The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11

the head Of the federal machine and
the leader of the senate lodge that
stood unequivocally against every re-
form which the people of Kansas now
are demanding. So that all told, up
one side and down the other, 1t begins
to look as though the Situation in
Kansas was this: That the Republi-
cans of Kansas are getting ready to
run their own party, even though to
do SO they have to defeat a most
charming gentleman from Atchison,
who in the four years he has been in
private life, has learned so well the
lesson of silence that 1t is working to
his own destruction. The Kansas leg
islature seems to be a dispensation of
Providence designed chiefly to run
the big roller over the Bailey boom.
GaIena Republican: The political at
mosphere is becoming brighter for Re
publicans in the Sunf1ower state every
day. Grant Hornaday has stepped out
of the race for governor and will back
his old and faithful friend, Ex-Governor
W.. ]. Bailey, one of the best and most
considerable governors Kansas ever had.
Hornaday was considered strong can
didate, but for complete harmony In
the party, was willing to sacrifice his
| own chances for that of a true friend,
the good of the party that he has al
WAYS been true to-. w. J. Bailey is a
this distance that it now looks as If he
was almost a sure winner. There are
several men in the state whom the Re
publican would be glad to support for
| that we have always been an admirer
of w. ]. Bailey, of Baileyville, and
| should he receive the nomination he
| will beyond question be the next gov
ernor.
| l.. he
| the Republican nomination for governor
| is now merrily on and as there Is no
| avowed candidate at present that we
| feel like ho1lering for we are sitting
back easy. 1t is generally supposed
| that Long is behind Bailey-at any rate
the machine is, and the holy rollers
alias the square dealers are for Stubs.
| There is a great reaction in favor OF
| Bailey whom Stubs beat out Of sec
ond nomination four years ago that will
probably pull him through successfully
! In the meantime We continue to carry
| Fitzgeralds name because we are GER
tain that he is the strongest and most
available man for the place.
Kingman Leader: Remember that UP
| until after the announcement of Bailey
as a candidate for governor w. r.
| Stubs was a candidate for the United
| States senate. As soon as Bailey an
| nounced. as If he had not crucified him
enough four years ago by the use OF
| railroad money and the throwing out
of legally elected delegations in Atchi-
son, Jackson, Wyandotte and Miami
| counties, Stubs changes his plans and
| Jumps into the governorship race. Now
| honest up, do you think that is fail
| play?
| Erie Record: The political atmos-
! phere in Kansas seems to be clearing
up this week. After the Republican
state committee meeting at Topeka last
| week Grant Hornaday of Fort Scott
apparently had as good chance as any
other candidate for governor. But the
clamor for w. J. Bailey of, AtchisoI
has been increasing every day and ha.
extended to nearly every part of ths
| state Hornaday has now withdraw
and the Republicans of the state arr
looking to Bailey for leadership in th'
! campaign. There was a great deal o
| Hornaday sentiment in Neosho and ad
| Joining counties. The Republicans il
this part of the state were for him be
cause they believed that he would maxi
a good candidate and good governor
and because he was from an adjoining
district in the big Third. Mr.. Horna
days action in stepping out of the rae,
at this time in order that there nigh
be no division in the party between hi
friends and those of Bailey will caus
no decline in his popularity among tn
Republicans in this part of the state
Hornaday is still a young man and h.
will yet occupy the governors chair il
Kansas. The candidacy of ex-Governo
Bailey will doubtless have the soil,
support of the Third district. There i
no other Kansas man who has as man
| friends among the Republicans of tn
Third district as Bailey, and no othe
man could be as acceptable to all @
the Republicans of the state 1t
pretty generally conceded that a seriou