The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Topeka Correspondence

me result OF the primary angus
4th will determine the efficacy of
professional politics. 1t will show
whether the people are most moved
by professional tactics or by the
rinelples of good government,
eked by pn unorganized force. In
,-.de present campaign Mr.. Leland is
using all of the political tactics he
has learned and employed in forty
years of experience
He has a horde of flieutenants who
are supposed to know the game from
the ground up. Mr.. Stubs has no
organization and the few men who
are voluntarily giving him their ser.
vices are not given credit with
thorough knowledge of the game.
Yet glance back over the events
of the present campaign discloses
the fact that Mr.. Leland or his
lieuteAantg have made several SET
ious mistakes. Their knewleae Of
the game has not served them well
in his campaign. 1t is admittedly
a hard proposition to make an
effective campaign against a man
whose record is as clean as that OF
Mr.. Stubs, yet the Leland forces
have made some mistakes that
might not have been necessary had
they taken time to investigate before
springine the trap.
For instance early in the campaign
the Leland lieutenants concluded
that they could make medicine by
charging Stubs with boiling the
Republican ticket. They made the
charge through the newspapers and
from the platform, and it came
back like a boomerang. They had
forgotten to investigate the record
of Mr.. Leland. 1t might not have
been generally known that Leland
had bolted Farmer A. w. Smith,
Gov. E. N. Morrill,, T. T. Kelly
aud others and that he refused to
allow Gov. Hoch to come into his
county four years ago, had not this
charge been made against Stubbs.
The "crimes charged against Stubs
wasEthinner than water when Le-
lands whole boiling record came
out.
This was mistake No. I.
|. Mistake Mo. 4 appeared when MI
Leland and his crowd attempted 10
capture the G.. A. 4. through
Patrick II. Coney and the state en-
campment. Mr.. Leland wanted the
old soldier vote and figured that il
he and his forces could enlist .
department commander the battle
would be won. He tied up With
Captain Consy. The latter did not
develop the sagactiy that Leland
expected of him. He tried to cora
the old soldier votes for Leland's
candidate for commander and as is
generally known failed deplorably.
Had Leland elected his candidate
his friendly newspaper would have
been filled with the he"glorious endorse
ment" given him by the old soldiers
of the state. Capt. CoAsy hao
enc mics in the ranks, so did Leland
and the result was that the encamp
ment gave the pair 4 smarting Gu
across the face. This like mistsk,
No. I redounded to the benefit OF
Mr.. Stubbs.
Lhe Leland alley platform COM
binatian comprises mistake number
.. This mistake was so rank that
Mr.. Sfubbs was so pleased with it
that he has offered to pay Ex-Gov.
Bailey's travellng e.pensss ifhe will
continue to make the kind of
speeches he has been making against
Stubs. Both Mr.. Leland and Mr..
Stubb started out in the campaign
by avoiding any mention of eact
other. Stubbs still maintains silence
with reference to Leland, but l.
land saw an opportunity ty slip up
on the blind sids of Stubs and tried
il. He could not under the circum
-..-.s ,tt.rk Qfuhha himself htYf