The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-25
POLITICAL COMMENT.
". z. Morgan's Story About How
Stuhbs Was Elected.

MI ouITO8 Is d Ce&H01QdlG, ne Sd14s
and I am for Stubbs.' Another ballot
was taken and again Mr.. Hoch and Mr..
Robson and the two proxies were four
votes for Stubs against ten for Bur-
row 1t was O'Clock and the state CEN
trail committee was to meet at s. Mr..
Hoch and Mr.. Robson went to the
hotel while Mr.. Mulvane addressed the
remaining faithful. Mr.. Mulvane was
mad and his orders were brief: We
control the committee and we will elect
Burrow, and Mr.. Hoch can go to -
and Mr.. MuIvane mentioned a hotter
place than Wichita ever was.
'Mulvane. Grimes. Mackey, Kelly and
the other leaders of the Burton part of
the Hoch forces thought they had
majority of the committee and started
to line them up for Burrow- Suddenly
they discovered peculiar looking OBJ
ject, something like torpedo boat COM
ing straight at them. Johnson of JEFF
ferson, Dolley of Wabaunsee, More
house of Council Grove. Austin of Chase
and one or two other distinctly Curtis
men were not for Burrow-they We're
for whoever Hoch wanted. They didn't
respond to the plea that Mr. Burton's
interests were involved OF course Mr..
Stubs had said he didn't want the
craftsmanship, but now Mr.. Stubs be-
gan to move around and say to men,
bers of the committee that Mr.. Hoch
had drafted him and that if it were
necessary that he should be a candidate
in order to insure Mr.. Burrows defeat,
he would be it. Morton Albaugh, Cyrus
Leland, Andy Richards, Dan Anthony
and Ellis Garten, the four old Bailey
men on the committee sent word to
Mr.. Hoch that he could count on them
TO vote for Mr.. Stubs or anybody else
he wanted. They said Hoch had won
the fight and was entitled to have his
friend at the head of the committee.
just as Bailey and Stanley had had in
the past. And anyway remarked Mr..
Leland, Mr.. Burton's interests may be
helped by the election of Mr.. Burrow,
but what of that?'
THE committee was to meet at 8
o'clock, and both sides figured hard.
Two of the Sixth district members re-
fused to vote for BurroW. Mr.. Mulvane
counted us1 and he only found fifteen
sure Burrow votes. and one or two of
them not wanting to go against the
governor. There are thirty-three mem
bers of the state committee. Mr.. Stubs
figured that he had at least eighteen.
I he committee met
Mulvane & Co were up against a
losing game and they knew it. In the
interest of harmony they asked for
thirty minutes recess, and got it. Then
Mr. Burrow. who an hour before had
been threatening to withdraw from the
ticket ana leave the Republican party
TO It's fate If he were not elected chair
man. decided that he had better quit
before he was thrown down. He an
nounced his withdrawal
The committee then requested the
candidates to make a recommendation.
Very sullenly some of them accom-
panied Mr. Hoch upstairs. What's the
use of playing horse with us?' said one
of them to the committee We have
already agreed upon a recommen ton
and now you won't follow it Part of
the officers were more polite. They
merely said that they would agree to
Mr.. Stubs and the recommended ton
went back to the committee to be car
ried out.
THE winning combination was:
Hoch. Stubs. the old machine and
Curtis friends. The rBurrow force was
made up of Burton men and railroad
influence. 1t looks as If Mr.. Curtis were
figuring on Mr.. Burton's job and that
the state committee is not under the
absolute control of Kelly and Mulvane.
1t also showed that Mr.. Hoch and Mr..
Robson are doing business on their
own account. 1t indicates lively times
ahead in Kansas politics whenever
these interests clash
Atchison Globe: If Ed Hocf could
hear what's being said behind his
back. he'd be less grateful and, hustle
more.
The outrageous seating of the fraud
ulent delegations from Miami, Wyan-
dotte and Jackson counties by the
Stubs machine will give the Repub-
lican campaign speakers lots OF trou-
! bic and the opposition lots of good
ammunition. This is from no less an
official source than Auditor Wells pa
per, the Erie Record: THE new ma
chine did ranker and more unfair
4 things at the Wichita convention than
/ the old machine ever dreamed of. .
Charles S. Finch, who used to be most
hide bound partisan Republican in the
state, says this now in his Lawrence
Gazette: The excuse offered for tine
| admission of the rotten Nat Barnes del
egation at the Wichita convention was
that both sides were guilty And yet
the Nat Barnes delegation had laid
down. and for month had not
/ thought of going to any convention
until it became necessary for Bower
sock to have their votes at Garnett
In order to make the Garnettvote LOOK
straight, it was necessary to admit tne
/ delegation to the Wichita convention
also. This is the plain truth. And the
delegation without shadow of right Of
title was admitted to both conventions
If that is the reform in politics the
new order of things in Kansas is Il
give US, may the Lord save the state
from it,
Emporia Gazette: Carr w. Taylor, o
Hutchinson. made statement when h'
returned home from the meeting of tbs
state committee at Topeka that "if h'
had not told Dave Mulvane two week:
ago that Burton should not be renCIGl
mated for the senate he would prob
I ably have been elected chairman of th'
state committee" The Salina Rerub
Iican holds that Whether there is an
| truth in the conclusions of Taylor o.
not it is corrOboratOry evidence OF III
statement that has been made by tn
Journal that the inner temple of TIL
new machine was working for the re
! election of Burton in event of hi
acquittal. and should he be convicted
the new organization was to usa it
power for the election of either BurraV
or Mulvane. This was. the reason
Kelly and his friends opposed the seiec
ton of any other chairman excep
Stubs. and they would have just a
strongly opposed Stubs if they ha'
not known that such opposition wa
useless
To this statement should be addet
the further allegation that E w. Hoe
is against the denomination of Burton
the recognition of Burton. the vindica
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