The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
Governor Stubbs Starts on
Speaking Tour Tonight.
Will Visit Towns in the Far
Southwest.
THEN GOES TO DENVER.
Deliver Speech at Colorado Town
on Monday.
VIM. Allen White Analyses the
Wagstaff Movement.

Governor Stubbs will leave Topeka
tonight for a tour of the southwest
counties of the state. For over a year
he has been under promise to visit the
people of that section and talk to them.
He will spend the week in the seven
counties of Seward, Stevens, Morton,
Stanton, Grant, Haskell and F'inney.
making two speeches a day. Richard
J. Hopkins. candidate for lieutenant
governor, and o. H. Foster of Garden
City, candidate for judge, will join him
at Liberal and make the overland trip
with him in an automobile from Lib
eral to Garden City. From Garden
City the governor will go to Denver,
where he is to deliver prohibition
speeches Sunday and Monday, April
30 and May l.
The following is the schedule of the
speaking dates Of the trip: Liberal,
April 26. at night; Hugoton, April II.
afternoon; Richfield, April 27, at night;
Johnson, April %, afternoon; Ulysses,
April %, at night; Santa Fe. April 2S,
afternoon; Garden City. April 29 at
night.
The speech at Liberal Tuesday night
will be the opening gun of the gov
ernor's campaign for denomination, and
will make reply to the oratory. figures
and resolutions that were set off at the
Wagstaff conference here last week.
Kansas City, April 25-In an inter-
view given out here. William Allen
White Of Emporia, the chief scribe of
the Square Dealers, makes q rather
sensational reference to the coming
Senator Curtis two years hence for the
seat now held by the senior senator In
congress. Mr.. White commented on
the open declaration of Curtis for Wag-
staff at the conference in Topeka last
week. He believes that the Wagst4ff
fight for the return of all the old line
congressman and that the leaders do
not even hope to nominate Wagstaff.
The White interview in full follows:
MY guess on the Wagstaff PROPOSE
tion is that Il Is not bona fide at
tempt to nominate Wagstaff, because
the old Kansas machine knows 1t can
not come within million miles of de-
featinu Stubbs. But the men who for
years have commercialized Kansas
politics have no other way Of getting
the money they need unless they put
up a centralized, statewide contest.
They come. along, and pass the hat
among the breweries and packing
houses and various sources of income
for state funds. and by having a CEN
tralized fight for governor they can
strike the national congressional COM
mittee for more funds than each con-
gressman could get for himself, be-
cause of the showing Of statewide
contest.
"That is what the movement is. Incl
dentalIy, of course, it Is to help some
themselves with politics most of the
time.
governor Stubs is a lucky man.
From his standpoint, the best thing that
has happened to him since he was
ousted from the Topeka club is the an
nouncement of Senator Curtis that ne
is for Wagstaff for governor. That IS
the first time they have been able to
get Curtis out in the open since he was
elected senator. He lodged on Long
and Bristow, but now he is absolutely
rrcovered. and you can choose your
partners for the senatorial campaign
And when the people of Kansas reject
Wagstaff, they have done a good bit
to reject Curtis, Stubs, as 1 said, is
a lucky man. He has prof1ted more by
the mistakes Of his enemies than by his
own wisdom. For If anything were
needed to put the machine brand on
Wagstaff, it was the hnal approval OF
Curtis"
Turning from Kansas national politics,
Mr. White made predictions as to what
Roosevelt would do when he got back.
s'First," Mr.. White said, Roosevelt
should give a perfunctory commenda-
ton to the president. personally, be-
cause If he fails to do that he fmme-
diatefy will. be accused OF being can
61datG 1Or the IIOII1I1dllOHs AlQ IO DC
IN avowed candidate for the nomination
nov would be a fatal political mistake.
But it is perfectly absurd that, by
any possibility, Roosevelt should in
clude i'll his comInendation of Taft. even
perfunctorily, an approval of Wicker
sham, Hitchcock or Ballinger. And af-
terward. at another time, nobody who
knows Roosevelt believes he will fail
to denounce the abuses that have crept
in under these three men who have
helped to make the administration no
toriOus.
LAS to Roosevelt for another term?
II he be president again, 1t will be big
sob he will undert ake-because the peo
rle in a future administration will not
Judge him as Roosevelt, the president.
hut as Roosevelt, the biggest figure in
the world, and the tests they Will apply
under those circumstances will be Sc
we're and searching.