The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Senator Curtis First Week in
the Campaign.
His Hold on the People Appar-
emily mistaken.
WORKED LIKE TROJAN
Result Is That He Came Home
Sick.
Wsgstaff- Curtis Meetings in In
surgent StrOnghOlds.
WORKED LIKE TROJAN

Senator Charles Curtis abs spent one
week in the thick of the Kansas pri-
mary campaign, speaking most of the
time in behalf of and with Wagstaff
in strong Stubs counties. To the
State Journal correspondent. who ac-
companied him on his entire trip, it
appears that the senator is as strong
personally as he ever was in Kansas,
and that he succeeded in instilling new
life and vigor into the Wagstaff cam
paign. In some of the country pre-
cfncts. the first discovered this cam
paign where Stubs is weak, the sena-
tors personality undoubtedly swung
the majority towards Wagstaff. This
was especially true in Mound City in
Linn county and in two towns IN COZ
few county and Hartford in Lyon
county.
The friends the senator made long
years ago when he represented as con-
gresham from the. First district
are his friends still. Most of these
men are old now, and gray headed,
but all along the route of the trip they
came to the depot and hotel to see
Curtis and shake him by the hand and
talk over old times with him. For
them there is no such this as 1nsur-
gency or progressive Republ1canlsm.
It is just plain Charlie Curtis, the
EaInG TO-DAY, yesterday anu IOAAAOAA W.
Curtis started out in fine shape at
Olathe Monday night, speaking in rare
voice and form on national and state
issues. His address was strong and
effective, but was marred little by
the bitterness with which he referred
to Stubbs At Pleasanton and Mound
CITY and Garnett he spoke with force
and ability and without doubt did more
harm to the Stubs cause than has
been done during this entire cam
Daign. But his voice failed him after
the Garnet speech, and he was SICK
man when he entered Lyon county and
Morris county Friday. At Emporla
SATURDAY. he had a fever and should
nave been in bed, but he held on
Ramely and sat on the porch at the
hotel and received old friends all day
long. They came in a stream, some OF
them walking with the ald OF canes
but their greeting was fresh and true.
1t was a fine tribute paid to the SICK
senator and at the same time blow
to the pessimists who pirate of lngratl-
tude everywhere and among all men.
There was a large crowd out to the
Emporia meeting, about thousand
people, and they gave close attention
to the addresses of Tom WagstaL anu
Senator Curtis. The platform OF the
bandstand in the park was filled with
local men of prominence who are
known for their hostility to Stubs.
But the crowd was largely insurgent
as was shown when Ed Martindale,
editor of the Emporia Journal, in MS
tntroductory remarks, referred to
ssthat fellow Jackson. The crowd, or
what seemed a majority of the crowd,
cheered loudly at mention OF Jackson
name and stopped the speaker entirely
with cheers for the attorney general.
But when Curtis got the floor he was
given close and respectful attention
while he delivered about the hottest
standpat, anti-Stubbs speech heard IN
Kansas this year.
The senator was sick and his voice
was almost gone, but he rallied his Ia
tent powers and talked for nearly an
hour He could scarcely get to his
he'd after the meeting and took 3
o'clock train home next morning in
order to place himself under the care
of his physician. He is feeling much
better today, but cancelled his Mon
day dates and will go out again Tues
day.
The senator talked Saturday night
in Emporia about the machine, de-
claring that the present machine or
zanization in Kansas was dominated
bv q noted writer of fiction who lived
not a thousand miles from Emporia-
and a great politician who lived not
a thousand miles from Troy. These
men. he said, were now laboring for
Stubs. and the first had never been
bothered by facts in writing his politi-
cal stories, and the other had built
nothing but machines ever since he
left the nursery of politics.
It was at Emporia that Curtis NAM
ed Roosevelt and paid high tribute
to Bwana Tumbo: The crowd storm
ed it's applause at mention of the ex-
presidents name.
Lyon county appears to be strong
for Stubs and Jackson except in the
Hartford neighborhood, where Curtis