The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-22
ONE FOR BRlSTOW
He Finds Himself I'm Path of a
Real Boom.
Square Dealers Would Have Him
for Governor.
OTHER NAMES, TOO.
Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald
May Be Drafted.
Mr.. Ham Will Try to Be
Congressman.
OTHER NAMES, TOO.

| for governor of Kansas received con-
siderable impetus at the meeting Of
Republican Square Dealers in Topeka
on Saturday afternoon and evening.
| 1t is somewhat doubtful whether Mr.
Bristow would consent to be a candt-
date for this Office. He was not in To-
peka Saturday and the boom started
| without his knowledge or consent.
Another man who came in for some
consideration in connection with the
governorship was w. ]. Fitzgerald.
lieutenant governor of Kansas, against
whom the Square Deal crowd made
such a savage and uncompromising
fight in the last campaign. Since the
election, Mr.. Fitzgerald has shown hlm-
self to be a man with a Will OF his
own not afraid to do his duty, and the
way he has been handling the railroad
assessment proposition has connrmed
the good impression which he made
while presiding over the Kansas ser
ate.
T. B. Murdock, of Ell Dorado. was
doing all his talking for w. r. Stubbs
as candidate for governor, but Stubps
was denying the allegation as rapidly
as possible Murdoch declared that
about seven men out of ten want to
see Stubbs run for governor. Othef
Square Dealers, however, think 1t Would
look bad for Stubs to use the Square
Deal movement as a vehicle on Whlch
to ride into the governors office, and
they are opposed to the Stubbs talk.
There mas also been considera Bile talk
about ]. N. Dolley as a candidate Tor
governor, but for some reason this talk
does not take hold in very good shape.
William Allen White has been men
toned as a possibility, and so has Geo.
z. Tucker of Eureka.
Indications are, however, tnat the
two men most favorably considered as
available are Bristow and Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald would probably be a much
easier man for the Square Dealers "a
nominate, because he has not been IN
politics as much as Bristow, and con-
sequently hasn't made anybody mad-
Ham Is to Be in Congressional Race.
w. B. Ham of Rocks, who attended
the Square Deal meeting, has dehnlte--
~ decided that he will stay out of the
race for governor. But he has almost
as definitely decided 10 yield to the
invitations which he has received to
become a candidate for congress IN the
Sixth district against w. A. Reeder.
With Ham a candidate for congress,
some queer complications might result
Against him would be thrown the solid
opposition of the anti-Square Deal
crowd. J; r. Burrow Is one e, OF the the
to fight Ham. John Q. Royce OF
Phillipsburg, who hates Burrow as
cordially as Burrow hates him, would
probably line up against Ham, because
Royce is opposed to the Square Deal
crowd. This would mean that Burrow
and Royce would be lined up together
in opposition to Hama condition so
peculiar that Sixth district people will
be inclined to believe that the millen-
MUM is approaching.
There has been a good deal said
about me, in connection with the race
for congress-" said Mr.. Ham, but
for nv part, 1 would prefer to come
back to the Legislature and continue
the work which I have been doing. OF
course I would prefer to be congress-
man than being governor. 1 am not
ambitious for the office of governor.
I recognize the fact that if 1 should
be a candidate for congress I would in
all proba bility have a very hard fight
for the place. I can see that l would
have very formidable opposition, and
been fighting each other would tend to
combine in order to defeat me.
am not anxious to be a candidate for
congress, but if there seems to be a
general sentiment that 1 should make
the race, I may do So"
Adopted a Platform.
The meeting of the Square Dealers
commenced at o'clock Saturday after
noon and was mostly behind closed
doors in room 16 on the second
floor of the Copeland.
The following declaration of prin-
ciples. or platform, was given out after
the meeting:
THE object of this movement is to
furnish an organization that will enable
the rank and file of the Republican
party in Kansas to control the party
conventions of the next year without
the interference of machines, without
the hindrance of corporate bosses and
to make the party representative. We
believe that the performance is a truer
index of the character of a man or
faction or a party than is proclamation
or promise and we therefore protest
that men who for years have stood in
Kansas politics against popular govern
ment and for machine politics in it's
most vicious form shall not, on their
mere declaration. persuade the people
| of Kansas that they will stand for the
policies of Theodore Roosevelt. We
protest against such men using the,
Kansas delegation to the national con-
vention to be treated for offices of the
machine, even though it be done in the
name of an honest candidate and of
worthy cause.
1--WE invite all Republicans to unite
with us upon the basis of the foregoing
statement and especially to prosecute
the campaign of 1908 for direct, state
wide primary for the nomination of ev-
cry candidate for every Office
An Executive Committee Named.
The proclamation was drawn by w
r. Stubbs, William Allen White, Harold
Chase c. B. Kirkland Robert Stone, J.
B. Larimer The committee appointed
at tie afternoon session to select the
executive committee by congressional
districts brought in the following list
of members, which was confrmed:
First district. James Troutman;
Second district. W. R. Stubbs; Third
district. R. n. Allen; Fourth district,
j. n. Dolley; Fifth district. ], T.
Seventh district. Carr W. Taylor;