The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-18
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Gov. Stubs Will Not Speak to
Striking Miners.
Also Cancelled His Date at Co.
lumbus Tonight.
THE POINT OF VIEW.
Meetings Successes or Failures
as Writer Would Have Them.
Applies to Regulars as Well as
Insurgents.
THE POINT OF VIEW.

governor SIuDDS Ildu " OCCAAiAO NAAo
invitation to speak to the striking
miners at Pittsburg tonight, and also
to cancel his engagement at Columbus
where he was to have spoken this eV-
ening at the high school commence
ment exercises. The governor has just
returned from an extended trip through
the western counties in the alkah water
district. He drank too much of the
alkali water and was indispoSed from
it's effects yesterday evening and TINS
morning. He hopes to fill his PEABODY
engagement tomorrow as he is feeling
much better this afternoon, and out
side of his little ir.lisposit1on ne IS IN
excellent health.
The invasion of the Third district by the
square deal candidate is an important
event in the campaign.
SO far during the campaign there
have been two sets of reports on all
the meetings held by both candidates
for governor. The bulls and the bears
are as busy in the Kansas campaign as
they ever we're in Wall street. When
Governor Stubs spoke at Hugoton in
Stevens county on the first lap Of ms
campaign the court house there was
crowded to the doors and the corre-
spondents with the governor on that
trip so reported to their papers at the
time. Now comes the Hugoton Hermes,
after recovering from the effects of the
meeting. and tells how that gathering
was a frost and that the attendance
was light. If thew call the Stubs
crowd at the court house that day
light attendance for Hugoton why then
they must turn out down there on pig
occasions by the thousands ike the
New York fans at the Polo GROUNDS
when the Giants are fighting for the
pennant. There are only about two
hundred and fifty votes in Stevens
county and nearly two hundred OF
these voters were present. Yet the
Hermes calls this a frost. 1t Is with
hesitation that one enters contro.
versy with the Hermes. The name 9f
this paper alone is terrifying. for was
not Hermes the son of Zeus and Mala,
and a special messenger of the gods?
And again. HermeSianiSm IS doctrine
founded upon the infallible rules OF
the early church in Germany. No. no.
It is not the desire of this article TO
dispute openly with the esteemed
Hermes of Hugoton, but merely to call
attention to the fact that the reporters
with the Stubbs party were ignorant
rather than INSCRIPTIONS when they
referred to the Stubs meeting at
Hugoton as being a success with
large crowd in attendance. In their III
nocence they thought that gathering
of one-third of the county's population
was big gathering. But the Hermes
Especial messenger. of the gods) says
Again. take the Wagstaff meeting at
Independence The Wagstaffians placed
the attendance at 1.500 and the non
partisan gents guessed one thousand.
The Stubs people present calmly an
nounced that only 3S7 persons were
present.
Stubs spoke the other day at SYRIA
cuse and a Wagstaff enthusiast sent IN
a report of a frosty meeting with small
attendance and a Stubs henchman
wrote in a happy strain of the tumultu-
Gus crowds that thronged the meeting
place.
Wagstaff at Pratt formed the sub
ject for a pretty controversy for the
attendance fiends. A party of the first
part talked about the ovation that was
accorded Mr.. Wagstaff, while the par
ty of the second part declared that the
porter for the hotel was the only per-
sonage at the depot to meet the dis
tinguished visitor.
Wagstaff went to Garden City and
a message from that town announced
that 1926 people and the band met him
at the train. A second message de-
clared that only 325 people attended
his meeting.
his vassals there declared that they
hung out the S. R. o. sign before the
meeting begun. Then a Wagstaff man
leased a telegraph wire to send east
the tidings that a few Democrats and
women and children kidnapped a Re-
publican and took him to the meeting
by main force and awkwardness.
And so it goes. The Ananias clubs
in this state seem to have a larger
membership than the Stubs and Wag-
staff clubs, according to the early re-
turns. The common citizen must read
the reports and take his choice.
The Democratic congressional COM
called to meet at Larned on Friday,
May 81. After the committee meet
ing in the afternoon it is planned to
have banquet in the evening. Sched-
uled for speeches are Senator George
H. Hodges. candidate for governor;
Lot Ravenscraft. candidate for lieu
tenant governor; Henderson Martin,
chairman of the state committee: Sam
Graybill, chairman of the Seventh dis
trict congressional committee; w L.
Brown, representative from Kingman
county, and G. F. Foley. leader of the
minority in the last legislature. With
this array of oratorical talent the
Larned banquet ought to be a success.
While on the subject of Democratic
speeches it is not too late to still talk
about the effort made by Senator
Hodges at the Hutchinson banquet
some weeks ago. From the standpoint
of an oratorical effort. spiced with
logic and adorned by metaphor, it was
the best thing heard in the state since
the silver tongued Atwood moved to
Missouri. With Hodges as the nomi-
nee the Democratic party will be we'll
equipped for a campaign on the stump
next fall.
Chairman Stitch of the Wagstaff
campaign committee is getting peevish
because Governor Stubs has not
answered his questions propounded
some time ago, and rises to ascertain
the reason why. He also asks a few
more questions. Mr.. Stitch opines as
follows at this time:
1.-Two weeks ago in an address to the
Republicans of Kansas, I made, over
my own signature and on my own re-
sponsibility, certain charges against
you. Briefly. I charged:
THAT every dollar of your great
fortune was originally made by favor
able contracts with railroads. yielding