joe doi
CONDITIONS IN OTTAWA COUNT
-, . , ... ........
, Tbla interesting summary of poli
tical conditions in Ottawa county In
dicates how that section looks at
things: ;', ". .-'
In Ottawa county, as elsetrhire In
the state, the drift of political tene
ment among Republicans, aeems to
be away from Governor Stubbu anil
tha element In politics which be rep
resents. And tbla too, notwithstand
ing the fact- that Ottawa couuly i
the home of Judge R. R. Reea, the
Insurgent candidate for the Republi
can congressional nomination In the
Fifth district, of J. C. Gafford. Gov
ernor Stubbs' atate accountant, and
of John T .White, late grain limpec
tor and now the Stubbs selection for
a place on the state board of railway
commissioners.
Gafford and White have been the
bead of the local machine that ma
nlpulatea Ottawa county politics in
the interest of "the square deal." Ot
tawa county Republicans do not ob
ject to Gafford and White taking
care of themselves, as they have, but
they are getting a bit tired of "aquare
deal" reform that up to date ha
brought them little bit higher taxes
and the distinction of hating two
j 'gnu til? uiovmvivM v a
ly, John Mercer, Joe Longshore, nl0Uawa county men, Gafford and
all the other Joea, Milt Amrlne, , constantly In office. Gaf-
the many Jobs, and the lesser ', Mi a (Ute o((lMi that of
in the constellation oi n, "itate acc0Untant, ever atnee It was
tbem leave their work In the bands creua golng on B yeari g0. white
of denutles while they are pawing . .nhoueh he
up tne oust anu "!" u " ggfygfl three terms In the leglalature,
political trans oi me "'serving at the same time as a mem-
word has gone out that Stubbs must ...... .rain commission
win or the Heavens fa", and of the ,egI,lature Ue
want the.Heavena to rain unh Ju,t reBlgnea BB BtBte grain in-
these men who have conaesceuueu wi th gtubbf Blat9
draw salarlea ought not be expected cand,date tot nI0tt commission-
to wora. iney are iu
acters and when they get out in tne
short grass and the people see tnem,
the consciousness of the possession
of such beauty and brains la enough
for the patriotic citizenship of tne
commonwealth.
er. For uaiiorra ana wmw.
county la abount convinced that the
"aquare deal" has been a food thing.
Two years ago the candidacy of
.Tuda-e Roes for congress, booked up
with "home pride" kept the Republl-
i -i. nntmtt -whA were on-
Therefore we hold that the critic., 8tubbi maklng any.
are dead wrong . Hhlng like an organised fight against
tbe name of reform the polltlclane ,,. .lotion. They
who love the nam. of the .fluar. ( ,entlment wa4 proBaWy
deal, irtney are " "- ,. f stubba anyway as Ot-
out-machined the machine. But these
true men, this noble band or nope,
are not a. the Republicans and sin
ners and should not be measured by
the same rules. Hutchinson News.
tawa county never had been a Le-
land county. So they allowed things
to sort of go by default and Stubbs
tha countv by a big vote, it
will be different this year.
The dissatisfaction among Repub
licans who two years ago supported
Stubbs aa against Leland with the
conduct of the atate administration
and the attitude of Stubba and his
close friends toward President Taft
and the national administration,
which Is so general over the state la
Just aa marked In Ottawa county and
It la plainly to be seen now that Wag
.taff will get anywhere from fifteen
to twenty-five per cent more votes at
the August primary than Cyru. Le
land did two yeara ago. So far tne
TARIFF TALK ON SHOES.
The lowering of the tariff on
Imported ahoe. from 25 to 50
per cent ha. enabled the Kllett
Kendall Shoe company, to enter
the English market and make
big purchases there. T. C. Ellett
pre.ident, and B. F. Ellett, sec
retary, of the company, will re
. turn from England tomorrow.
The Ellett-Kendall Company be
gan buying Engllah shoee aix
months ago. Kanaa. City Star.
That the people of thla country nyM agalnBt stuDba id Ottawa coun
might be able to purchase their shoot tr Is quiet. Having had no antt
at lower prices than prevailed while stubbs organization In tbe paat, Re-
the Dlngley tariff law waa In fo-ce, pubiican supporters of Wagstaff are
the much abused Payne-Aldrlch law , handicapped some but they are going
made the following reductions In the at it to form an organization for
hides, leather and ahoe schedules of Wagstaff and It can be depended upon
the Dlngley law: Jthat they, will materially reduce the
toidM which were subject to a duty Stubb. vote. If the same ratio of
of fifteen ner cent under the Dlngley, change can be maintained every
law, now come In fre of duty. The where In the state Wagstaff will win
duty on tanned or dreaaed calk ekins, by a large majority.
kangaroo, aheep, kid and got skins ( Fear of Democratic Interference In
was reduced from twenty per cent to the Republican primary, is the one
five per cent; on tanned, but un- thing that causes Wagstaff s support
finished morocco from ten per cent to eri in Ottawa county to fear that they
five per cent; on dressed and finished mar not mak as good a shewing aa
upper leather from twenty per cent to, they now anticipate. These Repub
to seven and one. halt per cent; on llcani lnow th, tactics of the Stubbs
sole leather from twenty per cent to J machtne which Messrs. Gafford and
five per cent an4 on ahoea from white operate In Ottawa" county. No
twenty five to Hen per cent. 'less than alx responsible Mfnneapolli
Tha "ultimata consumer," Instead business men Informed the writer
of purchasing shoes at lower prlcea that two yeara ago Gafford used his
than nrevatled before this revision automobile In hauling Democratic
downward of the duties . on hides, voters to the primary to call for Re-
te,ror tne
the reat of
LONGWORTH ON THE TARIFF.
One of the best summaries of tbe
new tariff law waa that of Hepreaen
tattlve Longworth, aon in law of ex-'
President Roosevelt. It U not likely
that be expresses an opinion differ
ent from that ef Roosevelt himself.
He said! " .
"Stripped of all nonessential ver
biage, the question stand, out clear
and clean cut. A vote against this
legislation meant a vote for no legis
lation. The man who voted W on
the adoption' of the conference re
port voted against a -reduction of
35 per cent on lumber. He voted
against a reduction ot 60 per cent on
iron ore; against a reduction of BO
per cent on steel rails; against a re
duction of 8. per cent on coal;
against a reduction of 30 per cent
on dressed .meata; against a reduct
ion In the duties on sugar and salt;
against a reduction of the duties on
many vegetables; against free hides;
against free oil; against free art;
against free trade with the Philip
pines; against a maximum and mini
mum tariff, as advocated by Thomas
Jefferson a hundred year, ago;
against a tariff board; against a cor
poration tax; and last; but not least,
against " increasing by more tnan
850,000,000 a year the revenue oi
tbe government over what could have
possibly been produced bad the Dud
ley law been allowed to stand.
The Republican platform, up in
whlcU wr !l stood, promised a re
vision ( f the tariff to be based ui on
two nrlncloles: First, that suffi
cient revenue should he raised for
tbe need, of the government; and,
second, that duties should be placed
on artlclenufflclent to equalise the
difference between their coat of pro
duction here and abroad, with area
aonable profit to the producer. In
the firat of these we have undoubted-
been moat successful. As the
President baa repeatedly pointed out,
the Payne law,, has already proT a
to be an enormous revenue yru-j
ducer, larger by many mlllione than
the Dlngley law ever was; larger by
many millions than the Dlngley law
could possibly have been If tne on
ponenta of the Payne law had triumphed.
U we have made mistakes in our
second pledge, if we have made some
duties higher than was necessary to
equalize the difference between tne
cost of production here and abroad,
and if. on the contrary, we have
made some dutlea not sufficiently
high enough to equalize this differ
ence, It la to be regretted. But we
never guaranteed that the law wouia
be perfect. It was difficult. If not
' Bert Walker: It we were a Demo
tret, we would have very little use
br the Republican wbl wouetaot
for the RepuD.icau wno . ,eatnCT and ih0M, i, pylnI from ten publican ballot, and vote
our vote at the primary, and try to . . nomination of Stubbs and tl
11 . n.mihllran hu .... .
get ua to can lor a nepuoncu -. thM he d,d 0M th (UU fce b&i mde ,t , fur
lot Just to help him out. It w. dlln t v? - ther atated that he once drove v-
bellev. in the principles of the Re-. r . ' f mt Iower. era, meB , the country and brought
publican party w. wouldn't try to As taW I by th, BUrjbM i
,.i ,v ,nr nnminat one lor mil ma oi ! .... . . . ...
ii..ir..ri.ii Rhoa comoany to, eaiieo tor ana voiea nepuoiicui
? within tbe past six months, purchase sts at tha primary.
party.
THREE CENT HOGS, 910 COWS.
If tbe fuse of the Insurgents and
" the Democrats carries out its pur
pose and It Is successful la this con-;
gresslonal campaign. It will not be
very long after the next congress con-
-yeses until the farmers will be com
pelled to reap some of the fruit of
tree trade tor there la no question
r out what they want Is the tepeal of
the Pares law. What wlU this do
o tor the farmert It will give him Se
:. ogga.. 8 butter. 8e hog l tows,
lit horses, 8S mules sad SO wheat.
What would-lt do for the laboring
meat It would give him a tOe wage,
hovel tor a borne and rags for his
' wife and children to wear. It woald
gala tlose the hank te him sad tbe
Try same sorrows and conditions ef
II years ago wou'.d fce repeated.
- Trump would Invade th Uirl and
SI reran of prtneat prosperity would
ts V 'i of tt moraSBg en 4
(,,:,,. -.a, d. ffee la K'awatha
h.if million dollars worth ot goods - "Still," said Dr. Coulter, 'if they
In England, but how Ia the "ultl- doa't vots any mors Democrats at
mats eoasnmer", for whom th Star our primary than they did two yeara
la manifesting o much sympathy ago w will eat Stubba vote In thla
benefitted." county by at least a hundred. I know
i. Ik. farmer being n.ld any more of enough changes personally to show
for hla hides than! he received wheal that reuK."
th Dlngley law wae la force? Are Asd to sentiment seems to b t
the employees of tbe tanneries aad erywhere In- the Solomog valley. At
shoe factoriea of the country mater- Minneapolis particularly,' the eritt
tally "enriched because ef the half etsnt will not 114 that It la only office
million dollar expended la Eaglaad' holders bad the politicians who are
by tbe Ellett-Kendall Shoe company opposed te Stubba. ThC Writer talk
for goods which would hare been ed te fifteen or eighteen antl-SUbb
maaatacturel by tbem but for sue Republicans wlthle two hours at Mia-
Burchaeea abroad? Ia abort doea any-, eapolls. There waa not an eftlee
body except tbe English snaaufac- bolder or it randtdats' for offlee In
Urera, their employee aad the Bl-1 tbe lot, with ole exception.' That
lett-Rendall Shoe company reap any a exception waa a otter and he
benefit from these onrchaeea. th ae-. was th Mat as talfea to-
count ef which tb Star sxultliigly there wtr such mea as Dr. Cor(r,
parades seder conspicuous headlines R. M. Stanford, a graia nn; T.
a th result of lowering the tariff en t Hurley, a merchant: Sum Arnw,
insnorted ahee. tcnorlnt the lowe ring hardware xeerrhaet: Xr. Clark; J
of the duties In h'" - V. 'i V if'tr, a IwbW ' '
m w w r . .. -
THE ONLY
BAKING POWDER
SJADtFaOM
ROYAL CRAPE
OMAN Or TARTAR
- I 1
-1
consymlng. We will not say one
thing to the worklngman and an
other to the farmer, one thing to
the salaried man and another thing
to the manufacturer. We will say
t .it aiika that the stand for a
reasonable protection of every Amer
ican Industry that needs protection.
"We will show them that a part
of the Increase in the revenues under
the Payne law are derived front In
creases in the duties on articles of
1 xury, and In no case by Increases of
the duties on articles of necessity.
That another part ia due to the Im
position of a new form of taxation
which will be p-ld entirely by men
who can amply afford to pay It, and
in no caae by men who can not afford
of dally necessity upon which the
duty has been increased, the duties
on 15 similar articles have been re
duced, and that this Increase, wher
ever made, was made In order to
equalize the difference In the cost
of production of that article here
and abroad. We will show tnem tnai
for the first time In modern history,
under the Payne law more than half
Jot all the article, imported Into
this country come In absolutely free
of duty; that upon more than $5,
000,000,000 worth ot articles yearly
consumed In this country the duties
have been reduced, and utfon less
hn t97s.ooo.ooo worth they have
Impossible' to ascertain the cort of been Increased.-We will .how them
..., . j oll,. t nt vorvlthat unon no single arucie o -
article produced by or Imported Into
this country. And while we had
much fuller Information than any
preceding congress ever had, In the
very iisu re of things this informa
tion could not In every case be. exact.
"The Payne law provides for a ti
west for a low tariff paper said In ,
private conversation:; "Of course nt
paper 1. for low tariff and In somes
parts of tie country and for some
rich people who don't have to work
it would be a good thing but it the
Kansas farmers want a low tariff
when they are getting such big prices
for their crops sold to high-priced
labor they are bigger fools than I
take them to be." -
This was a direct- way to put it
but the farmer is doing some think
ing and he knows It Is the correct
view. ' "'" , " ' "" -
FREE TRADE ROMANCERS.
In a circular sent out to their cus
tomers bra firm of Wall street stock
brokers occurs this amusing .state
ment! "No tariff commission or In
vestigating committee 1 needed to
cross tue iiuiuw
wearing apparel 25 per cent to. 160
ner cent less." .
If food is so much cheaper in pan
ada than here, why Isn't it Imported
and sold at a greater profit than
home .producers can get? There la
nothing like a 40 per cent American
tariff against Canadian food pro
ducts. This Is almpiy a caae of th
free-trade liar exercising himself to
net into condition for another at- .
tack on the protective tariff system.
If wearing apparel is 160 per oent t
less in Canada than here, as wej&re
told by , this Wall Street circular, no
protective tariff can keep the Amer
ican markets from being flooded ,
with Canadian clothing. According
of this board have been so greatly
extended, r,s to cover the Investigation
ot I hew tiutbtions; and If Congv.
ahull tn the future rote for snffl-;
dent app' opr.'stlons, I have no do t-t
that when It mayjbecome necewvr
to tevlse the tariff again It wlli
have, through this board, the fullest
and most complete Information npon
which to base a tariff readjustment.
And when hat time shall come I
have no doubt, that, provided only
the Congress ' shall bs Republican,
the law will be as much better than
the Payne law aa th. Payne law la
better than the Dlngley law. But
that law will not be perfect, and the
Republican party then will be called
upon to combat the floods of mis
representation that ws are combating
now. " , : " t
In tb future, as In the past. It
will be misrepresentation of tbe facta
that the Republican party has to fear
and not the tacts themselves.. In
this campaign-It Is misrepresentation
of the facta that we have to fear and
not the facta themselves. , We shall
have to go before the people and
explain the facts with regard to this
tariff tew. and w will do It without
distortion or demagogy.. W will
sot claim that this tariff is solely
la the interests ot th consumer;
end oa the other hsnd, ws will not
Ulaiat that It Is made solely for th
benefit of the producer; but we will
claim" that tt is In tb Interest of
both tha producer and the consumer
altktvvv
"W stand apoh the) proposition
that the Interests ot the producer
and th consumer are sot antagonis
tic; that It ft as much for the Interest
of all the consumers ef the country
that All the producers should be rea-
:tsenab!y prosperous as It Ia to tn
interest of all the producers that sn
th consumers should he reasonably
prosperoee.. For. In th long run.
It the'Astericas producer can not af
ford to par wages to those associat
ed with htai l prodHctioa at least
a blg-b they now ere higher,
thtTs Cod, thsa la any other eonntrr
in tb world lb great m$tm of cob
I '! t 'I I - t -
that upon no single
lng apparel-used by the poor man,
uoon no single article of food on the
poor rn.tr table, have the du tie. wn,
been increased but, on U. . con r.ry, , to the figure, of
many or - '"' TH, 20 ,ult of dothes in Canada for
duced. We will show them that the, a tucked In
Payne law is immense Improvemerr nothing
Dlngley law, and that "- , w Cana.
"l .. . h.A 1Krt ner
Republican v. It we . II &vZMim.
do tms, we snail u..m.u, - . - .- .ometlmM
iff board, and largely through the over the Dlngley law, and that it
ef'ort. of President Taft the po-r. a compliance wth the .
Repuoiican piauuriu.
j .hi. .h.n fall divided, and cent ch
vu' . vrMt trade romancers sometime
our opponents, the DemocrsUo party, Free trade e M.Keratlon
will enjoy the fruit, ot victory. If Jaw into humorous exaggeration,
we do It, we shall stand united, and
tbe fruits ot victory will be ours,
THE TARIFF AND THE FABMEB.
Commenting on a Reflector edi
torial regarding tbe price western
fanners get for products sold to pro
fitably employed eastern laborers the
Clay Center Times says:
"This wheat man and his
- brother the hog man knows that
. the dollars and dimes are recelv
' ed almost entirely Independent '
of the tariff? The law of supply
and demand Is supplanting, the ,
dinkey tariff The Kansas innu
with tbe wheat and the hog to
tell is Inclined to tak a'littie
credit unto himself and not tllnk
for a minutvthat the tariff sche
dule and Mr. Calderhead am aa '
titled to very much credit The
, Reflector would reflect on the".
Fifth diatrict oter In order io
seake point for Mr. Calder-
' head and the outrageous tariff
schedule Which Mr. Calderhead
helped to adopt." ' - -The
supply and demand Is exactly
the cause of all price of all pro
ducts. Th western farmer la fur
nlahlns the upply and who Is giving
tb demand? In tb nineties be had
tb supply but with nobody to buy he
Mnid not aet price. Tb eastern
laborer were out ot work and could
tt uy western pitoducta. Clay
county Ib 1814 raised nearly halt a
million bushels of wheat, 4J8.180 ka-
bet. and received tor It 181,1
. little ever 4 cents a bushel. I
It raised ajearly double the
acreage and a somewhat larger yield
and had l,44l,0 fc-ua! which
t ti 4l oc or a dollar
bushel. Th fact that under a low
tariff labor was nniplore4 '. a 8-1
mllU aad factories were Wis In the
one instance and that adr a
nes tariff wag are sUh and ton
fii-i1"." acro;in' for th "demctiJ
t. ef thlnrs.
New Tork Pros.
Sallna Sun: "Wagstaff gang
scored by Leahy," la the Capital's
headline. "In open letter, etc. "Each
Miti-stubbs Leader has an axe to
grind," is further commented. The
private secretary to the , governor
nrohably thought he wa talking to
Democrat's, for as a Democrat he has
no inherent right to lecture Republi
cans He Is probably doing his duty
doing what he was hired for.- Did.
Governor Stubbs make Leany nis
private secretary to - make mm.
solid" wltl the Democrats i -
anti-Stubb -Leader nas an. i
grind; Which li on lerel with the
statement of two months ago that
.t.rid natters were sending momj
Into the tateto ftx" Pat"' ?l th
Fifth district." f ' ' fX -
; v -Not
until the-eonntry -Sets a
Democratic President and a ueroo-
oratlc Congress will a tarirt law m
enacted that will pleas the Kan- ,
City Star.' How many Republic
of KansaVar willing to Submit to
leuch a change In order to please the
muHl-mlllonafre editor of that
sourl aewspeper? -
The O. A. R. at HutchtnsoB sc:.t
Senator Curtis a telegram express
ing him coBHdeBO and high reraid
for his integrity and ability truly to
represent the state of Kansas. That
is the ssnUment not only of the vet
erans bet of Kansas a a whole.
Th mewMire ef Ue late Tom
Piatt are being published In : -Clare's
Magazine, aad tb c -rent'
tnftallmest is quite ii
eatiug. : A good many
'ever realised that Mr. I
tu the moat important flKJ-
this country until tfcfy I
' reading hi memoir. r
Cait'!t. '
JIovr they did ft a
c! r orr nf h u '