The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-07

tai, topeka, and they permitted nobod,
to go on 1t unless they had their ticket:
signed and countersigned by the ring.
Topeka was alright. Once in awhil,
some anti got or board, but he wa.
promptly squelched when the party got t.
the Legislature.
Stuhbss appearance in the Statehous'
did not cause more than a sheer. The rims
knew well 1t could slip one through hi
snout and keep him from roofing. AL
the ring wanted was to be left alone
That Is all any ring wants around a State
house.
This fellow. Stubs, of Lawrence. wa:
only one of a dozen or so out of lGo. and
so the machine managers said. he would
not do much.
STUBS DEF1ES THE RING.
They roared VIXEN they heard Stubb:
protesting in the House at $50 henchmer
being on the pay roll to do the work OF
fifty.
They laughed, gracious, how they
laughed. when he said that some of the
pensioners never went TO Topeka e1cep,
on payday. and that even then some o,
them sent proxies. Il was the Joke OF
the season when Santa Fe Red"-the;
40 ep is poy IIoOu CdTeeT-DSIJOWeQ III
that soghorn voice of his about relatives
ring-ridden. grating. t~he-peopIe-be.
damned methods" and went right or
turning To- his bills. pigeOnholing his PEI
measures. loading up the hopper, tighten
ing up their rivets. firing up their boilers
under their machine and looping off his
university Appropriation.
1t was said that Stubbs of Lawrence
would soon quit his fight on the State
house ring. because the railroads were
friendly to the ring. and he. Stubs of
Lawrence, could not afford to lose his
railroad contracts. Stubs of Lawrence
said he never got a contract on sentiment,
but on his bids. and he knew he could
build a better railroad for less money thar
anybody else in the business. He had the
laugh that time. The ring knew that
Stubs OF Lawrence knew what he was
talking about.
sTUBBs's METHODS.
As soon as Stubbs returned from the
Legislature to Lawrence, and had made
peace there by paying over $4,000 to the
university. he returned to his work of
railroad building. but all the time he was
collecting names of politicians who were
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the newspapers clipped, and he copied
these clippings and mailed them to the
politicians. He sent them to the machine
politicians as well as to the ants. and it
became apparent that Stubs was inter-
modelling In affairs that rightly he had
no business to even interest himself in.
He was warned to keep quiet by the
one side. and encouraged. though in slight
degree. by the others. He reminded the
Republicans how Governor Bailey had
dictated the election of a Speaker. Prin-
gle, and had otherwise stepped beyond the
bounds OF his Office. He famed the sparks
Of Indignation that had started up over the
padded legislative payrolls. and otherwise
fomented detection.
BREAK IN THE RANKS.
He made slow progress, so slow that it
was impercertible. until last October.
when Editor Murdock-not Marsh" Muir
| dock-of the Ell Dorado Republican de-
clared for Hoch, another editor, for Cover
nor.
Now. a Kansas Governor Is elected for
two years. but invariably is given a second
term. The Murdoch break. plainly the re-
| suit of the Stubbs sedition, was the first
| Jet Of smoke to rise through the State
house roof.
Fire." yelled Stubs. and in a week he
| had everybody running to see what was
burning. StubSs loaded up the mails with
copies of the Eldorado Republican, his
own letters and circulars from his fellow
ccrspirators. and thai was how he started
| the excitement. Everybody had been ex-
pecting a confiagration. They had heard
L-,k 49, ca,1yo- oon1-0tI rnOS poyfnv
matches and Illuminating caps They We're
prepared for the cry Of Fire. As Kan
sas locked it saw the smoke curling. and
the twists n curls made the word
| 'Hoch." The Statehouse ring saw it and
laughed.
HOCH RECALCITRANT.
The rirg laughed harder that ever when,
| on the day before Christmas. Hoch himself
| declined to run.
He won't rum" was the frightened cry
| that was carried to Stubs of Kansas.
He has nothing to say about it. l say
| he wil1,' was the reply.
what are we to do?' pleaded the little
| crowd that had by this time rallied under
the Stubs fiag.
do nothing was the answer. Let me
do 1t. You go right on talking Hoch for
| Governor telling the folks about this
| rotten ring at Topeka. I'll make Hoch
run"
How will you do IT," was asked.
We'll draft him." was the answer.
Drafted Hoch was. On January ), only
twelve DAYS after the refusal of Mr.. Hoch
to put his body in the way of the all
powerful ard never-defeated Statehouse
machine, Stubs and forty men from thir-
ty counties assembled in Topeka to draft
| a candidate to run against the machine
nominee.
..Who will we rum" the thirty-nine in
CURED.
.Hoch," Stubbs. No. 40. replied.
HE says he won't"
II know he does. We will agree on
Hoch."
Hoch was agreed upon then and there.
The meeting adjourned until January 10.
LAUGHED AT STUBBS.
There was a great laugh all over Kan
sas on January IA. when the Republicans
read that forty men were all Stubbs
could muster, and that no word had gone
to them from Hoch to sustain them. The
laugh became Il gufraw when it was read
further on in the dispatches that Stubs
chine. and the story of Don Quixote tilt
ing the windmill was conjured up. with
stubbs in the role of the knight Grant,
stubbs heard the laugh n cracked
never a smile. He said never a word
that indicated disappointment.