The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-17
is The FEUD over?
Governor Stubbs and Attorney
General Dawson Friendly.
Hold a Conference and Talk Over
Situation.
NOT ATRACE OF ANGER
Both Men Act Like Old Time
Friends.
Liquor Situation the Theme of
THAR. GouVA item
IOT ATRACE OF ANGER

The controversy between the COVER
nor and the attorney general is con-
fined to the newspapers and the United
States mail. In their personal and
business relations these two officials
are as friendly and pleasant as any
other two officials in the state house.
Yesterday John Dawson returned TO
the city from his Wichita and Leaven-
: worth campaigns and spent the morn
ing in his office. Governor StuDps was
at home. too, in consultation with Dr-
Crumbine of the board of health IN
regard to the advisability of urgln
the United States district attorney to
bring suit against certain missouri
brewery for violation of the federal
label laws in regard to interstate snip
ments.
The matter was important and the
governor was deeply interested some
legal question arose, and the governor
turned to his desk telephone ana can
.Is this Dawson, he asked. well.
John, wish you would come over mere
right away on an important matter
This is Stubbs.''
Dawson entered a moment later with
a smile that was childlike and piano
The saIutation between hlrn ana the
governor and the board of health man
were cordial. The matter was explain
ed to him and he gave his opinion at
some length, which was to the eHecl
that the suit should be brought ana
evidence was connected.
The board of health secretary went
away. and so did the newspaper man.
but the attorney general fingered 70
ment of the prohibition law They
were sitting knee to knee threshing 1t
over with interest that amounted to
enthusiasm when the other visitors
left the room. 1t was hard to realize
that these two had been engaged IN
deadly combat for six months past and
had strewn the columns OF forty news
papers from the Cimarron 10 the raw
with the dying and the dead the
typewriter batteries were still. The
Red Cross stenographers were buying
gum at the stand in the lobby The
pens rusted in the racks. me postage
stamps were resting quietly in the am
rnunftion cases. The encyclopedias of
crime and violence lay neglected on
the shelves. David Leahy, In the
outer Office hummed cheerTul little
song about an O'Shaughnessey that
had killed three men in a night with
a Tower musket.
They do say that Dumont Smith, one
of the best mechanics that ever tinker
ed with the cogs of a political machine,
is the manager in charge Of Judge Mar
tins campaign for congress in the Sew
enth district. Smiths conversion by the
square dealers amounted almost to
a sensation and since then little has
been heard of him in politics. They
say that Senator Price, the king bee
of regular state senators, kept out of
the race in the interest of Judge Mar
tin. that Lobden kept out and Denton
and Davis gave up their ambition
The fight for the nomination in he
Seventh is red hot affair and the
four candidates are making hay on the
hills and in the valleys. The primary
will be held November 20 and there is
every promise of a heavy vote. Hopkins
of Garden City is conducting cam
paign by mail as well as by oratory
and visitation. He has Senator Bristow
and William Allen White, progressive
apostles who signed as charter mem
bers to the lodge of the true faith, on
his side in his effort to represent the
short grass country in congress Gov
ernor Stubs is keeping out of the fight
Judge Gordon Finley. an admitted pro-
gressive., is a strong man personally
and will keep Hopkins busy in the
western section of the district while
Martin admittedly has the advantage
in the eastern part