The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-21
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Things Will Warm Up When
Congress Adiourns.
Delegation Will Enter the Arena
at Once.
CURTIS AT CHANUTE.
Senator will Open His Campaign
There August %.
Opponents of Anthony Would
Keep Shawnee Out of Fight.

Politics has been tabooed in Kansas
ever since the hot sun killed the gar
den truck last June and threatened
the corn. Now that the rains have
saved the corn and September is com
ing along to put the heat rays out OF
business, the oficeseeker and the pre-
cinCt wheel horse will soon come into
their own again. Congress will adj
journ this week and the delegation
will come home at once to look after
fences. The Second district congress
sional fight will be under way in a few
days. Governor Stubs has a lot of
speaking dates ahead for next month.
It is understood that Curtis will
/ speak at Chanute, August 81. Cover
nor Stubs will fill several dates in
September. On the first day OF the
month he will address an old settlers
! picnic at Pretty Prairie in Reno coun-
! ty. September 4 he will make the
Labor day speech at Columbus, Chero-
kee county. September Z he will
speak at Kansas City, Kansas. at the
merchants celebration September 8
he will be at Arkansas City.
Many of the editors and politicians
from the country counties of the First
district appear to be confident that
Judge Stuart of Doniphan county can
wrest the congressional nomination
| from Dan Anthony if Shawnee county
keeps out of it. Jackson, Nemaha,
Brown and Doniphan counties are
strong for Stuart, and his friends be-
Heve he will get a good vote in Atchi-
son on account of the old pOstof1ce
row there and in Topeka because of
the fact that Anthony has never been
DarticuIarIv strong here. VIII Beck,
editor of the Hoiton Record, one of
the influential papers of the First dis
trict in an Interview given to the
State Journal, opposes a three-corner-
ed fight and sums up the situation as
follows:
"I have a most friendly feeling for
the Topeka politicians, but I am afraid
Shawnee county Republicans are about
to lay themselves liable to the charge
of being greedy. Topeka has a United
States senator and the indications are
that next year he will be a candidate
for reelection. It has a man for gov
ernor whose nomination is now con-
ceded. The present secretary of state
is a Topeka man and of course we
want to give him a second term.
There is talk among the friends of
Robert stone that he should come out
as a candidate for congress. There may
be other good offices that the Topeka
Republicans will aspire to before the
lists are closed.
'sLeavenworth has a candidate for
congressman and a candidate for gov
ernor, both of whom tn. Republicans
of the district will be asked to support
for nomination.
In all the i've COuiiLlSS OuLOlOS u
Shawnee and Leavenwort so far as
I know, there will be but one man,
Judge Stuart of Doniphan county, ask
ing for a nomination for state or dis
trict office.
Nov to an 'up-district' Republican
1t would look like good politics and
show sa disposition to be fair, for To-
peka to keep out of the congressional
race and allow Judge Stuart, progress
sive and Dan Anthony, stand patter, to
fight it out and the best man VIM"
After all the long and bitter news
paper row between Governor Stubs
and Toi1n Dawson, these officials ap-
pear to be working together just now
in the effort to protect their special
agents from the attack of the Chero-
kee county officials and interests OPP
posed to outside intervention in coun-
ty affairs Some of the liquor men
between the governor and his attor-
ney general was a sham battle. But
this is not so. The fight was real
enough, but the aggressions of a COM
mon enemy brought the two officers
together. All good Republicans and
real friends of the two officials would
be glad to hear that their personal diff
ferences had been adjusted for good in
their allied effort against a common
enemy.
Senator Bristow will come back
soon from Washington and point with
pride to his record of a hard fight on
the Ubiquitous schedules of the tariff
bill. Senator Curtis will come still
standing pat on the old Payne bill.
The congressman will com9 divided
and sl1b-divided over RECIPROCITY and
tariff schedules. President Taft will
come next month and talk about his
Canadian reciprocity measure. You