The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
The Home Coming of Stubs"
at Gardner.
1t Was One of the Events of
Age There.
BOOM FOR ROB STONE.
EmpOria Gazette Suggests To-
peka Man for Speaker.
Says That He Has Met Every
Test.

Gardner is a little town ten miles
south Of Olathe in Johnson county and
is supported by its trade with the farm
ers in the vicinity. 1t is a typical Kan
sas community and the farm land that
lies around it is as rich as any land
has a right to be. The people are pros
Porous and have organized strong
lodges as well as churches and schools
in their midst. One day this week the
Woodmen lodge gave a picnic and log
aolllng in the grove near town. They
invited a former resident of Gardner to
make the principal address of the oc-
Casion, and thereby hangs tale.
This former citizen, in the days or
his residence in Gardner was not in
the habit of making speeches. He was
distinguished fer nothing then except
his red hair and the aggressive look
given to his face by the pronounced
lines of his lower jaw. He worked for
a nearby farmer as a common hired
man and his long suit then was the ty-
ing up the golden grain into neat pack
ages as IT, fell before the mower. He
was just a common plug hired man on
a farm and he left Gardner with a
mule and long handle whip.
Gardner is still on the map and the
hired men still tie up wheat into shocks
on the nearby farms. The red-headeo
farm hand came back home the other
day and some $500 citizens of the coun-
ty gave him a great ovation when he
came forward to speak at the Woodmen
picnic. He is governor of the state now
and a rich man besides and has a ma
tional reputation as a statesman and
reformer. Many of the men who used
to work in the harvest fields with him
years ago sat on 80 -'"-fo-ro while he
talked of his stewardship as governor
of the state. They called him ROSS"
beamed with pride for their former
field hand.
The governor is said to have enjoyed
that meeting more than any he ever
attended in his life. He talked of the
present and predicted the future, but
his thou gifts were in the past. He ad-
Initted today, in speaking of his Gard
Ter trip, that While he talked about
the reforms at the penitentiary, he was
thinking all the time of a certain hot
day when he wound bands around
wheat for so cents per and board.
The Kansas writer's have been say
ing nice and mean thiI gs about Cover
nor Stubs for several years and he
has had tributes galore paid to his
fighting qualities and his success has
been analysed in the seven crucioles
OF the Kansas language. But the fin
est thing one can say about the COVER
nor is brought to mind by his bearing
at Gardner, and that is that he is the
same man now that he was when he
went out to a Johnson county barn al
a o'clock a. m. to throw the chain har-
ness on a work team. His money and
his fame do not make the slightest
difference in the world. His hair is the
same color still, his jaw holds it's same
lines and his disposition has changed
about as much as his hair and the
curve of his jaw.
William Allen White. in his Emporia
Gazette, launches a boom for Robert
Stone, of Topeka, for speaker Of the
l.ext house of representatives in the
following editorial:
at is, of course, early to lay definite
and certain plans for the next Kansas
nominations are all made, and one
may look over the field and see the
material from which to pick, and from
that material the Gazette believe the
best man whom the Republicans may
select as a candidate for speaker is
Robert Stone of Topeka. He has
served three terms in the legislature,
and is now a candidate without oppo-
sition for his fourth term. At every
session he has had his face forward
he has served the people. He has
done as much as any man in Kansas
TO secure the legislation which has
made it possible for Kansas to free
herself from machine rule. Robert
Stone has been a leader. He has had
his own ideas. He is big man men
Tally anu IlOEdllgs ne Hos COuI-
age and good sense combined. He
gets on with people. He has his way
without a row, and he will make a
speaker that Kansas may be proud of.
HE worked beside Governor Stubs
through all the years when 1t took
now is so proud of-the primary law
the antipass law, the two cent fare
law, the maximum freight law. the
board of control law. the antilobby
law. and Robert stone is just as deeply
dyed in the progressive thought as
Governor Stubs. and in the legisla-
ture would work in complete sympa-
thy with the administration of which
by necessity the speaker becomes so
prominent a part.
honest. He has stood every test that
righteous man has to face, and he
has stood it without fear and without
reproach He would make an ideal
speaker, one whose work would be
sound and true, and whose loyalty al
ways would be to the people. and to
no machine or organization or clique
or combination whatsoever"
After beating Cyrus Leland for
place on the county committee. the
Doniphan county Republicans have re-
pented of their misdeed and now want
their. Uncle Cy to guide and direct that
corr rllittee in the way it should go. At
a recent meeting of the committee the
following resolution was passed with
out . dissenting vote:
"Be it Resolved, That we express our
hearty appreciation of his past services
and request that he shall act with this
committee in an advisory capacity and
give us the aid of his experience and
skill in the management of the coming
campaign and we suggest that the
chairman of our committee consult and
advise with Mr.. Leland and obtain his
co-operation and assistance through
out this campaign"
Kansas Boy Finds Parent.