The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
HOch Should Remember Stubs
Made Him Governor.
Man Who Rules Lifted Lecturer
From Black Obscurity.
DlSLOYALTY is A SIN.
Great PrOhibitiOnist Should
Forget Petty Fight.
The Genius of Chief Executive
Brought Him to Front.

The White City Register, a Republi-
can paper published in Morris county,
IS nonpartisan as regards the factions
IN It's party and has printed the follow
ing nonpardsan editorial regarding
Governor Hoch's outspoken declaration
OF love for Tom Wagstaff:
Mr.. Hoch said in his paper, the Mar
ion Record. last week. that he loved
Tom Wagstaf because he had done so
much for the prohibitory law. But he
has never professed his love for Gov
ernor Stubs, the prince of law en-
forcers. Why does Mr.. Hoch discrimin
ate in this instance? Besides was it not
for Governor Stubs Mr.. FIoch would
probably never have been governor of
kansas and Chautauqua lecturer OF
national renown. Governor Stubs has
brought Mr.. Hoch fortune ana fame.
So while we keenlv admire Mr.. Hoch
for his clean life and his great influ-
ence for good in private and public life,
we cannot for the life of us understand
why he is against Stubs for governor.
The Registers argument is a good
one. 1t is well known that Hoch
and Stubs were not so constituted as
to get along together and the falling
out might have been more the fault OF
the Lawrence man than that of the
man from Marion. But the man from
Marion should never forget the TACT
that he was taken out of his little old
country newspaper Office by the Law
renee contractor and placed in the
governors chair. It was Stubs hand
that lifted Hoch from ObScurIty to
fame. It was Stubs who made Hoch's
platform assets possible. OF course the
mere fact of the big lift given at the
right time should not make Hoch a
slave forever. If he had a quarrel with
The autocrat who lifted him that was
ais business. If he could not get along
with Walter Roscoe that was not a
matter for which he should be censur-
ed But now that the litter and the
one lifted have drifted apart: now that
they live in different towns and breathe
q different atmosphere; now that they
are not close enough together to quar-
rel and their personal opinions and al
fairs do not cross and get tangled. it
i'll becomes the ex-governor to go out
of his way to fight his benefactor. APP
probation is the best gift of the gods.
Big men are always loyal. A favor Civ
en- in time of need, a light in time of
obscurity, these things should be re-
membered q life time.
HOch Had to Fight Back.
When Hoch quarreled with Stubs it |
was urged that Hoch had to quarrel |
to retain his independence. He would |
have been servile otherwise. But when |
Hoch separated from Stubs by time |
and distance, lifts his voice for Stubs
enemies one is bound to think or the
time that the rich Lawrence contractor,
who, with his genius for organization,
took that poor and unknown Marion ed |
itor by the hand and led him away
from his little print shop to COVER |
nCrs chair. That act alone, and it was
surely disinterested in its inception, |
should be sufficient to palliate against |
anything that happened afterwards. |
Though Governor Hocn speaks with the |
tongue of men and angels and has not |
appreciation 1T prof1teth him nothing. |
He may have a thousand good friends, |
but not all of them will be able to do |
him the favor that Stubs did for him |
when he sat in the shadow of his OBJ |
security. Hoch would appear to better /
advantage If he spoke in praise of /
Stubbs. His Christianity would sit bet |
ter upon him. All the Stubs short |
comings, though they weighed a ton, |
do not weigh as much as his favor to |
Hoch; all his alleged mistreatment of
Hoch did not balance his good treat
ment of Hoch.
Loyalty a Gem.
The finest lesson of old times when |
all men were cruel and superstitious
and bloodthirsty, was the loyalty
shown at all times by all classes of
those old world ruf1ans. They COM
mitted every crime on the calendar
with cheerful thoughtlessness but dis
loyalty was a cardinal sin. The black
est page in their lives was generally