The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Bale Waggener and the Gov
ernOr's Chair.
RumOr That He viii Resign to
Make Race.
CAN AFFORD LUXURIES
Retirement From Railway Ser
vice Would Clear the Way.
j. s. West Will Undoubtedly Be
United States Attorney.
CAN AFFORD LUXURIES


There is a prevailing impression
among the politicians that Governor
Hoch will be renominated by the next
/ Republican state convention. and that
the opposition to him viii centralize in
Bale P. Waggener or some other strong
candidate to be chosen by the Demo-
crats
Mr.. Waggener, it is rumored, is plan
ming to resign his position as general
attorney for the Missouri Pacific rail-
road, and thus clear away the only OBJ
lection which the Democrats would
have to giving him the nomination.
Having an1assed a fortune through his
law business and by investments, Mr..
Waggener can afford to lay aside the
active duties of legal and business life,
and devote himself to the achievement
of higher political honors than he has
thus far obtained. That Mr.. Waggener
would not be averse to such a course is in
dicated by interviews which Mr.. Wag-
gener has given out for publication re-
Gently
Mr.. Waggener is severe in his critic.
ism of the Hoch administration. In
the Leavenworth Post he is quoted as
follows:
7 regard Governor Hoch as an incor-
ruptible man. a man who would not be
bribed by money or other consideration,
but he is not big enough to fill the Of
fee. He has been lamentable fail
"A funny situation presents itself
The men who started the Hoch for
governor boom announced as their
platform, down with machines They
wanted a man for governor who was
not a. leader or even a member of
political machine. They opposed Bailey
because they believed the so-called
Leland Bailey-Albaugh machine to be
a nuisance and a hindrance to future
success in the ranks of the Republican
party in Kansas. The man who led the
fight against the machine was w r.
Stubs. We must kill forever ma
chiniSn in the Republican party in
Kansas said Stubbs. The movement
was successful, and Governor Bailey
one of the strongest and most honor
able men in Kansas, was defeated and
Inundated.
To-day the most hidebound politi-
cal machine in the history of Kansas
exists and the leaders of it are W. r.
Stubs, the man who led the move
ment against 'machinism' and E. W
Hoch. the beneficiary of it. say
that a more hidebound machine never
existed in Kansas than the one of
which Stubs and Hoch are the lead
ers.
Stubs and .Hoch have organized
their machine for The purpose of cap
turing the United States senatorship.
They want to succeed Burton. The
one of the two developing the most
strength will have the support of the
other when the time comes for the
election of the senator.
"StilI another man is in on the
senatorial deal. The other man is
George w. Clark. the man who de-
feated Hoch for state printer, an act
that did more than anything else to
induce Hoch to run against Bailey
for governor. Clark is to be lieuten-
ant governor and later elevated to-
the position of governor in the event
that Hoch lands the senatOrship.
This is his reward for signing the
membership rolls of the Stubbs-Hoch
machine.
II believe the stubbs-Hoch ma
chine will be repudiated by the peo-
pie of Kansas, just as the so-ealled
Leland-Albaugh-B Bailey machine was
repudiated. Hoch will be defeated
for reelection and Stubs will be re-
lieved of his power"
The Post says that Mr.. Waggener
his received over a thousand letters
urging him to be candidate for gov
ernOr, and many of these are from
Republicans. His popularity in his
home county Atchison, IS shown by
the fact that in his contest for state
senator a year ago he carried his coun-
ty which is normally 500 Republican, !
by a majority of 1900.
It seems to be almost certain that
]. S. West is to be offered the position
of assistant United States district at
torney. and that if he is offered the |
place he will accept
West would be. fool if he didn't
accept the position of assistant" said
d state officer today THAT would
give him a sure job of four years at
$4,000 year with no campaign as