The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
| STUBS EXCITED.
Speaker Makes Savage Attack
on State Journal Reporter.
Objected to Story About Deal
With Smith.
WAS NOT A SECRET.
Told Openly to Politicians in
the Copeland Hotel.
An Example of Language That
Wasn't Parliamentary.
TAKES ANOTHER TURN
House Again Has Session Over
the Matter.
Senator Smith Substantiates
Greater Part Of Story.
Told Openly to Politicians in
the Copeland Hotel.
An Example of Language That
Wasn't Parliamentary.
TAKES ANOTHER TURN
House Again Has a Session Over
the Matter.
Senator Smith Substantiates
Greater Part of Story.

Mr.. Walter Roscoe Stubbs, speaker of
the Kansas house of representatives,
created a scene in representative hall
late Saturday afternoon by making a
savage intemperate attack upon Paul
A. Lovewell, State Journal reporter
The particular thing to which Mr..
Stubbs objected was the statement that
he had been a party to a deal with Sen
ator F. Dumont Smith by which the
Smith anti-discriminatio ton bill had been
made a special order on the house calen-
dar, after it had been sidetracked.
This doesn't seem like a very serious
| charge to make and especially when
the story was told publicly by Senator
Smith himself who surely ought to have
known what he was talking about Sen
ator Smith told at the supper table in
the Copeland hotel how Mr.. Stubs was
brought to time. and both Representa-
tive and Mrs w. Y. Morgan vouch for
this fact. However, the article pub
lished in the State Journal was secured
from still another representative.
though if Mr.. Stubbs or any other mem
Der of the house cares to have the
details verified he may ask Mr. Nor
gan or any one of half dozen others
to whom Senator Smith talked. Mr.
Prlngle, ex-Speal1er of the house might
shed some light upon the question.
State Treasurer Kelly to whom Senator
Smith talked might also be interviewed,
as he heard the same thing as did the
others.
The fact is that the story was common
property among the politicians and Sen
ator Smith made no secret of it Then
why should Mr. Stubs have been
omended. The State Journal printed the
story as it would any other matter of
news and there was very good reason
to believe that it was true. Senator
Smith is not in the habit OF talking sim
ply to hear himself and in an inter-
view today he practically confirms all
that was printed.
Mr.. Stubs is no doubt very great
man and he has done some credita bic
things but great as he is he can not in
terfere with the publication of news in
the State Journal He will not be mis-
represented Intentionally by this paper
but as public man his acts will be air
ed just the same as those of anv man
be he Mr.. Stubbs or John d. Rockefel-
Ter.
Senator Smith said openly that he
told Mr.. Stubbs that unless his anti
discrimination bill was made a special
order he would go to Kansas City and
let the board of control bill in the SEN
ate 60 Mr.. Stubbs was interested above
everything else in this particular bill
It is a we'll known fact that Immediate
" after this the anti-discrimination bill
WAS made a special order for Tuesday
in the house after having been put over.
Mr.. Pringle says, by an agreement with
the shippers to which Mr. Stubbs was
party. 1.-Two things are certain. That
the Smith anti-discrimination bill WAS
MADE A SPECIAL ORDER and that
Senator F. Dumont Smith DID NOT go
to Kansas City and leave the board of
control bill to its fate in the senate
The other point to which Mr.. Stubbs
objects is-that he would lead the
fight to have the railroad bill as passed
by the senate accepted by the house
p hot hi -
a rumor that was current in the house
and if Mr.. Stubs says that-it is not
true that settles it and this correction is
gladly made.