The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
G. w. Trickett May Be Candi-
date for Attorney General.
John Dawson Will Also Be in
the Race.
NOW MELTING AWAY.
Opposition to Governor Stubs
denomination Disappearing.
Ex-Governor Stanley Has Not
Entered the Arena.

c. W. Trickett of Wyandotte county
is spoken of as a probable candidate
for attorney general. and a report from
Kansas City has it that Trickett will
announce his candidacy early in jan
uary. Trickett achieved a sort of local
fame as assistant county attorney dur
ing the war on the Kansas City, Kan,
Joints. He fought the liquor interests
with injunction methods and helped
make his town dry, no small undertake
ing when the conditions of two years
ago are considered.
Outside of his fight on the jointists
Trickett has done nothing as lawyer
to make him prominent candidate for
attorney general. He will have the adj
vantage of a large city and populous
home county behind him in primary
election.
John Dawson of Hill City, present at
torney for the railroad board and form
er assistant attorney general. is a can
didate for attorney general. Dawson
has fought trusts and railroads as well
as joints and uses the custer suit and
common law as weapons of offense.
Dawson comes from the short grass
country and has a state wide reputa-
ton
Senator brewster of Doniphan county
and c. L. Kagey OF Beloit have been
mentioned as canO1uaIeS LOT dltOIHoy
general but neither have shown any
inclination so far to enter the race.
1t begins to look as though Governor
Stubs would not have any opposition
for denomination next summer. Moth
ing more is heard now of the plans of
the machine men for bringing out
candidate - opposition to the square
deal chief. Ex-Governor w. E. Stanley
of Wichita is still talked of, but there
appears to be no popular demand for
him to come to the front and Stanley
himself has not yet decided to enter the
race He is popular in the southwest
part of the state and would surely
carry the Eighth district but the odds
would be against him in the other
seven 1t had been planned to have
Stanley make the higher taxes and in
creased expenses of the present admin
istration as compared with his reign an
issue in the primary campaign. But
the Stubs forces would try to make
prohibition the issue. They would un
dertake to show that Stanley's policy
while in office was to cater to the lib
eral element while Stubbs has made
uncompron1ising war on the liquor ele-
ment and has even threatened to call
out the militia and sacrifice his con-
tingent fund in order that the state
might be kept dry. The square dealers
figure that Kansans are more inter-
ested in prohibition than they are in
higher taxes If the Stanley supporters
pointed to the fact that taxes were
lower under his administration and the
expenses of the state government less,
then the Stubs supporters could point
to the fact that Kansas was wet then
while now the state is dry as a desert.
Stanley nav yet enter the race for
governor, but he does not act nor talk
like man who was contemplating that
step Wichita politicians who visit
Topeka are silent when questioned
about the Stanley boom. They are
loyal to their townsman and place the
Eighth district in his column but they
do not venture the prediction that he
will make the race.
Mark Tulley, state treasurer, has
fully decided TO make the race again
for his present Office and SO far there
has no serious opposition developed
against him. Tulley was nominated
the first time without opposition and
again the second time he secured the
nomination without a fight. His rec
ord in the treasrrer's office is without
flaw or blemisn and it looks like a
third term for the Third district man.
1t is expected that Superintendent
Fairchild will run for a third term.
State Auditor Nation and Secretary
Denton. however, will retire tempo
rarily from State politics and their
deputies, WIN Davis and Tom Botkin,
will try for these respective offices.
The booEs for state Office that live
up to the night of the Kansas Day
banquet and are launched in due form
upon that occasion will likely make
the primary voyage. But between now
and that time there must be enough
encouragement for these patriots to
warrant their spending lot of time,
money and hard work in trying to at
tract the attention of the voters to
their imminent qualifications for state
Office.
Governor Stubs head of the srate ad-
ministraticn, has one idea about the
railroads Of Kansas and their methods
and John Dawson. part and parcel of
the administration and the governors
appointee to the Office of attorney for
the railway board. has another. and
these ideas are separate and distinct
from each other. So much so as to
excite comment. Here is the governors
Idea. given out in an interview:
THE people of Kansas pay $4,000. 900
more to the railroads in the way of
freight rates every year than they
would if there was an equitable adj
Justment of rates.
1.-THE freight situation in Kansas is
eminently unfair The injustice is
greater here in Kansas than in any