The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Party Council Sure to Endorse
President Taft.
Will Also Approve Course OF
BristOW and Murdoch.
STUBS ON NAVIGATION
Governor Will Journey to Colo
RADIO in Touring Car.
Stubs Manager in Cloud Loses
Place on Committee.

There is not much doubt that the Re
publican party council which meets in
the Auditorium at Topeka the last Of
this month, will endorse President
Taft. The Indiana and Iowa insurgents
endorsed the president and why not
the Kansas insurgents? But it is not
likely that this endorsement will in
clude the Payne tariff bill.
Included in the endorsement will also
appear an o. K. placed with great dis
tinctness upon the official acts of Sen
ator Bristow and Victor Murdoch. who
voted against the Payne tariff bill and
of Ed Madison who is reported as
dissenter in the Ballinger whitewash
act. The Kansas insurgents will doubt
less take the ground that the president
is all right but he has been in bad conf
pany and had bad counsel. They VIII
not pretend to rebuke him. but they
voice their disapproval of certain acts
connected with his administration.
They will figure that Kansas has the
same right to her views on legislation
that Rhode Island has, and Illinois, and
New York.
The party council will try to tell the
country at large that the primary vote
was not SO much against Tart as 1t was
for the Kansas insurgents. The council
will. in a way, explain that Taft was
dragged into the Kansas fight by the
regulars but that the insurgents dlu
not consider him in the contest at all
and they had rebuked Kansas states
men rather than Taft supporters
This is the program, and it may go
off smoothly or there may be one Dig
scrap in that party council From
present indications, however, 1T VIII pc
tame affair.
,.,ao1,i,,o. MON who is we'll known
all over the state explains the defeat
of Wagstaff as follows: 1t was IKE
this: The major generals, and brlga-
der generals and colonies and captains
voted for Wagstaff, while the rank am
file voted for StubbS and even the
noneommissioned officers and most OF
the lieutenants voted for the Lawrence
man. Naturally he had big majority.
] shall vote for Stubs at the general
election and will work for him, too, be-
fore election"
Governor Stubs and his family had
planned to leave Lawrence today for
Colorado, travelling overland in their
motor car, but the heavy rain or Mon
dav and Monday night may delay their
departure day or two. The governor
will not likely return to Topeka until
the last of the month, coming back
Just before the meeting of the party 4
council.
Mention has been made of the de-
feat of will Beck of Holton and Cy
Leland of Troy for places on the coun-
+y committee. Word comes now from
Cloud county that John Stewart, chair
ran of the committee up there ana
Stubs manager and also Rees mana
ger has been defeated for a place on
the committee This is passing strange.
WHY should the Cloud county square
dealers desire the defeat of Stewart
He conducted successful campaign II
the county for Governor Stubbs and
on the occasion of the Governors last
visit to Concordia he expressed himself
more than once as well pleased with
Stewart, his ideas and his work. DR..
S. C. Pigman, the man slated to take
Stewards place, is doubtless a gooo
man, bit he is not John Stewart, the
man with the Irish heart and the
Scotch head, who has taken such
pride in his work as county chairman
for the past four years. Stewart can
say, with many other men. both big and
little that Republics are ungrateful He
can point with pride to his record as a
captain on the firing line. But the rank
and file that stood him up against the
primary wall at daylight and shot him
full of holes will doubtless regret their
tantrum before another election rolls
around.
Nick schiles. that ''incorfuptible Sene-
ganbian," WHO was one of the leaders
of the anti-Stubbs forces in Shawnee,
did not devote a line of space in his
Plaildealer to the election results ex-
cepting only a short editorial in which
he laments the decline of his state and
the depths to which his party mas fall
en-. Even the nomination of Anthony
in the First district does not console
the editor of the Plaindealer, who raises
his voice in the wilderness as follows:
Tuesdays primaries forebodes no
good for the grand old party. The
Democrats are in the ascendenc-- in
l<ansas-the socalled insurgents being
ar ALI of the party and they are using
every means to turn Kansas over to the
devil aud his angels 1t would be bet
ter if we had no party in Kansas than
have this little band of calamity howl
ers parade over the country that Kan
sas is going to -"