The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

his associates. there is much that can
De said In commentator OF their puonc
service. In the past 4S years l think
Kansas has been one of the best gov
erneo states in the Union, ana 1 am
proud of it's splendid record.
In an interview published in the To-
peka Daily Capital May ., 1908, refer
ring to Cyrus Leland, Jr-, his RepuD-
mean opponent for the nomination Tor
governor. Mr.. Stubs said, I have no
word of censure for Mr.. Leland, per-
sonally. He is a product of the day
ana age In which he has lived and ne
has only done those things that were
common practices in the political life
or his time. but there is a new era at
hand, and a better day dawning, where
the spokesman in public office Will be
branded and punished the same as any
criminal in private life.'
Appeals to Leland's Friends.
'I do not agree with Mr.. Leland po-
litically, but 1 have faith in his honesty
and integrity and count him one OF
Kansas foremost citizens. 1t is put
Just to say that Mr.. Leland IN has
long and useful life has contributed as
much to the material growth OF TINS
great state as any man within It's Dor
ders. In the recent primary electlon
over $1,000 Republicans who DeneVeQ IN
his Integrity and his worth as cltlzen
supported him for governor. From MT.
Stubs standing these men are no pet
ter than Mr.. Leland, and l presume ne
would consign them to prison CELL
too.
TT was most fortunate for the people
of Kansas that Mr.. Stubs abandoned
railroad contracting a few years ago
and devoted his entire time to the re-
form and publication OF politics: he
announced that he would make it MS
business to rid his party or band OF
barnacles, and ! understand ne con
graduates himself on the good begin
ming he made at the recenH primary.
1t does not matter that the dozen or
more good laws now on the statue
books are the direct result OF the agi-
tation started in Kansas more than 10
years ago, Mr.. Stubs is claiming the
entire credit. 1t matters not that SEN
ators Simons, Baker, Hodges. Stewart
and Quincy, aud Mr.. Leland, MI. Ram
and many other senators and members
of the legislature, including the sono
Democratic membership in the mouse,
introduced and gave earnest support TO
these good laws, Mr.. Stubs has the
courage of his nerve to proclaim TO the
people that but for his entry into the
reform business and his timely appear
ance in the legislature the government
of Kansas would be cropping along III
darkness and despair.
I'm the pending campaign 1 shall dis
cuss the live issues now before the
people and urge the voters to choose
the Democratic party as best represent
ing the great questions OF the houE.
I will welcome Brother Stubs as an
advocate of reforms advocated py me
Is years ago, and 1 will concede 10 MIN
the privilege of washing his family
linen ia. his sown.yway. If the Repubh-
can party is as venaI and corrupt as
Stubbs paints=it,= land its leaders ana
public officials have been the sraIter9
and tools he portrays them 70 De. l
herculeanr task of reforming such an
aggregation.
Politicians up in the Twenty-second
senatorial district. composed OF Oiay
and Dickinson counties, are wondering
at fhesyneaf1ing of a new move in the
states senatorial contest. Nm the pr
mary fhes Dem ocrats nominated Ed
ward Belts. and the Republicans noml-
mated Herman Avery, after a haro
tight with F. z villa Wiliiam tba+ Retts has
Withdrawn, ana that the DEMOCRATIC
congressioHaKt Committee has selected
J. 4. F'IaoB 6E Abilene to make the
some hint that this sudden change
machine" wing of the Republican
party in Dickinson and Clay counties
will combine with the Democrats for
the defeat of Avery. Mr.. Wilnams
himself, however, has always been a
strict party man, and it is not likely
a good deal of soreness among the
Dickinson county machinists over AV-
ery's nomination.
Governor doch takes exception to
the statement of John H. Atwood that
il was the negro vote of Kansas that
defeated William A. Harris Tor gov
ernor and elected Hoch. Governor
Hoch saws that Harris got the bulk OF
the negro vote. The governors state
ment follows:
Atwood, Democratic national commit
teeman from Kansas advocating the
Acknowledgement of the ignorant,
depraved, lazy, vicious and debauched
niger was doubtless frank state
ment of the Democratic attitude To-
ward the colored people. but the state
ment to which wish to call particular
attention at this time is the one-'Wil-
liam A. Harris would now be governor
of Kansas had it not been for the lg-
norant negro vote;
This is such fragrant misstatement
of fact that it should not go uncontra-
dicted. For reasons well known to Mr.
Atwood and his Democratic confereS
and which were utilized to their fullest
extent by them 1 do not beneVe 1t an
exaggeration to say that eight out or
ten of the negroes who voted In this
state voted for Mr.. Harris am not
complaining of this. I am only stating
what 1 believe to be a fact and the
statement of Mr.. Atwood is but an
other illustration of the usual gratitude
the negroes receive from the Demo-
cratic party when they desert their old
friend the Republican party and vote
the Democratic ticket.
1.-THE feeble attempt of Mr.. Atwood
to differentiate between what he is
pleased to call the ignorant negro ana
the better class of negro, is ingenious,
but it will not deceive the negro 1g-
norance is ignorance whether it be
clothed with a white or a black skin,