The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-27
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Roosevelt and Stubbs for 1912
Popular Cry.
Would Be Team to GLADDEN.
Hearts of Insurgents.
ATTRACTS ATTENTION.
Progressive Writer Picked Han.
san as a Leader.
Ed Madison to Help Mitchell in
Second.

Roosevelt and Stubbs in 1912.
Wouldn't that sound fine to the pro-
gressives of the Republican party
from every section of the country?
And it is a possible combination if not
a probable one. New York and Kan
sas, Peter Stuyvesant and John Brown.
And the fulfllment of this we'll form
ed hope of the central west really rests
with Roosevelt himself. If the COL.
onel will enter the lists it is Walter
Roscoe of Kansas, none other, who
will be depended upon as a chief
lieutenant in the contest. The New
Workers. running mate will be chosen
from the west. Now there is no man
in the west today who is better known
! than the Kansas governor in the con-
duct of state and interstate affairs.
Stubbs led the reform movem ent
which placed Kansas in the front rank
of insurgent states. Stubbs travelled
down the Mississippi with Taft and
talked to the waterways congress at
New Orleans in a way that no other
man present had the nerve to do.
Stubbs has attracted attention to his
fighting qualities and sound judgment
in New York during his controversy
with George Gould, in Colorado in the
prohibition fight and in st. Paul at
the conservation congress when he de-
nounced Ballinger.
while the latter was in Kansas a few
weeks ago and the colonel. and the
governor got close together. They
were agreed on issues, and what is
more important, in the methods to be
used in meeting these issues and dis
posing of them. Stubbs has caIibre,
and Roosevelt knows it. Stubbs has
an interstate reputation over the mid
die west as a man of parts and a
winner. He is typical of the west. On
4 l. -
into national convention as can
didate for vice president with a cou-
pie of hundred votes from Kansas,
Colorado, Oklahoma. Missouri, Iowa,
Minnesota, Nebraska and some of the
states further west behind him. w..
the added aid of the Roosevelt in
f1uence this nucleus of his own
strength could be augmented to for
midable proportions
At the Roosevelt dinner at Law
renee every man present thought of
this Roosevelt-Stubbs com bination for
1912 but no one dared to express
them in words. But the sentiment was
in the air. Pinchot and Garfield felt
it as we'll as the insurgent Kansans
present and they bore themselves as
men well pleased under its influence
Stubbs Silent on Subject.
So far as Stubbs himself is concern
ed no newspaper man has presumed d
to broach the subject to him any more
than they would to Roosevelt at this
time about the first place on the ticket.
Rut if Roosevelt takes chips in the
next national game it will follow as
the most natural thing in the world
that Kansas, the state whose air and
spirit unsealed the colonels lips for
the first time on insurgency and warm
| ed his heart to action, will present the
name of Stubbs as his running mate
| in the great battle against the old
| order of things.
II may sound foolish at this time,
the discussion of Stubbs for presiding
| officer of the senate. but it sounded
lust as foolish not so many years ago
when a Syracuse editor talked about
the ex-police commissioner of New
York city for the same place. The
police commissioner filled the place
with credit. So can Stubs. And that