The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-06
He PICKS STANLEY
VIM. Allen White Thinks He
Will Be Next Senator.
If Not He Will Name the
Winner.
FIGHT In WYANDOTTE.
Republicans Will Have an In
terestfng Contest.
Usual War Between the Various
Factions Is On.
FIGHT IN WYANDOTTE.

William Allen White picks Governor
Stanley for the winner in the senatorial
contest. In an editorial in the Emporia
Gazette he says:
mo one who looks at the senatorial
race with unprejudicial eyes can fail to
see that Stanley has a good lead He
has strength in every district In the
field will have to combine to beat him,
and this the field can never do; for the
minute Curtis. Long or Calderhead
breaks, his force will go to Stanley
be the next senator from Kansas or
Stanley will name hin. Stanley Is the
power in the senatorial situation.
1T is worth while to enquire into
Stanley and his strength For IN the
irowth of every strong man there is a
lesson for all men, Stanley, to begin
with, is not much of politician II
Is admitted on all sides that he lacks
that adroit duplicity in dealing with
men and measures which goes by the
name of political sense Stanley Is
just plainspoken, common, straight
forward sort of a man who gets an 1dea
that man or measure is right ana
then in perfectly simple, old-fash-
Toned, Industrious way tries to help it.
He has no press agent HIS eyes are
never on the grand stand The secret
of his strength is work. Stanley has
succeeded as governor of Kansas better
than any other man occupying the office
for dozen years. He has succeeded by
ignoring politics, and running the office
as a business man. Rem ember the
scandals of the Leedy administration,
the lamentable weakness of the Level
ling administration, and the frailt1es OF
the other state administrations of re-
cent years. and then contrast them
with Stanley'S work: Not a scandal,
not an irregularity, not a complaint;
nothing to apologize for; nothing to ex-
plain; everything clean, open and above
board; everything square and true. This
has been going on for four years. The
politicians, many of them. dislike STAN
ley. He has not always used antiseptic
language of diplomacy with them. He
has called a spade a spade and cheat
a. liar But the people know Stanley.
They like him. There is big unwieldy
background sentiment among people
who don't talk politics; who don't go
to caucuses: who don't know about
deals or the makers of deals. This sem
tfment when it gets to bum ping about
the ship of state often knocks the agile
sailors who fit things off their pins.
How it does so no one knows. This is
what the Stanley sentiment, the big
tax paying business sentiment of Kan
sas is doing now. 1t is for Stanley.
The politicians can't understand it;
they can feel it though, and they are
controlled by it in spite of themselves.
1t is the sentiment of the public graft
tude to plain honest. fearless, mod
est man for doing Kansas an important
service. And this sentiment, Repub-
lican to the core of it, is going to put
Stanley in the United States senate"
The Lawrence World takes much the
same view of the situation. 1t says:
In the fight between Long and Curtis
the third man will not be Calderhead or
any other congressman. Gov. Stanley
is getting more votes than any of the
others He is the dangerous man for
both of the other candidates. This is
not going to be a pony race by any
will a q fOh IN mi
between giants. Calderhead has not
made good on the advanced notices on
his entrance into political life
The biggest political fight in Kansas
this week is taking place in WAN
dotte county. 1t is the fight over the
Republican county ticket and county
central committee.
The county convention will be held
Saturday and primaries to elect dele
gates to the convention will be held
tomorrow The primaries are in charge
of the executive committee of the coun-
ty central committee, and it is required
tha- delegate tickets shall be filed Each
of the numerous factions in Wyandotte
county has tickets in many precincts,
and more than 1000 names have been
filed as candidates for delegates to the
ceupty convention. 1t is claimed that
in some precincts there are more can
didates than Republican votes have
heretofore been cast.
The executive committee with which
the tickets have been filed, have been
keeping them secret until within the last
day or two. 1t is claimed that the fac
ton which is in control of the committee
has slate which it proposes to run
through, and all of the other factions
are planning to head it off. if they can
find out which it is. Charges have al
ready been made that the committee
has not put on the list seine of the
names which have been filed.
uyo~Id. L.
even the most rabid partisan that it is
time some action was taken on the
Tom Kelly case. There is a point be-
yond which any party can trifie with
the people.
George E. Tucker, editor of the Eu-
reka Herald, was yesterday nominated
for the legislature by the Republicans
to the senatorial fight Is unknown.
Tucker belongs to the extremely young
crowd, but he has already proved him.
self good politician, and he will not be
without experience in legislative mat
tiers, Notwithstanding his youth. He was
journal clerk in the house of 1899 and
Will therefore be familiar with legis-
lative proceedings. He is good pre-
siding officer, too He started the Fourth
district congressional convention at
Emporia last spring, and did better job
or 1t than the majority of those who
are old hands at presiding over big
conventions. Tucker is for E. W. Hoch
Tor state printer, as Hoch is in this
congressional district. The balance
OF the county ticket is as follows: Sher-
III, William H. Henderson: clerk of dis
trict court. John Redman; treasurer, G..
A Bower; county attorney, T. C. Turn
err register of deeds, George Boone;
county superintendent. T. c. PETER;
county clerk. G. d. Pritchard: probate
judge. r. w. Service: surveyor, C. C.
Huntington; coroner, J. Dillon; COM
missioner, First district. w. H. Dali
ton.
Since William Allen White went to