The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-13

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worst reading clerk that ever attempted
to hold job in a Kansas legislature.
That is, his reading was the worst;
morally and intellectually, the man may
nave been above reproach- But when II
came to reading aloud. this man was
down and out before he started. He
mad voice which sounded like the
sputtering of q steam radiator, and was
Just about as Ineligible. or course the
man was not to blame. The job was
probably offered to him, and. like the
cowboy, he done his damdest. 1t was
simply an illustration of what fool
things legislature will do in the name
of politics.
There is a wide difference of opinion
now, and probably will always be, about
the real motive of w. r. Stubs in beat
ing the compromise primary Dill, Whlcn
provided for direct vote OF the peo-
pie on United States senator, the thing
which Stubs was supposed to be espec-
tally fishing for in the direct primary
proposition. One we'll known state Off
Ger said:
Stubs did not want any primary
election law. He introduced a primary
law at the opening of the session which
he knew would not be adopted. He
knows that If he had allowed the pro-
posed compromise bill to become law,
the people WOULD nave DScIl OIoodlASAACA
with the whole primary system, and ne
would have been held responsible. what
Stubs wanted was an issue. The fail
ure of the legislature to enact a pr1-
mary law is his issue. He will go be-
fore the people on that issue and viii
try to control the next state conven-
ton on that issue"
Mr.. Stubs, however, was at all times
intensely active and energetic In push
ing and forwarding his primary Dill
v1riT1o a before
the legislature.
Senator Waggener has given out
the following reply to the statement OF
Mr.. Stubbs. relative TO cohtrlou.io or
made by the railroad companies TO the
campaign of 1904 when MI Stuoos
was chairman of the Republican state
central committee;
Mr. Stubbs over his own signature,
admits that he accepted $1,000 from
the Rock Island, $1,000 from the
santa Fe and $1,000 from the Union
Pacific He says in effect thatzit was
forced on him. The question natur az
ly arises: what did he do with the
money? Was it used by him to de-
bauch and deceive the voters of Kan
ses? Did he understand mat Lne
Rock Island, Santa Fe ana Union "a
cif1c had become Republican, and con-
tributed the money from patrlouc
motives? Mr.. Stubs will not deny
that he took the manuscript OF Gov
ernor Hochs Marion speech to certain
railroad attorneys and got their APP
nroval of that part of it on railroads
before it was delivered He Will not
deny that the money he got from the
railroad companies he used TO de1eat
the Democratic nominee for governor,
Indee Dale. He will not deny that he
personally approved of that part or
Governor Hoch's Marion speech. in
which he said that the railroad issue
was a fake issue, and mace 10 oeCelVe
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publicly state what he did with the
$4,000 he got from the railroad
comnanies. The most surprising
thing to me, that so good a -Democrat
other Democrats of the house, would
hermit themselves to be led around
and controlled bysStubbs. VINO =admlts
he received money from the railroad
companies in 1909. ana USED II 70 ~
feat so good a man as Judge Daie, the
Democratic nominee for governor
"If the $4,000 RECEIVED from the
railroad companies in 1904, by Nj.
Stubbss was rot-fused@bye him with,
which to deceive and mislead the peo-
role for What purpose. was it used
What was the censidera ton for IT.
What was Mr.. Stubbsyto give In return
of the $4,000 paid by the
railroad companies he, Stubos,
apreed that Governor Hoch's cam
naipn speech, and especially the Mar
ion speech, should be submitted TO ana
by the railroad aII !II
before it was delivered? van MI;
Stubbs deny that he was in full accord
with that speech until after Governor
Hoch refused to appoint MIN Onlleo
STATES senator? If the railroad issue
Tas a fake issue in the mind of Mr..
Stuhhs what made it a real issue in
1e07o If 1t was right to receive money
from railroad companies in 1904, for
campaign purposes, what has occurred
since then to make it wrong
s+,,bhs now. what excuse can he give
for receiving large sums of money
from railroad companies In 1904E II
Stubbs is honest now. was ne honest III
1904, with the people? oo,
"If the people had known in 1904
that Mr.. Stubbs was receiving large
SIMS of money from the railroad com
nanies with which to deteat Judge
bale would there not have been a re-
volt against Mr.. Stupps anu MS Can
didate for governor?
"Judge Dale made the race In 1904
for governor against fearful odds He
5id not then know the people did not
tba1 know. that Mr.. Stubs was Sc
cretiv and clandestinely. as chairman
~ fi1a Republican state central com
1oittee using railroad money to beat
him. If thirty days before me eIec-
ton in 1904, Mr.. Stubbs. over his own
signature. had confessed, as he has
now that the railroad companies had
nlaced in his hands such large sum
Fl money to be used to defeat Judge
Dale he would have been elected by
one hundred thousand majority And
vet Senator nDolley says StuDbs is not
a hypocrite"