The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
The Square Dealers Fight on
Taft congressman.
Real Tragedy Be Enacted IN
Fourth District.
JACKSON WILL RUN.
He Has Been Drafted by Stubbs
and White.
Man of State Proportions Shunt'
ed to District Siding.
JACKSON WILL RUN.

9uFgent faction or the flepuOll"oh H"-
ty IN this state TO wage war on all the
congressman who voted for the Payhe
-ariff bill will result in some pretty
complications before the SANDS Oh the
year 1910 have run out
In the First district Tom McNeal
las been entered against Anthony.
Well. the witty and popular state
printer has nothing to lose and much
20 gain. He is serving his third term
as a state officer.
In the Second district Alex. Mitchell
las been entered against Scott. Mr..
Mitchen's law practice will not suffer
from the advertising resultant from
campaign. He has much to gain and
I,othing to lose.
The same holds true with Arthur
Cranston of Parsons. who has been en-
tered as the square deal candidate
against Phil Campbell in the Third
district.
In the Fifth district Judge Rees will
likely be entered against Congress
ran Calderhead. Judge Rees has
much to gain and his judgeship to lose.
In the Sixth district there are sew
cral patriots who would be glad to
emerge from local fame to a place in
congress and Senator Young of Beloit
= prominent among these aspirants
for Reeder's place. Young has much
to gain and little to lose
In the Seventh and Eighth districts
here have formulated as yet no def
nite opposition to Messrs Madison and
Murdock.
Fourth District in Limelight.
But it is in the Fourth district that
he real tragedy of the year 1910 will
te forced and played out by square
Geal ambition and hopes and fears.
Attorney General Jackson is to be
forced into the race against Miller.
He is to be led as a lamb before his
shearers. And so far he has opened
not his mouth.
Mr.. Jackson has little to gain and
much to lose.
But the word has gone forth from
the councils of the mighty. Stubbs
and Dolley and White and Bristow
have so decided. Jackson is the man
with whom to beat Miller His rec
ord in office and his popularity fit him
well for the job in hand.
They also fit him still better for
bigger job. But Mr.. Jackson cannot
sec it that way and the Stubs star
is still in the ascendant.
Now Mr.. Jackson would likely de-
feat Mr. Miller for the nomination in
the Fifth were it not for the weights
fastened to each of his feet.
jackson is stronger in the
Fourth than the governor. Then
consider how the Fourth district peo-
pie will receive a candidate furnished
by the governor. Will they not argue
that they can attend to their own af
fairs without dictation from the gov
ernors office in Topeka?
Jackson's name has been mentioned
often for the governorship and
cheered when spoken, but his call to
get into congressional politics came
from the inner chambers of the square
deal.
Miller is is i, mighty Ugh So strong ra;oa in 1.-The the
before, and notably in the case of SEN
ator Tucker. Then there is Clyde
Miller and his following lined up
solidly for J. NJ. This must be con-
sidered as an important factor even
for a man of Jackson's popularity to
contend without the handicap of the
Stubbs dictation.
Miller Is Intrenched.
Miller has his district organized
from the hills to the uttermost end
of the valleys. He is familiar with
the ground and is in close touch with
the situation, while Mr.. Jackson has
dwelt for four years in Topeka in the
atmosphere of state politics and work
ing on state reforms. He has been far
removed from congressional affairs
and has made his reputation on other
than national issues which so closely
affect congressman. On state
platform Mr.. Jackson would be apt to
set the grass roots af1re, but on con-
gressional issues his strength can only
be estimated by conjecture or pre-
diction
But he has been chosen by the
governor and his counsellors for the
Fourth district and must enter the
lists against Miller. He IS pawn in
the political chess game with Senator
Curtis. A vote for Jackson III the
Fourth district primary may be re-
parded as a vote for StubbS for
United States senator. Then with Mr.
Jackson down in the Fourth fighting
Miller the governor will no longer be
troubled by strange dreams nor COM
saw Jackson's face in a glass darkly
will be glad. The Dolley succession
will be made sure. Another link will
have been forged in the senatorial
chain.
The Pity of 1t.
But what if Mr.. jackson is beaten in
his uphill fight with Miller? The pity
of it, This would be the creates.
tragedy of Kansas politics since Ingalls,
retirement.
His fall was destined to a narrow
strand
A petty fortress, dubious hand'
We'll Mr. Jackson knows his OWE
business the best. after ALL He has
about determined to announce his can
didacy against Mr.. Miller. The draft
impressed by Stubs. White ct al has
secured another soldier for the SQUARE
deal cause. The trench must be filed
before the Notifications can be scaled
If Mr.. Jackson is too big for the job, so
much the better. If he wins he will be
out of the way at Topeka. If he loses
he will be dead and buried politically
and ghosts do. not make good guber-
material timber.
Stubbs is a good manipulation. His
railway experience stood him in goo /