The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-14

visit to Washington was unweIcone
and that you had not been consulted,
which formed the basis for the story
printed. 1 personally have not given
out any interview in reference to this
| matter. Mr.. Anthony can have no Just
complaint against Mr.. stones appoint
ment for it withdraws Mr.. Stones
avowed candidacy for congress in Mr..
Anthony's district.
'I shall deeply regret. indeed, If
this matter causes you the least an
noyance. Your often repeated cour-
teSies TO me are too much appreciated
to permit any action you may take to
have the slightest effect upon our
friendship.
Your sincere friend.
'fW. r. STUBBS."
Governor Stubbs yesterday received
a letter from Attorney General Wicker
sham in which the latter stated that he
had received the governors wire noti-
flying him of Mr.. Stones acceptance of
the place. Mr.. Wickersham was glad
to get the news and declared that Stone
should have every chance possible for
further advancement.
If Governor Stubbs had ignored the
Kansas delegation, his friends assert
that so had President Taft. for the lat
ter appointed Stone solely upon TIE
governors recommendation.
The Stone appointment and revoke
ment is the one big topic of conversa-
ton in Topeka today. 1t is the biggest
sensation that has been sprung in Kan
sas politics for some time.
Machine Men EIated.
The machine men are elated. of
| course. and the square dealers are COR
respondingly depressed. Anthony viii
have to face the attack of the com
| bined efforts of the square dealers when
he goes after the Republican nominal
trict, next year. All flags of truce have
been furled; the dove of peace has been
] shut up in the coal cellar and uncom-
promising war is now declared. The
Anthony fight next year in the First
district will be the first battle in the
campaign for United States senator
| three years hence, with Stubs and
Curtis leading the contending forces.
| Stones Version of Curtis Interview.
| The Washington dispatches this
! morning quoted Senator Curtis as hav-
! ing given the text of the Stone inter-
view with the senior Kansas senator
| last week to the effect that Stone had
asked for Curtis endorsement for the
place of district attorney for Kansas
Mr.. Stone, speaking today of the Curtis
interview gave the following version of
| that conversation:
| Il had been promised the place in the
! attorney generals office by Mr.. Wick
ersham himself and therefore did not
see the need of having to get any con-
| gressional endorsement for the place.
! When l brought the matter up with
Senator Curtis during our interview in
| Washington l had reason to doubt his
! friendship for me, so | undertook to
sound him first in his attitude toward
myself before mentioning the place in
the attorney generals office to him.
! Now, had worked for and voted for
| Curtis for senator and had a right to
| expect his friendship in my case
asked him if he and Senator Bristow
| had agreed yet on the Kansas federal
| patronage and he said they had not
and it did not now look as if they
would be able to do so. but hoped that
they might possibly get together on the
matter in the future.
! Il then asked the senator who he
favored for the place of district attor-
ney for Kansas and he replied that he
favored III. j. Bone. 1 told him I did
! not think that Bristow would agree to
Bones re-appointment. and he said
! that he did not think so either.
Then | suggested that they COM
promise on me for the place. Senator
Bristow could have no objections to
| and he could agree on this place.
Senator Curtis sidestepped this
proposition.
ST then asked him if he would sup
port me for congress in the First dis
| trict if 1 decided to run against
Anthony. He said that he was not
| tied to any one in this matter and that
he might be willing to help me if
| Gov. Stubbs kept out of the fight. He
| intimated. however. that if the gov
ernor helped me he would be com
PEELED to oppose my candidacy in self
defense.
| ''I realized clearly from this con-
versation that Senator Curtis would
| oppose my application for a place in
| the attorney generals office, and as
| l understood that 1 had no need of
! his recommendation for the place
did not, for that reason, mention the
matter to him at all I merely
brought up the question of the dis
trict attorney job to find out where
the senator stood in regard to myself
yes sir, Mr.. Wickersham gave me
clearly to understand that ali that
was necessary to my appointment in
his Office was a letter of recon-
| mendation from Gov. Stubbs.''
Mr.. Stone did not appear to be
| "sore" over this reversal of his de-
cision by the umpire in the great ma
! tional game of politics. His private
| practice here will yield him as large
| revenue as the place he won and
| lost in the department of justice. He
| was sorry that the matter had gotten
into its present shape. but feels in no
| way to blame in the matter He was
| offered the place, accepted it and was
! appointed and then turned down at
the expense of the fight between the
factions in Kansas politics. This is
about the way Mr.. Stone views the
situation He is inclined to
philosophize rather than get mad
! about it