The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-15
ONLY CHANCE
E. w. Hoch and w. II. Stubs
Must Demand His Election.

The only way in which J. n. Dolley
can be elected chairman of the Repub-
Iican state committee is for h W.
Hoch and w R. Stubs to demand it
of the state committee. The Burton
partiSans, who are for J. r. BurroW
for chairman. have most of the state
candidates lined up for BurroW, and
they have even got a statement from
Mr. Hoch that he does not want to
boss things but only wants his vote
to count the same as any other HoInI-
nee.
GERS, but it has always deferred to the
wishes of the nominees, particularly
the nominee for governor. If Mr. Hoch
should insist upon the selection OF
Do1ley as chairman, and Mr. Stuons
suade the state committee to elect
Dolley. even If the aInaj ority of the
nominees should be against him.
At the time that the bosses OF the
new machine decided that StubbS
should be both temporary and per
manent chairman of the state conFen-
ton, shutting out H E Richter. who
had been decided upon as temporary
chairman, the State journal puoilshea
the statement that this was Simply
to pave the way for the election of Mr.
Burrow as state chairman, on the
ground that Mr. Stubs had been
sshonored" greatly at Wichita. and ne
should not therefore try to dictate VINO
should be state chairman That IS the
very argument the Burton people are
now putting forth to Hoch. The organ
of the Burton faction this morning
SAYS:
.sBurrow has eight of the fourteen
nominees on the state ticket. and his
friends are doing their best to snow
Mr.. Hoch that he would make ten
strike by falling in with the majority
They urge him to be fair They say
that they allowed H. Z. Richter, sug-
gested for temporary chairman Of the
wichita convention, to be sacrificed IN
order that Mr.. Hoch's good friend, w
r Stubbs might have the honor. Now,
they say. Mr. Hoch should go with
their side and make Burrow chair
mar
state SUPERINTENDENT Dayhoff is
listed as being for Dolley for chairman,
but Mr.. Dayhoff told Harry Bone
dav or two ago that Dolley Will not
be elected chairman
The Emporia Gazette publishes the
following.
The Abilene Reflector calls attention
proudly to the fact that in the recent
state convention no praise was given TO
Joseph L. Bristow- This Is true The
convention ignored him, and though
President Roosevelt said in an official
document that Bristow's work was one
of the most useful pieces of public ser
vice that had ever been done for the
country, a convention of Bristow'S TEL
|
ignored him. The reason was this:
Bristow did not belong to the faction
that controlled the convention The Ga
| zette has said that if the Apostle Paul
were today a candidate for any Office
supported by the faction that just went
| out Of business and Judas Iscariot was
| a candidate supported by the dominant
| faction. Judas would get a vote OF
something like 6S6 to Isl and the men
who mentioned the thirty pieces Of sill
yer would be called traducers and black
guards and the Apostle Paul would be
! sueered at as a tool of the ubiquitous
machine.
| Bristow today stands as the type OF
/ honest. fearless public servant In his
row with congress, the president will
surely sustain Bristow, and evidently
| every good citizen of the Republican
| marty will sustain him He stands fear
| iessIy for good government He Is with
| out reproach- Yet because he Is not
/ factionaIist of the dominant crowd, he
| was denied the courtesy Of honorable
/ mention at his home convention.
Is this fair2 Is it honest and straight
| forward RepubIicanisn2 Not a fence
for Burton stolen goods failed to re-
ceive handicap: not a pal of Burton 5
sand-bagging schemes failed to get en-
dorsed for whatever he desired Yet
this man Bristew whom all the nation
honors, and whom the president has
been proud TO name as one Of the ma
! TONS first citizens. was snubbed by the