The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
Exciting Scene in the House OF
Representatives.
MADE FOR ONE MAN.
Mr.. Stannard Said Opposition
Was Centered in Him.
He Then Announced That Long
Was Meant.
Primary Measure Passes by a
Decisive Vote.

''The fight on this bill is being made
in the interests of one man, and that
man Office seeker!"
Name him! Name him!''
81 will name him. The man is Sem
ator Long. Senator Long has had a
chance for his life, and he has seen
fit to attempt political suicide His
only chance is to beat this primary
election law, because he knows and
his friends know that he can't be
elected United States senator by popu-
lar vote of the people of Kansas
This was one of the sensational
speeches made during the progress of
the primary election law fight in the
house of representatives on Tuesday
afternoon. The speaker was G. A.
Stannard of Lyon county.
As result of q long afternoons
battle, the house committee of the
whole recommended the bill for pas
sage, and Immediately afterwards it
was put on third reading and passed
by vote of 101 to 10, with 13 alb
sentees.
On the final vote, it became a band
wagon proposition, and even those
who had been fighting the bill the
fiercest climbed into the gilded ve-
hicle. The following was the final
vote:
For the bill-Adams. Archer, Banks,
Beeson. BerTyman, Bird. Blaine sIsdn
Cole, Cottingham. Cowan. Crumly,
Cunningham, Davidson, Davis. Davi-
son, Dennis, Edwards, Elstun. En-
gan, Foley, Fraser. Giants. Gordon.
t1rasse. Guyer, Ham. Hart. Haskins.
Helmick, Hendricks, Holden. Holdren.
Husey. ingalls,, Jones. johnson, Kiff.
Kirkland. Lander, Lehman, Leland.
Miller, MiiIigan. Mitchell Montee.
Morgan, Morgan, Murphy. Myers,
Neihart, Oshant, Padgett, Peter,
Plumb, Pohlman. Pomeroy. Potts.
Price, Rail. Ransom. Reynard.
Rhodes. Richardson. Richmond.
Rockefeller. Ryan. Saunders, Schmidt.
Shepard, Sherar. Sipple, Skinner.
Stubbs. Sweeny. Swope. Tannahill.
Taylor. Thompson. Tredway. Wells.
Wheeler, White. Wilson, Woodhouse
>-101.
Leydig, O'Connor, Patterson, Policy.
Snyder. Umholtz. wescott. Simmons
10.
Not voting Brandon. chatten.
Kinnison, McGillivray. Rich. Roches-
ter, Roush, Sticher. Warren--l3.
Compromised With Democrats.
The big fight was drawn on the lines
Journal. The Stubbs crowd made the
concession desired by the Democrats.
and put through an amendment provid-
ing that. the voter the primary
should not be required to state his
politics when presenting himself to
vote.
1t was merely a question of which
crowd would combine with the Dem
ocrats. and the Stubbs crowd beat the
antiprimary crowd to il. If the Stubs
people were willing TO put in the secret
Democratic support. If they refused
this, the Democrats would vote against
the Stubbs bill in a body. and around
the Democratic vote would have crys-
tallized all the antiprimary sentiment
on the Republican side of the house. 1t
is likely that this combined opposition
would have beaten the bill
The telegram Of Senator La Toilette
the amendment desired by
the Democrats. which was printed in
State Journal. went a long
ways toward putting the bill through
in its amended form.
Wien the antiprimary people found
that the compromise between the Stubbs
crowd and the Democrats had been
actually made they wilted. and the op-
position to the bill faded away. Those
Nvho had been secretly fighting the bill
various pretexts. were unwilling to go
on record against it in roll call, and
proceeded to climb into the band
wagon.
Speaker Simmons voted against the
bill, and made a statement explaining
his vote. He said that when he sue
ceedeu IN KNOCKING OUT the United
States senator state vote plan he was
willing to accept the rest of the Stubb
bill. but that since the bill had been
amended he couldn't swallow 1t. New
srtheless, Simmons did not make an
active fight on the bill. and this left
the ''antis'' short one good floor leader
The strongest speech against the pro-
posed Ham amendment was made by
W. L. Cunningham of Cowley, who
challenged the constitutionality of the
proposed law, and read the decision of
he California supreme court on a SINH
ar law enacted in that state, which was
declared invalid. He was followed by
A. c.. Mitchell of Douglas, who pounded
n Cunningham's points, and declared
hat the Ham amendment should be
,eaten At this time it looked as
hough the opposition to the amendment
night be strong enough to beat It,
Ham made a speech in defense of his
amendment, and showed that it con-
aimed provisions which in the opinion
If lawyers We're Saving" and which
would sustain it in the courts
In Committee of the Whole.
The house a 2:15 went into commit
ZEE of the whole with c. B. kirkland
n the chair for the discussion of the
law.
The motion of Jones of Trego to
trilxe out the enacting clause, left over
rom the previous day, was voted down
~ a decisive vote.
As had been expected the Republican
square Dealers at once proceeded to
wallow the so-called Thompson
for secret ballot. W. B.
lam of Rocks introduced an amend