The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-26
His Friends Still Expect Him to
Enter Race.
MULVANEHEARD FROM
Charges Stubs With Being Ac-
tuated by Personal Ambition.
Intimates That He Is Opposed
to Republican Nominees.

Clyde Miller and L. T. HuSSey OF
Usage county passed through Topeka
Wednesday afternoon on their way to
the Sixth district congressional con-
vention. They stopped off here and
interviewed some of their political
friends.
Mr.. Miller declined to say anything
concerning his fathers candidacy for
governor, but it is stated that the
''hen is still on" Mr.. Miller and Mr..
Hussey will sound the Sixth district
people relative to the strength OF w.
r. Stubs in that district and the pos
sibility Of Senator Miller's getting sup
port in that section of the state.
Friends of Miller claim that the an
nouncement of Senator Miller's candi-
dacy will be made either the latter
part of this week or the first part of
next week.
D. w. Mulvane, Republican national
committeeman from Kansas, came
back at W. R. Stubbs Wednesday af-
ternoon with a heavy charge of grape
record of the Lawrence man and coun-
teract the effect of the Stubbs inter-
view in which he declared Mulvane
to be the head of the legislative cor
poration lobby.
Mr.. Mulvane says:
Upon my return to Topeka after an
absence of two weeks, my attention is
called to a bulletin issued by Mr..
Stubbs in which he takes exceptions to
my statement that am opposed to his
candidacy for governor.
He says that I am trying to ride
into office on Mr.. Taft's coat tails. ;
There are but two errors in this state
ment. Nearly year ago I began the
organization of Taft clubs in Kansas.
This was only a short time after Mr.
Stubbs had given out an interview Ia
voring Mr.. LaFollette for president.
Furthermore, my reelection as nation
al committeeman was assured at the
time Mr.. Stubbs issued his bulletin.
TN reply to his statement that I
have been the head and shoulders of
corporation and railroad lobby for these
sessions of the legislature and used my
position as national committeeman to
further the interests Of corporations, 1
will say that the statement is false
and deserves the short and ugly word.
Having made fortune himself out
of his business dealings with the rail-
roads and with the Standard Oil COM
pany Mr.. Stubbs rails at corporations
to avoid suspicion. He advocated a 2
cent fare, not because he knew or
cared whether it was an adequate rate,
but because he thought it popular. The
anti-pass bill he urged upon the leg
islature would have prevented rail-
road company from giving passes to Its
own employees.
.eMr. Stubbs says he has no respect
for the political school in which have
been trained and educated. 1t is the
Republican school and 1 have studied
how to advance Republicanism. He
seems to have studied how to advance
Stubbs For example, at the Wichita
convention in 1904, after protesting
against being made temporary chair
man of the convention he insisted upon
being made both temporary and per-
manent chairman. The same year, af-
ter stating positively that he would not
| be candidate for state chairman, he
! forced his election to the craftsmanship
of the committee. Later he exhibited
no modesty in claiming that he should
| be made speaker Of the house. AS
| speaker he stood for economy by chop
ping off the heads Of number of col
| ored janitors to whom three dollars per
day meant much, and accepted two
salaries himself both as a member and
| as a speaker. He stood for cutting
| down the appropriations for the educa-
| tionaI institutions. that is, all of them
except the one located at his own
| home.
I'm the Republican state convention
of 1905, Mr.. Stubbs was against many
of the successful nominees, SO he
started an insurrection within the
party which defeated many nominees
| for the legislature, and came near de-
| feating the head of the ticket. In
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state committee during that campaign
| induce him to say a kind word for
Governor Hoch or the Republican state
| ticket During the legislature of 1907
he joined with the Democratic mem
bers of that body in trying to pass a
primary law that would have given the
Democrats the opportunity and right
| to participate in Republican primaries,
| and of Republicans to participate in
Democratic primaries. He Joined these
I,a% 11rrs- -1O4, -
defeating a primary bill which received
| a large majority of the Republican
votes of both the house and senate. In
| the recent special session he refused to
| go into a Republican caucus on the
primary bill and abide by the decision
| of that caucus because such a bill
! would have been known as the Repub-
| lican bill and not as the Stubbs bill.
| 1.-THE strongest reason I have heard
| given as to why Mr.. Stubbs should be
nominated for governor is, that if he
| isn't he will fight the Republican
| ticket openly this year instead of
| secretly as he did in 1906
! Fred L. vandegrift, who knows
more about political history and
political law in Kansas than ANYBODY.
! turns his SearchHght on the primary
/ election situation in Kansas and
| makes a discovery which will be of
| interest to the Populists of the state.
| In a letter to a Topeka friend, he
says:
s.The question of the meaning of
| the term general election was up
some years ago. and the boys dug UP
a decision of the Supreme court, by
Horton, think, that all regular cleo
/ tions are general elections even the
| county elections held on off years at
that time
If this is the Interpretation of the
law, the state board of canvassers
| will be unable to give the Populist
party a place in the primary cleo