The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-20
State Senator i. ID. Young May
Be Drafted.
Friends Want Him to Stand for
Old Place.
1T WOULD HELP OUT,
Simplify the Congressional Con
test in Sixth.
Mr.. Stubs Comes to Topeka,
But Doesn't Talk Politics.

A rumor comes from the Thirty.
third senatorial district, composed Of
Mitchell and Jewell counties, that
Senator I. D. Young, who wants to
be the Republican nominee for con-
gress in the Sixth district, may be
drafted" for his old position of state
senator by his friends in Jewell
county.
Jewell county is, in the regular or
der OF things, entitled to nominate
one of its own citizens as state SEN
ator. and Hayes B. White has been
talked of. There are a number or
leading citizens of Jewell county, how
Young, who. though he is Mitchell
county man, has given the district
good service and is entirely satisfac-
tory to Jewell county.
Such an arrangement, if made,
would simplify the congressional stu
alton considerably. With Young and
Ham both in the fight. there was
bound to be a clash and a serious divi-
sion in the ranks of the square dealers.
Both men have many friends in the
district and each would get strong
following. If it should happen, how
ever, that in electing delegates to a
convention, A. G. Mead should sue
coed in taking the Mitchell county
delegation away from Young, 1t Is
likely that Young would drop out Of
.the congressional fight, and accept the
tender OF Jewell county's support for
This old place in the state senate.
If Young should retire from the
race, the probability is that Mead
would retire. too, as he is known to
lbe friendly to certain interests which
are for Reeder. With both Young
land Mead out, the battle would be be-
tween Reeder and W. B. Ham, with
George w. Holland in control of Rus
sell county.
Attorney General F. S. Jackson is
again looming up one of the strongest
candidates for the Republican nominal
ton for governor of Kansas.
This is because Jackson is one of the
most available men in the state, and
man who is without any annoying po-
litical alliances. When the square deal
ers look about for the strongest man in
Eight-barring Stubs, who doesn't want
the nomination-they generally. come
around to a favorable consideration of
Jackson.
jackson is a man who is undoubtedly
making good said one of the square
deal leaders the other day. He has
backbone and ability, and while he is
not allied with the square dealers he is
independent of the machine crowd, and
his sympathies are not with machine
politics"
At the same time, the machine crowd
is not hostile to jackson, and would
welcome his nomination if it became
necessary to beat w. r. Stubs. 1t is
possible that under some circumstances,
the machine crowd would give Jackson
all their support from the start, in case
the square dealers picked a more radi-
cal man. The object of the machinists
will be to get behind winner, even
though the winner may not exactly rep
resent their ideas.
w r. Stubs was in Topeka Mon
day and declined to talk politics. He
was more inclined to make a few re-
marks about automobiles.
1.-The more I see Of automobiles"
said the Lawrence statesman, 1.-The
less am inclined to want one. They
tell me that automobiles are the
else in high society back east. When
a family get the automobile habit,
they are in a bad way. 1t usually de-
velops into speed mania. I don't
know why it is that automobiles are
the cause of divorces, unless the speed
OF travel racks the nervous system of
the men and women who ride, makes
them Eighty and unsatisfed, and
through lack of domestic tranquility.
don't want any automobile in my
family. 1 am afraid of them
Mr.. Stubs has just returned from
a trip in the Sixth congressional dis
''I met many fine people out there,
and 1 am greatly enjoying these trips
that 1 make. OF course / hear a good
deal of political talk Of various kinds,
and 1 find that the square deal senti-
nent is very strong"
Concerning the possibility of his be-
ing a candidate for governor Mr..
Stubs said:
''I have said before. and I say again,
that I am not a candidate for gov
ernor."
Sedan Times-Star: Pink Rice, of Fort
Scott, travelling representative of the
Kansas City paper house, and a mem
Der of the Republican state committee,
was in Sedan Tuesday calling on the
trade Mr.. Rice is a strong personal
and political friend of Grant Hornaday,
the gubernatorial candidate, and is do
ing a good deal of boosting for him
wherever he goes.
Personally I am against the pri-
mary said Mr.. Rice. but in Difference
to Mr.. Horneday's wish 1 will cast a
vote for it in the committee meeting If
the matter comes up. Mr.. Hornaday has |
long been an advocate of the primary |
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