The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06

Mr.. Jackson decided himself to get in
to the race and this paper made an
announcement of the fact, basing its
assertion on Mr.. Jackson's positive
statement to that effect.
If Mr.. Jackson has discovered at
this late hour that Bill White and
Bristow and Stubs are machine poll
ticians he should denounce them in
specific terms for sailing under false
colors. These three individuals have
been trying for three months to get
him to run against Miller.
While on the other hand it is well
known fact that every machine politi-
clan of note in Topeka has been try
ing just as hard to keep him out Of
the congressional race in order that
he might be induced to run for gov
ernor against Stubs. With Jackson
running at large over the square deal
range there was a fine chance for
trouble in the inner councils of the
triumvirate. Every machine interest
was on the side of Jackson the fire.
brand, and thus opposed to jackson
the congressional candidate, working
in harness and pulling with the other
square deal leaders.
Jackson's statement of Sunday
morning indicates either that he was
up in the air. was misquoted. or
that he has decided to brand the
square deal leaders as machine" men
and will later prove his contention.
But Notwithstanding Mr.. Jackson
declaration that he is mot now a
candidate for congress in the Fourth,
he is one, or will be in ! few weeks.
The formal declaration will be re-
served for some sacred organ of the
square deal.
In the meantime all this vacilla-
ton. and clubbing and changing of
front, and hesitation, and blowing
hot and blowing cold, and conferences
first with square dealers and second
with machine men, will not help Mr..
Jackson very much with the general
public unless all the facts in connec-
ton Herewith are made known. Mr..
Jackson has always taken a great
pride in making record as a good at
torney general. His work in connec-
ton with that office comes first with
him. He will talk frankly about that
work and will talk very little about
likely that the demands of his present
Office which he will occupy for another
year have something to do with his
hesitancy in the matter of the Fourth
district fight. He will be attorney gen.
eral until after the Fourth district
campaign has ended next fall.
Mr.. Jackson probably dislikes to take
on hot congressional fight at the same
time he has his present work on his
hands. He would finish what he has
begun so well and carried SO far be-
fore he turns to something else. Those
who know Mr.. Jackson best will give
this argument due attention.
The State Journal announcement may
have been premature but it will be
verified as soon as President Taft
The Emporia Gazette comments upon
Attorney General Jackson's candidacy
for congress as follows:
"Mr. Jackson is waiting until con-
gress convenes, and the president has
off hafnrQ
nouncing his platform. But his friends
say he will make his platform along
lines of President Taft's message and
the issues that arise from it. He be-
lieves that the compromises that Can
non and Aldrich make on the PROPOSE
lions demanded by the president will
afford an issue for the coming pri-
maries. 1t is claimed that he will an
nounce his independence not only from
Cannon. but from any successor to
Cannon, who may be under the domina-
ton of the Cannon wing in the party
in congress. He has decided reluctant
ly to get into the race, because he feels
that he is making sacrifice of his per-
sonal and business career as lawyer
to enter congress
For some time the machine Repub-
1icans have been trying to get Jack
son to run for governor; they have told
him that if he would get Stubs to
withdraw from the contest for sec
ond term, the machine would bring out
no candidate against Jackson. But
Jackson has believed that Governor
Stubs deserves a denomination from
his party, and has said he will support
Stubbs."
1t is expected that Gov Judson
Harmon of Ohio will be the principal
speaker at the Democratic banquet to
be held here February %. Gov. Har-
mon is possibility for his party
nomination for president three years
hence. No effort will be spared by
the management of the Topeka ban
quet to land the Ohio man for the big
doings on the twenty-second.
Dave NALL, postmaster at Herring
ton, while in Topeka on little visit
gave it as his opinion after few
weeks spent in the agricultural pre-