The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-15
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Ex-GOv. w. E. Stanley Isn't
Sore Over Primary.
Will Fall in Line and Support
Gov. Stubs.
BAD DAY FOR sTOMS."
All Those on State Ticket We're
Defeated.
Victor Murdoch Talks of Down
fall of Cannon.

| OFFICE, has Just returned from trip
to Wichita where he met Ex-Governor
Stanley and brings the first word to
Topeka from the ex-governor regard
ing the primary election. Stanley is
not the least bit sore. He fought
| Stubs from March to August but he
will support him from now on until
November. Stanley told Muirhead that
| he was the original Kansas insurgent
and proved his statement
During Gov. Stubs first primary
compaign. something over two years
ago, he was billed for a speech at
Newton and Gov. Stanley. Attorney
\ General Jackson and other notables
were on the Newton platform and all
of them spoke for a few minutes At
| this gathering Gov. Stanley went fur
Their than any of the square deal chiefs
in his insurgent doctrines. He was
positively radical in his denunciation
of the interests and the domination of
congress by standpat leaders.
| Governor Stanley, didn't you go too
far?" asked certain then square
dealer who is now a war chief of the
Kansas insurgents.
mot at all,'' replied Stanley. This
| is but the beginning and Kansas can
be depended upon to go further than
1 have pointed out today"
Kansas has gone further, and the
eloquent Stanley. DETECTED from his
progressive course by personal feel
| ings. opposed with all his might the
forward sweep of his state. Stanley
himself explains the change of posi-
tions taken by the leaders on the New
ton platform. 81 have turned back
| ward on this insurgency proposition,
while they have gone forward"
The late primary election in Kan
sas may well be called 1.-The beating of
the tom-toms" 1t is bad year for
| Toms Tom Wagstaff was beaten for
governor. Tom Cordry was beaten for
state printer. Tom McNeal was beat
en- for congress. Tom Brown was beat
en- for state printer. And there is not
a single Tom in the list of winners at
the primary. People may say there
| is nothing in name and that these
four Toms by any other name would
have run no better than they did. but
| it looks to the superstitjous to see
four of them go down in one boat with
a name like a milestone around their
necks.
The official figures of the primary
election show that 137.1S4 Republi-
can votes were cast for governor, some
5000 more than at the previous pri-
mary. Gov. Stubs majority was 3d.,
756, about $4,000 more than his ma
jority over Leland Wagstaff carried
the counties of Atchison, Leavenworth,
Montgomery, Neosho, Kingman, Doni-
phan and Reno. seven out of the los
counties of the state 1t had been re-
ported unofficiaIly that Stubs had
carried Doniphan county by a good
majority. but the official returns give
the county to Wagstaff by an eyelash.
In only two counties, Atchison and
Leavenworth, were the Wagstaff ma
jorities impressive.
Mark Tulley. for state treasurer,
| running against four opponents, has a
plurality of 9.127. The vote for state
treasurer is as follows: Tulley, $3.50;
Webb, 26.215; Lewis, 1859; Grasse
1900; Altswager. 13.0S3.
Victor Murdoch. of Wichita. in
surgent congressman from the Eighth
| district. has given out the following
interview on the downfall of Cannon
and the forward sweep of the insurg-
ent movement:
| II want to say that the next forty
days will be of greater popular in
terest in SO far as politics are con-
| cerned than has been the case in near
ly half a century. 1 have letters since
the Kansas, campaign from nearly
| every state in the Union and, Judging
from them, it would seem that the ma
| ton is preparing to follow Kansas
through the hole Kansas punched in
the standpat dixie of obstruction Au-
gust 2.
Joseph G. Cannon is to be elini-
mated as the dictator of the house IF
representatives. Whether he submits
to the suggestion of his party leaders
and gracefully retires or does the 9TH
er thing and turns upon his party su-
periors, the breakup of the greatest
personal machine in the world will be
in process before September 1 next. If
the electors are wise they will not halt
one minute in their purpose, but will
continue to vote only for those men
who will promise to wipe out the sys-
tenn which nurtured Cannonism, the
| system founded on the appointment Of
committees by the speaker So far as
| Cannon is concerned, I think he will
fight He denied recently in Kansas
that he was going to retire from the
race for speaker.
1.-THE word from Beverly also shows
that Senator Nelson w. Aldrich had
gone permanently from the field of
public activity. His last act was a
parting shot. His retirement from the
senate, now certain, means the abso-
lutte collapse of the greatest bipartisan
combine in the history of the country,
the combine that has prevailed for
years in the senate, and that collapse
will be followed by progressive leader
| ship there.
s'These events are of tremendous inn
| Cortance. While the public usually is
| interested in personalities, the evolu-
ton now in progress in congress is i'm
personal and of greater import than any
personal change of control. 1t is, in
fact, the restitution to the people OF
their most precious political possession
Il representative government.
1.-The legislative branch Of this gov
eminent is once more to enjoy public
confidence; it will become actually re-
sponsive to enlightened public opinion.
And future legislation, instead of being
the lame and impotent offering of a
house machine and a senate machine
working in perfect acco~a will be far
reaching, effective, completely remedial
where remedy is necessary and con-
structive when it is necessary to build
entirely anew. This change in congress
is to be absolute. It is not to result
in a mere difference of gree It will
prove to be a difference in kind of leg
islative government. The Cannon-Ald-
4 rich legislative process was pervers-
ion That which must follow it is TO be
il q restoration Of the form and spirit