The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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makes Stubs look grouchy. The
Pratt Republican says:
HE might have had a better au-
dience if it hadn't been for that lith-
ographed portrait of himself which
he sent out ahead to advertise his
meeting. The egotistical pose which
shows that he has struck an attitude
calculated to impress the uncouth ma
tives with his Importance. is a great
campaign picture-to help his OPP
ponents."
The Atchison Globe, which is counted
as unfriendly to Stubs, gave the Law
renee man a characteristic but not en-.
tirely unfriendly sketch" when he was
dress. The Globe said in part:
Don't entertain the idea that w. r.
Stubs, square dealer candidate for
governor, is red-headed and fool. He
Is neither, by long shot. If Stubbs
were a girl, he might be open to the
suspicion that his Uranium adornmenr
had been 'peroxided.' His hair is
f1axen. inclined to curl, and as soft
appearing as silk. Stubs comes near
being a 200-pounder. and. judging from
his hand shake must be all muscle.
His eyes are small and blue, and his
lower lip is not nearly as pouty as 1t
appears in the posters displayed In
after his speech in Turner hall Satur =.
day night, Stubs sat around and talk
ed to the men in a common, natural
manner. He has the Curtis How are
your down fine. uses the Curtis Shout
der slap, but is fiercer than Curtis in
the hand shake and has laugh that
Curtis never thought of.
''Stubbs said during his speech: Any
man who tries to cripple the railroads.
should be kicked off the earth This
followed a statement that the farmer,
the merchant, the railroad man, and
all others were responsible for the
building up of Kansas, and that he wac
not an anti-railroad man; that 1t was
no more right for the railroads to try
TO run Kansas than it was for a few
reformers to try to run the railroads
out of business. Railroad regulation,
was what he was working for.
"Once in awhile Stubbs would strike
easy sailing. and turn loose real ora
tory. The rain cut the audience down
to about $50. His speech was accept
able to Stubs Republicans and DEM
ocrats. That's good Democracy re-
porter heard Bill Sullivan whisper to
Joe McCrum. After his speech, DR..
and Paul Tonsing, all Democrats, went
up and congratulated Stubbs.''
The reason why the Kansas City
Star is fighting Stubs is told by
Ewing Herbert in a page of display
advertising in his paper, the Brown
County World. Mr.. Herbert says
"And yet our valiant leader, Mr.
Stubs, wasn't always SO f1ercely dis
posed towards the wicked Kansas SEN
ate, and, by the way, 1t had members
at times unworthy-fully deserving the
censure of Mr.. Stubs and every other
Kansan. When a reporter for the
Kansas City Star was denied the priv.
leges of the senate hall, Mr.. Stubs
who had been the recipient of numer,
Gus favors from the Kansas City Star
was asked to express his condemna
ton of the graceless proceeding. H,
made an excuse and declined to speak
That was a great mistake that justl,
cost him the friendship or a grea
newspaper. The senate was wrong. 4
free press is right, always will be. ant
should be sustained. Stubs SHOULD
have denounced the senate. Denounc
ing 1t now that 1t has passed out O