The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-27

ton was to en-: barrass the president and
cause him to stultify himself on his
public expressions in regard to this
| question.
| Stubs and Patronage.
But Governor Stubs did not stop
| there. Before leaving Washington he
| went to the White House one day and
asked Mr.. Taft if he could have some
| federal patronage. Now a request of
| this kind coming from the governor
! of a great state like Kansas would or
| dinarily appeal to a generous man like
| Mr.. Taft and he very frankly told the
| governor that he would be very glad
| to give him the place he wanted, that
| of an assistant attorney general, If,
/ as was shown by subsequent cores
| pondence, the governor would name
man who would be satisfactory to
| the Kansas delegation in congress.
| Thereupon the governor went to the
| attorney general and handed in the
name of Robert Stone of Topeka for
assistant attorney general, we'll know
| ing that he had failed to consult eth
| er the senior senator from Kansas,
the member of congress from the
| First district of Kansas. or any other
Republican member of the Kansas
| delegation in congress. BY this decep-
| ton practiced on the attorney general
| q commission was issued for the ap-
pOintment of Mr.. Stone, and the gov
ernor returned to Topeka. Upon his
arrival he gave out an interview in his
personal newspaper organ, the To-
peka Capital, which ran something
like this: 1 have been to Washington
where 1 have secured the appointment
of Robert Stone as assistant attorney
general. This will make it possible
to have but one candidate in the First
district against Anthony, and I have
secured this appointment over the
heads of the Republicans on the Kan
IAI4
: ticle continued that the governor had
succeeded in putting the delegation in
2 hole. had Inundated Senator Curtis
and Congressman Anthony, and had
seriously impaired the political pres
tige of these gentlemen. Promptly
upon the receipt of that article in
the Topeka newspaper Senator Curtis
and I called on the president and he
> was shown the newspaper interview
which Governor Stubs had given out
regarding the Stone appointment on
his return to Kansas. AS he read
the article the face of the president
flushed He touched an electric but
ton which summoned his secretary
and he dictated a letter in our press
ence which ran something like this:
my dear governor: When I told you
I would appoint man you would
name to the position of assistant at
torney general I said I would do so
provided you selected a man who
would be satisfactory to the Kansas
delegation. I find that you have not
done this. I also find by reading an
interview in the Topeka Capital that
you are endeavoring to use this an
pointment to create fractional lines in
the Republican party in Kansas.
cannot allow this and therefore I have
ordered the commission of Mr.. Stone
revoked" This is not the exact word
ing of the letter but it Is the substance
of it.
Now, L had not and have not the
slightest feeling against Mr.. Stone.
think he is a capable young lawyer,
and if his appointment had been asked
in the regular way, if the governor had
consulted the Kansas delegation as he
led the president to think he had.
there would probably have been no
objection to Mr.. Stones appointment.
And this instance of deceit and treach-
cry practiced by the governor upon the
president of the United States was the
beginning of his antagonism to Presi-
dent Taft.
About Liquor Prosecutions.
1.-The next instance which comes up
| to show the antagonism of the gov
ernor of Kansas to the president Of
| the United States will be recalled
when the governor made a grandstand
| play by publishing open kilograms to
the president demanding that when a
permit to LAPSE even for day or who
had been checked up as overdue by a
government officer the offender be i'm
mediately thrown into jail. This kind
| of an open telegraphic correspondence
could not help but be embarrassing to
Mr.. Taft, but he good naturedly COM
piled with the request of the governor
| of Kansas and issued an order that
upon the slightest infraction of the
federal revenue laws the violator be
thrown Immediately into Jail. Now
what was going on in Kansas while
the governor was making this grand
stand play on the president? Was the
governor throwing into Jail the men
who were found guilty of violating the
prohibitory laws of the state? Not on
your life.
| I'm the county Of Leavenworth where
1 live the governor through his attor-
| ney general, Mr.. Jackson, had suits in
stituted for the violation of the prohib-
| itory law against 128 jointkeepers in
| the district court of my county. Did
/ the governor and his attorney general
| throw these men into Jail? No But
| the records of the Leavenworth district
court show (and 1 hold them here in
my hand with the number of the case
| and the name of the defendant) that
| the governor and his attorney general
dismissed lis out of 1913 of these cases
upon what conditions? Why upon the
payment of an attorneys fee of from
$50 to SIPS in each case, and these at
torney's fees instead of going into the
treasury of the state of Kansas went
directly into the pockets of the attor-
ney general of this state. The record
of the cases which hold in my hand
which Governor Stubs and his attor-
ney general dismissed on the payment
of attorneys fees show that 50 900 from
Leavenworth county jointkeepers alone
went directly into the pockets of At
| tOrnev General Jackson and only IL ,,f
these 12S cases were prosecuted at all
And think of it, citizens of Topeka, all