The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-29
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Ex-senator Fitzpatrick Says
Candidates Shy at Him.
A. C. Stitch Here to Look Over
the Campaign.
BUSY IN THE THIRD.
Want a Big Majority There Says
Chairman.
Stubs and Wagstaff Both at
Pittsburg.

Ex-senator Sam Fitzpatrick of In
dependence was in the city Thursday
to take dispositions in the Standard Oil
custer suit. Asked about politics, the
leader of the old senate lodge had
nothing at all to say. He did not know
who was going to win and did not
seem to care. He did not even know
who was going to carry Montgomery
county, Stubs or Wagstaff But he did
tell good story on himself, as fol-
lows:
II was sitting in the hotel at indie
pendence the other day when John
White, candidate for railroad commits
sioner. entered the lobby. He saw me
sitting clear across the room and
called out in loud voice, Hello, Sam
got up and crossed over and shook
hands with him.
''Say, that was the first politician
who has been in Independence this
campaign who would acknowledge
that he knew me-"
W. L. Cunningham of Cowley coun-
ty, candidate for railroad commissions
er, has secured letters of endorsement
from the Methodist church of his
home town of Arkansas City and from
the national banks of that place. En-
dorsement is hardly the word, though,
these letters iaud the Winfield lawyer
to the mountain tops.
George Plumb of Emporia, an
other candidate for railroad commits
sioner by the way, stopped off in To-
peka today On his return from a trip
to the north and east sections of the
sentiment of the people there for
Stubs. Mr. Plumb predicts that
Stubs will carry the state next Tues
day by 10000 majority.
/ A c. Stitch, manager of the wag-
staff campaign committee, came up to
Topeka last night to see how the cam
paign was getting on and spread lit
tie sunshine by his presence. The In
dependence banker was feeling pretty
good over the situation He said:
81 feel very much pleased with the
situation. The campaign could not
have been conducted with more sue
cess and good fortune than has been
the case with the Wagstaff movement
from the beginning. They talk about
That is all rot. Wagstaff will have
1900 majority in his home county,
Mr.. Stitch. after claiming Montgom-
cry by such large majority then stat
ed that there would be Wagstah meet
ings held in every town in Montgom-
cry county Saturday and Monday,
eight meetings in one day, with all the
big speakers available used in that one
place. This concentration of their
forces in the home county indicates
that the result might be close there.
Wagstaff himself will speak Monday in
Coffeyville. The Wagstaff managers
state that they are winding up the
campaign in Montgomery county, not
because it is close there but for the
reason they want to have a big ma
jority over a thousand at least,
Mr.. Stitch will stay in Montgomery
county election day and will not come
to Topeka for the returns. He stated
that no particular arrangements had
been made to get the returns at Wag-
staff headquarters, but that they would
depend upon the newspapers for the
early bulletins on the result
Pittsburg, Kan. July 29.-Tom
Wagstaff and Ex-Governor Bailey
spoke to one of the largest and most
enthusiastic audiences that has assem-
bled in Pittsburg for years, Thursday
night. The meeting was presided
over by c. E. Finley, who two years
ago was a supporter of Stubs. The
airdome where the meeting was held
was packed by about two thousand
people and many were turned away
because they could not secure seats or
standing room within hearing dis
lance of the speakers.
The reception given Wagstaff and
Bailey was the most enthusiastic of
the campaign and they were assured