The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
'CLME TO STAY"
So Says w. A. White, Speaking
of Insurgents.
Stubbs' Victory a Triumph Ris-
ing Above November Wreck.
FORCES IN OPPOSITION
Rum, Railroads and ROughs, the
Three Rs in Kansas.
Curtis, MuIvane and Billiard Are
Named as Stubbs' Opponents

Emporia, Kan, Nov. love have
come to stay is the heading under
which w. A. White, in his Emporia
Gazette, reviews the Kansas situation.
He says: THE victory of Governor
Stubs in Kansas with the Republican
congressional delegation, is a triumph
for progressive Republicanism that can
not be duplicated in any other state.
Considering the forces at work against
him the strength displayed by Governor
Stubs in this fight was most remark
able. 1t proves that he is a leader of
men surpassed not even by LaFollette.
kansas was the only state in which
the progressive Republicans won against
the brewers, with the railroads and the
Standpat Republicans and organization
Democrats piling up votes against them.
When one looks at the great holes torn
in the Republican armor in Kansas in
the First and Third diStricts-that went
for Hoch and the vets in 1906 the
border counties with the great vote, one
is surprised that Stubs did as well as
he did
when one looks at the shop votes
OF the railroads in Shawnee, in Wyan-
dotte, in Emporia, in Wichita, one re-
aliZeS that the railroads united with
| the brewers and made the common fight
against Stubs. Then when one sees
| the negro wards in every county, where
! purchasable lined up to Hodges with
money and with whisky, one realizes
| that every evil influence in Kansas,
W Risky corporation politics and the
| mercenary vote, were allied fighting
| Stubs and only Stubs.
He was the man they were after. In
the First and Third districts the in
surgents played fair. They voted the
Republican ticket. But these two dis
| tricts that went for Hoch in 1906 cast
| n1v-1xy irxy inc Ct11h he.
The standpatters did not play fair. They
bcIted. But we have demonstrated that
| in Kansas there is a clearcut working
majority without that standpat vote,
without the whisky vote, without the
railroad vote, without the mercenary
element of the negro vote.
Kansas a Free State.
1--WE can run Kansas as a free state
| in spite of all the forces of evil united
| against us. We have come to stay. We
have come to do what we can to help
| that man who works to get what
| he earns for his work, from the man
who does not work, but who takes
| what he does not earn from the man
| who earns it. We are here to stop
stock watering so that the man who
works for corporation may have his
| fair wage and the people who buy the
necessaries of life may have them al
| a fair price, while the man who makes
| an honest investment in an honest cor
pOrat1On may nave talr rate OF inter-
| est upon his investment. We have
come into this fight to keep. Kansas
| clean. We propose as Republicans to
| see that the saloon is wiped out and
| kept wiped out of Kansas.
Curtis, Billiard and Mulvane Named.
1--WE propose to do this in spite OF
| the brewers money, and in spite OF
the alliance of the whisky interests
with the railroads. They were united
! in this fight. We know just how strong
they are. We have counted noses. We
have enough to win. Kansas shall
continue to be free state, and will be
the model Republican state, where the
people rule. We Republicans said we
would get them in a corral and lick
them with one club and that is just
what we did.
Senator Curtis and Mayor Billiard
and Dave Mulvane all worked together
| in Topeka the other day. They all
stand for the same thing. We have
taken care of Billiard and Mulvane;
and Senator Curtis is the next man to
walk the plank. For we have come to
stay. This fight has just begun, and
the next battle will be more decisive
than this"