The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-10
Indications That Stubbs and
Curtis Go for Re-enforcements.
Powers May BE Asked to Help
the Congressman.
OUTLOOK ALARMS HIM.
Protest In the First District Is
Growing.
Voters Believe They Can Rebuke
Unfair Methods.

Is there anything significant in the
fact that State Chairman w. r. Stubbz
and Congressman Curtis left Topeka
about the same time and that their
common destination was Washington?
That is a question which politicians
are wondering about just now and it IL
commonly believed that an answer in
the Affirmative would be correct.
Mr.. Stubbs and Mr.. Curtis have gone
to Washington to ask the aid OF the
powers that be there to help stop the
fight on Curtis in the First district
this is the guess that many politicians
are making concerning the trip. It is
not at all improbable that it may be
carried to President Roosevelt himself
and his interoession sought.
1t can no longer be denied that the
fight on Curtis is a serious matter
Notwithstanding his majority of some
thing over 10000 in the district two
ing Curtis do not really believe that
they will accomplish his defeat, bue
they wish to register their protest
against the methods which the Curtis
element employed to secure Mr.. Curtis
denomination. They are not support
ing Major Harvey, but they are pre-
testing against Curtis.
There are Republicans in the First
district, however, who believe that they
can rebuke Mr.. Curtis to the extent OF
defeating him. 1t is asserted that IL
Shawnee does not give Curtis more than
1000 majority and Leavenworth more
than 500, that he will fail of election.
Whether his opponents can hold his
majorities in these two counties down
to those figures remains to be seen.
1t is certain at any rate that Mr..
Curtis majority will be cut down to a
small fraction of what 1t has always
been heretofore-even though he is not
l-E G-wt,+ IL L. L.
up. This in itself would be a serious
matter for Mr.. Curtis, for 1t would seri-
.ously handicap him in his race for Uni
ted States senator. To have a maJori-
ty of 10000 cut to 1000 or less in two
years, and that, too, in presidential
year when the district will be over
whelmingly for Roosevelt. would be hui
initiating.
1t is believed that Stubbs and Curtis
have gone to Washington to ask for
aid from President. Roosevelt and the
national committee in heading on such
a condition as this. They will explain
that leading Republicans in the First
district are engaged in the insurrec-
tion and they will insist that it is
the duty of the national committee to
help call the fight off.
The spirit of those who are fighting
Curtis in the First district is such that
it is doubtful If it would do any good
even though the national committee
should consent to interfere. With many
of those who are opposing him It is a
matter of principle. They contend that
President Roosevelt himself would do
the same as they are doing under sim
liar circumstances. They quote the
saying that "a nomination
obtained by fraud binds nobody"
There are in the First district about
fifty newspapers which are supporting
and whion under ordinary
would support the Re-
publican nominee for congress in the
First district. OF these at least twenty
lRflXa fight
tis. At least fifteen are supporting him.
perusal of nine of the balance dur
ing the last two weeks shows that they
are either silent concerning the First
district fight or they are giving both
sides with equal impartiality. Eight
others have not been received by the
State Journal during the last two weeks
and it is not known how they stand.
The Wathena Times was given two
weeks ago as being in sympathy with
the address promulgated by the First
district editors at Holton recently. Pool
editor of the Times. denies
that he authorized this statement, but
he says nothing for Curtis and the
Times is therefore counted in the i'm
partial list.
Four of the fifteen papers which are
supporting Curtis are in To-
peka.
A Washington dispatch corroborates
the theory that Mr.. Stubbs and Mr..
Curtis went east together to consult
with the powers that be regarding con-
iitions in Kansas. The dispatch says:
''W. r. Stubbs, the Republican state
chairman of Kansas, and Representa-
tive Charles Curtis were in the city to-
day They stopped off here on their
way to New York, where their mission
is to confer with National Chairman
Cortelyou and Representative Babcock,
chairman of the Republican congress
sional campaign committee, with refer
snce to the campaign in Kansas. Mr..
Stubbs called on Secretary Shaw at the
treasury department and later the sec
retary accompanied him to the White
House, where he paid his respects to
President Roosevelt.
There were large number of peo-
pie at the White House when they
called and Mr.. Stubbs was with the
president only a few minutes. He said
later that his presence in Washington
was without political significance, and
that he had stopped to see Mr.. Roose-
velt on his way to New York, as ne
city. He left for New York at o'clock
this afternoon.
''Mr. Curtis told the politicians that
the Republicans would carry Kansas by
an unprecedented majority, and return
a solid Republican delegation to the
house.
I will not be surprised if Roosevelt
and Fairbanks receive a majority of 40,-
700 in our state" said he. The people
Of Kansas have not been as enthusiast
tic over a presidential candidate since
James G. Blaine was the nominee in
1884.
"A large number of Democrats, who
are not satisfied with the work of the
st. Louis convention, will support the
president. We will carry all of the
districts in the state by
arge majorities. Something of a fight
S being made on Representative Bow
ersock in the Second district, but he
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