The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-22
SCOTT The VICTIM
RumOr of Combination Against
Him.
Stubbs and Buchan Reported to
Have Made a Deal.
TO DELIVER DOUGLAS.
Contract Taken by Chief of
Boss Busters.
Leaders Are Reticent About
Anti HOch Movement.
TO DELIVER DOUGLAS

the victim Of a combination which may
drive him out of the race for reelection
to congress from the Second district by
a political combination of W. R. Stelbbs
and Billy Buchan of Wyandotte, by
which Stubbs will try to deliver the
Douglas county delegation to Buchan.
OF course this is not to be understood
as 'deal'' between Stubs and Bu-
chan, because Stubbs does not make
deals. He is not that kind of a man,
for he says so himself.
While Scott has been touring the ut
termost parts of the earth, his enemies
have been busily engaged in fixing up
bad dose Of political medicine to be ad-
ministered on his return. Henry Allen
says he hasn't been doing much, but the
fact remains that Aliens friends claim
five of the nine counties of the district
as sure for him, and probably six.
Scott's home county, Allen, is all tnat
is conceded to him by the Allen forces,
but of course it is the custom for can
didates to claim everything in sight.
BY throwing his strength to Buehan,
Stubs hopes to give him the Douglas
county delegation in addition to the del
egation from Wyandotte. These two
counties would not be sufficient to NOM
mate but Stubbs and Buchan figure
that Scott, when he finds he is out of
the running, will deliver the Allen coun-
ty delegation to Buchan, rather than to
Allen. This would clinch a victory for
Buchan.
The result of this. elimination of Scott
from the contest would make Douglas
county the fighting ground If Alien
can take Douglas county away from
Stubbs he will have a sure thing, and
even if he goes into the convention with
six out of the nine counties, not lnetud-
ing Douglas, it would be hard to stop
the stampede which would be likely to
ensue,
In the fight for the Douglas county
delegation, some queer political combi-
nations are likely to ensue. Tom Kelly
has friends in Douglas, and he has
friends right in the Stubs stronghold of
Lawrence. Senator Henley, who signed
KeHy's bond for S250,000 after Bewersoek
had turned it down, is not going to nefpl
Stubbs very much. Ch9Eley Finch e a
Kelly man. walter Payne, Kelly'S
chief clerk. is a Douglas county man.
and has considerable influence. These
people will go long ways to thWart
Stubbs, and check his budding senator
ial ambitions.
On the other hand, Allen flew the
track in Kelly's estimation, when he
made his bitter anti-kelly speech at
the last state convention. Allen told
what he thought Of the attempt then
being made to seat the Kelly delega-
tions, and consequently Kelly and Allen
became aVOWed enemies.
But in the Douglas county fight, it is
a choice between two evils, and moral
izing that politics have an irresistible
inclination to make strange bedfellows,
Kelly is said to have chosen the lesser
of the two evils, and viii help Allen
land Douglas county.
Political gossip just now is mainly
about the anti-HOch revolt. The an
nouncennent that ]. r. BurroW is look
ing for good chance to get-into the
race and beat Hoch is looked upon with
some establishment. It was supposed
that Hoch had squared himself with
BurroW by the appointment of BurroW S
friend. w. H. Haskell to the job of
warden of the penitentiary. 1t would
look like ingratitude now for Burrow to
go after Hoch's scalp.
Warden Haskell himself, who was in
Topeka yesterday, when asked about
Burrows plans, said:
Mr.. Burrow hasn't told me that he
would be candidate for governor, and
I talked to him for some time this
morning"
John Q. Royce, who doesn't like Bur
row, made this comment on the situa-
ton: "Burrow couldn't carry his own
county in the Sixth district
Cyrus Leland. who has been mention
ed as one Of those interested in the
anti-Hoch movement, said: I don't
know anything about the situation. L
don't regard present developments as
significant. The presence of the rail-
road attorneys in Topeka is explained
by the fact that they had business
here with the railroad board"
j. H. Richards of Fort Scott, one of
the attorneys for the Missouri Pacific,
said: 'The railroads are not interest
ed in politics. 1t looks to me as
though it was too early for political
rumors to count for much"
Park Helmick of Chanute, who was
in town yesterday said: "Hoch can
carry our county without any trouble
and whatever he may do toward en-
forcing the prohibitory law will not
hurt him, for NeOsho is d dry county,
Harry Richter
politics"
Senator Long is expected to arrive
in Kansas about October 10. He is
now on the ocean. and will arrive in
San Francisco about October s. His
arrival is awaited with interest by the
politicians who are interested in fed
eral appointments.
Senator Long will find three strong
candidates for United States attorney,
J. S Dean. the present incumben
Senator T A. Noftzger of Anthony,
and H. j. Bone. who was assistant
United States attorney under Senator
Baker and private secretary to Cover
nor Bailey. Deans original appoint
ment was Endorsed by Long as con-
gresham and he and Long have been
good friends. Dean is also backed by
Governor Hoch, although not by the
governors kitchen cabinet, of which
T, w. r. Stubbs is premier. In fact it is
said that Mr.. Stubbs and Tom Kelly
only agree on one thing politically,
and that is they are not for Dean.
Harry Bone has the backing of most
of the Seventh district and has the
prestige of having been a friend of
Senator Long for many years. He is
also personally popular over the state
and is endorsed by leading men of all
factions and classes of Republicans.
AS against Dean he commands the en-
thusiastic support of Stubbs and Kelly,
although those leaders would doubt