The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-01
Kansas Day Club Banquet a Call
to Action.
insurgents Regard 1t as Open
ing Gun of Battle.
FIGHT FOR CONGRESS.
That Will Be Storm Center Of
the Clash.
Insurgents and Regulars Are
Already Organizing.

Echoes of the Kansas Day affair are
still discernible in political circles here.
The insurgents got pretty severe jolt
last Saturday. or this there is no doubt.
There were more machine men present
at the club meeting and they were more
aggressive and better organized than
was expected. But the Stubbs crowd
has about recovered from that defeat
and appear confident now that the dem
onstration only represented the ex-
office holders and the old enemies made
in past fights. The primary law, say
the insurgents, offers a last line of
impregnable breastworks.
Governor Stubs is really sincere in
his desire that a regular candidate
be arrayed against him in the primary
next August He wants to have his
fight with his own party at that time
and not in November.
1t is expected that the Republican
state committee win reopen its old
quarters in the 900 block on Kansas
avenue before long. even though no
candidate announces against Governor
Stubs. The congressional campaign
in six of the eight districts offer a
fruitful field for inSurgent labOrS. The
fight for the six insurgent candidates
for congress VIII be prosecuted with
Vigor. 1t will be an organized fight
with all the strength of the square deal
behind it. SO far no fight at all has
developed on state OIIlcerS. Two OF three
regular and two or three square deal
candidates have no opposition at all up
to this time. The strength of both fac
tions will therefore be conferred on the
congressional fights. The governor is
sure to take the stump for his per-
sonal friends who have announced for
congress against the standpatters. Nc
Neal Mitchell, Jackson and Rees rep
resent the flower of the insurgent forces
in Kansas. A campaign headquarters
will soon be opened in Topeka and the
campaign conducted in all of the six
districts from this headquarters.
Campaign contributions have already
been levied on all primary candidates
and appointees to office. All the signs
point to active preparations for a Wig
orous and organized fight next summer.
Since there is no fight worthy of the
name for places on the state ticket, it
must be the congressional fights for
which these preparations are being
ready opened their campaigns and
Jackson and Rees will do SO in the near
future.
]. N. Dolley is still chairman of the
state committee and will hold the place
until the party council meets after the
August primary. All the stand pat con-
gressmen have their own congressional
committee chairmen in the various dis
tricts. The square deal candidates will
therefore have to organize their cam
paigns and open headquarters and
place competent managers in charge in
order to offset the congressional ma
chimes they are attacking.
If the object of the regulars last Sat
urday was to stir up the square dealers
to prompt action and organization for
an aggressive campaign they have sue
ceeded. The congressional fight Is on.
There may be a state fight later. but
so far, no machine man has come for
ward to offer himself as sacrifice.
The campaign to be waged against
the Democrats next November also de-
mands consideration in view of the
ferceness of the present rupture in Re
publican ranks. There is every chance
for the year 1910 being as lively in a
political sense as any year since the
old Pop victories.