The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27
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The active candidacy OF w. K
Stubs in the Kansas contest for
United States senator must be given
considerable weight by those who
make figures on the senatorial cleo
ton. although Mr.. Stubs personal
| influence as a private citizen would
not have been small. The chances are
perhaps against his winning the Office
for himself, but that he has a strong
following can not be denied.
When the Lawrence man first be
came a prominent figure in politics.
he committed the grave error OF
forming an alignment with T. T. Kelly
and his coterie Of politicians. This
aroused considerable suspicion of
Stubs and his followers. More re-
Gently. however, Mr.. Stubs has given
evidence of a regeneration and very
likely he will confess his error. This
paper is willing to give him due credit
for standing now for the interests Of
the people.
William Allen White gives the Law
renee statesman a good word and in
cidentaIly tells Stubs position in the
senatorial race. He says:
TN the Sunday morning papers w
r. Stubs cut the strings Of his tenta-
tive candidacy and became a three
decked, full-rigged, four-masted can
dIdate for the United States senate
This is as it should be, not because he
will be elected, but because in the
clean cut line UP between the cor
porations railroads and politicians on
enc side and the taxpayers on the
other. every man who helps the peo-
pie should be welcome in this fight
and there is no question where w. R.
Stubs stands. To the Gazettes no
ton he Is not so well equipped as
Bristow for the place. but there are
SO many good points about Stubs, so
much that Is admirable. SO large an
area of his personality that is fine
and strong and needed in this fight,
that he makes the defeat of the rail-
roads surer by his entrance into the
fight unreservedly than he does by
poking up the animals from the out
side of the cage.
s.Stubbs is in Kansas politics be-
cause he saw a place where he could
help make Kansas a clean state. and
he helped He left the farm where
he grew up and went into the world
twenty-five years ago with pair of
farm horses and a habit Of thorough
ness, industry and honesty, and built
a ~~-~~-
with an income five times as large as
the salary of senator. He has had
in his employ five thousand men for
years. He can build a railroad, take
it apart and put it together again
He has experience which in this great
crisis Will be invaluable He has
operated his construction company all
over Kansas, and he knows the bust
ness end Of Kansas like a book
ITO say that the interests of Stubs
and the people of Kansas are in
separately bound does not mean that
stubbs must be elected senator. But
It does mean that unless Stubs and
the men who believe in the things he
stands for in Kansas politics-decent
politics. candid relations with the peo-
ple. and honest conduct Of public
business=stand together and win. the
people will be the losers and the rail-
roads underwriting the politicians
will win. The situation is too critical
for anv honest candidate to allow his
ambition for the senate to stand in the
vav of the success Of the alliance OF
all the decent elements of Kansas
politics. Stubs realizes this. Bristow
understands this Murdoch and Ben
son feel it Let the best man win