The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
District Judges, Appointed, on
Anxious Seat.
All Must Stand for Election
This Fall.
LEBANON MAN WRITES
G. C. Mays Says Insurgents Are
Against Taft.
r. j. Hopkins Claims Stubbs Is
Strong in East.
LEBANON MAN WRITES

governor must stand for reelection
next fall, according to an opinion given
by Attorney General Jackson. At first
the attorney general was inclined to
believe that they held over. He gave
Judge True of the second division OF
the Wyandotte court an opinion OF
that kind some time ago, but after
looking more carefully into the law,
believes that the judges must De
elected at the first general election fol-
lowing their appointment.
The four district judges affected by
this opinion are: Judge L. c. True of
Wyandotte county; Judge Dill, Leaven-
worth; Judge Mason, Saline; Judge
Rankin, Miami.
| Seth Wells of Erie, former state
auditor. says there will be third can
! didate for state auditor file nomination
! papers before the books close MI
Wells refers to G. e. Holsteln OF boul-
bon county, who is having his nomlna-
| tion papers circulated in Neosho coun-
| fv will Davis. assistant auditor, and
| D e. Cauble of Fredon1a are the olhei
| candidates.
CONGRESSMAN William Reeder FLED
his nomination petitions MI M,oh oneress- one es
retary of state June 13. The congress
man is evidently not afraid OF inc
| thirteen hoodoo.
G. c. Mays Of Lebanon has written
the following. article on tne poA''
situation for the State journal;
saThe writer was an ardent supporter
of Mr. Stubbs from the primary elec-
ton to the end of the campalsn,
do not say that I am now 1er Was+
staff, but I believe WagstaH was e. -
when he said the insurgent wing OF tne
Republican party was against fresr
dent Taft. l Judge men by their acus'
Sentiment is expressed in language
"As a rest to my position re1er 70
an article spoken In plaln EnsIisn 70 ~
W A. White of the insurgent wing OF
the Republican party II lansuag19
means anything I don't wish to walk
into a nit with my eyes w1de open.
"Webster's definition of insurgency
is a rising in opposition to laWlul CIV. ClviA
or nolfticaI authority. II insurgency
ia on tTe barge to manacle the present
nrosnerous condition of the American
neople by locking arms with the Zen en-
ocratic party, beg to be excused tne
article referred to appeared III tne
the Gazette, entitled. The Contest is
Omen In that article MI Whlte a9-
1Tertent1v. audibly and evidently SOUNDS
the KEYNOTE of driftWood nodtlhs "
the Democratic party. In tnat art5cle I:
M white refers to Republican dls-
+T1cts in certain tastes which have fallen
in line with Democracy ana electeu
Nom ocrats to state offices because they
were insurgent to the administrator
of Mr. Taft.
land in that article Mr. Whlte pura ta
norts to leave an impression on the
mind of any who may read 1t that ne
&c drifting to the Democratic band
wagon. Moreover, the editor makes q
howl because there are some Repuph
cans in congress who are corrupt ana
f[.. that reason he is a dissatisfied Gus
TONER. In the same article Mr. Wnlte
D1ainIv saws that dissatisfied RepuDll-
cans are drifting from President IaIt:
| 7 beg to submit the proposltlon Una.
such logic is proof wltnln ,IL3':I 1SeL NC 10
Wapstaff is correct. Mr. Wh1te no
doubt is responsible for the election
| ~ a Republican congress. II we nave
voted thieves. grafters and pirates into
| congress, as Mr.. White claims tnen
| to be, we realize that we nave tlle
mower to vote them out at the primary
Election. otherwise, we can join the
driftwood crowd and go Democratic
"But of course this country has a
class of men who have no particular
motive in view but to drlIt from one
nartv to another with the idea that it
| is popular. Notwithstanding the brand
| of a dissatisfied Republican who hurls
| the dagger of Scorn and reproacn at
! life long defenders of prosperous
times.
| Kansas are proud of her former gov
| ernors. Hoch, Bailey and Stanley, or
| the flag which protected them in their
efforts to sustain the principles which
are today prospering not only our own
| beloved state but the American people
| "Again if it is progressive to become
a dissatisfied Republican, as Mr.. White
| has it, and then vote the Democratlc
| ticket as he explains it. we OF course
perceive that the editor is on MS way
hunting ground in Uncle Williams
! bosom.
at appeal to Republicans to keep off
the driftwood, it only floats down
stream. -
| of a Republican CRATER we must join
the Democratic party in the capacity
of an insurgent is fake Dlssatlsf1ed
| Republicans as Mr.. White demo inmates
| them and insurgents elected Grover
| Cleveland and gave the country an ad-
| ministration representative of Coxie's S
| army of tramps with empty dinner
pals
| is significant of Democratic victory,
| and for that reason we should not join
the driftwood crowd and give aid to a
| party which can only involve the
country in a state of unrest and servf-
tude to low wages or no wages; low
prices for farm products and general
stagnation to business. We should not
sacrifice the calf simply because we
have a Republican rascal in congress.
| I'VE nave lotS OF Inem Wanllng a
seat who if they were there would no
doubt upset the capitol at one mighty
stroke and blow out every kerosene
| lamp in the United States; and derail
| every railroad train on the continent
at one snort of his powerful progress
sive and expansive nostri1.''
| r. ]. Hopkins. the Stubbs candidate
for lieutenant governor, who is making
the trip through the eastern counties
with Governor Stubbs, has given out
an interview.
! II had thought" said Mr.. Hopkins,