The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-25
Liquor Organ Makes Savage At
tack ON Governor.
Calls Him a Slanderer and a
Liar.
STUBBS is SERENE
Says He Expected Attack OF
That Caracter.
Meeting Held Last Night to
Discuss ReSubmissiOn.

'tAfter a lot of preliminary skirmish-
ing the liquor interests of the country
have opened war on me in earnest"
said Governor StubbS today after read
ing the last issue of the Balance Wheel
a Kansas City, Mo-, publication which
calls itself "a national advocate of per-
Sonal rights
The Balance Wheel, in it's last pub
Hcation, denounces the Kansas COVER
nor as liar and a slanderer and de-
clares that he ought to be made to
apologize or be ostracized by the peo-
pie of Kansas. Taking up the speech
delivered by the governor in Topeka at
church convention a short time ago.
the Balance Wheel quotes the governor
as follows: ''You stand idly by and see
your boys and girls absolutely destroy
ed. You stand by and see thousands
of boys and girls go to shame each
year."
The Balance Wheel proceeds to inter
pret this warning to suit it's own inter-
ests and then goes on to defend the boys
and girls of Topeka against what it
calls the governors attack. 1t claims
that the girls of Topeka are all right and
have been slandered by the states chief
executive. Such senseless drivel would
be ridiculous but for the fact that it
is being given wide publicity and may
be believed by many people in the
country who know nothing of the facts
except the carefully prepared quotation
in the publication that is fighting the
governor.
This publication devotes two entire
pages to Governor Stubbs and heaps
upon him the worst kind of abuse of
which the following is a sample: 'NThe
Balance Wheel hereby denounces Gov
ernor Stubbs as a liar and a Slanderer.
Stubbs should be forced to apologize
or should be ostracized by the people
Of Topeka and Kansas"
After accusing the governor of SLAM
dering the girls of Topeka the paper
shifts from local to national issues and
includes the entire country as the VIC
tim of the governors slander.
Calls Governor Rumaniac.
The Balance Wheel adds to the vol
| ume of the English language when it
calls the governor a "rumaniac.''
When the governor went to Chicago
Denver a nd St. Louis to make prohib-
ton speeches he laid himself liable to
attack by the liquor interests of the
country, and he declared today that the
war had been declared He regards the
Balance Wheel as an organ devoted to
the crusade now being carried ON m
every part of the country against the
prohibition movement. The cleaner cut
| the issue between himself and the Ii
| quor interests the better the governor
says he will be pleased with the Situ-
alton. He expected the war and the
abuse and the active opposition when
he was first called upon for prohibition
| speeches, and any one who knows him
knows that he did not hesitate a mo-
ment on that account.
The liquor and beer interests of the
country are now fighting Stubbs. This
fact has forced itself in as an issue
of the Kansas campaign and there will
be no effort on the part of the COVER
nor to dodge the fight or compromise
with the opposition.
Expected the Attack.
Governor Stubbs is a reformer and
prohibitionist. The liquor interests
have played right into his hand when
they declared war on him and in the
end they will have added greatly to his
scope of influence in the work he has
taken in hand. A fight always finds
the governor at his best. Commenting
on the matter today the governor said {:
''These two pages of abuse come
| from the liquor interests and might be
| called the opening gun of their war
| on me. I expected it when I went to
| Chicago and St. Louis and Denver to
i make prohibition speeches. This open
! fight clears the situation and brings
| out more clearly than 1 could possibly
have made it my warning that the