The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-07
UNIQUE METHODS EMPLOYED OPEN EYES OF "oLD TIMERS"
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Kansas City. Mo-. Feb. Ga year ago
ar unsophisticated man went to the Kan
sas Legislature as a member from Doug
las County. In Douglas County is stu
renee Is the Kansas State University. This
legislators name was Walter Roscoe
Stubs. Mr.. Stubbs had been nominated
and elected against the mandates of the
Kansas Statehouse ring. When he APP
peared in the Legislature his Independence
asserted itself, for which Offense Stubhs
was Inundated. Among other Jokes the
Romans made him pass under was one
c, ting down the State University appro-
p~riation $4,000. The $4,000 was given by a
Republican House to a Democratic MEM
Der of the Ways and Means Committee to
build a mile turnpike. all this being part
OF the contempt proceedings which the
S%tatehouse ring brought to bear upon this
man Stubs.
Wien the Legislature adjourned sine die
(and a good die ii was for Kansas Stubs
returned To his home in Lawrence and
went straight to the Board of Regents.
Laying down a slip Of paper, face down,
Representative Stubs remarked:
Boys. you must not lose anything
through sending me to Topeka. They cut
the appropriation down $O.ooo. That was to
hurt me. not the university. 1 only wanted
to tell you that and to leave you this"
Stubs then withdrew. The this was
his personal check for 1000. to meet the
deficiency in the university appropriation.
SANTA FEE RED.
Many years ago., when the Santa Fee was
building through Kansas, one particular
gang was watered by a long,
lank. ginger haired. big-headed, fiat-footed
youth known on the grade as Santa Fe
Red" The boy carried water well and
graduated to be a scraper holder. From
that he went by easy grades until. twenty
or thirty years after, he was worth a mil
lion and making more all the time. On
Thursday this same Santa Fe Red told
a Republic man that he was kinder
busy"
I've got the building of the Rock Island
from Kansas City to st. Louis and eighty
miles of tho Burlington to build" said he;
Just got through The Milwaukee cutoff
From this it will be seen how Santa Fee
Red" became Mr.. Stubs. the railroad con-
n now 1t Is to be shown how
Mr.. Stubhs. the railroad contractor, be-
Stubs of Kansas.
1t was Mr.. Stubs, the railroad con-
tractor, who was elected to the Kansas
in the teeth of the State
house ring. 1t was Stubs Of Lawrence
who was backed off all the committees
and sent home to his constituents with a
bohtail appropriation. 1t was this same
Stubs of Lawrence who made good the
900 shortage in the university bill. and
that was the end of Stuhbs of Lawrence.
STUBS OF KANSAS.
Stubbs Of Kansas next appeared.
Stubs left Lawrence. The telephone
wires. the telegraph wires and the rail-
roads all run through Kansas like h
ribs OF a fan. Kansas City. Mo-, is at the
the end OF the fan, engaged a suite of
in the Coates House, turned in a
call for Kansas to the long-distance
telephone people and a special call for his
Offices in Chicago. Stubs has Offices in
many cities.
Gimme" he said to the long-distance
operator. gimme Kansas. and when you
can get them get my offices in Chicago.
My name Is Stubbs-W. r. Stubbs."
A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION.
The Chicago conversation did not occur
first, but it will here.
This is Stubbs.' said this man at the
bolt.
Yes. Mr.. Stubbs." said the manager of
the railroad contractors Offices in Chicago.
How much money have you got up
there"
THE balance yesterday afternoon was
600, Mr.. Stubs"
Bully. Send me the $4,000"
"Eghty-three? Yes, sir. Shall"
"Or, say interrupted the man at the
bolt. better keep the eighty-three and
send me the two hundred. And. say!
/ get 1t here in the morning
The man who so deliberately ordered his
to send him $4,000. which It may
as well be said now was to be used to
promote one of the biggest political games
ever started by one man in any State in
any time, was moi to be denied. Though
forty-five years Of age, he had never been
in politics in all his life. His one tern.
In the Legislature was not of a nature to
encourage him to plume his wings for a
flight. He knew politicians main
through the newspaper columns. and
those he knew personally he had met in a
way.
STUBBS THU NAN.
MI. Stubs looked the part Of a David
Harum "hoss trader" A Quaker-brimmed
hat topped a Quaker head. The thin
hair fringing the hat was of a bleached
red. When the hat was off, this hair
thinner and more bleached, with
an inclination to curl In a sort of a re-
bellion against q brush and comb. Tit
mans forehead showed high. the nose
clean out, the mouth large, with corners
dropping. the cheeks fiat. the cheek-bones
raised a trif1e. just to be in keeping with
the extraordinarily unpolitical face.
There were eyebrows of some sort of a
hazel color and eyelashes not quite so
much so. The Eyes were baby-blue, or
something as homogeneous, and the laugh
that went with them the laugh of a boy.
The mouth. 1t was remarked, was large.
was the voice of this man. Mr.. Stubbs
drawled when he spoke. His articulation
not over sixty words a minute. His
could not exceed 500 words,
and most of the words were limited to two
His clothes fitted him well.
were ginger-colored. to match lis hair
and complexion. and his hands small and
They were insists to the
body.
This was Stubs of Kansas, who or
dered one Of his offices to e him $ao0.-
noe in cash. He sent for the money to