The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-02

lions affected. The Railway Mems Ac-
cident associations have received pass
es for their solicitors and collectors.
because the railroads like to have their
employees take accident insurance. I'm
der the new law, these solicitors and
collectors can not ride on passes, and
it is said that the companies employing
them are discharging them because
they can't afford to pay their railway
fare. The same condition, 1T is claimed,
confronts the railway coal companies
which keep men on the road to sell
their product.
The real backing for the repeal of the
antipass law, however, will come from
the politicians who are roaring because
they have to pay real money for trans
portation. It is a terrible experience
for political workers who have never
paid any railway fare In all their lives.
The fact that the machine has such
an easy time controlling the Republican
state committee and knocking out the
direct primary proposition seems to
have encouraged the belief that the
antipass law can also be wiped off the
slate.
Senator Chester l. Long, w. S. Fitz-
patrick, Mort Albaugh, w. Y. Morgan
and Grant Hornaday, held a New
Years conference in Topeka yesterday,
and the object was presumably to talk
about the withdrawal of Hornaday
from the race In the interest of Bailey.
The Hornaday boom has not been
making much Roadway, though 1t has
received more persistent nursing than
any other thus far mentioned. The in
dications are that Hornaday would
have very little strength in a conven-
ton, it is expected that he VIII soon
retire from the race. Hornaday has
not believed that Bailey would be a
candidate for the nomination
9"I have not been eliminated from the
race" said Mr.. 5ornaday before leav-
ing for Fort Scott last night. There
has been no attempt made to get me OF
the track. I have not been importuned
or, threatened. However, l am going
nome to think over things. Bailey and
/ are too good friends to allow any ser
ious complications to arise"
Cyrus Leland says that the entrance
of Bailey to the race will not cause any
change in his plans. He will continue
in the fight to a finish.
The Atchison Globe says Of w. j.
Bailey's candidacy:
Mr.. Bailey's position is an unusual
one. Politicians who want neither a
radical nor a rabbit, have forced him
to become a receptive candidate. He
has beer, drafted Mr.. Bailey came to
Atchison last spring with his mind
fully made up to keep out of politics.
He prefers his present work to the Pc :
Iitical game Politicians, who have al
WAYS been his friends, as well as poll
ticians who have been against him.
agree that he issthe man who can come
nearer saving the party from defeat
next fall and uniting all factions, than
any other candidate. He always mas
been absolutely square and honorable:
is not given to grandstand plays. and
has genuine business ability. If nom
mated. he will be elected, and will take
the office with as few strings to him as
any man who has ever occupied the
gubernatoria1 chair. He will have the
solid support of Atchison county"
Mr.. William Allen White says OF Mr..
Stubs proposed candidacy for COVER
nor
lican party in Kansas has been trying
earnestly to reform itself. Often this
effort toward reform has been misdi-
rected; sometimes selfish men have
profited by it, and at least once weak
man has thwarted it, but the under
current among the rank and file of
Republicans has been toward cleaner
politics than was and is now prevalent,
and that undercurrent OF popular SEN
timent for good government is now run
ming stronger than ever 1t has run be-
fore in the Republican party of this
state. One of the obvious results of
that undercurrent is the utter dissatis-
faction among Republicans generally
with the kind and class and condition
of men mentioned and groomed by the
leaders of the party SO far, for the
office of governor. Six years ago, man
like Hornaday-a respectable country
banker, regular in his party affiliations,
unfailing in his public service, would
have been an ideal Republican candi-
date, but the people do not take to him
now. Four years ago Mr.. McNeal or
Mr., Leland or Mr. Davidson would
have been acceptable leaders, but now.
though no one questions their personal
honesty. their best friends cannot
claim that these gentlemen have arous-
ed any enthusiasm in the party by the
prospect of their being candidates.
1.-The people demand not only re-
spectacle man, not only a successful
man, not only an honest man-but a
fighting honest man-an aggressor, a
leader and not common two-legged
man without spot, flaw, or blemish.
Moreover they are willing to take a
leader-warts and all, overlooking mi
nor faults. and rallyfng to him for the
qualities of force, of pugnacity, of cour-
age, of sheer bull strength that he has
exhibited.
Hence the movement to draft w. r.
Stubs for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton. He is a leader. He is as full of
faults as Cromwell or John Brown; he
is as open to criticism as Grant or Mark
Hanna, but he is leader. He will fight.
He has the courage-even of his mis-
takes and he stands for the progressive
element of the Republican party as does
no other man. He frankly desires to
go to the senate, but If he or a man