The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
EX-Warden Jewett Talks State
Politics.
Thinks BriStow Will Be Strong
Senatorial Candidate.
M'NEAL is OUT OF LIT.
Practically Certain He Won't
Be Candidate for Governor.
Will Again Ask to Be Elected
State Printer.

E. B. Jewett, of Wichita, ex-warden
of the state penitentiary, while in To-
peka today commented as follows on
the political situation:
IF Stubs stays out of the race for
the United States senate, it looks to
me very much as though ]. L. Bristow
would be the leading candidate against
Long. Bristow is man of national
reputation: he would need no introduce
tion into national politics; his position
as leading figure in the United States
senate is assured. When Stanley was
a candidate against Long, it was urged
that Long was a close friend of the
president, and that he would have
greater influence in national affairs
than any other man Kansas could Sc
lect- This argument could not be used
against Bristow. in case of Taft's nom
ination for the presidency, for there is
no man in Kansas upon whom MI Tart
has bestowed so much confidence as
upon BristoW. BriStow was selected by
Mr.. Taft for a most important and dell
cate mission; he fulfilled that mission
efficiently. and has shown Taft that he
is the kind of a man who can be de-
pended upon. With Taft for president,
Bristow would be the one Kansas man
who would stand close to him as United
States senator.
friends but 1 was sorry that he went
into this governorship contest. I be-
lieVe that he was misled, and that he
was simply being used by Senator Long
to help his own candidacy. If Bailey
is a candidate for governor he will be
called a Long candidate and this will
hurt him. There will be opposition to
him on that ground. However. should
Stubbs withdraw, I believe that Bailey
would have the best chance to win un-
less the other candidates mentioned
should get together Davidson, McNeal
and Leland would have to decide which
one of them would make the race
''McNeaI, L believe, would like to be
reelected state printer, and If he should
go into the fight. he would win.
personally would like to see David
son nominated. believe people do not
fully appreciate what an able man he
is. He would not make a spectacular
governor; there would not be many big
headlines in the papers about him. but
he would attend strictly to business,
and he would give a good, sensible,
conservative administration
II think that the defeat of the state
guaranty deposit law has caused much
disappointment throughout the state,
not among the bankers, perhaps, but
among depositors. In our town the
bankers were satisfied to see things left
as they were. but the business men and
general depositors wanted the law. The
man who had from 5000 to 81 900 on de-
posit in bank is the one on whom the
banker makes his money. These small
accounts are the ones that represent
savings, and they are the ones that are
kept On deposit from year to year. The
people who carry such accounts are
the ones who wanted the deposit law"
Thomas A McNeal has practically
given up the idea of being a candi-
date for governor and will. it is
thought. ask the Republican party to
again give him the nomination for
state printer.
This announcement will not only
make other candidates, real and
prospective, for the job of state
printer. sit up and take notice, but it
also indicates strongly that w. R.
Stubbs is going to stay in the race for
governor.
Mr. McNeal would probably have
been the heir and assign to the Stubbs
gubernatorial boom. For some time
Mr.. McNeal was waiting to see what
Stubs would do. At one time it was
almost certain that Mr.. McNeal would
be a candidate for governor. But
now McNeal is evidently convinced
that Stubbs means business, and will
be q candidate for governor of Kan
SaS.
There are two candidates already
Out 1OI SldlS PRIMER DeSlu6S MT. NC
Neal These are Albert Reid and w
G. Austin. There has been some talk
about Ewing Herbert getting into the
race. It is likely that Albert Reid will
withdraw from the race, and the fight
Will in all proba ability be between
Austin and McNeal. Austin is a
Fourth district man, and lives at Cot
tonwood Falls.
Mr.. McNeal said this morning: cit
is probably correct to state that / will
be a candidate for state printer That
is my present expectation. 1 am not
likely to get into the governor fight.
/ believe that Mr.. Stubs intends TO
ing to indicate that Mr.. Stubbs and
Mr.. Bailey would both withdraw. but
1t looks to me as though that would be
about the only way Mr.. Stubbs could
get out of it,"
John Ryberg, who has been an
pointed bank examiner under the state
banking department, was in ToDeka
today and accepted the office which
had been rendered him.
It is somewhat doubtful whether M
NJ. Rowley of Beloit will accent the
place. Mr.. Rowley now holds posi-
ton in a bank at Beloit which paws
about the same as the state Job and
the state appointment is only during
the term of the present bank comris-
sioner. 1t would be in the power of
Mr.. Royce's successor to name an en-
tirely new corps of bank examiners.
washington, Feb. 7.-Coneressrna
Calderhead of Kansas, who was stricII-
en- several weeks ago with pneum onis
and hovered between life and death for
long time, has sufficiently recovered
to take his seat in the house. How.
ever. he will not endeavor to look afte,
any departmental work yet
Garden City Telegram: The Demo.
cratic convention this afternoon en-.
dorsed William J. Bryan for presiden-
and John H. Atwood for national com.
mftteeman- e. G. Finnup made :
strong fight for johnson for the latte,