The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Gov. Stubbs Makes Hot Reply to
Enemies.
They Are Trying to Muddy the
Water.
He CLEARS ISSUES.
Same Men He Has Been Fight.
ing for Years.
Second District Editor Talks for
Chas. Scott.

Gov. Stubs has made answer to the
affair of the Kansas Day club meet
ing. His worst enemies cannot accuse
him in this reply of lodging the issue.
He has declared that this is no time
IN our fight for good government
in this state to dodge or trim or seek
shelter or safety by remaining nom
committal." The governor is a fight
er for true and he stated when he
gave out his manifesto that he would
take the stump next summer and
fight out the issues raised by the ma
chine men last Saturday. "I don't
pretend to be much of a politician"
said the governor, but any man in
touch with the people of this state can
see the big mistakes made by the old
machine politicians in the affairs of
the Topeka club dinner and the Kan
sas Day club meeting" The COVER
nor's defiance to his enemies is in
part as follows:
II have no complaint to make on
account of the failure of the reso-
luton offered by Attorney General
Jackson, before the Kansas Day club.
indorsing my administration. On the
contrary the incident gives me entire
satisfaction; for it assures me more
than any Endorsement could that l
am on the side of the people and of
the pubic interest. 1t scertalnly as
sures me that I am not on the side of
the corporations and their lobbyists.
1T gives me pride and qualification
to realize that Attorney General Jack
son, in the face of certain defeat.
proved true to his character, and to
his principles of right, in the cour-
ageous and manly fight he made in
caucus systematically packed to the
very doors by brow-beating railroad
attorneys, agents of the Standard Oil
the federal officers combination, Bill
| ly' Biddle, the manager of Congress
| man Anthony and the agents of some
other stand-pat congressman who hope
| to escape popular wrath by divert
4 ing the thought of the people in an
other direction.
! "I had warnings from good friends
! in the state of a secret meeting held
some time ago at Wichita, during a
/ session of Judge Pollock's court, and
at other places, where a conspiracy
was Matched and promoted against
my administration but I did not be-
lieve they would be reckless enough
! to desecrate Kansas Day when We
could get together in peace and good
will to do honor to our great state,
and to speak joyfully of the achieve
ment of her first half century of or
ganized existence, by decendfng from
i higher purposes to an attack upon
one another and the most Disgrace
4
not know, until the meeting was over
that any Endorsement of my admins
tration would be proposed and do
not believe now that any such issue
would have arisen if it had not been
provoked by the bitterness of the
agents of the corporations I have Of
Tended, and the thrifty members of a
political machine that I have helped,
| in an humble way, to put out of busi-
| ness.
| 1.-THE crowd represented at the Kan
sas Day meeting by the irresponsible
fellow who. a few years ago, with his
characteristic coarseness and vulgarity,
traduced the character of our mar
tyred President Mckinley, and now
| lauds the political virtues of Cannon
and Aldrich, will put up a candidate
of his stripe, or of their stripe, against
me- we can very easily have it set
tied in August next whether the peo-
pie of Kansas believe in progressive
! Republicanism or stand pat machine
politicians such as David Mulvane,
| chief corporation lobbyist of this state /;
Fitzpatrick of the senate lodge and
| attorney for the Standard Oil COM
pany; Col. Joe Richards of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroads; Morton AL
! baug1, the master mechanic of the dis
credited machine; Tom Kelly. or Billy
| Morgan who Jared so well at the pub
the old system when scandalOuS prac-
tices in letting the contract for the
public printing were still in vogue
'eI submit this proposition. believ-
| ing it to be a fair and straightforward
means of reaching a proper and prac-
ticable political verdict, and If am
defeated I will bow cheerfully to the
decision of the greatest agency for the
| expression of public opinion in this
state-the people themselves.
-'I would not be governor of Kansas
| or hold any other Office in this country
for five times the salary attached to
| it unless I felt that l was contributing
something to the betterment of the
state and it's people and I do not de-
| sire to hold the governorship a single
day with any other policy of manage
| ment than that I am now trying to
/ carry out. If I had no other reason
suits of the better management at the
state penal institutions alone I would
feel that the villifcation and misrepre-
sentation I have received from the re-
i dictionaries who desire return to
machine methods and the spoils sys-
tenn, would be a sufficient reward
Corporations pay their agents and
attorneys very high salaries. That is
a well known fact. Does any one sup
pose they would let such high priced
men as Fitzpatrick and Simmons and
/ Richards come to Topeka to waste two
or three days packing caucus fol
purely patriotic purposes. We do not
get our state patriotism and state
pride and spirit from such sources, and
do not believe that the plain. honest
and really patriotic people of Kansas
believe it
1.-THE intent and spirit of the pri-
mary election law was for the purpose
of giving expression to the wishes o1
members of political parties. The mer
who packed the business meeting o.
the Kansas Day club pretend to repre-
sent the Republicans of Kansas
demand that they furnish candidate
representing the things they stand fol
in public life so as to give the voter.
of this state an opportunity to sa1
whether they stand for progressive Re