The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-18
And When He Speaks at the
Commercial Club Banquet
He Is Likely to Jump onto a
Live Wire.
HAS PERMISSION TO
CHOOSE HIS SUBJECT
He Has Been Insurging So
FierceIy in Kansas That the
Regulars" Are on War
path After Him.

Doubtless when the members of the
Richmond Commercial club and their
invited guests, seated at the banquet
tables on the evening Of May 3, hear
the toastmaster Introduce Governor
6tubbs of Kansas as the next speak
err" they will calmly prepare them
selves to receive discourse on a COM
parison between crop conditions in
Kansas and Indiana, and Governor
6tubbs could talk learnedly on this SUBJ
ject, as he was born on Wayne coun-
ty farm and il student of agricultural
affairs In his adopted state.
But those who knew the virile,
Rooseveltian characteristics of the
Sun Flower State executive will not
be. the least bit surprised IL he should
scorn such tame" subject, and take
a hopskip-and-a-jump right into the
middle Of the most live-wire subject
now disturbing the minds of Ameri-
cans from Main to California -"Insur-
gency."
A Grade "A" lnsuroent.
Governor Stubbs is q grade "a In
eurgent. He will insurge on the
Slightest provocation. The word
''Cannonism' whispered In his ear. his
friends say. u enough to make him
undsrtake : stump speech tour four
times around the state Of Kansas
Wh1t makes those Who know Etubbs
best, Uf the opinion that he win 90 to
the mit with Cannonism at the Corn
mercial Club banquet, Ii the informa-
tion that the Kansas executive recent
" wired an officer Of the club. asking
n there would be any restrictions
placed ON what he would chose to say
at the banquet. This officer wired
back the laconic reply, mo" In
last weeks issue Of the Saturday
Evening Post, Samuel G. Blythe, the
gifted political writer. has the follow
fng to say of Governor Stubbs:
What Governor stubbs Says.
''Stubbs surely Is man Of the peo-
pie. He sheds his coat when he talks
and talks with his arms. his legs, his
hair and his eyebrows, to say nothing
OF his big, booming voice. He is
slap-you-on-the-back come-on-boys sort
OF . politician. and he has his ideas
about prevailing conditions that are
just a. emphatic a. his gestures in de-
nouncing them.
They say am . democrat" he said
10 me, hut that doesn't hurt me any
am no Democrat. I'm q blamed
sight better republican than the men
who do not want to see me nominated
again. / wish they would give me a
chance to run against some representa-
tive OF the old liners. have tried to
get them to put up b man against me.
but they have not made q movement
yet. suppose they will cut me, but
can say to them that for every old
line. regular republican vote lost
will set two democratic votes. and
they know that IL 30.
Az Are Privatss.
They talk about the 6tubbs machine
and the insurgent machine. tell you
there isn't any machine. This Is a
movement without any generals or
majors or captains. Everybody Is a
high private. and we are all fighting,
shoulder to shoulder for what we think
10 right. We are opposed to Cannon
lam. The personality of Cannon
means nothing, but It Is what he repre-
sents that we protest against. We
conceive II to be true that Cannon and
Aldrich represent and work for all
that ID obnoxious In legislation as re-
CARDS the interests. and we are oppos-
ed to them and opposed to sending
MEN to congress who will do as they
are told by Aldrich and Cannon. We
do not think that Kansas Represent
ative who is sent to Washington by
10000 or 100000 Kansans should be
required to get the consent OF Cannon
to have hearing II he wants It. We
do not think our freemen should be
compelled to wait on the nod OF any
body. whether he is speaker or not.
and we intend to send men to con-
gress who shall not be subservient to
Cannon or any other man.
Are sorry for Taft.
$50 far ~ Mr. Taft Is concerned,
we are sorry. Nobody In Kansas
speaks bitterly Of the president We
regret his course In signing the tariff
bill and defending 1t, for We know that
the pledges Of the republican party. to
which We Subscribed and in further
ance of which we elected Mr.. Taft.
were for : genuine downward revision
Or the tariff We regret his apparent
c0mbination with Aldrich ana Cannon.
Nv observe that, instead Of doing bus
lnoss with them, he Is letting them do
.A..,@gvsAua vslfh him We knrvsy thar ~
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