The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Senator Curtis Returns to Kan
Sas Early Next Week.
1t Is Announced He Will Oppose
Stubs For Governor.
JULY TO BE LIVELY.
Great Battle Within Republican
Ranks Is Indicated.
Triumvirate of Regulars Coming
to Nail Insurgent Treason"

The Kansas congressman are home
again and Senator Curtis will be back
in Kansas early next week. All the
congressman at once will plunge into
the primary campaign. Six of them
have opposition of serious nature and
they will waste no time in getting to
work. Senator Curtis, it is announced,
will get in the state campaign against
Governor Stubbs. Senator Bristow mas
] promised to help Judge ReeS in his
Fifth district congressional fight So
there is at present every indication
| that the month of July will witness
the greatest political battle within the
Republican party that Kansas ever has
known.
Neither the righteous nor the wick
ed shall rest. The contest will be as
| hard fought as that which John saw IN
| his vision on the isle of Patmos when
the seventh seal was broken and the
air was shattered and the ground
lshaken by earthquakes.
i Before the return of the congress-
men the fight was quite warm, but that
only was the beginning. The ther-
mometer will climb to the clouds next
week Every hamlet will echo with or
atory and every weekly newspaper VIII
smoke with editorial comment. All the
goodly company of Kansas office seek
ers and their 1ieutenants will trek for
the short grass country and camp
along the Verdegris. the Cottonwood
camp fires will mark the highways and
they will rest with the farmer under
the hedges The school house desk
will be sp1intered by their fists, yea,
and they shall walk the stage OF the
village opera house and be not afraid.
The Black One shall lead one army
and the Red Fox will be found in the
van of the other. 1t will be a great
battle. Napoleon and Wellington have
never met before. Both have won
I l. ht1+ ffanx- r
mishes compared to the campaign of
this month. Not only the governors s
chair. but the mantle of United
States senator awaits the winner
All the forces of the old machine
and the party regulars and every Re
publican leader not allied with the
progressives will get out and fight like
fiends against the redheaded governor
who is so strong in Kansas. The gov
ernor is host in himself and he is in
form for the fight of his life. He has
an able lieutenant in J. n. Dolley and
the square deal candidates for con-
gress are the pick and flower of the
state.
There can be no doubt that progress
sive policies have gained great head
way in Kansas and are rooted firmly
in every county. The fight looked all
Stubbs in June. and it remains to be
seen what the Washington delegation
will accomplish when the members
hurl themselves into the breach. They
NAV turn the tide. They are standing
pat They point with pride to their
congressional records and count on
the moral support of President Taft
to save the day for them.
There is no disposition on the part
of any of the returning congressman to
trim their sails They are more fear
less now than they were two years ago
that Kansas is insurgent and will test
the allegation in a clear cut fight.
Speaker Cannon and Congressman
Fordney and Watson will come here
to help them. These three speakers
are regulars incarnate. They believe
that the Lord is on the side of ma
jorities and that insurgency is another
name for treason
The funnel-shaped cloud carrying a
cyclone will meet the hurricane. The
red musketeers and the black wiNffight
to a fnishA The voice of the people
will, pronodnce the winner. And the
decision will be listened to closely by
the rest of the nation, for 1t either will
strengthen the insurgent movement to
greater things next year or give it.
mighty push down towards oblivion.
It is reported taht the Democratic
paper planned for Topeka has faNen
by the wayside. The promoters made
all the necessary arrangements except
raising the money Henderson Martin,
chairman of the Democratic state COM
mittee, was the moving spirit in--the
project. The Democrats have no Off
cial state paper.
Tom McNeal. candidate for con-
gress in the First district. has an
nounced speaking dates for whirl-
wind campaign in Jackson and Brown
counties next week, as follows:
July 5-Whiting. $50 a. m; Nete
waka, II a. m; Germantown, p M;
Powhattan. D. m; Fairview. $50 p.
M: Morrill,. $50 D. m.
July 6-Hamlin, a. M; Reserve.
1 a. M; Hiawatha, p. M; Robinson,
3 p. M; Severance, 8 p. m.
July Highland, a m; Denton,
2 p. m; Bendena, p M; Troy,
p. m.
2 p. M; Effingham, 8 p. m.
July 9-Cummings. 10 a. m; Win
chester, p m.
Congressman Charles Scott has re-
turned to his home from Washington.
In an interview in his home paper, the
lola Register. he is quoted in regard
to the work accomplished by the last
session of congress:
Yes. it was rather O. lively session.
Mr.. Scott continued in answer to the
reporters questions. Personally, it
was the busiest session have ever had,
and think that was the experience of
the members generally. At any rate
the net result would seem TO show as
much for :he record of bills passed has
never been eGuaIled by any other sin
gle session. The eastern papers, with
out respect of party, agree that this
session has broken all records. not only
as to the number, but also as to tho
Importance of the measures enacted.
Practically every pledge made in the
last Republican platform has been en-
acted into law and no president in our
history has come so nearly seeing all
II q ffor4c 70 rrfdd mr. of
feet as has President Taft- And all this
in spits of the sneering predictions of
the Kansas City Star and other anti