Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-20
A NEW GIANT IN
KANSAS POLITICS
How the Machine Gang Snubted
And Insulted Santa Fe Red
And What Came Of 1t,
THROWN FROM THEIR SEATS.
Meant New Deal for the Republic
cans of Sun Flower Statehood for
Political Bosses 10 Read.

A Kansas city. No. dispatch to
New York newspaper says This is the
story OF how a man unknown In poll
tics. snubbed by the Republican ma
chine of Kansas and scoffed at by all
the grafters that infested the capital
went to work single handed and organ
lied the state, beating the gang in con-
troll Of the party, forcing Governor
Bailey to Withdraw as candidate for
denomination and lnsurng the sue
cess OF his own candidate, II. w. Hoch,
an editor Of country newspaper.
An unsophIstlcated man went to the
Kansas legislature year ago as
member from Douglas county. IN
Douglas county Is Lawrence, the seat
OF Kansas state university. The leslS-
lator's name was Walter Roscoe StuDhs.
Mr.. Stubs had been elected against the
mandates Of the Kansas state house
ring,
When he appeared In the legislature
his independence asserted Itself ana he
was Inundated Among other Jokes
they made him pass under was one cut
ting down the university appropriation
$4,000 When the legislature adjourned
Stubs returned 10 his home In Law
renee and went to the board of regents
Laying down n slip OF paper face
down, Representative Stubs remarked:
Boys, you must not lose anything
through sending me to Topeka. They
cut the appropriation down 10000. That
was TO hurt me, not the university. |
only wanted TO tell you that and 10
leave you this"
Stubs then withdrew. The "this"
was his personal check for $4,000 10
meet the deficiency In the appropria-
ton.
SANTA FE RED.
When the Santa Fc was building
through Kansas many years ago, one
particular construction gang was given
water by long, lank big headed, fiat
footed youth known on the grade az
Santa Zee Red" The boy carried wa.
ter well and became a scraper holder,
From that he went by easy grades un-
III, 20 or 30 years later he was worth
q million as a railroad contractor and
making more all the time.
II was Stubbs, the contractor, who
was elected to the Legislature In the
teeth OF the state house ring, II was
Subbs who was kept off all the COM
mttees and sent home to his constltu-
ents with a short appropriation.
Stubbs OF Kansas next appeared. He
came to Kansas City, engaged rooms,
turned In a blank call for Kansas TO
| the long distance telephone and a spe-
| clal call for his offices IN Chicago. From
the latter Office he ordered large check
| sent TO him
His purpose was decided to upset the
state house machine. Mr. Croker did
not sit on n more closely coupled, high
or pressured, bullet proof machine
| than did Gov. w. ]. Bailey, OF Kansas.
| Ever since the popuists had been
ousted from the state house the ma
chine had been building. "Cy'' Leland
and Mort" Albaugh, master mechan-
| les, were around IL with their tools.
| They crowded everybody off but them
selves and put extensions on when
| they wanted n crowd. They allowed
no other machine TO run to the state
| capital.
Stubs appearance In the state
| house did not cause more than a sneer'
| He was only one Of dozen or so out
| OF 100, and, so the machine managers
said, he would not do much.
STUBS DEF!ED THE RING,
| They roared when they heard Stubs
| protesting In the house at $50 hench-
men being on the payrolls to do the
work OF 90.
They laughed when he said that
some OF the pensioners never went to
Topeka except on pay day, and that
some Of them sent proxies. 1t was the
Joke OF the season when Santa Fe
Red beloved In that foghorn voice
OF his about relatives. ring ridden,
grating, the-people- be damned meth
DDS" and went right on turning down
his bills, firing up their boilers under
their machine and looping off his uni
verslty appropriation,
II was said that Stubs would soon
quit his fight on the ring, because the
railroads were friendly to the ring, and
Stubs could not afford to lose his rail-
road contracts Stubs said he never
got q contract exceut on bis bids, and
he knew he could build better rail-
road for less money than anybody else
In the business.
As soon as Stubs returned from
the legislature he resumed railroad
building, but all the time he was col
Letting names Of politicians who were
objecting TO the state house ring. HC
had the newspapers clipped, and ho
copied these clippings and mailed then
10 the politicians, He sent them tC
machine politicians as well as to The
ants.
lie was warned TO keep quiet by thu
one side and encouraged by the others
He reminded the Republicans how Gov
Bailey dictated the election Of speak
err and had otherwise stepped beyon(
the bounds OF his office, He famed tn,
sparks OF Indignation that had started
over the padded payrolls.
But he made slow progress, so SLOW
that II was lmperceptIble. Finally II
October, A. b. Murdoch, editor OF III,
El Dorado Republican, declared for u
w Hoch, another editor, for governor
A Kansas governor Is elected for tw,
years, but Is invariably given a secont
term. The Murdoch break, plainly the re
suit OF Stubs ssdltIon, was the lits
Jet OF smoke through the state hous
roof
Stubs loaded the mails with copIe
Of the Eldorndo Republican, his owl
letters and circulars from his friends
and that was how he started the excite
ment
! The ring laughed harder than eve
when, on the day before Christmas
Hcch declined to run.
What are we do to?" pleaded IN
little company that had by this tim
: rallied under the Stubs flag
DO nothing was the answer. Ne
me do II, You do right on talkInl
Iloch for governor and telling the folk
} about this rotten ring ut Topeka. II
: make Hoch run"
: Drafted Hoch was, Only IL day
. after the refusal Of Hoch to fight In
= state house machine. Stubbs and 4
men from 30 counties assembled In To
peka to select candidate to ru
against the machine nominee.
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