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

ut takes the California Limited one
minute to go over a mile of track that ii
takes me H. minutes to build. l have
not got this right-of-way more than sur
veyed yet. We will have our own ma
chine running on schedule time. We meet
January 10. all the same"
AS soon as the meeting adjourned and
the thirty-nine members OF it returned to
their homes In Kansas. Stubs headed for
Missouri. He wanted to get to the bolt
| of the fan. Installing himself in head
quarters in the Coates House. in Kansas
City, he ordered the clerks in his Kansas
City office to stand by for action.
CAMPAIGN BY TELEPHONE
There's going to be something dom.
| said Stubbs of Kansas to his men. What
happened, MIR. Stubs himself must tell.
Said he a day or two ago:
II had the name of a man in every
| county In Kansas who was reputable. Re
publican and opposed to a perpetuation of
ring rule. l went to the telephone office
and filed that blanket call. l sat at the
telephone anC called up those men. We
| laid the State out into districts. Each
!, county was q district, and we talked TO
| each ~antimachine reputable Republican in
| every county in the State. We got him
| to give the names of five other as repu-
| table Republicans, and We talked to them
by the long-distance telephone. We got
| these five to give us the names of fifteen
| other reputable antimsc chine Republicans
and we got in touch with them. We
| started out petitions addressed to Hoch,
as a man who would be nominated with
out a string to him., and We sent those
petitions and those petitioners over every
| county. township. section. quarter section,
| city and town block and lot in Kansas as
near as we were able, and the end was
that we set Kansas afame. Five days did
it."
BOSS BUSTERS.
We tackled the country newspapers
| among them, those that were getting State
and county printing. We warned them
not to miss the band wagon and cautioned
| them not to travel too far with their
S%tatehouse machine. We told them that
the boss busters would dump their old
machine and them into it, and they began
| coming our way. That was all there was
to it."
You say we Who was with you? was
inquired.
STUDIOS Oh hdnSaS lduSneu tHe OH, sep
ulchral fog-horn voice.
ut cost something to do that telephon-
ing, too. How much did o spend?" was
asked. Again the cavernous laugh.
He paid s7oO at his home In Lawrence
and more than $1,000 in this room.' in
terpolated a young boss buster named
Moody of Lawrence.
The telephone and the newspapers did
it," asserted Stubbs Of Kansas. IAN that
is needed to upset a machine is to get a
good prize under it. The bigger the ma
chine the more jacks you can get under
it. Every voter has a jack. h only
thing needed is to get the voter interested
or encouraged to use his jack. The thing
will go over, as sure as the Kansas ma
chine did"
BAILEY'S EYES OPENED.
January 10 rolled around and there was
another stubbs meeting in Topeka. When
Governor Bailey, the tituiar head of the
Statehouse ring. and the heir apparent TO
a second term and rightful dictator of his
successor, stuck his head out. Of the win
dow in the executive office he saw a
wonderful aggregation. Six hundred men
arrived in town and went to the Stubs
meeting. Inc 1Orty ndu grown. EVERY
man jack in the outfit had a return ticket
TO his home and a receipt to show that
he had paid his way. The machine passes
had been spurned. Governor BaiIey's
smile froze on his face, and it turned to
Il contortion that night when he read the
platform of the boss busters.
Patriotism instead of spoils' was the
caption. Putting his ear to the ground,
the Governor heard the hum of the wires
as the news went over the broad acres of
Kansas. sweeping along the wheat belt
and the corn area. whirring over the arid
region and past the artesian wells in the
Garden City d~istrict-away, away. until
it swept the short-grass country and
reached the Colorado line. he heard the
..Hurrah for Hoch and the ~boss-busters.
Down with Bailey and the machine. Pa
triotism instead of spotls."
GOVERNOR DESERTED.
ct have been true to these fellows
Governor Bailey demurred. Il lave done
everything they have asked me. 1 vas
nominated and elected by them. 1 have
never disappointed them. They must
save me- HI referred to the bosses.
Save you." the bosses replied. Save
you, the devil! 1t is a case Of a v our
selves. We will ave to get in line for
HSch ourselves"
And maroon me-"
You ave not got a leg to stand on"