The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
The MAN IS FOUND
Ewing Herbert as Candidate for
Governor.
Brown County Editor Is in Re.
ceptive Mood.
He is A REGULAR.
Gives His Views on Last Satur.
days Storm.
Country Press of State Discuss
the Affair.
HE is A REGULAR

Ewing Herbert, who was one of
the organizers of the Kansas Day
club, is a possible regular" Republi-
can candidate for governor to oppose
Gov. Stubbs.
The Kansas City Journal announces
Judge Frank e. Martin, mayor of
Hutchinson, as the machine candi-
date for governor against Stubbs.
Not so, if you please. Ewing Her
bert of Hiawatha, is the man. Judge
Martin has been chosen, but has not
accepted. Mr.. Herbert has been
chosen and has also accepted the per-
ilous honor. In a letter to q friend,
written since the Kansas Day meeting
Mr. Herbert intimates very plainly
that he will be the regular candidate
for governor against Stubbs that is
to say if called upon he will make
the race. In his Brown County World
he gives his views on the Kansas Day
row as follows:
The Kansas Day club was organ
lied to promote Republicanism. 1t is
perfectly proper for those Republi-
cans with difference of opinion to
meet and grind out all the griSt in
the mill. There is no need to fear
the result. All who are Republicans
will stick. There are two factions in
the Republican party-that is there
are men who are for and against the
isn't time to say one faction is ma
chine and the other anti-machine or
Square Deal Fact is both factions
appreciate the value of organization
and fair-dealing. There is no better
organizer than Gov. Stubbs and the
faction he calls the machine crowd
never had quite as Shrewd an organ
izer as he is and has not yet built as
perfect machine as he has built. The
clash between the two factions at
Tnnolxa
the strength very much against the
governors crowd, but last year the
governors friends had their own
sweet way.
"Dolley Dawson. Jackson and
members of the legislature friendly to
Stubbs packed the meeting one year
ago and elected the officers they
wanted. This year the forces opposed
to Governor Stubbs had the most vot-
ers at the meeting and returned the
defeat of last season. Now there
wasn't any more machinery exercised
by one faction than there was by the
other.
Bill Hackney asked the boys to call
on him to read a roast of the Repub-
licans who lined up against the Taft
administration. Bill hasn't been a very
straight Republican and the Stubbs
men roasted him for his nerve in read
ing an article finding fault with others.
Honors even.
"Then Joe Dolley, for the Stubbs
forces. made a speech as faulty as
Hackney's. although not as clever. Dol
ley. in small way, is more of a czar
and bulldOZer than Reed or Cannon
were if guilty of all they were accused
of in TIE exercise of their authority
Dolley dared the boys to vote down in
dorsement of Stubbs. He was Kissed
and laughed at He told them they
and not of he voters. AS most of them
came straightway from the country and
all paid railroad fare this statement
brought him further Kisses and caused
much laughter.
'It was plainly a sad day for Dolley
and his possible inheritance of the gov
eruorship after Stubbs gets through
and perished right then and there
There we're ten Republicans present in
favor of President Taft and his policies
TO one favorable to Stubbs and his
policies which include blaming the
president for the tariff bill passed by
the Republican majority
THE majority of the Kansas Day
club stood by the national administra-
tion and cut down the state adninistra-
tion for failure to do so. It was a fine
time and very much enjoyed. If the
S+ubbs following desire to further test
the opinion of the party majority on the
question as to which is stronger in this
state-a Republican who supports the
president and the party majority IN
congress, or a Republican who criticises
and diSagreeS with the president and
the majority of Republicans in con-
gress, why a candidate will be brought
out against Governor Stubbs. And the
candidate will be no more of a machine
candidate than Governor Stubbs is a
machine candidate. Governor STUDIOS
will have the best Of the fight to begin
with because he has been for two years
past building up machine, or organ
ization, to support him. But both can
didates will favor square deal to all
and both will stand for the things that
will do the most good to the greatest
number.
"One will stand by the president and
the party majority, for the supremacy
Of the law and the courts. for the con-
tinued occupation of the Philippines
for a protective tariff, for all the things
on President Taft's program. The 9TH
or. the present Governor Stubbs. will
stand on much of the Bryan platform
lower tariff criticism of the presider;
courts withdra wal from the Philippines
against most of the things on tbs
'sThe result will be about like the
Kansas Day conflict. No Republican
can win in Kansas unless he stands by
fhe president and the party majority
There are ten Republicans to every in
sureent. Ten satisfied men to every
fault finder.
.aThe banquet speeches of the youns
mon were remaTkdDlN Soous 4hoSt vi
them were followers of Stubbs. One
/. expressed himself as believing that
packing a meeting and scolding Re.
pubIicans wasn't just the thing. but
while this view was applauded mos
of the club men were inclined to think
that if was a case of those using the
hammer getting the hammer back
1.-THE young orators of the insurgeni
quality spoke their pieces like goo6
bows and were given proper considera'
nh a
campaigner from Nebraska. tried te
show up the alleged mistakes Of oul