The Topeka state journal., 1908-05-05
POLITICAL GOSSIP
SideIight on NJ. w. Sutton's BE-
ing Sidetracked.
Veteran Is Supporting StuDDs
for Governor.
REPLY GIVEN OUT.
Lawrence Candidate R1d1cules
HOch's Position.
SAYS He Does Not Belong in Le-
land Camp.
REPLY GIVEN OUT

A possible explanation OF why
Governor Hoch failed to reappolnt
NJ w. Sutton of Dodge City on the
board of managers of the Dodge City
Soldiers home came to light To-Day
when it became generally known that
Mr. Sutton is supporting w. r. Stubps
for governor; that he is, in fact, one
of the Stubbs leaders in the Seventh
district.
Mike" Sutton is one of the old
time politicians of the state. He was
for a number of years United States
internal revenue collector, and was
succeeded by ]. M. Simpson. He is
a prominent old soldier, and has
generally been lined up solidly with
the machine crowd.
Mr.. Sutton will be chief engineer
of Mr.. Stubbs' visit to Dodge City
next Saturday Stubbs is billed to
speak at the Dodge City Soldiers
home at 10 a. M, at Dodge City at 3
y. M, and at some other point IN
the county, probably Spearville, in the
evening.
Mr.. Stubbs' dates this week are
along the main line of the Santa Fe
in the Seventh district. The following
are the places where he will speak.
Syracuse, Tuesday; Lakin, Wednes-
day; Garden City Thursday; Cimar-
ron, Friday; Dodge City, Soldiers
home and Spearville Saturday
While Mr.. Stubbs is busy making
campaign speeches in western Kan
sas, his facile pen is not idle-or the
facile pen of somebody who does his
literary work is not idle. 1t has
been charged that Mr.. Stubbs writes
his Interviews nv Some
that Harry Larimer of Topeka is the
proxy. Whether this insinuation is
true or not is not known. At any
rate, Mr.. Stubbs is getting out some
first class campaign literature.
His last effort is in ridicule of Gov
ernor Hoch for rushing to the defense
of Leland and Bailey.
? Governor Hoch does not belong
to that crowd of fellows" says Mr..
Stubbs, ''his impulses and instincts
are opposed to the methods and prin-
ciples represented by the leaders Of
the Leland camp
The following is the latest docu-
ment issue from Stubbs headquarters:
Governor Hoch claims that Leland
and Bailey were loyal to him during
the last campaign, and closes his in
terview by stating this is the truth
Even If the governor is right in his
statement and William Allen White
is wrong, which 1 do not believe to
be the case, then the governor has
only told small part of the truth
The whole truth is always better evil
dence than part of the truth. In
1904 when Hoch was a candidate for
governor the first time Mr.. Leland
bolted part of the state ticket and
part of the congressional ticket,
and he called the candidates. includ-
ing Hoch, all kinds of hard names and
refused to arrange any meetings for
Hoch in his delands) home town
notwithstanding the fact that Leland
was member of the state central
committee of which 1 was at that time
chairman. Willis Joshua Bailey who
was governor of Kansas at that time.
positively refused to make any
speeches for Hoch or the state ticket
In Kansas during that campaign and
did everything in his power to dis
credit the ticket before the public
The facts in both of these cases are
1ndisputable and can be proven bv
unquestionable testimony if desired.
Has Governor Hoch forgotten his
pubic interview which appeared on
Christmas day of 1903, when he de-
scribed Mr.. Leland's political ma
chine, which was then in ahsolnte
control of the Republican party OF
Kansas, as an organization whose
trade mark was the skull and cross
bones, and whose mission in public
life was the spoils and patronage ot
~aice? VI
Called Leland Tyrannical Boss.
''It is possible the governor ba,
forgotten his speech at the Kansas
Day club banquet of 1904 when bf
described Mr.. Leland as a tyrannica
boss who was driving a political ma.
chine that left the mangled forms o.
everyone who got in its way by tn.
road side and stated that he fEoob>
had just been run over by that ma
chine, but was still in the ring?
Has the governors memory failed
MIN to the extent that he cannot nov
reeal the large number of loyal Re
pubHcans who came to his rescue
espoused his cause and gave freely q
their time and labor and also con
tr1buted to his personal travelling ex
penses, and campaign expenses il
the hope of Kidding Kansas of hosn
ism and machine politics that 1'es
organized in the interests of spoils am
traffic in public office? '''
won't Governor Hoch feel ratba
uncomfortable In this fight standin
side by side with Senator vinton Still
ings of Leavenworth, who has heen ~
official representative in and ont of ~
legislature of the big brewerias 81
beer industry in Kansas? Mr.. Stillina
recently gave out a strong intervie,
In favor of Cyrus Leland for governo
breweries and saloon men vi
And won't the governor feel h
embarrassed in lining up with the hi
corporations and the professional moi
ticians who have many of them or
posed the primary election law ~
anti-pass law and practically ali n
progressive and beneficial ieeisIatio
that the Republican party in Kanss
claims credit for during the past for
years?
Governor Hoch doesn't belong wit
that crowd of fellows, his impulses an
instincts are opposed to the method
and principles represented by the leat
ers in the Leland camp.
II have no word of censure for Nj
Leland, personally. He is a produ,
of the day and age in which he hs
lived and he has only done those thins
that were common practices in the pt