The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-26
STANLEY'S HOLD.
William Allen White Talks
About Senatorship.
His Fayorite Has Breadth of
Support; Others Local.
NO PASS WORDS GO.
Not Surrounded by Any Foot
ball Gordon.
Friendly to Long, Wants to
Keep Curtis Friendship.

William Allen White, who is in To-
peka today in connection with the conf
ing meeting of the Kansas Day club, of
which he is president, gave an interest
ing interview this morning on the SEN
atorship. He said:
THE trouble with the fellows who are
after Stanley is that they don't know
their man. They take him for young
pup In politics, when the truth IS he is
mighty well trained. When d man has
been in county politics in a Kansas
county like Sedgwick for generation
he comes pretty nearly knowing thing
or two and being a wise old codger. The
tactics of the fellows who want to de-
feat Stanley just now are very funny.
They are putting out poison for him.
The Capital is full of .pizen- They are
trying to make Stanley believe that
Long is claiming all the credit for the
Pringle business. They are trying to
get it into the governors head that he
has been fooled. Dave Mulvane and old
Van of the Star get down to the Topeka
club absorbing Mellin's Food and Malta
Vita and one thing and another, and lit
tie Dave slips old Van lot of piZen,
and Van goes spreading it up and down
the columns of the Star like raw meat
in Stanley's alley. I think I know lit
tie about Stanley, and one thing is sure.
he takes no meat from strangers. He
hasn't got a single bite of the. 'pizen.
He is friendly to Long and he wants to
keep the friendship of Curtis. If he had
taken all the 'pizen the fellows left out
in his alley for him, he would have
been swelled up so his best frienos
wouldn't have known him. As it is he
is as sound as nut and as cheerful a s
a sunfiower. He is engaged in making
friends, not enemies, and he has more
last ditch strength than any other can
d1date.
The element of strength in stanley's
candidacy is the breadth of it. The
others Long. Ca1derhead, Curtis and
BoWersock. are local candidates. Take
the Seventh district from Long and he
would be out of the running. Take the
First district from Curtis and he would
not be in the fight. Calderhead's forces
are confined to the Fifth and Bower
socks absolutely to the Second. The
element of weakness in these candida
cies is that they are backed by congress
sional machines. The politicians of the
/ Seventh district are fine fellows and we
all like them. But they form regular
otba1 Gordon around Long and to get
next to Long you have to break through
their interference and do some heavy
tackling. In the case of Curtis he is
harder to get at than the grand
master of a lodge; there is A. K.
Rodgers, outer guard, Gpy Wood,
inner guard, Pat Coney. tyler, John
| Guthrie and a dozen or SO past grands
and Dave Mulvane keeper of the pass
word and a cloud of courtiers here in
! Shawnee county a whole days journey
/ through. The Fifth district outfit has
/ Calderhead in hollow square and Bower
sock is enshrincd in some sort of holy
of holies down in the Second district and
/ if you do get in you'd nave to have an
| interpreter; for the Second district is q
kind of mystic temple and they don't talk
| the Kansas language down there and no
one knows anything about the situation.
With Stanley it is different. He has
never organized a machine. AS governor
| he has surrounded himself by no sang
or outfit. Mr. Low. for instance, has
been on no better footing than Mr.. Leland
and each man or candidate has stood on
his merits. Stanley has acted with Bur
tomas in the case of Crum-when Burton
was right. and he has acted with Leland
as in the case of Bailey-when Leland
was right. He has played no favorites
but has been absolutely fair ard Impair
tial
4 1.-The result IS that member of the legis-
with a man and not with little political
| republic. When that member of the leg
| islature wants to talk with The United
States senator from Kansas, if he is stan
| password or go through initiation or
/ hold an election. He can go right straight
to Stanley and talk man to man. The
state administratio of Stanley has proved
! that He will make that kind OF a sena-
tor. That is StanIey's strength He has
men for him all over Kansas. men in ev-
naturally independent or they would be
/ lined up behind their districts candidate.
Stanley is the orIy real independent cam
didate in the field. He has No machine.
| date. And when he IS elected It will be
! because both sides can trust hira. The
| fellows behind Stanley will go to the fin
ish with him For it wil& be roo late TO
band wagons