The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
for the collection of prompt and ETH
cient returns


cient returns.
Henry Albach, campaign manager
for Mayor J. B. Billiard, has formally
mayor for the Democratic guberna-
toriaI nomination Albach believes
that the majority of George H. Hodges
will be about 5000. He contends that
the Topeka mayor was compelled to
make his campaign in the face of the
most severe newspaper criticism and
the opposition of the party machine IN
the state. Numerous letters and tele-
grams were sent by the Democratic
leaders, Albach declares, in which the
submission to the Hodges candidacy
under the belief that his nomination
would strengthen the party. Albach
believes that these conditions above re-
suited in the defeat of Billiard
William Allen White views with joy
the nomination of Governor Stubos
and the defeat of United States Sena-
tor Charles Curtis. But White arse
points with shame to the rabbits in the
form of state and local candidates
who failed and refused to declare their
allegiance to the Kansas executive ID
the hardest fight he has yet encounter
ed. White says in part:
"Stubbs has been a leader in TINS
Progressive fight for nearly ten years
ne SIOOu the VI eAAA ~
every big fight that has arisen in al
that time. He has been reckless ana
inconsiderate of himself in making enc
mics for himself in order TO accom-
plish good things for the people OF
the state. He is said to be ruthless
and domineering; he is. But no othei
kind of treatment would have eftectu-
ally wrecked the ironclad copper-r1Veleo
machine that had been holding Kansas
in such perfect control. 1t took
Stubbs to do it. 1t took a man OF steel
nerves and resistless spirit. That kind
of man makes enemies But nt
holds the confidence and esteem OF
honest men.
Stubs paid no attention to the
campaign that just has passed. He
has been making speeches all spring
and devoting himself to the cause OF
Roosevelt Roosevelt is his national
ideal. If Stubs had devoted one-haf
of the time to himself that he devoted
to Roosevelt, he would have carried one
hundred counties in the state. This is
essentially true of Stubs. His enc
mics consider that he is selfish because
he is often brutally insistent upon tho
righteous course. But no Progressive
has ever risen in Kansas who has not
had a helping hand from Stubs.
More than that. No good cause
whether the primary, the tax law, the
Roosevelt movement, the movement TO
clean up the SUdnQpaC congressman, Indt
Stubs has not gone into it heart and
soul, and generally footed the bills at
the end of the winning fight.
And the shame of it is that in this
campaign scores and scores of Pro
gressiVes, big and little running for
office in this state, were afraid to de-
clare openly for Stubs They hid out
like rabbits in the brush. They said
not one true and helpful word for the
man who has done more than any
ether one man to put Kansas in the
list of the four Progressive states in
the American union. It was a shame.
But there is no use crying over split
milk. Stubs has won. He will now
proceed to make a campaign as is
campaign. The interests have spent
500, 600 to elect Lorimer. The man
who voted with Lorimer from Kan
sas has been Overwhelmingly defeated.
Now they will spend a neat little sum
to beat Stubs. Stubs is a lone fight
er. He will have to make a lone
fight. The big fellows are all against
him. The big business interests are
all against him. But he has the peo-
pie of Kansas with him and he can