The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-25
Stubs May Not Suit All the
Square Dealers.
Senator Stannard Thinks He
Would Have Trouble at Home.
MR.. ROYCE COMMENTS.
Expresses Himself About Action
Of Mr.. Ham.
Thinks He Made Mistake in
Declining AttOrneyship.

| According to Senator F. H Stannard,
| of Franklin county, w. r. Stubbs will
not be an altogether desirable square
deaP' candidate for the Office of COVER
nor.
"Stubbs would have another hard fight
in the Second district, just as he did at
| the time of the Allen-Scott campaign.
Allen has many friends in the Second
district. and the, seed which he sowed
there of antagonism to Stubs are not
dead yet. All the old Allen crowd would
| fight Stubs if he should get into the
| race for. the Republican nomination for
governor. The Allen-Scott fight was
! really fight between Allen and Stubbs.
Il believe. however, that if Mr.. Stubbs
should get the nomination as the Re
and not only that, but he would carry
the Second district. The fight would
come on his nomination.
1T appears to me that the question of
holding a primary to select the Re
publican ticket next year depends large
ly upon the people who expect to be
candidates for office. If these people are
willing to have a primary, the state
committee will call one. But If the can
didates for nomination won't stand for
it, then there probably will be a conven-
tion. However, / can't see how any can
didate can afford to turn down the pri-
with the people, and any candidate who
opposed it might carry too big a load
Tor his own comfort
Il am not going to be back in the
state senate next year, because L won't
be a candidate for the nomination. The
senatorshlp in the Fifteenth district is
held alternate terms by Franklin and
Coffey counties, and the next is Cof-
tey's tura.''
John Q. Royce, state bank commits
| sioner, whose home is in Phillipsburg,
where he owns the Phillipsburg Dis
patch, has leased a house in Topeka,
and has moved all his household
goods from Phillipsburg to Topeka.
Some think this indicates that Mr..
Royce may not return to PhillipSburg
when his term as bank commissioner
expires.
Mr. Royce will occupy the house at
Huntoon and Harrison streets which
is owned by w. J. Hea1ey, former
freight auditor for the Santa Fe rail-
way. who has now moved to Cali
fornia.
Smith Center Journal: The latest
report is that the Reeder fellows do
not really want a Republican primary
and that all their talk about 1t has
been a bluff.
In the Phillipsburg Dispatch, John Q.
Royce comments as follows on the re-
fusaI of w. B. Ham to accept the ap-
board of railroad commissioners:
THE facts are that, while Mr.. Ham
might have been able to do much for
the people in the office which Governor
Hoch offered him, yet it was only one
office and If he would be able to bring
about the reforms for which the square
deal party was organized, it might les
sen their chances to carry the election
next year and thus prevent a lot of
the faithful promoters of the new party
from getting into office.
"The whole thing shows that 1t is not
results that these reformers want so
much as offices. They don't want any
one man put in position where he can
bring about the promised reforms be-
fore the next election, for if such a
thing should happen, how could Stubbs,
Dolly. Stone & Co.. ever expect to get
the offices for which they are slated.
For one we regret that Mr.. Ham has
placed personal ambition above duty to
the people who have been looking to
him for some kind of relief. Mr.. Ham
saws in declining this appointment, that
he prefers to go to congress where the
salary is 1850 and perquisites, rather
than to be attorney for the railroad
board where the salary Is only $500.
and the vast amount of good he could
do the people of Kansas, is lost sight of
entirely by him in his desire to help
Ham.
Mr.. Ham will not be able to fool the
people They know few things, and
when he turns them down to help him
self. they may not feel like going very
far to help him.
LAS a citizen of the Sixth district, and
friend of Mr.. Ham, we are sorry that he
has declined the appointment and we
are going to predict that he will regret
his action in the future, more than his
friends do now.
Mr.. Royce is not the only man in
the Sixth district who thinks w. B.
Ham made a mistake in refusing to
accept the job of attorney for the
board of railroad commissioners. The
Smith Center Journal says:
''Dan DYER came home from To-
peka last Saturday evening and his
former working partner, Phil Cham
berlain came with him and spent
Sunday with his many Smith Center
friends Dan has nothing new to give
out along political lines and he says
that the crowd around the Copeland
refuse to discuss men or measures for
the Republican campaign next year.
He did venture, however. to condemn
the action of w. B. Ham of Stockton,
who was offered fat $4,000 job as
attorney for the railroad commission
ers and turned it down. Dan says
this thing of saying no when a job
along political lines is offered is a
mighty poor habit to encourage and
is not becoming any man who is en-
gagged in active politics"