Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-20

ter, and that no word had gone to them
from Hoch TO sustain them. The laugh
became a guffaw when II was read tur-
Their on IN the dispatches that stuops
still insisted that he would upset the
machine.
As soon as the meeting ADJOURNED
and the members returned 10 their
homes in Kansas, Stubs headed LOT
Missouri. Installing himself IN head-
quarters. ne ordered the clerks IN MS
ofilc 10 stand by for action. -
There's going 10 be something 40
In" he said TO his men. what nap
pened he himself must tell salu ne
Cay or two ago:
~ had the name Of a man In every
county in Kansas who was reputhple
Republican and opposed TO perpetua-
ton of ring rule, went to the teie,
phone Office and fled blanket call'
sat al the telephone and called up those
men. We laid the state out mo us,
trcts. Each county was district, anu
we talked to each antl-machine ieput-
rbe Republican In every county III lhe
state. We got him to give the MINES
OF five other reputable llepubhehus'
and we talked 10 them by the long as
lance tclephone We got these nVe 10
give us the names Of IL other reputa'
bic antl-machine Republicans, ana we
got I'm touch with them. We started
petitions. addressed to Hoch, as man
who would be nominated without
string to him, and we sent those peu-
tions and those petitioners over every
county. township Section quarter
section. city and town block anu
lot i'm Kansas, as near as we we're aOle,
and the end was that we set Kansas
aalme. Five days did IT,
I'VE tackled the country newspapers
those that We're getting state ana
county printing. We warned them not
10 miss the band wagon and cautioned
them not 10 travel too far with their
state house machine, We told them
that the boss busters would dump
their old machine and them into H. ana
they began coming our way mat was
all there was to IT,"
Then he spoke this bit Of philosophy
"The bigger the machine the more
lacks YOU can get under II. Every Vol-
or has a lack. The only thing needed
! is 10 get the voter interested or encour-
aged 10 use his Jack The thing VIII go
over as sure as the Kansas machine
did"
Jan. 10 rolled around and there was
another Stubbs meeting IN Topeka,
When Gov. Bailey. the titular head OF
the ring, looked out Of the executive
offices ne saw Il wonderful sight, SIX
hundred men arrived In town and went
to the Stubs meeting. Every "1ack
In the outfit had return ticket 10 MS
home and receipt 10 show that he mad
paid his way. The machine passes mad
been spurned. Gov, Balley's smile iroze
on his face. and II became contortion
that night when he read the platform
| Of the boss busters
Patriotism instead Of spoils' was the
| cry. Putting his ear TO the ground. the
governor heard the hum OF the wires
| as the news went over the broad acres
! Of Kansas. He heard: "IIurrah for
| Hoch and the boss busters Down with
| Bailey and the machine! Patriotism in
stead OF spolls'
GOVERNOR DESERTED.
81 have been true to these fellows"
| Gov. Bailey demurred. Il have done
| everything they asked me. They must
save me-" He referred to the bosses.
Save you the bosses replied. Save
you, the devil! Ii is a case Of save
ourselves. We will have TO get In line
for Hoch ourselves"
The boss busters were headed
straight from Topeka to Reno county.
| Reno, jefferson and Brown had called
county conventions. They set out to
capture them. Reno was the scene of
the most exciting political battle ever
waged The stake was the control OF a
state. II was the hereditary bosses
against the boss busters. II was the
state house ring against the rank and
file. II was West Point training against
main strength and awkwardness of
santa Fe Red" and his tribe.
That was before the convention, AZ
ter the convention It was all one way.
The boss busters had broken the state
house machine into flinders and the
trains could not get the bosses back to
the capital quick enough.
Save yourself, governor" they said.