The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-06
UUIEcI ~ InUNI
May Be Candidate for Speaker
of the House.
Says That He Isn't Anxious for
the Job.
OTHERS COMING OUT.
Stone, Cunningham and Ryan
Are "Talked Of"
Republicans Lose One Vote in
the House.

Now that the Republicans are as
sured Of control on the house OF rep
resentatives. the question of speaker
ship is again taking a prominent place
In the political gossip of the day
Joseph y. Doiley. chairman of the
Republican state central committee,
and member of the house from Wa
baunsee county. is a new name which
has been suggested by the politicians
AS soon as the campaign was over. and
It was evident that Mr.. Dolley had
made a winning fight for the Republi-
can party II was suggested bv Dol
ley's friends that the speakership
would be an appropriate reward, While
Mr.. DoIley Is waiting for Governor
Stubs to select some other suitable
Job for hlm-probably the job of bank
commissioner. 1t is admitted that
Dolley can get almost anything he
wants under the new administration.
Mr. Dolley says he isn't a candidate,
but then. a man isn't going TO run and
hide If he sees the speakership COM
ing after him.
However. Mr.. Dolley finds the field
pretty we'll sprinkled with candidates.
First in the list Is Robert Stone OF
Topeka, who was recognized as
strong candidate in event Judge Clark
and much OF the strength which Clark
would have had will go to Stone. Mr..
Stone has been a candidate for some
time. and is not likely to stand aside
to accommodate anybody.
There Is also William Levi Cunning
ham, of Cowley county, speaker pro
tenn of the last session. Cunningham
did not take up with the square dear
crowd at the last session, and the
chances are that he will get the sup
F.Nrr tn, he Do
publican party which does not like
Stubs.
S. L. Ryan, of Brown county, also
says he is a candidate, but he has no
visible sources of support.
Iron Jaw" Brown of Kingman coun-
ty and f. c. Foley of Rice county, are
candidates for the Democratic caucus
nomination for speaker Foley will
probably get II.
OF the Republican candidates, it is
likely that Dolley will have the strong
est support at the outset He has been
in close touch with many Of the men
who have been elected to the legisla-
ture, and these men naturally feel
friendly to him for what he did, for
them during the campaign. Dolley Is
a radical Stubs man. but in the cam
paign he also proved that he was a
harmonizer. and he will not have such
bitter opposition for the speakership as
some other square dealer might have.
Robert Stone, one of the cleanest and
ablest men in the legislature, will have
to depend upon the radical square
dealers to support him. He has fought
the machine" tooth and nail, and they
hate him, and will exert every energy
to beat him. If he had the united sup
port of the square dealers he might
win, provided the square dealers con-
troll the Republican caucus.
No one knows exactly how the Re-
publican members of the house of rep
resentatives will line up on the ques-
ton of machine" and square deal"
Only one more report on a missing
county was received today. That was
the 1920 district, composed of Kearny
county, which elected Beckett, the Re
publican candidate.
Several districts reported changes
in the results already announced The
40th senatorial elected ]. T. Reed of
Smith Center instead of c.. H. Tame
hill, Democrat. Atchisons later re-
turns showed the election OF Kelly.
Democrat. to the legislature instead of
Mayhem, Republican. Rogers, Demo-
crat. beat Gensman. Republican, in
Sedgwick county. Eadie. Republican
beat Dickey, Democrat, in the Gree
ley-Wichita district. by votes.
The net result of all these changes
is gain of one for both the Demo-
Gratis and the Republicans, the Demo-
Gratis gaining one in the house by a
change, and the Republicans gaining
one in the senate the same way The
vote on joint ballot would stand: Re