The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Mr.. Bristow Says Long Is Or-
ganizing His Forces.
TELLS of Three Representatives
i'm Each Township.
STUBBS IN TOPEKA.
Saws That He Is Growing Fat
Campaigning.
Greatly Enjoys His Round OF
Speechmaking.

planning to perfect his organlzalioh -,
Kansas by appointing three persona
representatives in every township ~
the state is the statement Wnlch Ills
adversary, Joseph l.. Bristow Oh sauna
made Monday afternoon while IN IL
peka on his way to southeastern Nam
sas where ne is to make speeches this
week
ct have been told" said Mr.. Bristow'
"that Mr. Long expects to designate
three men in every township IN the
state to look after his interests: II Is
nv guess that he will find IT hard 10 &c,
three men in many townships VINO WI.
undertake to control their TOWNSHIPS
for him. 1t is a fine plan, In tneory'
but 1 doubt whether it will be OF mucli
value in practice.
''I do not believe that Senator Long
can win this fight by organization. Ut
ganization is a word the Long peopie
are using to conjure with because they
think they can make people believe
that they are going to WIN oy tnIe
method. Organizations in politics We're
of more force when there were oele-
gates to be selected to conventlons'
than they are this year. rms year - to
lieve that when the people get out 10
vote they will vote as they please
regardless of the machine organ1za-
tion. 1 may be overconf1dent, but
believe that the Republicans OF Kan
sas are going to vote as they piedse
in the primary election.
81 frankly state that l have no ma
chine; 1 could not get one II wanted
1t, because 1 haven't a crowd OF 1eu-
eral officeholders scattered ABOUT over
the state whose business seems TO De
to work politics. 1 am depending upon
the voters who believe in the Things
that 1 do, to win this fight, and oe-
lieve that they are going to win It,. l
think that the Republicans or the
state are interested in the primary,
and that they won't depend upon an
organization to get them out to the
polls. They will come out because
they want to nominate their own offl-
GERS"
Mr. Bristow has just come back
from a remarkable experience in cam
paign work. He was billed for speech-
es in Decatur, Rawlins and THOMAS
counties, and owing to the fact that
the trains did not run right he was
Obliged to make the trip in livery rigs.
He drove from Oberlin. Decatur coun-
tv. to Herndon, Rawlins county, in
terrific rainstorm. He followed TINS
up with a drive to Atwood, where he
encountered the front end of snow
storm Then he continued on his way
to Mcdonald in the western part of
the county, and when he reached there
a regular Rocky Mountain blizzard
was prevailing. 1t was showing hard
and very cold. In the midst of this
blizzard Mr.. Bristow and a driver set
out to drive 35 miles across country to
Colby, They started at 10 a. M, and
drove without stopping for dinner till
D. M, when they reached Colby. This
was Nav 5. In a couple of days Mr.
Rristow had covered 125 miles in a
buggy, in the teeth Of one of the worst
storms of the season. In most of
these towns his crowd was slim on
account of the storm, but he met many
people, and showed the people that
would fill it regardless of difficulties.
This is a dominant trait in Bristow's s
character.
AS result of his roughing it in
western Kansas, Mr. Brlstow Is sur
fering from a severe cold, but he is
keeping up his campaign with unabat-
ed vigor.
w. r. Stubbs of Lawrence, Repub-
lican candidate for governor of Kan
sas, came to Topeka Monday for the
first time in six weeks, and spent the
dav here talking over political matters
with his managers. Most of the time
this week he will spend cleaning up
will make a speech at Cottonwood
Falls on Thursday, and attend the
bankers meeting a Kansas City
ST certainly have been enjoying my
self, QeclareQ MT. enjoy
this fight more than anything I ever
undertook in my life. 1 am in splendid
health. and am growing fat on this
travelling and speaking. My voice is
getting stronger all the time; am as
solid as a rock and can't seem to get
enough work. I certainly enjoy it all,
and enjoy meeting the people of this
state.
81 am keeping up this fight with full
confidence that l will win. 1 have
4%
where the understanding has been /
would have the hardest fight. There is
a man out in the Seventh district who
told me that he would bet any amount
of money 1 would carry the district
three to one. 1t is simply astonishine
TO me how much sentiment there is out
there against Senator Long. 1 heard
it everywhere.
"I have fifty invitations on file 70,
speeches. I am going to try to fiji
them all before the primary. I viii
work all the time throughout the sum.
mer."
w. G. Bissell of Phillipsburg, the at.
torney for A. c. Chance, the youne
man who made the sensational aff.
davit against the lumber trust ir
northwestern Kansas. says that hi.
client is ready to substantiate all tn,
charges made by his lients in the afn
davit with original letters written h1
officers of the lumber companies. ex
cept the one charge that the Rocl
Island paid rebates in the form O
"overcharges."
"Chance was accused by the com
pany of embezzling some propert,
from the lumber company" saws MI
Bissell. They claimed he had take
all the way from $4,000 to $4,000.
finally agreed with them that the,
should check over the books, and ac
cept a deed from Mr.. Chance to hi
house for settlement of the shortage
The books were checked over, and
rendered a deed for the house Tn