The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-28
HITSSTUBBS HARD
Senator Smith Resents State
ments in Letter.
Trying to Hit HOch Over His
Shoulder.
HIS STAR is WANING.
Says Day as Leader Is Drawing
to a Close.
Also That Clyde Miller Was
Real Force on Committee.

Fred Dumont Smith came back to To-
peka today from his home at Kinsley.
OF course he had read W. r. Stubs
attack upon him, and had some inter
estipg things to say about it.
There was really nothing in which
I printed in my paper which should
have so agitated M. Stubbs.' said the
senator from Edwards. Il simply said
that Stubs wasn't responsible for the
election of Governor Hoch, and that
HOch did not owe him any great
amount Of gratitude. Everybody knows
thar this is the fact Of the case.
Stubs day as d leader in state poll
tics is just about done. He can't re-
tain his grip as head of the state or
ganizatiOn and at the same time keep
up his big private interests do not
think he will sacrifice his private bust
ness. The only way for a man to get
on in politics is to play the game all
the time
1T looks to me as though Stubs
would not be reelected as chairman Of
the state central committee. If this
difficulty with Hoch is not fixed up, he
of course can't hope to get the place. 1
don't know who will take Stubs place.
1t isn't safe to make long range politi-
cal forecasts in Kansas.
While on the face of it this state
ment which Stubs gave out was a slap
at me, yet the real aninus of it was to
get in a. dig on Governor Hoch. He was
hitting HOch over my shoulders.
Stubs and his friends are very mad
at HOch for the Royce appointment,
and they are not going to do anything
more for him If they can help it. Stubs
thinks that HCch was ungrateful. on
the other hand, the governor thinks
that he has treated Stubs with great
consideration, and he is put out be-
cause Stubs does not appreciate it. 1t
looks to me as though it would be
difficult for Stubs and Hoch to get to-
gether on the same basis they were be
fore.
Compared to Bailey
Now, as a matter of fact, Stubs has
no reason to be sore, because HOch is
doing exactly what the boss busters
criticised Bailey for not doing. 1t was
claimed that Bailey let a few men die
tate his appointments; that he was not
the real governor of the state. Now
Stubs is sore because h could not die
tate the appointment of the bank COM
missioner.
Stubs is mao.ing a great mistake
by starting a split III the boss buster
movement at this stage Of the game.
That movement isn't strong enough to
admit of internal dissensiOn.
If Stubs was more diplomatic, he
would be more of a success in politics.
While Stubs name at the head of the
Republican committee was OF consider
was done by Clyde Miller. People who
are on the inside know that MHler was
the man who deserves the credit for
running the campaign
Stubs attack on me is not due so
much to what I printed in my paper
about him as it is to that old fuss about
the Observation-Disclosures bill on the floor
of the house. He is still sore about that
OF course stood by him to a certain
extent; I said that there was no agree
ment or promise on his part to put the
anti-discrimination bill back on the cal
endar. but I told him that unless 1t was
put back I would take the 3o'clock train
for Kansas City and let his board Of
control go to -. He put the anti
discrimination bill back.
Because / talked about it. and told
how it was, Stubs was mad. l. some
of those people had asked me there on
the floor of the house what the rest of
that converse ton was that I had with
Stubs, 7 would have told them
haven't anything to conceal ABOUT it."