The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Coming Party Council theTheme
of Politicians.
Only Two Weeks Until That
Momentous Event.
EXPECTPRETTY FIGHT
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EXPECT PRETTY FIGHT
Star dpatters May Try to Con.
troll Organization.
Conservatives Hope That Har-
mOny Will BE Patched Up.

January at the meeting of the Kansas
Day club and grew steadily hotter and
more bitter until the night of August l,
when Stubs closed the books at Usage
City and Wagstaff Numbered his fare
well volley at Cohfeyville. The people
are tired of politics. or ought to be,
and are entitled to well earned rest
of a month or SO in order to prepare
for the fall campaign.
The man who talks or writes politics
this month ought to be shot, or at least
hung up by the thumbs until he prom
ises to be good, but there are still men
who persist in trying to dig up the
faction that was buried beneath the
ballots of the last primary. The COM
ing session of the party council is only
two weeks distant and the talk about
fight at that meeting refuses to
down. One would naturally suppose
that Governor Stubs, having carried
SO out of los counties by majority of
over thirty thousand, had been en-
doTsed by a majority of the people Of
the state. Even a SloW-thinking man
of dense intelligence would be supposed
to have some glimmer of an idea that
maybe the people of the state favored
the Stubs policies and the insurge1t
ideas of the progressive leaders of the
party. But it is not so. 1t is under
stood, from reports that come in from
different counties and from the talk of
certain standpatters, some of whom
are even candidates for office, that the
oil fight begun Kansas Day will be at
tempted again at the party council.
The machine men of Kansas have al
ways been successful in convention and
at all Topeka gatherings of the faith
full. 1t is true that each success gained
at Topeka meeting has been paid for
later by disastrous defeat at the polls,
but the old timers shut their eyes and
refuse to read the writing on the wall
When 1t comes to debating terms at
the party council August 80 the stand
patters, or many of them at least, are
acting and talking now like men who
proposed to draw up the resolutions
for the council. They seem to believe
that the thirty thousand majority of
August 2 was cast in their favor. The
voice of the people raised two weeks
ago already sounds dim and far away
to their ears.
How They VIII Line Up.
1t is incredible that the effort should
now be made in - counties to organ
ize the committees and elect county
and his friends, but this is being done
for certainty in many of the coun-
ties. How far they will get in this
incipient rebellion is another matter.
The insurgent leaders declare that not
ever 40 per cent of the county chair
men will be of the old machine brand,
and that not 80 per cent of the MEM
bers of the legislature will be in SYM
pathy with the implacable enemies OF
Governor Stubs.
1t is also believed that the influence
of the nominees for state office, OF most
Of them, will be inclined to give the
governor his choice of a man for state
chairman and will try to agree with
him on state issues. The real fight is
expected in the matter of the resolutions
to DE passed by the party council. 1t
is to be hoped that these resolutions
will be draw NV the Constructive men
of both factions. The people Of Kansas
will likely object as seriously to a Tadi-
cal insurgent resolution as to a stand
rat resolution. There is a happy medi-
UNI somewhere on the map which II
reached will mean harmony and party
success. The radicals on both sides are
not looking for taiS thing at all.
The StanopatterS Who attend tie coun-
ell are not in Osition to dictate any
thing They are of the party of the
vanquished. But they have a right to
be heard and to expect conciliatory
treatment. They will represent $4,000
two successful congressional nominees
saved from the ruins of their fallen
cause. They are now demanding an en-
dorsement of the Taft administration,
and some of them are demanding a
redhot, unequivocal endorsement with
cut mention Of Ballinger or the tariff
or other Things obnoxious to the insur-
gents. They may go further and fight
n endorsement of Murdoch and Bris-
| tow who opposed the presidents views
| on the tariff and conservation.
Endorsement of Taft.
On the other hard there are certain
| insurgents of the Wildeyed breed who
demand q rundown for Taft and all
| his works. But the majority of the
| insurgent leaders and the old square
| laoI iof= I,ox or fv1fa t,,,f
| to endorse the head of the national
| rarity. They accept that policy as a
| matter of course, but there may be an
! exception in regard to Ballinger and
/ the Payne tariff bill and the standpat-
ters who compose the presidents coun-
/ Gil table, especially one Wickershani
who read all the insurgents out of the
party.
Again. the action of the New York
state standDatters of the central com
mittee in turning down Col. Roose-
welt for Sunny Jim Sherman may play
some part in the Kansas party coun-
ell. The New York affair has beer
compared by certain we'll known Kan
sans to the Kansas Day affair wher
Gov. Stubs was walked upon by the
machine leaders. Roosevelt is ace high
in Kansas, while Sherman is regarded
in about the same light as Cannon an6
high in the Taft councils and he Wen
direct to Taft for a conference follow
ing the Roosevelt rundown by the
New York politicians.
The eastern papers are now full Of
the discussion of a breach between tht
colonel and the man he made presi
dent The New York incident played
right in the hands of the insurgent:
and had strong tendency to push the
colonel over into the insurgent ranks
Kansas has an inspiration for leading
in the matter of reform in politics a.
we'll as other things, and it is a posi-
1 bility that Kansas may create a sen
sation by declaring for Roosevelt fol
1912 when the party council meets tt
draw up resolutions on national af
fairs. Roosevelt will be in the stats
the next day and he will come her,
direct from his own rundown at tn,
! hand of eastern standpatters who arr
all strong supporters of the Taft ad
l ministration.
~ Some of the Kansas insurgents nov