The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP.



sidered the insurgent candidate who
would enter the lists against Curtis.
He Is the leader of his party in the
state. Yet the governor has not an
nounced that he would be candidate
for the place.
The rumors of a Murdoch alliance
with the Kansas City Star and Senator
Bristow and W. a. White do not APP
pear to be we'll founded.
If Murdoch enters the race he is
sure to be a powerful factor for the
Eighth district congressman is a ma
tiOnal figure and imm ensely popular in
his own state. But his ambition Will
undoubtedly chop his party in Kansas
into three factions.
After ALL this discussion Of sena-
torial candidates is premature, as no
announcements have yet been made.
In Connection with the Murdoch cpl
sode the Topeka correspondent of the
Kansas City Journal says in that pa
per this morning:
"That Victor Murdoch is seriously |
contemplating getting into the senator
fal race is one of the political develop |
ments Of today.
''Marcellus Murdoch his brother, and |
manager of the Wichita Eagle, was !
here quietly sounding Republican lead /
ers as to what effect Governor Stubs /
reduced majority would have on the /
senatorial situation. He wouldn't say |
that Victor was even thinking of be I
coming a candidate, but he made dill |
gent inquiry as to whether the result
of the recent election eliminated Stubs
as a candidate. He had a conference /
with the governor in the executive Of /
fees, but it was executive and neither
would tell what was discussed.
1.-THE impression, or rather the con-
viction of the Republican leaders is. !
that Marcellus came to Topeka at Vic
tors suggestion to get a line on things. /
Wants Victor in Senate.
ut is an open Secret that the Muir
dock family wants Victor to enter the
race. His mother is extremely anxious
for him to do so. To close personal
friends she has said that her sole am
bition now is to see a Murdoch in the
United States senate from Kansas, and
that Murdoch her son. 1t is also
known that both his mother and his
wife have told Victor that he should
either go to the senate or retire from
public life and resume the editorship
of the Eagle. They say he has reach
ed his zenith in the house and that it
is useless to put in any more time
there: that he could add luster to the
name of Murdoch by going to the SEN
ate and that if he doesn't want to make
the fight for that place he should come
back and look after their newspaper.
"Victor is the idol of the insurgents
of Kansas. and if he announced his
candidacy it is a question what Gov
ernor Stubs would do. The governor
has his eye on the senate also and he
is a man of determined mind. He
might go into the race anyhow. This
would make il three-corne red-Mur-
dock Stubs and Curtis. Of course
Curtis would enjoy a contest of that
kind.
Postponed His Boom.
I'm the primary campaign last sum-
mer. when it looked as if Stubs would
not have much of a majority over
yfe,fF I,.l1 Ma TI11~
dock to announce his candidacy for
the senate shortly after the primary
election. But the governor had such a
big majority over Wagstaff that it
frightened Murdoch off and the
scheme was abandoned.
1.-The governors reduced majority at
the election, however, may furnish the
incentive for a revival of the plan.
Friends of Murdoch tell him that it is
now or never with him, so far as SEN
atorial aspirations are concerned and
they are urging him to get in 1t is
expected that he will say the word one
way or the other before congress con-
venes in December He will devote
most of his time during the next three
weeks on the indoor ChautauQua cir
cult"
The Topeka correspondent of the
Kansas City Times sent this:
1.-THE visit of Marcellus Murdoch to
so soon after the election has revived
the talk that Representative Victor
Murdoch has the senatorial bee in his
bonnet as strongly as has the COVER
nor although neither has indicated
that he expects to be a candidate. A
state house official said that he be-
leved that Victor Murdoch would an
nounce his candidacy for the senate
before the new year has come in.
while here MarcelluS asked a ques-
ffnn that in Kansas iS ALWAYS looked
upon as significant The question was:
What effect will Tuesdays election
have upon Governor Stubs in refer
ence to the United States senatorship 2
Saw Much in This Question.
cit was this inquiry, more than any
thing else, that has caused the politi-
cal soOthsayers to foretell that Victor
will be a positive candidate for the
Curtis seat almost by the time the first
snow flies.
ticians as to what effect the reduced ma
jority of Governor Stubs will have upon
ms can9ioaey II ne is Ganaldate, doa
who are stand-pat in their leanings, that
a majority of less than half of that of
two years ago discredits MIN in his next
race. However. others, and they seem
to be in the majority. argue that the
governors majority. even II it was only
stronger than before.
What Governor Stubbs Did.
''They call attention to the general Dem
ocratic landslide all the country
which they believe would have meant de-
feat to the Republicans in Kansas, had
anyone else been candidate well as
to the powerful influences against him,
such as the railroads and the wet ele-
ment and all the corporations brought into
line by the railroads, and 10 all the stand
pat Republicans They say that the fight
was made upon Stubs personally and.
he came out winner. il was a personal
victory, and as such it will make Stubs
personally stronger than ever.
I'm the meantime the followers of SEN
atOr Curtis are sitting back and enjoying
gossip of a possible Murdoch candidacy.
They say that nothing viii stop Stubs
from going ahead and trying to satisfy
that ambition he has had from the day
he entered politics. and that Murdoch is
built much on the same plan and that he
will go on and attempt, not only to sat
isfy his own ambition. buy that of Muir
docks family. which has had the sen