The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
THE HAND CT ESAU
1t Appears in Governor Discus
sion Now Going On.
But the Voice Is That Of
Jacob.
MADISON is Baking.
Objects to Be Shunted Onto Side
Track.
Mr.. DOlley May Not Submit to
Elimination"

Dispatches from Washington today
deny the report that Congressman Ed
Madison of the Seventh district OF
Kansas will make the race for govef-
nor of his state in 1912. There IS a
lot of talk going the rounds row IN
connection with all the booms recently
started for gubernatorial candidates,
and the Madison denial bears out some
of the conjectures and suspicious OF
the politicians.
Who started the Madison boom, and
why?
There was some authority for it's
launching in spite of the suddenneSS
and mystery of the call for the
Seventh district statesman. Some man
or set of men gave out the glao tlo-
ings for publication. And these men,
these patriots, it was not that tney
loved Madison or Kansas more, put
that they loved defeat of their per-
sonaI plans and ambitions less Al
least that is the way some OF the H.
peka politicians argue.
When the Nation boom was
launched that event excited no sus-
picion of a conspiracy. 1t was mere
ly the logical event to follow TOUR
years service as the best auditor Hah,
sas ever had. There was no Wneel
within a wheel there. 1t was nat
the cog with reward of merit. The
same thing can be said of the Denton
boom. But this Madison boom, started
with confidence, and yet without ap-
parent cause, exc1tes susplcloh VI a
nlo+ within The men who started II
had evidently discussed the sup!ect
with Madison, and while they 1alleo
TO win his consent to make the race
vet they evidently got him to Lsten
10 them and to go to the top OF the
rnolIntain and look at the worlds be-
low. That was enough for them ana
+hev proceeded next to run MIN as
fhe compromise candidate for COVER
nor.
Madison is a progressive and the
nrogressives named him as the man to
suit both factions. Naturally they con-
sidered a progressive as the only ana
proper man to fill this bill regu-
lar would never do 1or collpro-
mise. Impossible!
But who picked Madison? The pa
pers printed the Madison story but
the name of the author was not maze
known. Was it Bristow, the junior
senator from Salina? Some foiks
tbinl~ co Or was it Governor Stubs :?
Maybe. The Stubbs papers printed
It first.
If Madison runs for governor he
cannot run for the United States SEN
ate at the same time. That is certain
Rut if the Seventh district congress-
man in removed from Stubbs' path
will he be in Bristows way four years
from now? Or, if he is left alone IN
congress will he not be the log1cai
choice for Bristow's toga anyway? But
better still, if he can be dragged into
+he gubernatorial fight and beaten at
the primary, or what is possible II the
factional fight is to continue, beaten
at the election. then all senatorlai
robIayos would be solved for some
tir9e to come and Stubbs and Bristow
hOth he happy.
II is true that there still remains
Mr.. Murdoch of the Eighth congress
sional- district. But the red-headed
statesman. in spite of his brilliant tai
ents and uuick-won reputation, is not
feared so much as the quiet ploddlng
Madison. The Seventh district man
rise has been slower but more sure
than the meteoric fight of the man
from Wichita, and bids fair to be more
lasting.
Will DoIIey Submit?
But there is still another phase to
the question, and that is the constant
repetition of the word, eliminated" as
applied to j. N. Dolley, chairman OF
the state committee. This word is
used by certain of the progressive
newspapers and leaders always in their
discussion of Dolley's candidacy for
governor. Why Dolley has been
@eliminated" no one seems to know
These men say so and they seem to
think that ought to be enough. But
poIley has a record of his own in
state politics and a following of his
own that contradicts the meaning OF
the term eliminated" Now if DOlley
was figuring on the United States SEN
ate he would be boosted for governor
along with Murdock and Madison. But
DoIley, as is well known, would like
to be governor, and his record places
him in line as a logical man for the
honor. He has been called upon tc
manage two state campaigns anc
is now bank commissioner. 1t is true
that he was beaten for the legislature
in his own little county of Wabaunsee
by local issues. But a prophet is al
ways without honor in his own coun-
try. Maybe his neighbors were Jealous
of his state honors. Bristow wa;
beaten in his county, and so was Con
gressman-e1e Young, and so was the
great r. r. in the recent New Yorl
But. argues one politician of note
s11nDose DoIley should refuse to bt
eliminated, and should say, Gentle
men, am going to run for governor
ANYWAY and we will all be eliminated
together" Then what would the con
spirators who are seeking a compro
mise candidate by the name of Madi
son and of the complexion of a pro
gressive say? What would they do
Would they have the nerve to die il
the last ditch and fight it out with Dol
lev in the primary for the nomination
while some regular like Gene Den
ton or Charlie Scott, or Jim Natior
walked off with the prize?
Leaders and a few newspapers can
not dictate nominations under the prl-
mary PLAN The primary mas ltS oisao
vanfages for the men who made 1T as
Wen as its advantages. Dolley has {
right to run for governor and his ser
vices entitle him to equal consideration
with any other progressive IN the STATE
No one will doubt but that the man whit
won two primary and two state cam