The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-11
SEES NONE OF IT.
Congressman Campbell Finds
No Bryan Sentiment.
Says Taft Will Garry Kansas
With Ease.
MAJORITY IN THIRD.
Solid Bristow Delegation Will
Be Elected He Says.
Stubbs Will Also Have Things
His Own Way.

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the Third district stopped over last
night in Topeka on his way from
Pittsburg to Dodge City, at which lat
ter place he will deliver an address at
/ the G. A. r. reunion on Wednesday of
+, this week. Mr. Campbell is regarded
as one of the most brilliant and pro-
gressive of western congressman at
Washington.
| Since congress adjourned last spring
Mr. Campbell has been resting quietly
at home. making only few side trips
| out over his district, and is therefore
| in pretty close touch with the senti-
| ment of the voters of southeast Kan
sas. He said last night that he be-
lieved that the big Third district
would send twenty-one members OF
the legislature, a solid delegation. to
| Topeka to vote for Bristow for senator.
The Third district was a Long strong
hold and remained faithful to the SEN
ator in the recent primary like the old
guard at Waterloo. Stubs will carry
the Third by a tremendous majority.
in the opinion of Mr.. Campbell, and
the sentiment of the district is over
whelming for Taft.
IT believe" said Mr.. Campbell, that
Kansas will elect the entire Repub-
lican ticket next fall by heavy ma
jorities- The talk of any general or
prevailing Bryan sentiment in the
Sunfiower state this year is nonsense.
/ have talked with scores and scores of
men in my district from every walk
in life and I find no Bryan sentiment
at all. These men, all of them. de-
clare that all their Republican ac-
quaintances will vote the Republican
ticket this year and that many of the
old free silver Bryan Democrats will
support Taft.
II talked with a mechanic from the
Kansas City Southern railway shops
the other day, and he was out of work
He asked me when conditions would
| likely improve and I replied that in
my Judgment there would not be a
general resumption until after the
| election next fall He interrupted me
| by declaring that If Bryan won the
| country would go to the bad sure, and
| that only Taft victory would help
the man with trade now out of work.
"If the country should fail to en-
dorse the splendid record of the
Roosevelt administration and defeat
Taft, the choice of the president and
| the most able exponent of national
principles for the past eight years, it
would be complete reversal of
American political history for the
past fifty years. 1 do not believe that
| Bryan is as strong this year as he
| was either time he maze the race be-
fore If there was a political revolu-
| ton pending that would be likely to
| land the Nebraskan in the presidential
| chair the coming event would cast It's
| shadow before. One could feel it in
| the air hear it, see it. know 1t. There
would be suppressed sentiment
seething through the cracks of public
| opinion. The throb or the coming
| change would be noticeable in the
political structure, it would shake
with the puIsation of mems changing
| views. But 1 tell you, there is no
| Organism prevalent in this country.
| Men everywhere. are for Taft. all the
| Republicans you meet, and many of
| the Democrats.
| for the Republican nomination for
| the senatorship in the recent primary,
| Mr.. Campbell said: The three most
| necessary qualities for successful
United States senator are first, a
| thorough knowledge Of national
affairs the needs of the people and
the resources of the nation; second.
| studious habits, and third, an I'M
limited capacity for hard work. Mr..
Bristow possesses these three quail
ties in marked degree.
| "The worst enemy Joe Bristow ever
had will not deny that he did a ire
| mendous lot of work while in the Of
flee of fourth assistant postmaster
! general. more perhaps than any man
that ever filled that place. 1t is we'll
| known in Washington that he pre-
| pared briefs for all the applications
| for postoffices the first year he held
| that office and his recommendation
decided the winner in the very large
majority of cases. His craps of affairs,
| his insight, and his manner of hand
ling men and reaching a conclusion.
while in the postoffice department all
| showed genius.
still, I believe that Senator Longs
natural GOODNESS and dignity. his gen
| eral aloofness, were more responsible
| for his defeat last week than his rec
ord. Kansas likes the sunshine where
both men and things are concerned.
| The great mass Of the people Judged
Senator Long by his general appear
ance and his manner while on the plat
form. and these seemed to bear out
the charges against him. Only his
friends who knew him for what he
was, were loyal in the big convention
where every man in the state was a
| delegate"
Senator w. w. Caldwell. of Cloud
county, who introduced the split
primary" bill passed by the senate
and rejected by the house at the spec
ial session. is more than ever convinc-
, ed. since the Stubs primary plan has
, been tried, that his bill was the best
and that some of its substantial feat
ures will have to be adopted.
Senator Caldwell was in Topeka
! Monday on business. To State Jour
nal reporter he said:
Now that it has been tried once
, we ca nsee the arguments in favor OF
the split primary. We ought to have
all this possibility of the defeat OF
Republican nominees for the legisla-
ture eliminated. For instance, in my
own senatorial district the feeling is
: not good. They may beat me for cleo
: ton. Many of my friends were sore
: because the district instructed me fol
4 | BriStOw, and many OF 8rfstOw's
: friends were sore because 1 was nom
, mated at all. I am doing all I car
personally to line up my friends fol
the Republican ticket. 1 believe thai
I have enough personal influence tC
hold my supporters in line.
I'LL to LON no rala q