The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-09
sAtchisOn LaWyer-Statesman I'm
proved in Health.
He Talks Interestingly About
Kansas Politics.
SCOFFS AT REFORMERS
Says They Want Fat Jobs and
Contingent Funds.
Predicts That Champ Clark Will
Carry Kansas.
SCOFFS AT REFORMERS

Governor StubbS is too shrewd a
man to call a special session Of the
legislature, Bale L. Waggener say
but III he should=if he really should
Oh we'll there will be just one more
dead Kansas statesman OthefWlSe,
the -Atchison man has lutte to say OF
, the special session or the preSldeHttdt
primary. except that the people dOn
Waggener camo to Topeka today
feeling better than at any time IN
many months. He is rapidly regain
ing HIS strength, declines to smoke d
cigar since the operation and believes
he will entirely recover from MS re
cent trouble. Waggener's old tanalllai
smile played on his face as he lalkeu
OF Kansaa and national politics to
bunch OF friends in the hotel lobby
It is a damp, dreary day in Iopeka
and the AtchisOn lawyer found more
than the usual delight in Kidding the
recordI OF the kansaa reformers-
Trouble is" exclaimed NagSener,
90 he removed his glasses and wiped
them with his handkerchief, trouble
* too many OF these retornerS want
fat Jobs and contingent funuS- rms
reform business has been coming hlSu
for some time and the reform haSh
reached out to the dear people except
to paw the bills It's about time Tor
something to happen
Then Waggener was askeu apo u :
the situation in the Democratic camp
He dodeyed an alignment on the guDef-
Material tight, but was sure that
clark was stronger in Kansas thah
anv of the other presidential posi-
bilities. -+
CLARK will carry many of the west
ern states. including Kansas, pre-
dicted Waggener, but 1 wouloh De
There's a good deal of Wilson sentl-
rnent. TOO. but I can't see him IN the
AS for the LaFollette boomlet. Wag-
gener has the most extreme me- con "a
TEMPT. Surely Kansas is for Taft. he
snrges. but he admitted that the fight
M Kansas would be worth while
especially with the primary.
But I think Stubs is too ShreWd d
man to call a special session to en-
act presidential primary Dill sai4
Waggener. but you never can tel
If he calls it-oh, well-well there
Will be just one more dead poll t.1.-ai.
that's all There never was COVER
nor who called a special session OF
the Kansas legislature and got by with
IT, Stubs is no exception Ine peo-
pie don't want the special SESSION anu an
fhev don't want the presidential prl-
mary. although the reformers VIII
crowd it down their threats II they
can do it. >,
Mr. Wazgerer continued, Taft IS IN
my opinion stronger in Kansas than IS
TaFoIlette That's based on Ialr'
square showing But with the primary
system regulated the way 1t IS now
there is no opportunity to get the ION
est sentiment of the people The Dem,
ocrats are invited to come over ana
vote the Republican tickets ana Ele e,,
fverSa-and what can you 40 ABOUT Il
This is Waggener's first visit TO To-
nelxa since last July. While in Topeka
last summer, he became sick and the
relieving week was taken to a So MI
tarium in Rochester, Mimi, Tor an op-
- 80, since this operation, he has
partly regained his former strength-
@|bis afternoon Waggener appeared pc
fore fhe utilities commission REGARDING
q Missouri Pacific bond issue he VIII
$50 q his evening to his home in
AfchiSOn