The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
No One Attracting More Atten-
ton at San Antonio Congress.
Light and Gazette Refers to His
Grip as Some Handshake.
QUIET ON ROOSEVELT
Governor Refers to Him Only as
"A Pretty Lively Corpse"
Says Liquor Is Curse From
Purely Business Standpoint.

San Antonio, Tex, Nov. 24.-The
San Antonio Light and Gazette prints
an interview with Governor w r.
Stubs of Kansas, who is present at
the Transmississippi Commercial Con-
gress, as follows:
Walter r. Stubbs, the red headed,
hard hitting business-governor of the
state of Kansas, is in our midst, or
words to that general and stereotyped
effect. He is at the Gunter and there
IS no figure among the big men Of
the Transmississippi congress who is
attracting more attention and interest
than this same Walter R Stubs, with
his pale red hair and his quiet mien
that would hardly lead you to think
he IS the tire-eater and machine buster
that he Is.
But you get a quick and certain
awakening after you have talked %
Governor Stubs even for a few mo-
ments. Hearing so much of what this
man has done in the state of Kansas
and the people he has made quail and
turn tail and run, 1t is with the expec-
tation of finding a fire-flashing eyed
person that you meet him. And
when, after knocking on his door, you
hear regular Ben Tillman voice
commanding you to enter, you still
expect the picture to be carried out
10 its fullest detail.
Instead &C that you find a quiet,
gentle looking man, seated in a big
"oCEing chair with papers scattered
about and being read by him with in
tereSt. He peers at you, this man from
Kansas, as if he would see who you
really are. You are surprised, a little.
Then he shakes your hand and the
electric shock comes again. In the
woTCs of the street, the governor of
Kansas has some handshake. He
reaches out and grips your hand with
hearty, firm pressure that let's you
know there is a big bundle of life and
energy concealed behind that gentle,
paternal exterior.
Governor, do you think that the
defeat of Mr.. Roosevelt in New York
was due to normal conditions which
p1 evaiied over the country or due to
the so-called Rooseveltism p the gov
ernor was asked.
He smiled as he answered, and that
smile is equal in gentleness and sweet
ness to the force of the handshake.
Young man, L guess I'd better keep
quiet on that subject. One of your
contemporaries popped a question at
me last night on the Roosevelt affair
and I EaG to answer tFat one thing
MIR. Roosevelt is a pretty live corpse.
] said, and that's all I'm going to say
about that question. I guess I had
better keep quiet on that
You have proved in the state Of
Kansas that the prOhibitory law can
be enforced. Do you think that it can
tions in your state unusual?'
Then you got sight of the real
Stubbs, the Stubs who has fought for
enforcement of the laws in his state
ard fought to get the kind of laws
that he believes are right. Bang! One
fist went down on the arm of his char
and the other hand relaxed the grip
on his paper which slipped in aston
ished quiet to the floor.
Ives, sir!' he answered, and his
voice could have been heard all over
ths hotel had the door been open.
Yes, sir, il can wherever there is the
law that will prohibit, it can be en-
forced. We have not got good laws
in Kansas. They are poor, but we are
going to make them better. I believe.
For instance, the governor has not the
power 20 remove county officials from
Office, to suspend them or to stop
their pay even when it is shown that
they are not doing their duty in en-
forcing the law. That's a bill that we
hope to get through the next legisla
ture.
There is another thing that is a
pledge in the party platform and that
is a penitentiary sentence for boot
leggers on their second conviction of
having violated the law
Here the governor leaned forward
and placed enc foot on the chair in
front of him. And you liked the way
he looked you straight in the eye as
If he wished to carry the magnetism
you.
1--WE want to place these men In
the penitentiary digging COAL he said.
For and that voice rose, the voice
which has been going along in a con-
Versational tone, rose until you could
have heard it on the street, the man
twice convicted of bootlegging has no
respect for the law. He is a confirmed
1awbreaker and he belongs in the pen
itentiary as much as the thief or bur
glar.'
We hope to have that bill passed
by the next legislature he resume d
quietly. IF there is any joint open in
the state of Kansas it is open under
the same conditions that thieves and
other crooks operate in the dark AMI
In expectation of being punished if
they get caught
Governor Stubs said that prohi-
bition, enforced, was a good thing for
state. I an not speaking from tn.
moral standpoint, the idea of bring
Ing up boys nd girls who never kne y
the taste of liquor nor saw the inside
of a saloon, but from a purely bust
ness standpoint. The money is in cir
ruiation. If the man can not spent
It for liquor he takes it home to his
wife ami it goes into business, legiti-
mate business circulation. The rea
estate worth. shown from the FAX re
ceipts of Kansas, has increased many
millions ana the bank deposits ter
millions since the enforcement of pro.
hibition. That is proof. proof tina
Convlnces any one but a liar and lial
will tell you anything
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