The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
PugnaciOus Winfield Statesman
Declines the GOvernOrship.
Mr.. Cunningham Not Authorized
to Make Announcement.
WHAT HE WOULD DO.
Makes Observations on How He
Would Act as Governor.
Wouldn't Let Missouri News.
papers Dictate to Him.

another case of wv P. H" is now
ready for publication. wv p H" IL
VIII be remembered. were the initials
that W. p. Hackney of Winfield put ON
a fine $4,000 building which he erected
at winfield just before the boom COL
iapsed- When asked what wv. P. H"
stood for.the citizens uf Winfield learned
10 reply, They stand for William
Played H
IN the present instance, It may have
oeen W llliam p. Hackney or William L
cunningham that performed the stunt
INDICATED by the famous initial letters.
| Ihe State Journal mas received a COM
nunlcat1on from w. p. Hackney on the
sup1ect, which is Self explanatory This
communication is also richly and rap
IDLY characteristic. Mr.. Hackney says:
To the Topeka State Journal, Topeka,
Kansas
II note in your issue of yesterday,
nlngham, of Cowley county, that you
| announce that am a candidate for the
c11lce OF governor next year.
This is, therefore, to notify you that
Mr. Cunningham has no authority to
speak for me anywhere, at any time,
on any subject.
And take this opportunity to in
form Mr.. Bullene. the Kansas corre-
spondent Of the Kansas City Times
Star-through your columns-who a few
such candidate, and coupled Herewith
the further information that 1 was now
q member of the machine in Kansas
politics, and always had been, that he
lies.
'The only machine that 1 knew of
ever existing in this state was the one
organized by Stubs, the railway cor
porationS and the gang now masquerade
ing under the so-called name of Square
Dealers then calling themselves Boss
Busters who bought Reno county, dis
franchised the Republicans of Miami,
Jackson and Wyandotte counties, drove
Bailey from office and nominated Hoch,
in all of which your publication, the
Capital and Times-Star were cheek by
jowr with Joe Bristow. whom Roosevelt
was compelled in self defense to kick
out. of the fourth assistant postmaster
generalship, and Bill White acting as
wet nurse, and all OF, whom treacherous-
ly tried to defeat Hoch last year with
rebel colonel, a man who commended
the Daughters of the Confederacy for
their efforts to erect monument in
honor of the infamous Wertz whom
our government hung for numbering
and starving our soldiers in Anderson
vile.
"You are further Informed that I
am not a candidate for the office OF
governor of Kansas, ana never expect
to be such.
but if 1 were governor of Kansas,
1 would fill that office to my entire
satisfaction, regardless of what Mis-
souri, newspapers thought about it, and
as the Kansas senate last winter kick
ed Bullene out of that body for lying,
so 1 would the first newspaper sneak
who did that about myself, and there
after came into my office. 1 could not
keep them from lying. for that is their
trade and business. but they should
not befoul. the atmosphere of my office
with their nasty cadavers after doing
that.
Il do not recall anything in the
treatment of the men who have filled
that office in twenty years, by the
newspapers and people, that would
tend in any way to cause man of
brains and character to hunger for
that Job. Yours truly,
''W. P. HACKNEY"