The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
Prelude to the Battle of Party
Council Being Fought.
Organization of the County Com.
mittees Going On.
FOR TAFT AND STUBBS
Nearly All Endorse the Presi-
dent and Governor.
Progressives and Regulars Com
promise in Dickinson.

The reorganization of county commit
tees has been going on over the state
for the past ten days and at most of
the meetings there has been something
doing between the factions of the party.
The chairmen of -'lese county commit
tees will, with the candidate for legis-
lature, represent their counties at the
party council at Topeka August 80 at
which time the platform for the state
campaign will be drafted and the at
titude of the state in regard to ma
tional affairs be expressed by resolu-
tion.
At most of these committee meetings
where reports have been made to the
Iapers resolutions endorsing President
Taft and Governor Stubbs have been
Iassed and the county chairman in
structed to vote as per resolution.
Robert Stone, Topeka member Of the
legislature. and q candidate for -e-eiec-
ton, expresses himself in unique fash
ion regarding the endorsement of the
rational administration. Mr.. Stone
would endorse the good done by the
Taft regime Mr. Stone also favors di-
rect legislation plank and the utilities
law and o, poses the idea to shorten the
ballot. Now Stone is progressive
but has never been counted as a radi-
cal, rather mixing common sense in
practical proportions with his reforms,
tration is likely to be shared by most
of the solid men of the insuroent wing
of the party. Mr. Stone believes that
the plank devoted to President Taft
should be a discreet plank. He ar
CUES that as Kansas voters have just
endorsed men who publicly disagree
with the president in regard to certain
men and measures, that these same
Kansas men should draft a tentative
rather than ar enthusiastic endorsement
0f the Taft conduct of AFFAIRS
Take the case of Bristow and Curtis,
for instance. Bristow in the last pri-
mary election, took the stump for men
nd policies that were opposed by Cur
tbs. BriStow won and Curtis lost. Yet
President Taft at the last session of
congress gave Curtis all the federal pie
there was in the cupboard and Bristow,
like Mother Hubbard's dog, had none
Taft has aided and abetted the stand
| MATTERS in every way possible, while
! Kansas mas turned the standpatters
down. Hence the Kansas resolution on
| the Taft administration VII require the
pen of a Talleyrand to be drafted to
meet tue appreciation of both factions
The Dickinson county committee in
session Saturday split even in the or
ganization. between the insurgents and
Standpatters, but the former get the
chairman who will represent the coun-
ty at the party council But this chair
man was instructed to oppose the 1n1-
| itiative and referendum idea that is
glittering in the minds OF some OF the
more radical of the progressive leaders.
In Labette county the committee en-
dorsed Taft and Stub6s.
At the Kansas Day club meeting held
the first month in this year. Taft was
endorsed but the club forgot to mem
ton Stubbs in the resolution. The peo-
pie of the state corrected the mistake
in August, and now Stubbs' name ap-
pears with regularity in the Taft reso-
| lutions.
Attorney General jackson has just
made a decision in the form of a let
| ter to Lee Bond, county attorney of
Leavenworth county, in which he
holds that the law passed by the last
| legislature in regard to the expenses
of election does not apply to the pri-
mary election, Some of the candidates,
after securing legal advice. had al
ready prepared a statement of their
this in the form of a sworn affidavit
when the attorney generals opinion
was made.
1t will be remembered that the op-
position to Governor Stubbs devoted
some time in the last primary cam
paign to an attack on the manage
ment of the penitentiary. Now that
| the election is over, Warden Codding,
in speaking of the twine plant at the
|
pounds of harvester twine has been
sold this season. The receipts for this
twine will aggregate over 100000.
| The twine plant was ION the bum
when Codding went to Lansing, the
| output remaining unsold in the ware
house and the plant running at low
| ebb. Codding's record at Lansing,
| made so far, would have been a good
! thing for the Stubbs opposition to
have shied away FROM. instead of try
| ing to make it an issue.
The seal of the state of Kansas,
| which has been used ever since the
| Coronado expedition, is about worn
out. 1t will hardly make a legible
impression on state documents any
| more, and it is likely that soon a new
seal will have to be cast. The old
seal is kept in the governors Office
and is fastened to an old stool chair
without any back that was used by the
first governor of the state. The seal
| and chair ought to go to the State
Historical society and a new seal and
stand installed in their place. When
the matter was mentioned to Dave
| Leahy, secretary to the governor, he
| opposed it as piece of extravaganza
that would prove the allegations of the
Stubbs opposition to the effect that
Stubbs was wastefu1 and his admin
istration was responsible for higher
taxes.
Krupp Laboratory Blown Up.
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