The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
TO TALK IT OVER.
j. N. DolIey Will Call the Party
Leaders Together.
Wants to Have a Discussion of
Harmony Plans.
WHAT OF BREWSTER?
WHAT OF BREWSTER?
DOniphan Lawyer May Get Into
Governor Race.
One of the Readiest Speakers in
Kansas.

1t is believed that ]. n. Dolley.
chairman of the Republican state COM
mittee. will call that body together late
in the summer to consider the condi-
ton of the party before the real cam
paign of 1912 gets under way. This
being an off year no meeting of party
leaders in council is on the program.
Mr.. Dolley wants to hear from the
folks at home and the best way to get
thu news direct is to hear reports from
the county chairmen.
There will be many things to con-
slider at the August melting of the state
committee. By that time all the can
didates for governor will have come
out of the woods, the national issues
shaped for winter consumption and the
Stubbs- Curtis fight for the senatorship
we'll under way.
Mr.. Dolley is for harmony. He gave
up his own ambition to be governor
in the interest of harmony, so he has
a right to preach that doctrine, and
even to dictate 1T if necessary. An
unselfish politician has rights that an
ofhceseeker dare not even dream
about.
Mr.. Dolley, during the last campaign,
gave square deal to the regular
faction of the party, according to the
testimony of the regular candidates on
the state ticket. He has consulted the
regular leaders this year in regard to
the state campaign, and all the signs
point to a harmony conference next
August.
Maybe State Senator S. M. Brewster
will run for the nomination for COVER
nor. Senator Brewster is now assist
ant attorney general. He was the
leader of the last state senate. His
talents and personality predominated
that body. 1t was Brewster who put
William Allen White on the grill and
gr1lled him. Brewster played a con-
spicuous part in all the debates. His
custer bill will make a big cornerstone
for platform and If a joint debate
could be arranged for primary and
election campaigns what candidate
would care to appear on the platform
as opposed to the man from Doni-
phan?
Senator Curtis puts up bale of
hay every day he has any dealings
with the old soldiers. He has been
invited to make the address Memorial
day at Arlington cemetery in Wash
ington. Senator Curtis stands we'll
he has placed more individual pen
sion bills on the books than any one.
The old soldiers, by the way. never
took kindly as, a body, to the progress
sive movement in the party The rea-
son is not hard to find. The veterans
belong to the old order that is fast
passing away. During the first 25
years following the civil war the vet
Grams were elected to every office
from county clerk to president over
all opponents. war record was a
countersign that passed the old bovs
to every office in the gift of the re-
public. But nearly fifty years have
passed since the civil war; the veter-
ans are well past the age for active
service. But they cling closel to the
traditions of the party they made
great. The new order they view with
suspicion.
case does not phase them They
stand almost solid for the old esta b.
lished regular order of things in the
Grand Old Party. If Lorimer is good
enough for Rhode Island he is good
enough for Kansas. And it is per-
fectly natural that the men wSo pre-
dominated the past generation should
cling to the traditions of the past
generation.
Thomas E. Wagstaff, opposing Gov
ernor Stubbs for the nomination in