The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
Gov. Stubbs Takes Exceptions to
Senator's Criticism.
POurs Out Walls of Wrath Upon
Regulars.
HE ASKS LONG TO RUN.
Wants Him to Become the Op'
position Candidate.
Governor Depends Upon Party
Voters Not Politicians.

Governor Stubs took umbrage at a
recent interview given out by ex-Sena-
tor Chester 1. Long endorsing the ac-
ton of the Kansas Day club when that
organization turned down the Stubs
administration. and he goes after the
senator hammer and tongs in signed
statement.
In his reply to the Long criticisms
the governor said:
"I have read with no small interest
the recent interview Of Senator Long
in which he gave express endorsements
sas Day club, in packed caucus as
sembled, including I suppose, the un-
printable speech of his old friend Hack
ney, of Cowley county.
'I do not know Mr.. Long is quo
ted as saying at Kansas City, that
there will be a Republican candidate
for governor, but there should be by all
means.
This is a singular admission of ig-
norance from our most distinguished
ex-senator. Is it possible that after his
long leadership of the machine element
of the Republican party in Kansas he
left it so hopelessly wrecked that there
is no certainty whether it will have a
candidate for governor?
when has it happened before In the
history of politics in this state that
the great powers represented by Mr..
Long, Mr.. Mulvane, Mr.. Fitzpatrick and
their colleagues did not know exactly
who their candidate for governor would
be- or whether they would have a Re-
publican candidate to suit them and the
| interests they represent in Kansas.
rs it possible that Mr. Long can
not see in this remarkable crisis a
splendid opportunity to vindicate his
past leadership by offering himself as
a Moses to lead his wailing followers
out of the terrible wilderness they are
in?
Long for Governor.
Gas the senator undoubtedly believes
that no candidate for governor can De
considered acceptable unless he has
the old machine brand upon his shoul-
der I can not now think OF any mar
| who is better qualified to represent thai
element than himself, or who Is more
| competent to champion and defend the
| principles and interests represented by
| Fitzpatrick of the Standard Oil com
pany, Joe Richards of the Missouri
| Pacific, D. o. McCray of the Pullman
Palace Car company and School Book
trust, Tom Kelly and the other gen
tlenaen who SO generously and patri-
| otically sacrificed their business inter
! ests and came here to Topeka to pub
/ licly define Republicanism for the
people of Kansas and give direction to
the principles of the Grand Old party
of Sumner. Seward and Lincoln.
| ssIf the senator does not care to come
| into the race himself 1 think he owes
| it to his own embarrassing position iT
the party to furnish a substitute. for
am sure the Republicans of Kansas
who have other affairs than politics tc
look after would like to settle once fol
all at the August primaries whether
the party in Kansas stands for the ole
machine methods or for progressive
Republicanisnc.
II will be fair enough to confess
now, and Senator Long can have al
the advantage of the admission, that
would not accept the governorship OF
| Kansas on any conditions that would
conflict with the present policy of thi.
administration and the business meth,
DDS 1 am now pursuing in a genera
way. If my policy and my methods
are un-Republican, as Mr.. Long as
serts, the we'll read and we'll informed