The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-03
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Country Editors Still Talking
About Kansas Day.
Many of Them We're Present on
That Lively Occasion.
VIEWS SAREDIFFERENT
One Says 1t Was ''Swan Song of
Machine"
Another That 'Stubbs Was
Mashed Flat by Steam Roller"

The country press of the state contin
ue to discuss the Kansas Day meeting
end banquet of last week. The Judg-
naent of the fairs depends entirely upon
the complexion of the writer. Here are
few samples from country editors who
were present i'll the flesh:
The Manhattan Mercury declares
that: Governor Stubbs and the state
administration came out of the melee
unscathed, stronger than ever before
the people, and the fight for the square
deal will go forward again"
The Atchison Globe in its report of
the meeting says that: There was
strong sentiment favoring Ewing Her
bert, of Hiawatha. as a candidate for
governor against StuDbs. Herbert II
you will remember. is the Globes can
didate. Stubbs is independently wealthy
and Herbert is as poor as church
mouse, consequently he has poor
show. He couldn't make the campaign
necessary to get Stubbs' goat without
spending a lot of money.
The Erie Sentinel. a Democratic pa
per, enjoyed the Kansas Day affair
more than anybody else Editorially it
declares that: The old machine run
the steam roller over the Stubbs crowd
in a manner that must have filled Bale
Waggener's heart with joy at the Re
publican banquet held at Topeka on
Kansas Day. For weeks the postoffice
ing of letters to every known old ma
chine mar in the state urging him to
be present and help annihilate the
Stubbs forces And they came and
they conquered. The bandwagon was
monopolized entirely by the old ma
chine.
ITO DR.. C. A. Boone of Chetopa, one
of Phil CampbellS late appointed
postmasters, is given much of the credit
of starting the stampede of the ma
chine to run over the Stubbs crowd at
the Topeka banquet. Campbell, togeth-
er with six other machine congress-
men, had packed the meeting with thoir
appointees. DR.. Boone, being new at
the crib, was boiling over with graft
tude for his benefactor and enthusiasm
for machine tactics and would not he
suppressed. Campbell could have si-
fenced him but did not wish to do So"
Ed Greer, in his Winfield Courier
calls the machine demonstration and
victory the swan song of that famous
organization. He winds up a long edi-
toriaI on the subject as follows:
AS one of the original founders of
the Kansas Day club the writer is sin
cerelv sorry to see it made the vehicle
for such demonstration. While Kan
sans from New York to California We're
glorifying Kansas around the festal
board here at home the occasion was
given over to factionalism. 1t was too
bad"
The Abilene Reflector picks a chair
man for the Democratic state club as
follows:
u. w. Howe, editor of the Dickinson
County News, is being doomed over the
state for the position of president of the
State Democratic club. Mr.. Howe is
one of the ablest young Democratic
leaders of the Fifth district, having
represented this district on the state
FOR nd
has proved his qualifications for the
place. He has also been secretary Of
the Democratic Editorial association
for several years and he would fill the
position with credit to himself and the
party"
VIM Allen White prints the following
under the heading "Quit or Fight
Governor Stubbs of Kansas has de
fed the lobbyists and political pie
brokers' He has told them first that he
stands with the insurgent program in
Kansas, against Cannon and Aldricf
control of the Republican party, and
second he has asked them to bring out
their candidate for governor. The in
surgents now have candidates for con-
gress in every Kansas district. The
machine has not dared to oppose the in
surgents in the Seventh and Eighth dis
tricts. and now that Governor Stubs
has defied the machine, it is up to the
machine to bring out it's machine eau
didate for governor on the high tax
issue or quit.
I'm other words. either Stubbs and
the insurgent congressional candidate
in each of the eight Kansas districts
are Republicans, or the lobbyists anC
political pie brokers and the six Cannon
congressman are Republicans. The ma.
chine on Kansas Day said that Stubs
Is not a Republican. Very we'll, then
gentlemen, trot out your Republican
candidate. Surely with all the STANDARD
Oil money that Attorney Fitzpatrick
might command with all the Missouri
Pacific money that Joe Richards nigh
command, with all the telephone none!
that Sim Bear might command, Will
all the power of the Curtis machine
that any political fixer may command
the great Republican party is not to b.
without a gubernatorial candidate il
this campaign.
'oTrot out your Republican candi
date, gentlemen. Get back of him will
the railroads. with Standard Oil will
the brewers. with the insurance lobby
with Dave Mulvane, with the manage
of each of the Cannon-Aldrich con
gressmen and with the Cannon-Aldrlcl
United States senator. Let's see VIII
* a Republican in Kansas. There vii
he no lack of money for the boys. Their
will he no lack of workers. Surely al
that patriotic Kansas Day Republican
ism. with the emphasis so strongly upol
the word Republican is not going t
4 let the Kansas gubernatorial nomina
ton go by default Surely the ia,
issue is a grand issue. Couple with ]
the abolishment of the primary law, Il
to that the repeal of the anti-pass an
two-cent fare laws declare Tor iocd
option and the saloon in the big cities
issue a clarion call to the Topeka club
Let the Republican party of the cor
porations rally TO it's aid George Goulc
and put the money to be paid out 10
the Central Branch improvements INT
+he canpaiRn fund of BOWerSOck o