The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
People Wonder About Gov.
Stubbs' Line of Action.
Not Difficult to See He'll Back
Insurgent congressman.
BOOST FOR MADISON.
Has Already Voiced Approval in
Seventh.
Also Endorsed Victor MurdOck
in the Eighth.

In his western speeches President
Taft defended the federal courts. In
his western Kansas speeches Governor
&Stubbs jumped on the federal courts
with both feet. The president referred
to the federal court as a tribunal
where the rights of the individual are
preserved against the people them
selves. The governor referred to the
federal court as a menace against the
rights of the people and the rights of
the state. He referred particularly to
recent federal court decisions in which
state laws relating to state institutions
had been interfered with and denounc-
ed the practice in no uncertain terms.
Governor Stubs has in the past been
recognized as the keystone in the
square deal structure. Last week for
the first time he joined the insurgents.
While all s'-~e the governor has been
had admitted the insurgent candidates
for congress to the inner circles of his
council table, he had never come out
in the open with a muSket in his hand.
At Liberal last week the governor op-
ened his campaign tour with a straight
cut denunciatlon Of Cannon and Aid
rich. He made q LaFolette-Dolliver
speech on national issues.
In summing VI the first campaign
trip made by the governor it is not
hard to make good guess on his line
of action the next three months He
is going to fight shoulder to shoulder
with the insurgent congressman. AL
ready he has been coupled with Victor
Murdock in the Eighth and Madison in
the Seventh district. And these con-
nections will help the governor, too.
Indeed, the governor paid high tribute
to Madison in his southwest speeches.
While on the other hand the talk of
bringing out Stanley against Murdock
for congress will make the lines more
plain and clear. Stanley is one of the
Wagstaff campaign managers.
One thing sure the result of the Kan
SaS primary next August is going to
show the attitude of the state in re-
gard to the progressive policies advo-
Gated by one wing of the party. There
will be nc room for speculation after
the votes have been counted.
A Newton politician called at Wag-
staff headquarters in Topeka today and
told the following story of the meet
ing at Newton the other night at which
H. c. Bowman, of the state board of
control, is alleged to have butted in on
Ex-Governor Stanley:
III. c. Bowman. member of the
state board of control. who was ap-
pointed from this county. had been in
Newton for week past lining up
Stubs supporters despite the fact
that Governor Stubbs claims that he
has taken the management of the
state charitable institutions entirely
out of politics. But Bowman has been
away from his official duties for a
week, spending the time for which the
state pays him in building political
fences for Stubbs in Harvey county.
when Governor Stanley spoke at
our town Tuesday night. Bowman was
in the audience and interrupted the
speaker, asking permission to explain
some of the figures Governor Stanley
had used showing that the state in
stitutions are eXtravagantly managed.
But instead of explaining these fig
course of which he said that he real
lied that Stubbs is making the best
governor Kansas has ever had. His
statement was greeted by noisy ap-
plause from perhaps fifteen people in
the audience, the applause being led
by w. L. D. Hagan. chairman of the
Democratic county central committee.
after Bowman had concluded, Gov
ernor Stanley pointed out the fact that
the Stubbs representative had not ex-
planned the figures, but had used the
opportunity given him to go no farther
than to voice his support of the man
from whom he received his job No
less than three or four Stubs sup
porters stated after the meeting that
Bowman's course had injured Stubs,
as Bowman's first words were in the