The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-18
POLITICAL GOSSIP
What to Do With Jackson All
Important Question.
Latest Plan to Enter Him in
Congressional Race.
THIS DOES NOT SUIT
Admitted That He Wants to Be
Governor.
But Then Mr.. DOlley Has Similar
Ambition.

Attorney General Fred S. Jackson
occupies the unique position of be-
ing one of the great triumvirates of
the square deal and at the same time
is a blockader in the path of square
deal plans and hopes of success.
Jackson has been entered in the race
for acknowledgements and again for
q third term in his present office but
these plans did not seem to stick.
The latest is the scheme to run him
for congress against Miller in the
Fourth district.
When approached in regard to the
congressional career mapped out for
him, Mr.. Jackson did not appear to
be hilarious over his good fortune
On the contrary he was as cool as a
Cook frappe and when he smiled one
could hear the water dripping from
the north pole on to the snow below
The glamor of Washington and a
chance for mortal Combat with
Uncle Joe Cannon did not appear to
have taken possession of the attorney
general-that is not in any ap-
preciable extent. During the course
of an hours interview he spoke a
half dozen words. AT the present
time he was filling the Office of attor-
ney general and had no time for any
thing else, he said. Politics was a
thing foreign to his nature and he
felt hurt that his legal meditations
should have been disturbed in this
fashion. The reporter was sorry that
he came. There was funeral sad
ness in the room. Finally the news
paper man could stand 1t no longer
and getting up on his toes hurriedIy
silently away. 1t was as though
shrine had been invaded or a bull
had broken into a china shop.
But the question that is worrying
n 1nrS of h C iT70a iS
what shall be done with Jackson. The
attorney general, on his record of
law enforcement, has a strong fol-
lowing over the state and will be a
formidable candidate for any Office in
the gift of the people of Kansas. He |
will be especially strong IN a primary |
election. But Jackson's strength is |
built on state issues. He is not es-
pecially equipped to make Roadway |
in a congressional campaign and he |
doubtless knows that this is true; |
anyway he acts like he does.
If he is too big for the office of
lieutenant governor and has out
grown the attorney generals office
national issues, why the natural logic |
Of the situation points toward the |
governors chair with the attorney
general as a successor to Stubs in
rub. The majority of the triumvirate,
of Stubs, Dolley and Jack
son, have decided that Dolley shall be
the successor of Walter Roscoe
Stubs.
Dolley and Jackson are friends and
sit side by side in the square deal
wagon. They plan and work to-
gether. They even sleep together
like William Penn and the Indian
chief. 1t will be remembered that |
the old quaker and the Indian were
great friends and used to meet and
smoke the pipe of peace together and
even sleep in the same wigwam, but
they both staid awake all night for
fear that death might enter the tent
while they slept and take one OF
them away.
Dolley and Jackson are both awake
TO the situation and will likely sue
coed in fighting away all signs of
drowsiness for some time to come.
Dolley has the inside track at pres
emit. He has been in the limelight as
chairman of the state committee dur
ing the last campaign. served as
speaker of the house and is now in the
public eye as bank commissioner. It
must be admitted that he has made
good on several hard jobs lately and
ne can continue to hold the attention
IF the public in his present office I'M
he present governor. Mr.. Jackson's
ERIN of office will expire in a little
over a year, and a couple of years
spent in retirement will not help any
n a campaign for governor.
What will he find for MS hands to