The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-16
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

meeting of the Republican state
central committee has been called by
Chairman Stubs for next Thursday
afternoon, and at that time the Re
publican headquarters viii be formal
" opened. Chairman Stubs viii also
invite all the candidates on the state
ticket and all the Republican congress
sional candidates to meet with the
committee at that time
There will also be an innovation in
connection with this committee meet
ing. 1t Will be a banquet or some
thing of that nature There Will be
perhaps seventy-fve people present
The plans for the event have not yet
been perfected.
Plans for the campaign will be
talked over by the committee and
candidates at that time. The work
of opening up the correspondence
VIII commence next week, and prepa-
ratiOnS will be made to work up a big
crowd for the opening of the speaking
campaign at Marion on September g.
Chairman Stubs says he already
has the names of several thousand
workers, and he intends to get one
worker for every twenty voters. He
will distribute literature and work up
an interest in the campaign through
these workers During the six years
that Morton Albaugh was chairman
OF the Republican state committee he
worked up an excellent organization
of this kind. In fact the detail with
winch ne organized was Mr.. Al
baugh's strong point.
Congressman Victor Murdoch will
make speaking campaign this
year Last year he made a hand
shaking campaign. He expects TO
make speech in every one of the
thirty-siX counties in his district and
in some counties he viii make sew
eral.
In speaking of the story that Chair
man Stubs Will make a statement at
the close of the campaign showing from
what sources he received his campaign
funds and all the ways in which he dis
bursed them, 9. s. Finch. one of Mr.
Stubs friends, says:
Chairman Stubs is talking through
his hat quite a good deal. but his bluff
sounds we'll. He says he is going TO
have the records show just where the
campaign money comes from and where
it goes TO. Which he will not do, and
which, if he attempts, will get him into
more trouble than a bear that upsets
a bee hive. 1t is a good bluff. we say
and sounds all right. but no chairman
ever did such thing, and no chairman
ever Will. In the first place there is
no sense in it, and in the second place
there is no reason for doing it, The
central committee is there to handle
the funds, and the man who contrib
utes is willing to trust that committee
to expend the money properly. If he is
not. he will not contribute. But Mr.
Stubs is a new hand at the pillow. and
he possibly doesn't know that there are
a thousand things to be done with
money that are not just exactly ortho-
Gox, and wouldn't look well If printed
in black and white. They are things
legitimate in politics. but explanations
would be embarrassing. and SO explana-
tons are not made. Mr.. Stubs will
discover this; and he will find that one
man who wants to pull him through
will be almighty hot if he doesn't get
it. and then finds out that some other
mrrNr~ ~l0anr col L. 49,
get il. Mr.. Stubs is probably honest
IN saying what he does. but what will
he do when the railroads dip up for his
campaign fund? VIII he call in the re-
porterS and say, Gentlemen, the Great
and Good Santa Fe Railroad company
a benevolent and charitable institu-
ton, has just contributed steen thou
sand dollars for the good of our splend-
id cause. and We desire through the
medium of the press to thank in a pub
lie manner this splendid organizat ton for
its beneficent gift Think he will do
that, do your That is what he says he
viii do, but by and by he will find out
he is mistaken He will just take the
money and shut up like a clam"
Z. w. Hoch does not believe Judge
Parkers telegram to the St. Louis con-
vention was not fair and honest. If
Mr.. Hoch should try he might find
some things closer at home that have
not been altogether fair and honest !
but it ought not to be expected, per
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