The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-07
Senatorial Campaign Is Now on
in Earnest.
Senator Curtis Establishes Head
quarters in Southwest.
VISIT SHORT GRASS
Will Not Overlook the SparseIy
Settled Counties.
Governor Stubs Also Is Grid
ing Up His LOins.

After holding forth at a lot of old
soldiers and settlers reunions the past
few weeks, Senator Charles Curtis Will
now get down to the real business of
his campaign for reelection to the
United States senate. The senator will
make his starting point from south
west Kansas and has established A
temporary headquarters at Garden
City. He will work east to Dodge and
round out a fine tooth comb campaign
in the shortgrass country before the
next session of congress.
This the first active move in the
coming campaign for the senate viii
arouse a lot of speculation over the
coming conflict between the black
statesman and the red When Will Gov
ernor Stubs open the right he mas
never announced his candidacy IN
formal fashion but 1T is well known
that he will make the race and gen
orally accepted on all sides 1t VIII De
q great fight between men Who nave
never been beaten before. The gov
ernor win appear before the people as
a progressive standing for the Roose-
Welt Pinchot and Bristow ideas OF the
square deal in politics, While GURUS
will stand on the Taft platform as
regular. Stubs will also make prohi-
bifion and law enforcement an issue,
and he is hammering hard on tnat
phase of the question at this time IN
stead of starting his senatorial cam
paign- -
guard solid behind his candidacy ana
all the forces that have fought StuOps
in the past, and all the federal ap-
pointees, and the presidential influence,
for Curtis is a Taft man and regular
70 the core Stubs will have his state
administration forces and the pronlpl-
tfonists and the progressives and the
advantage of q primary election IN
convention he would not nave look N
ia king the return of Long and his
fight with Bristow for a comparison,
the dope looks to be against GURUS
hut then the Indian senator IS not 50
cold as Long nor so Indifferent to puo-
lie opinion He has greater personal
Following than any other politician In
the state. and upon that he depends to
win the nomination. Certain 1t IS thal
the next senatorial campaign VIII be a
hummer and the two best campalgners
tl,e state has ever seen will grid up
their loins and fasten their sandals
and go forth among the voters to dc
ali that men may do TO win the favor
of the ballot.
The Garden City Telegram has the
following about the Curtis headquar-
tiers in the west:
senator Charles Curtis will be out
this way for a brief spell or cam
paigning in about a week OF ten uaST
Senator Curtis says he expects 10
he in southwest Kansas by probably
october Is and will remain here prac-
tically a month.
ne will spend all the time he can
snare in this section before the reg
Mar session of congress convenes IN
December.
part of the time Will be spent with |
HEADQUARTERS here, in order the better
to make some of the counties ada
cent to Garden City. There may also
he A little headquartering done at
.sAccording to advice received from |
Senator Curtis by some of his friends. |
he Will shortly go to Syracuse and |
from there down to Morton and Stan |
ton counties; thence to Lakin, and |
from there here, where he will spend /
some time in visiting this town and |
county and go into Haskell and Seward |
and Scott and Gray counties.
Senator Curtis. who will be can |
didate for reelection, generally comes /
to western Kansas once a year He /
has been very much interested in the |
artesian development and secured re
Gently an expert to make an examina-
ticn of artesian prospects. He has
also been of much help to Garden
City"
According to the Atchison Champion
Sheffield ingalls,, newspaper man and |
politician, VIII make the race for the
senate from Atchison and Jackson /
counties next year to succeed Senator
Myers of Holton. The place goes to
Atchison this time. ingalls, has many
friends and all the qualifications for a
good and useful senator. He may make
the race. In an interview, Mr. Ingalls,
who is a progressive, says:
4 have not decided what I will do
There are many who are urging me
TO make the race, but I have been out
of politics the past two or three years
to business and / find that
it pays me better, so far as dollars and
cents go I am very we'll cOntented |
where I am, but still have such posi-
tive notions about local political con-
ditions and am so thoroughly imbued |
with the belief that much legislation
has been enacted which has proven i'm
detrimental to the general |
welfare of Atchison. that it may be
hard to keep out of the political game.
The present laws governing the con-
troll of local public utilities are espe-
ciaily obnoxious and refer specifically