The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-12
'AGIN" STANLEY.
Politicians Who Are Now Fight
ing the Governor.
Leaders Are sEDick" Blue and
j. N. Harrison.
WERE DISAPPOINTED
Mr.. Stanley Refuses to Answer
the Charges.
News From the State House
Departments.
WERE DISAPPOINTED

The friends of Governor Stanley have
been endeavoring to gain his consent to
make reply to the attack upon him by
Dick Blue, recently made before a re-
union in Cherokee county. Since Blue
was defeated for congressman at large
at the Hutchinson convention he has
been very bitter The nomination of
Bailey, he has since declared, for con-
gresham at large, was an insult to the
old soldiers. Blue has been making
much capital out of the fact that only
one state officer was a soldier in the
civil war. He is Lieutenant Governor
Richter
The ex-cOngressman has been off the
reservation since that convention and
has been, this fall, making personal at
tacks upon Stanley while speaking at
G.. A. r. reunions.
Down in Cherokee at Baxter Springs
Blue abused Stanley prior to the coun-
ty convention and said the governor
had ignored the old soldiers. He urged
the convention to condemn Stanley but
the convention endorsed the state ad-
ministratfon and commended, particu-
larly, the governors action in recOgniz-
ing the old soldiers, ''he having appoint
ed more old soldiers to office than any
governor since John A. Martini is the
way the resolutions express it.
Mr.. Blue condemns the governors
action towards the old soldiers in gen
eral but is particularly bitter because
A w Smith was turned down for in
Surance commissioner. Blue says:
Smith, an old soldier was turned
down and a court house rat given the
place. The man who got the place
Smith wanted never earned dollar in
his life. He has always been kept by
the public. He was either a county Of
hcer or an assistant, and so on ad in
fnitum, all his life and the state or the
county has been compelled to keep
him. Blue also makes other uncom-
plimentary references to Mr.. Church
which, owing to their character can not
be printed.
other old soldier who has helped many
men in Kansas to get pensions. That
man is Case Broderick of HOltOn. He
was a candidate for judge of the Jack
SOn-JefersOn county district. The gov
ernOr turned him down and appointed
man to the Office whose only qualifica-
tiOn is the success he has in breeding
Shetland ponies" The reference is to
@. F. Johnson.
He then touched up the governors
war record and referred to him as the
"Stay-at-hOme-"
The governor has paid no attention
to Blues attack but at the Baxter
Springs reunion he stopped a moment
in his speech to take little snap shot
in passing. He was discussing the war
and the policies of the national admin
istratiOn and had reached the point in
his speech where he was paying his re-
SpectS to AguinaldO.
IF AguinaldO were running for con-
gressman at large in Kansas I do not
believe he would get many votes. He is
a disturber. Yet, I believe if he were
running he would receive more votes
than some men might name in our
own party"
Some enthusiast in the audience
shouted:
''Dick Blue"
Refora the povArpor oorld rrocaad
with his remarks large number of the
listeners took up the cry and Blues
name was hooted to the echo.
This was the only reference the gov
ernor has made to Mr.. Blues attack
and he will permit to pass unnoticed
anything which the pOuting Richard
may have to say in the future.
J. N. Harrison, of Ottawa, better
known as Curly Harrison, has also
Joined the insurgents against Governor
Stanley and is organizing A. W.Smith's
campaign for the nomination for state
superintendent of insurance to succeed
w. V. Church.
Mr.. Harrison is sore at Governor
Stanley because he was not selected
for adjUtant general, the position now
occupied by Col. S. NJ. Fox.
Smith was a candidate for insurance
superintendent when Mr.. Church was
appointed but was not at any time in
close proximity to the luck of landing
the job. Smith is now fighting Church
and Stanley too, claiming that he was
unfairly treated by the governor and
that Mr.. Church is not entitled to the
place.
1t is said that Harrison wants to get
into the state house and that he would
like to be assistant superintendent of
insurance and for that reason he IS
very active in support of Smith. While
Harrison is comfortably fixed financial
ly and does not need this place or any
other, yet some of the friends of the
administration think this is the posi-
tiOn which he has his eye upon and in
the event of success for Smith, Harrf-
son would get the place or would be
privileged to name the man for it.
Franklin county has been pretty well
treated by the present administration
The first important appointment was
given to Private Secretary Henry Allen.
Then Charles H. Ridgway was named
assistant superintendent of insurance
Yet Mr.. Harrison is miffed because he
was not made adjutant general.