The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
STUBS TELLS IT.
Explains Why He Enters Race
for Governor.
Says That There Will Be a,
Fierce Battle.
TALKS OF "MACHINE.
Conflict Between It and the
Progressive Republicans.
Invites Other Candidates to
Agree to a Primary.

AS predicted In Fridays state
journal, w. r. Stubs Friday after
noon took flying leap from the ton
| rail- OF the fence where he has perch.
cd Tot the past week, and landed
rlsht In the midst Of the fight for the
Republican nomination for eovernor
| OF Kansas.
Stubbs will go into the campaien
| lot all he Is worth. There will be n
Dig mass meeting in Topeka to start
things going, Stubs headouarter.
VIII be opened, with John Bishop of
salina and j. N. Dolley of wabaunses
county in charge, Mr. Stubs will put
In every day and every hour out on
the road, making speeches and get
ting things lined up for the election
of favorable delegates to the state
convention. Now that Stubbs is a
candidate, he will fight for all he 1.
worth. He will speak in Topeka
Monday or Tuesday,; in Emporia
wednesday; in Clay Center Thursday.
and Salina Friday.
Mr.. Stubs proposes to w 7. Pail
ey and Cyrus Leland that they Join
IN request to the county commit
ICES OF the state to hold primary
on the governorship, for the purpose
or 1nstructing the delegation to the
| state convention.
The following is Mr. Stubs an
| nOuncement:
In response to what seems TO he
demand from progressive Renub1i-
cans all over Kansas, which it wo,,ld
be impossible for any patriotic citizen
TO ignore, am a candidate for gov
ernor, SUBJECT to the Republican state
convention, to be held March A.
| There will be a fierce battle he
tween the Republican machine and
the progressive Republicans for con-
| troll of this convention sr
inls perfectly organized politica,
machine, which has its counterpart in
every state in the union and head
quarters In New York, is maintaiued
for the mutual benefit and protection
OF the practical politicians on the
one snand, and the railroads and cor
porations on the other. This machine
and these interests have combatted
/ every step during the past four wears
| in the direction of progressive and
reform legislation in Kansas The
machine leaders have distributed slush
FUNDS, Tree passes and political favors
for years, and have appeared at each
session of the legislature, lobbying in
the interests of the railroads and other
| corporations. They organized the
| senate lodge last winter, defeated the
direct primary BILL and attempted to-
modify or nullify every law that af-
fected the corporations of the state.
|
| lutely helpless in Kansas politics with
| out this political machine and the no.
| litical machine could not exist without
| the support Of the great vested inter-
| politicians were the supreme political
! power in Kansas, five or six years ago.
| comfortable fortunes were made every
year out of the management of the
| public business of the state and an
| army of persons, who rendered no SER
vice whatever to the state were car
| ried on the pay rolls of the state ana
paid salaries out of the state treasury.
There Is but one safe rule for judg-
ing man or a party in public life and
| that is by his or it's work. No truer
maxim was ever stated than, BY their
| works we shall know them
| President Roosevelt Is the leader
| and promoter of a new political sys-
| tenn, and when the Roosevelt wave
| swept over Kansas there came out of
! the rank and file of the Republican
| party a progressive movement that
has been responsible in large meas
ure for the enactment of laws that
have eliminated number of the evils
| referred to, and to that extent estah-
| lished the public business of the state
on a sound, honest. systematic basis in
| the interests of the public, to take the
place of the spoils and graft system
| that had prevailed so long under ma
| chine rule.
This progressive element demands
| a forward movement in the interest of
| all the people in the same general d.
rection that Roosevelt, Taft, Hughes
La Toilette and other great Republic
| can leaders throughout the nation are
! working; it demands that the ideals.
| aims and purposes of this great Tepub-
| lie shall not be prostituted to the end
! that property interests shall count for
more than men in forming the policies
| and shaping the destiny of this state
| and nation; it demands:
| "a statewide direct primary for the
nomination of all candidates.
"A maximum rate law that will in
sure good service at fair cost.
| "A fiat 2-cent passenger fare.
"A stringent antipass law.
"The same supervision and restric-
| tons for stock and bond issues of pub
/ lie service corporations that now pre-
vail in state and national banks.
"a uniform system of accounting
| in state offices.
| Substitution of Legislative Ref
erence Department for the profess
sional lobby.
| "a delegation to the national con-
vention pledged to platform declara-
| lions for the election of United States
senators by direct vote. revision Of the
tariff, federal valuation of railroads.
| prohibition of overca pitalization.
| federal inheritance tax. and to tina
nomination of a president in sympathy
| with these principles.
| Personally, wish this question of
| the nomination for governor might be
settled by direct vote of ehe Repub1i-
cans of the state. and hope that 9TH
| er candidates for this Office VIII Jein
me in asking the Republican county
committees to call primary elections In
| their counties. SO that the choice Of
| the party for governor may be made
! known to the delegates
| Weather Indications.
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