The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
WOULD NOT TALK.
Gov. Stubs Declined to Discuss
Insurgent Victory.
Does Not See Fit to Endorse
Vote for New Deal.
JACKSON AND DOLLEY
Both Pleased Over VindicatiOn
of the Right.
ID. w. Mulvane Deplores Split
in the Party.
JACKSON AND DOLLEY

Kansas Republican leaders view the
fight in the national house in Washing
| ton over the revision of the house
rules from widely different angles.
| The square dealers are jubilant over
| the insurgent victory and most of
| them believe the insurgents did not
go far enough. The machine men re-
greet the incident as a movement to
weaken the party and strengthen the
Democrats for the November cleo
| lions.
| Governor Stubs, when asked today
for his views on the Washington fight,
! would not, strange to say, commit
/ himself for publication to any extent.
| The governor was as timid about ex-
preston as a corporation witness at
| a government hearing. It is known
about the state house that he is with
| the insurgents heart and soul, but
today he had no message of cheer for
their victory, no endorsement. no
commendation. He was as noncom-
| initial on politics as T. Roosevelt over
| in Africa. He went this far, and no
further: ST guess they have placed
the blocks under Cannon, all right. But
have nothing to say. 1 have not
| thought much about it. and have not
prepared any statement for publica-
ton"
Attorney General Jackson's Views.
The governor is supposed to be the
leaders of the insurgents in Kansas,
but after great insurgent victory,
the greatest since the movement be-
gan, he would not even say he was
glad or approved or was sorry He
may be reserving that expression until
later when it can be made in due
form and proper place.
Attorney General Jackson, who is
the fnsurgent candidate for congress
in the Fourth district against Miller,
did not hesitate to speak his mind on
this occasion, however. He paid trib-
ute to the insurgents as follows:
The importance of the victory for
representative government won by the
insurgents in Washington in changing
the rules of congress cannot be over
estimated. 1t vindicates absolutely the
righteousness of their cause and shows
as none of the discussions going before
have shown, that the objection to the
absolute control of legislation by the
speaker was great national wrong
1t removes the issue from congress and
brings it directly before the people.
That congress may at any time amend
it's rules by a majority vote has been
established but the issue of what the
rules of congress shall be has not been
fully settled. 1t will not be settled I'M
til the people decide whether repre-
sentatives shall be sent to congress who
will stand by the new rule of the APP
pointment of the committee on rules
Just adopted by the vote of the insur-
gents and Democrats. or the old rules
which were adopted In the first days of
the special session of congress by the
vote of the Cannon Republicans and
Tammany Democrats.
DolIey on the Situation.
J. N. Dolley, chairman of the state
Republican committee. is at his home
in Maple Hill today. but he stated Sat
Grday before he went away that he
was very much pleased with the insur-
gent victory. Mr.. Dolley was speaker
of the last Kansas house. He said that
in Uncle Joe's place he would re-
sign after having been turned down on
a point of order. / would not have
resigned in the heat of the session at
which was beaten" said Mr.. Dolley,
but 1 would resign at the Monday
morning session. 1t was a great vic
tory for the insurgents. The move
and it will grow until the reactionary
majority in the party has been re-
placed by a progressive majority The
time has passed for half way meas
ures and compromises. II the other
fellows can get the insurgents to talk
and temporize they will beat them ev-
cry time. I firmly believe that Kansas
sentiment for the progressive policies
started by Roosevelt and now carried
forward alone by the insurgents is in
the large majority"
ID. w. MuIvane DeplOreS Party Split.
David W. Mulvane, national COM
mitteeman for Kansas, and regular
in the Republican ranks when inter-
viewed today on the Washington fight, |
said:
Il hardly know what to say about |
the house rumDus. 1 don't quite un-
derstand it. But there is one thing |
certain, the insurgents and the Demo- |
Gratis sure put Uncle Joe out. Consid-
cred from every angle the situation |
does not look any too bright for the
party lust at present. 1 hope that the |
insurgents will return to the fold and |
that harmony will be the order of the |
day in the future. Why shouldn't the /
members stick together? The insur-
gents have accomplished their object /
and have nothing left to fight for. All |
that remains for them to do is to join |
hands with the regulars and carry out \
President Taft'S legislative program. |
If the party does not unite pretty soon
the Democratic party will boss the next
house. This would be very serious. |
The only way to prevent it is for the /
bows to climb into the band wagon and /
stay there. There has been too much |
jumping in and out of late, anyway.
$50 you think the insurgent move
ment has weakened and is weakening |
the party?" interposed the reporter.
"I most certainly do" replied Mr.. |
Mulyane. "You see it is this way. We
have to go before the country at the |
next election and fight. To make a |
successful contest we must have a /
united party. Our lines of battle must |
be unbroken, from the president down /
to the humblest Republican. We will |
have a hard fight any way you take it, !
and it is the duty of every member of
the party to stand to his guns and do |
his best The insurgent movement is
injuring our chances OF victory. Let it |
keep on and we have to face sure de-
feat.
Stubbs Hurting Party.
governor Stubs and his friends
are paving the way for Democratic
Like the insurgent congress-
men themselves they are breaking our /
battle lines and making it possible for
the Democratic party to again return
to power. They will not listen to the |
cali of the party and stand by it in its |