The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
John Schenck, Democratic Cam
didate for Attorney General.
Shawnee County Attorney Will
Make Big Fight.
JOHN DAWSON, ALSO.
DAWSON, ALSO.
Railroad Attorney ON Admins.
trati0n Ticket.
Hutchinson Gazette Predicts
Civil War for Kansas.

| OANAA w "a Ava AAeA AA6&AOs
The fight for attorney general at
the next primary election has now
narrowed down to two live candidates,
one from each party, and these. two
| candidates are being talked of all
| over the state-talked of sooner than
their announcements were made.
| That County Attorney Schenck of
| Shawnee county will run as Demo-
cratic candidate for attorney general
| and John Dawson, attorney for the
| railroad board, will run for the adj
lministration crowd, is the gossip that
| is handed out at political storm CEN
| tiers these days.
| The many cases being argued in
| the supreme court have brought
crowds of old time politicians to the
state house and between breaths they
| are talking of the candidates for the
| big state offices this coming election.
| The Democrats all over Kansas are
| arising to arms since the alleged split
| in the Republican party and all over
| the state they are of the same opinion
| that they will be able to carry away
many good offices this next campaign.
At this time the office of attorney
general is the big bone of converse
| ton and the two logical candidates,
John Schenck and John Dawson are
the men around whom the converse
| ton buZZes.
west Is LOT SClcHCks
I'VE are all for Schenck out here"
said a prominent Democrat who lives
| in western Kansas this morning. HE
| is the man who will gain the office
through his merits and there is moth
| ing that can stop him. Every Demo-
crat in Kansas will vote for Schenck
and on account of his past record as
an enforcer of the law and a staunch
friend of his party-he will be IA
vorite among the enemies of the adj
miniStration."
Mr.. Schenck himself does not say
much about it one way or the other.
1t is said that he is looking around
for a slight trace of handwriting be-
fore he announces himself for any of
flee. 1t is a question whether the
people of Shawnee county will stand
for a third term county attorney or
whether the people of the state will
ask for Democrat as attorney gen.
eraI. In running for county attorney
again Schenck is going to have
strong rival in Judge Ernest Ray
mond Simon, who is now judge of the
court of Topeka. Judge Simon on
one side and John Dawson on the
other side will make Mr.. Schenck
transact some clever campaign work.
1t has been limited pretty broadly
around the state house that John
Dawson will run for attorney general
and this is now a conceded fact. He
will, of course run on the administra-
ton ticket and if the alleged split in
the Republican party comes to a
head he will have two battles to fight.
Whatever happens it will be a bat
tie royal between the two Big Johns.
Here is what the Hutchinson Gazette
says under the heading of "Stubbs the
TactleSs:"
with every passing day another
name is added to the rolls of the sup
porters under the Curtis or Stubs
banners, and at present prospects, one
half of the Republican party in the
state will be fighting the other half be-
a merry war and with such far reach
ing effects as Boss Stubs, the tactless,
never dreamed of when he started out
to reprimand Senator Curtis for his
criticisms of the governors adminiStra-
ton. His action stirred up a hornets
nest and he is beginning to find out
that Curtis has friends, or rather, that
he himself has enemies.
I'm his eagerness to punish the
members of his own party who have
had the courage to point out his mis-
takes the ex-railroad contractor has
employed the methods of the grading
roughshod. And all over the state there
are men with sore spots who are nurs-
ing Snubs and Sights and have their
knives whetted for a politician whom
initial successes has made drunk"
Here are three philosophical slaps
from the Independence Reporter:
If Governor Stubs and his ap-
pointees did not own so many news
papers over the state the people gen.
orally might get a more correct idea
of what is going on. Stubs and his
official family almost control the press
of the state. And now comes a rumor
that the governor is to be personally
represented in Montgomery county
journalism.
Tom McNeal, state printer, who
wants to go to congress in Dan An
thongs shoes, is not so strenuous or so
pugnacious as he was a few weeks ago.
He is hitting the middle of the road
now and half-straddling the fence on
Stubs administration matters Tom
seems to see the handwriting.
Senator Curtis stated in an interview
at Erie that Governor Stubs had gone
out of his way to attack him and that
the affair was injuring the Republican
party. That does not worry the gov
ernor. He has never shown that the
success of the Republican party meant
much to him where his own success |
was at stake. The truth is Governor
Stubs has been engaged in an active |
campaign for several years to tear
down the Republican party.