The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-02
Star Appears to Have Deserted
Stubs Camp.
MILLER STILL SILENT.
Generally Believed He will Stay
Out of Race.
Leland Stock Appears to Be
Picking Up.

the campaign is the attitude which the
Kansas City newspapers are taking
with reference to the Kansas governor
ship fight
To all appearances, the Kansas City
Star, which at one time was the
staunch defender of Stubs and the
square deal, has gone over into the
Leland camp.
At the same time the Kansas City
Journal. which is the corporation or
gan of this section of the country, is
saying some nice things about Stubs.
and seems to be getting itself in shape
to support him. What the Kansas City
Journal has already said editorially
would almost preclude it from fighting
Stubbs, though it might not take any
active part in his defense.
1t is rather hard to explain the
journalistic anomaly. The Star seems
to be very friendly to the candidacy of
j. L. BristOw against Senator Long.
but it is unable to do anything for
Stubs. The Kansas City Journal. on
the other hand, is supporting Long,
but seems to be making goo-goo eyes
at Stubs.
One CONCLUSION to be drawn from
this state of affairs might be that
Stubs and Bristow are not likely to
work together much in the campaign,
no matter what their inclinations
though they are both supposed to
represent about the same things in
politics, 1t is apparent that BristOw is
going to get certain votes that Stubs
can't get, while Stubs is apparently
securing some support which won't go
to Bristow.
Some have suggested that the Kan
sas CITY journal is supporting Stubs
tor the express PURPOSE Of hurting
him. The fact that the Kansas City
Journal is SO strongly aligned with ali
corporate interests makes its support
something to be feared in tn ese strenu-
Gus Rooseveltian times. The people
who are close to Stubs seem to be
nightly surprised at the attitude of
the Kansas City Journal.
It begins to look as though H. B.
Miller Of Usage county has been salts
ned that he does not want any of the
governorshfp fight in his. The prom
ised announcement Of his candidacy
which has been dangled a few days In
the future for the past two weeks, is
now remote contingency. and appar-
entity has Just about reached the
Very few people were able to see
just where Miller expected to get in
his work between Leland and Stubs
Leland seemed to have the old soldiers
ana Stubbs to have the radical Re-
publicans and Miller's only hope was
to get the machine votes which
wouldn't go to Leland and the radical
votes which wouldn't go to Stubs. 1t
seems that Miller has become con-
WINGED that he hasn't much show in
that sort Of a game.
Clyde Miller, who has been scouting
around at the various conventions for
the purpose Of spying out the land for
his father, is said to have not received
the Fifth or Sixth congressional dis
tricts.
Nearly everybody is claiming now
that w. r. Stubs is losing strength
in his campaign for the governorship.
and that Cyrus Leland is making ire,
mendous gains every day.
There is no doubt that Leland is
gaining strength. The failure of Bailey
to stay and the failure Of Miller to get
in will each help Leland. AS a mat
ter of fact. the governorship contest,
up to this time, has been a very nebulous
affair. Stubs strength is pretty well
defined, and has been we'll defined for
weeks. The opposition to Stubs, while
1t has existed all the time, has been
laying low, because it had no place to
go. Many of the politicians who hate
Stubs also hate Leland, and they
have been waiting and hoping for some
body else to get into the race Now
that 1t begins to look as though Leland
was the only man to run against
Stubs, all Of this nebulous opposition
to Stubs will be driven into the Leland
camp.
Hence while 1t is evident that Leland
is gaining strength. he probably is not
gaining it at the expense Of Stubs.
| He is simply putting his individual
brand on the anti-Stubbs sentiment
which has been lying around loose all
the time.
Leland will give Stubs hard fight.
He will get the solid old soldier vote;
he will get the solid support OF the
machine" Republicans; he will get
some Votes from so-called square
dealers" who think that Mr.. Stubs is
not sincere in his protestatipns for po-
| l1tical reform. Leland will make q
| splendid campaign, of his particular
kind. He will not make speeches, but