The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-27

election. In the coming election, the
man with a record will be the guide
of the voters and not the pretender.
The Stubbs grandstand and gallery
plays are disgusting the people They
want a man who viii do something
The nomination of Senator Hodges for
governor by the Democrats viii mean
a Waterloo and wind mp the greatest
critics ever foisted upon the state of
Kansas, for Stubbs and his crowd will
certainly go down to defeat.
mo one knows this better than
Stubbs, for he has teen very busy for
the past six months trying to circum-
vent Hodges nomination. He has used
every officehoider he could and through
his faithful press agents has hunted the
state over with the greatest care for a
Democrat candidate for governor. Pre-
tending to- stand for the reform and
against corporation control of state af-
fairs, his press agents and newspaper
organs first eXtOled Balie Waggener as
the logical man to lead the opposition
to victory Hardly had the name been
lrentioned when every square deal or
gan in Kansas caught the name and
all agreed that the sWaggener boom
was a great move by the Democrats.
But of course they did not mention
that it would be still better thing for
Stubbs--the very thing he wanted to
see happen Why this friendship be-
tween Stubs and his so-called square
Geal crowd and Waggener, the Missouri
Pacific attorney and general corpora
ton representative? Why is -Waggener
openly saying as between Hodges and
Stubs, he is for Stubs? Is there
deal between the two. great reformers? %
Reports going out seem to indicate and
indicate strongly that there is a deal
between them.
"The fight on Senator Hodges by the
corporations and few who claim to
be Democrats. aided and abetted by
Stubbs and his retinue of press agents
aud square deal organs, is being
ing together, and Bale Waggener is
helping them along by proclaiming
that Stubbs is infinitely better and
safer than Hodges
'Waggener and his corporation
crowd in the Democratic party, aided
by stubbs and his crowd. kept busy
trying to get Judge Jackson of Win
field into the race. Jackson. it was
argued, was just the man because he
hadn't any record in this fool reform
wave that has been sweeping over
Kansas the past six years. Waggener
says, What we need in the. Democrat
candidate for governor is man who
has not mixed UP in this reform fool
ishness and who will stand hitched
and be decent and fair. and I believe
Jackson is that kind of a fellow
Every newspaper Waggener can
control and those Of the square deal
stripe are. fighting Hodges. Why :?
Because he has stood for and fought
for the many good laws on the statute
books as a member of the state SEN
ate. He fought the old senate lodge
from start to finish and Waggener was
a leading member of the lodge The
one thing that will make the nomina-
ton of Hodges for governor certain is
the we'll known fact that the corpora
ton element of his own party is
against him The Democrats of Kan
sas know that and George H. Hodges
Will be their candidate for governor.
This is what the people of Kansas
must fight this fall, the corporations of
the state working Through the sup
posed square dealers and an element
in the Democrat party. This is the
combination they must fight, and they
are beginning to realize it. They now
see the hypocrisy of Stubbs and his
crowd. Thev know him now as he
really is. mixed up with railroad at
torneys of both parties. Is it any won
der then that they want a change? Is
it any wonder that they are going to
force Hodges to make the race for
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