The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-02
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Former Governor st. John Makes
Stubs Challenge.
Charges Executive Has Not Kept
Faith About Liquor.
JACKSON AT PEABODY.
Refers Again to Political Cau-
cuSes in Congress.
South Kansas Republicans Hold
Up for Third District.
AT PEABODY.


as follows: Governor Stubs and the
Republican state committee of KAN
sas, in uncovering the old bugaboo
that the brewers and interests" were
seeking to overthrow prohlb1t1on, STIR
red up the liVelieSt prohibition wire
in the west, in the person of former
Governor John P. St. John of this
town. Governor st. John stands as the
leading exponent of prohibition in
Kansas and the nation, who was twice
elected governor and was once a can
didate for president on the prohibition
ticket, and a third of a century ago
inaugurated the movement that crys-
talized that question into the statutes
and constitution of the state.
Governor St. John does not say that
while the people of Kansas were fight
ing the rum power and crystalizing
prohibition into law, that Governor
Stubbs, then a railroad contractor,
was permitting saloons to be run in
connection with his grading camps,
but there are hundreds of other Kan
sans who do so declare, and who have
promised the proof if Stubs denies
the charge.
Yes, I have read Governor Stubs
speech at the Christian church con-
VentiOn at Topeka, recently, in which
he appealed to all Christian men to
com bine to prevent the overthrow of
prohibition in Kansas" said Mr.. st.
John. 81 have noted also his speeches
made in Colorado. Illinois and Mis-
souri, in all of which there was more
politics than religious fervor, and
much more buncombe and personal
political desire, than prohibition zeal.
Governor Stubs has declared fire.
ouently within the last year that the
liquor traffic in Kansas is dead. Now
he shows the white feather by shak-
ing the dry bones of it's skeleton in
the faces of the people, with the pur-
pose of soaring them into voting for
him. This same old scarecrow has
been used at every state election in
Kansas for the past dozen years. When
the governor said within the past year
that the liquor traffic in Kansas was
dead, he told the truth. But now
when he faces. defeat, he tries to I'M
press the people that his defeat would
mean the overthrow of proh1bitlon.
Fred S. Jackson in his campaign for
congress spoke last night at Peabody.
Mr. Jackson referred again to the mat
ter of political caucuses in congress,
and the fact that a caucus ana caucus
leaders ought not to be permitted to
amend a platform. Mr.. Jackson re-
called and read the following from
speech of JameS-A. Garfield in 1873:
81 have been II years a member OF
the house, and in all that period, new
er have once known of the members
of the Republican party binding them
selves in caucus to support any bill
before congress. l have seen 1t tried
once or twice, but 1 have always seen
dozens of Republicans spring to their
feet and say, I am free man, ana
l will vote according to the interests
of my constituents, and the dictates OF
my conscience, and no caucus shall
bind me-. But the moment the Demo-
cratic party got back into power again,
that moment they organized the caucus
the secret caucus, the oathbound eau
Gus, for within the recent extra SEES
sion they have actually taken oaths
not to divulge what occurred IN caucus
and to be bound by whatever the eau
Gus decreed, and 1 have known man
after man, who had sworn by all the
wicked gods at once that he would not
be bound to go for certain measure
walk out of the caucus like sheep
led to the slaughter, and vote Tor the
bill that he had cursed. They brought
bills at the extra session so full OF
manifest errors that when we pointed
them out they would admit in private
that there were errors, that ought TO De
corrected, but they would say, l nave
agreed to vote for it without amend.
ment and 1 WILL We pointed out
wretchedly bad grammar in bills, and
they would not even correct their gram
mar, because the caucus had adopted
it,
E. B. Schermerhorn, for thirty-two
wears a resident of Galena, and now
a member of the state board of con-
troll. was in Topeka today on bust
ness. Though Chairman Dolley of the
Republican state central committee
has conceded Cherokee county, where
Mr.. Schermerhorn lives, to the Demo-
Gratis. it is the belief of Mr.. Scher-
merhorn that the Republicans will
carry the county by a majority of
several hundred votes.
John Madden of Labette county,
general attorney for the Missouri,
kansas & Texas railroad, was in To-
peka today and visited the state house.
He declared that he considered the
Third district as strongly Republican
as though it was a wall of fire. Mr..
Madden seid that Cherokee county was
uncertain, though he believed that the
Republicans would carry 1t. Another
county which Mr.. Madden said would
be in the doubtful list is Crawford.
Holton. Kan, Nov. 2.-Following talks
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