The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-14
I'll. C.. Sticher Proceeds Calmly
to Mix Oil and Water.
BelleYille Editor Looks on the
Bright Side.
TAFT SURE TO WIN.
Says 80 Per Cent of Kansas Pro.
gressives Are for Him.
But Declares That Stubbs Sue
cess Necessary to Taft Success.

''It is my honest opinion that 90 per
| cent of the progressive Republicans of
Kansas favor President Taft for a sec
| ond term,'' said H. c. Sticher of the
Belleville Telescope, and president of
the Kansas Editorial association. Mr..
Sticher was in the city in the interest
of John c. Hogin of Republic county,
who won the judgeship fight for the
place left vacant by the death of the
| late w T. Dillon.
Mr.. Sticher is for Taft while at the
same time he rlucked a plum from the
Stubbs administration for his friend
Hogan. Mr.. Sticher also declared him
self for Stubbs. He claims that he is
not at all inconsistent in these strange
statements. Then just to show how in
consistent he can be when he tries
real hard, Mr.. Sticher went on to say:
"It would he poor politics to defeat
Taft. and TaGt's success in Kansas de-
pends not on the defeat of the StubbS
administration, but on it's success
Mr.. Sticher was evidently carrying
the Hogin appointment in his pocket
at the time he made this statement
and presented the spectacle of being
anchored to the national administra-
ton and at the same time bending far
over under TIE weight of the Stubbs
favor. Another leaning tower of Pisa.
Governor Stubbs may be for Taft
and the president may be for Stubbs,
but they have passing strange way
of showing their alliance for each
other. The president has thrown the
harpoon into The governor on the only
two occasions that Stubbs got near
enough to receive the iron, namely, the
decision. The presidents supporters
in Kansas are fighting Stubbs tooth
and toe nail while the governors
friends are ont on the warpath for the
scalps of every strong Taft man who
lives in SUNNI Kansas. The lines be-
tween the Stubbs candidates for con-
greSS and the Taft candidates for the
same jobs in the sarIe districts are
drawn sharp and clear. 1t is war to
the knife between the contending
forces. And vet along comes this
young sage from Belleville and pratt
ties about Stubs success and Taft
success in Kansas being one and the
same thing.
Did Congressman McKinIay, who
was Taft's personal representative,
sent to Kansas to preach a Taft cru
hands of the state administration ? Not
so it could be observed under a 90
microscope.
The Taft congressman may win at
at the same time. but the Taft men
will double their majorities if the tide
should go against Stubbs-
The Belleville editor would roll up
the Hogin appointment into a cylinder |
and use it to stir oil and water to-
gether. He can not do that He is |
like a kid trying to blow bubbles with
out putting soap in the water. He |
must first change the water into wine
(oiD. After this miracle the mixture !
Of the Taft and Stubbs forces will be |
easy. Then the lion and the lamb will |
lie down together and Sticher can lead |
them.
Governor Stubbs has made the two |
district judge appointments. B. A |
Mason is the winner in the Thirtieth |
composed of Saline, Ottawa, |
Ellsworth and Lincoln counties. John
G. Hogin is the new judge in the |
Twelfth district. composed of Repub-
ic, Cloud and Washington counties |
Mason succeeds Judge Rces, resigned. |
Hogin succeeds Judge w. T. Dillon, de-
ceased.
The Mason appointment is open to
criticism. Mason is not even a prac-
icing lawyer. He has had his law
experience mostly in colleges and in
He was opposed by the lawyers of his
district and supported by the politi-
clans. 1t has always been considered
necessary to serve respectable term
n the active practice of Law before as
,ending to the bench.
The Hogin appointment IS generally
conceded to be a good one. Hogin is
spoken of as an able LAWYER of expert
ence. He is from Republic county and
hat county was entitled TO the place.
The attorneys for the national bank
,rs claim to have found a strange and
inconsistency in the stand
aiken by Attorney General Jackson in
lis bank guaranty suits in the federal
md supreme courts. The national
)ank attorneys in their brief just filed
llIege:
1T therefore appears that F. s.
the attorney for the plaintiff,
he state of Kansas. in this mandamus
uit, also is the attorney for DoIley
md Tulley, the defendants herein,
n another proceeding involving the
anne question, in which proceeding
Oolley and Tulley take the same DO
ition that the plaintiff takes in this
Lction; that the attorneys for Dolley
n this case are associated with F. s.
Jackson as attorneys for Dolley in an
,ther proceeding, and that the posi-
ion of Dolley in that other proceed
ng is the same as the position of Mr..
Jackson in this proceeding; that the
,nly briefs on file in this suit to which
endantS in this mandamuS suit are
igned are briefs prepared in support
# the plaintiffs side of the case
Attorney General Jackson's reply to
his charge of inconsistency is simple
md to the point. He says: II am
lighting in the federal court to pre-
erve the bank guaranty law, and am
Ighting in the supreme court for the
anne thing, and therefore. my briefs
n both cases should be consistent"
c.,aden Gar in Kentuclx,