The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-03
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
John Dawson Will Take Little
Part in Campaign.
He Isn't Sulking in His Tent,
Oh, No.
HAS OTHER DUTI ES
Head Over Heels in Rate Tariffs
just Now.
Sam Hale Predicts Stubs Will
Lose Rush County.
OTHER DUTI ES


ator, will take little if any part in the
fall campaign. The Republican candi-
date for attorney general mad been ex-
pected to make about as many speeches.
as Governor Stubbs himself, and ne
makes some campaign speech Goes
John Dawson. No, John is not sull<lns
in his tent; he never shirked anything
in his life, and for that matter, ne loves
to make speeches, enjoys campaign
like a boy at the old fishing hole But
the fact is. John is busy. He IS at
tOrney for the railroad board ana Is
now in the middle Of lot Of rate cases
befc re the interstate commerce COM
mission.
Dawson returned the other day from
Chicago where he had bucked all week
against a ton of evidence on rates ana
tariffs, and took UP the matter OF the
campaign with Governor Stubbs. John
wanted to get in the campaign ana yet
lie hesitated to drop his rate cases al
this time. After conference the gov
ernor decided that it was more import
ant to the general public for John to
stav with his rate cases than 1T was
for him make political speeches. So
john viii talk to the members N1 the
interstate commerce commission IN
stead of to the horny-handed soEs of
toll. He will still paii.L the glories and
prosperity of Kansas but for the bene-
fit of the learned commissioners IN
stead of the denizens of the Walnut val
ley, and he will call upon the heavens
to witness the injustice of the railroads
to a section that has been so favored
by providence.
John will be missed from the cam
paign. A Bannockburl will be fought
without a Douglas; foray Will be
made without a. bagpipe. And John VIII
be happy too, for he would rath9r talk
to Kansans than to kings But the
freight rates on livestock and grain and
glass and canned goods are TOO high,
and it is up to John to Whlttle them
down The railroads would doubtless
prefer to have John Iambast the Dem
ocrats for the next month. The Dem
ocrats are probably we'll satisfied with
the situation as it is. Chairman Doiley,
of the state committee, is troWnlnS a
deep froWn and wondering where he
can get a spellbinder to take the place
of the earnest and silver tongued Scot
AS for Hill City, the metropolis of Ora
ham county and home of Dawson. 1t
mourns and refuses to be comforted for
her faVorite son is serving his country
in the useful arts Of peace instead of
winning fame on the firing line The
ends that John aims at are greater, but
Hill City pants for material things and
cannot see it that way.
That hone springs eternal in the hu-
man breast is exemplified in the op-
timistic interview given out today by
that old time Democrat, S. l. Hale OF
Lacrosse, who says:
"Rush county viii give Hodges and
the entire state and county ticket a
larger majority that it gave William ].
BRYAN two years ago. and claim that
is something worth considering, espe-
ciallv for a short grass county where
the Republicans are claiming their
strength lies.
governor Stubs will not get
Democratic vote in Rush county, and
for that matter he will not get Re
publican vote there either, though
there are few voters who class them
selves as insurgents who may cast a
ballot for him: In my county the sen
timent prevails that the insurgent
leaders are not sincere and for that
reason their following is not large and
is decreasing every day"
Bale Waggener of Atchison, stand
pat Democrat, and a second Ingalls, in
the gentle art of sarcasm, pays MS re-
spects to Stubs ct al. as follows:
What will Bill White, Stubs and
Rristow do now, since Roosevelt'S
Saratoga convention? 1t is conceded
that Colonel Roosevelt wrote the plat
form. which was adopted The admin
istration of President Taft is en-
Enthusiastically endorsed. Under his adj
ministration Pinchot was fired and
BaIlinger retained. At Minneapolis
Stubs said: If ] were president,
would kick BalIinger out Colonel
Roosevelt now endorses the president.
The Bill White-Stubbs-B ristow plat
form in Kansas condemns the tariff bill
and a violation of party pledges. Col
onel Roosevelt, at Saratoga, commends
the law. and says that the Payne
tariff law reduced the average rate of
all duties IL per cent In drawing the
Saratoga platform, Colonel Roosevelt
evidently forgot Bill White, Bill Mel
son. Bristow and Stubs, and the fried
chicken salt rising bread at Stubb's
mansion in Lawrence. By the Saratoga
platform Colonel Roosevelt has dump
ed in the ditch Stubs. Bristow Bill
White and all the Kansas insurgents.
He tolled them all along until he got
them all proclaiming that Colonel
Roosevelt was the greatest man that
ever lived, and then he exposed their
asininity by having the Saratoga con-
vention endorse President Taft, and all
he had done, and the Payne tariff as
great work of Republican statesman
ship"