Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-07-31
bitter CONTEST
KANSAS PRIMARY
SENATORIAL AND GUBERNA.
TORIAL ASPIRANTS HAVE
MADE WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

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the most interesting Republican
campaigns that Kansas has known
in many years IL practically ended,
and from end to end the state Is
awaiting with keenest interest the
results of the general primary next
Tuesday. In Its outcome IL involved
the governorship and who shall b.
the Republican senator in the United
States congress from this state to
succeed Chester l. Long. There IL
also involved the nomination OF the
candidates for minor state Offices.
for electors, for congress. for legis.
lative, county and township places.
Senator Long is opposed in his
contest for reelection by Joseph l..
Eristow, who was formerly fourth
assistant postmaster general. For
q number of weeks the rival aspir
ants have been engaged in lively
campaign that has carried them to
every nook and corner Of the state.
The managers Of the Long campaign
appear to feel every confidence in
, the result Nevertheless they have
taken no chance of becoming vic
| tins of everconfidence and they are
keeping up the fight with unaba ed
vigor to the very end. The Long
forJas have had the benefit Of 4
splendid political organization that
| extends its ramifications into every
county in Kansas. They expect to
win out by good safe majority
that will leave no doubt as to the
result. The Bristow forces, on the
other hand, are likewise claiming
the victory, though their claims are
not so expansive as the Long claims.
| Brietow has made good fight
for the toga and his friends expec.
him to show up well in the primary,
even though he may not win out.
His attacks on Senator Long un-
doubleday have given that states
man some anxious moments. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is exceedingly popu.
lar with the Republicans Of Kansas
his strongest points against his op.
ponent by charging the senator
with insincerity in his support Of
the president in his policies. He al
so charges Senator Long with beint
lin too close sympathy with the rail
roads and other large corporations
I The contest for the Republican
nomination for governor to succeed
Governor E. w. Hoch Is even NOR
bitter than the senatorial struggle
In the gubernatorial contest tn
lines are sharply drawn. The tw'
candidates are w. r. Stubbs ant
Cyrus Leland.
Stubs has conducted his fight b.
waging war on the machine ole
ment. He proclaims himself
square dealer and pleads for homes
ty and decency In the conduct o
state affairs. He has arraigne'
, those In power as the leaders OF
faction that has bartsred public OF
fees as merchandise. He says 1t
time to get away from the old syu
tenn of grating and boodling II tn
Republican party is to be save
from defeat, and he points to him
self as the instrument throug
which the polit cal reform may b
ACCOMPLISHED. He charges the ma
chine with having blocked all re
form legislation until he and hi
, band of square dealers came to tn
LEGISLATURE and demanded and fore
. ed the reform measures now ontn
!, statute books. He declares that
= he Is elected governor Kansas WI
Head the union with greater reform
n for the people.
y CYRUS Leland, the opponent
Stubs, was formerly the nations
: Republican committeeman frol
!. Kansas, and a personal friend an
y advisor of President Mckinley. r
has lived in Kansas more than 8
&c wears and has contributed more
J. the states political history tina
any other citizen. He is pract
,. cal politician and his organizatit
reaches every voting precinct in u
state. His name is as famous
"a Kansas as is that OF Joseph G. Ca
% non to Illinois, or William Is. Al
son to Iowa. He is typical repr
" sentative of practical politics.
Il Between Stubbs. the represent
10 tive of the La Toilette school OF pr
,e ,tics. land Leland. the "practica
politician, the issue is clean CT
Stnbbs expects to win through
- uprising and whirlwind. viii
b his political opponents belieVe
not materialiZe at the conn