The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-05
w. II. Stubs and His Famous
JOlIyfng System.
How He Is Accusing Interest in
Politics.
HIS PERSONAL---VERY.
They Are Proving Most Effective
Documents.
Another Story on Senator Harry
Mcmillan.

w. r. Stubbs is the greatest ''jollier
the Republican party has had at the
head of its organization in Kansas
for years. He has a faculty of pat
ting every Republican worker and Of
fce-seeker on the back and making
him believe that great responsibility
rests upon him and that if he does the
proper amount of work it will save
the state. Chairman Stubs calls peo-
pie up by telephone and sends out a
multitude of letters, both circular and
personal, which are pure Jolly" but
they undoubtedly do good.
| For instance, he receives list of
county and township Republican nom
inees from a county chairman in the
short grass country. Chairman Stubs
sends a personal letter to each one
The letters are, of course, much in
the same form He cOngratulates
John Jones because he has been nom
mated for township trustee of Prairie
township, and also congratulates the
Republican party for its wise selec-
ton. He says information of Mr.
Jones' nomination has just reached
Republican state headquarters, and
the feeling is general that the nomi-
nation of such strong Republican
and a man of such sterling worth
will add many votes to the Republi-
he urges Jones to do all he can for
the entire ticket from Roosevelt down
to the very bottom. AS usual thing
Jones Will become an important per-
sonage and think the responsibility for
carrying his county rests upon him.
He believes the eyes of the entire state
committee ard all the state candidates
are turned in his direction. If he was
waverfng about scratching Tom Kelly
and the mem berS of the school fund
commission it is quite possible that
Stubs letter will save them a vote
and lead Jones to get out anda work
for them.
But of course the system will slip
once in a while. 1t slipped the other
day in a letter which Mr. Stubs sent
to a Sumner county man. A yelling
ton paper tells about it. AL Lichten-
berger, of Sumner county, received
one of the usual letters from Chair
man Stubs, congratulating him and
the Republican party upon his nomi-
nation for county high school trustee.
Mr.. Stubs expressed the opinion that
the party had made a very wise Sc
lection in Mr.. Iichtenberger. OF
course Stubs had never heard of
Lichtenberger before and Lichten-
Lichtenberger had not been nominal
ed for high school trustee. He had
been offered the nomination several
months ago, but he said he wouldn't
But Stubs Jolly system works
in four cases out of five.
Here is another campaign joke:
Some time ago a dispatch was sent
from Topeka to the New York Times
and possibly to other papers, about
Senator Harry Mcmillan of the Ottawa
Saline senatorial district. 1t was as
follows:
State Senator Harry Mcmillan. who
was renominated today by the Demo-
Gratis and Populists, has injected issues
into the Kansas campaign.
He has declared it to be a nuisance
to observe the custom of lifting his hat |
every time he meets a lady in an ele- |
vator. He refused to do this at the last |
session of the legislature. Topeka's So |
ciety women were offended. He is to |
introduce a bill declaring the hat-lifting |
custom nuisance, and asks men every |
where to join in his crusade.
Senator Mcmillan will also introduce |
a bill to make snake-eating and snake |
charming on the street corners n mis- |
demeanor. He pushed this bill through |
the senate two years ago, but when it |
got to the house half a dozen Republi- |
cans put their heads together and killed |
it after discussing it pro and con for six |
hours in room where there was no |
bottle
This story has been commented on |
editorially in various papers, and now |
it is said that some one is sending pa |
pers containing these editorial COM
ments in McMillan's district in order to |
help defeat him. 1t is done to show
that eastern people think Mcmillan |
comes from a "snake-eating district
The result, however, is likely to be |
more in McMillan's favor than against |
facts, as nearly all of the Ottawa coun-
ty senator's constituents know, that it
will prejudice them in his favor as be-
ing the object of unfair fight.
AS a matter of fact Mcmillan was
probably the most courtly and gallant
member of the state senate. Not even
the bachelor lieutenant governor him
self could exceed the Ottawa member in
eraIl9n and of this fact is |
generally known among the people who
are acquainted with Mcmillan.
F. H. Quincy, McMillan's Republican
opponent, ought to get out an injunc-
ton to prevent such stories about Nc
MILAN being sent into the district.
Carr Taylor, chairman of the Re-
publican speakers bureau. has billed
Governor Cummins of Iowa, for a
speech at Hutchinson on October FL.
An effort will be made to make it
big meeting.
Beloit Call: It is r1 ~
j. r. Burrow. while in Beloit on
Saturday, did considerable blowing in
regard to what he was going to
do with those newspapers which
ing but an every day CRATER, and
that his connection with the Conan
che county bond deal was discredit-
able alike to himself, and the people
whose votes elected him to the Office
that he has done so much to disgrace.
Burrow will do nothing in regard to
the matter. as even if he could clear
himself of the charge of being a
knave, that of being a fool must in
delibly stick to him, and a man can't
afford to be either these days and ex-
pect to retain the confidence of his
fellowmen. Burrow is an awful in
cubus for any party to carry as a
portion of it's political stock in trade.
He cIings to the ground as though he
a of and I
to hear Ex-Governor Stanley in the
a11ditnri11r1n OF, t11rf1a1- trying To ele-