The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-08
STUBS IN OPEN.
The Governor of Kansas Makes
Announcement.
Dropping LaFOIlette Takes up
Roosevelt.

Although Governor Stubs has
known that ex-President Roosevelt is
NOS a candidate for the Republican
nomination for president, and that he
has urged his friends not to make eff
forts to secure delegates in his favor,
the governor has finally announced
that Roosevelt is his choice and that
he will try TO force him INTO the race.
Governor Stubs is an admirer OF
LaFollette, and. with the general pub
lie, regards him as the Progressive
leader
stu, the governor has evidently come
to the benef that L.af7olIette stood no
show with -he people to win a nomina-
ton, or election
In fact, the Insurgents generally,
with the exception OF Senator Bristow,
have apparently given up the idea that
any one of their numDer can win a.
nomination or election, so they are
trying to bring out the most popular
man in the country, even If they sub
Jected him to the third term handicap
For the position that Colonel Roosevelt
took himself. was that he had served
two terms. OF course another term for
Roosevelt would not be third term IN
the sense of consecutive terms
But here is what Governor Stubs
says in his announcement now, all
though it was understood several
months ago that the governor would
not announce his preference until Just
fore the time for holding the Re
publican national convention. This,
however, may have been mistaken
notion:
4 am in favor of tbs nomination
and election of Theodore Roosevelt for
president, first said the Governor,
because the imperative need of our
country for the next four years is a
president who believes in his heart in
the principles advocated by Lincoln,
and who has the courage of his cOnvic-
tions; second, because Colonel Roose-
Welt. more than any other man is re-
spunsibie for the nationwide forward
movement in the direction of a govern
ment administered honestly, decently
and vigorously, without fear or favor
for rich, poor, high, low, black or white.
Colonel Roosevelt is not only the
logical candidate for president at this
time, but he is the only one who is
sure to win He can carry the New
England states, New York, Pennsyl- !
van1a and Ohio, and his maJoritles
throughout the middle west and Pa
cific coast would overwhelming, re- |
gardleSs of who is nominated against
him. In Kansas he would carry not |
only the full Republican vote. if nom |
mated, but he would receive a large
share of the progressive Democratic |
vote
PERSONALLY, am very fond of Sena- /
tor LaFoIlette and regard him as a !
great constructive statesman but have /
not encouraged any general movement |
for him in Kansas, because I am fully /
convinced that Colonel Roosevelt is the I
only man who can be absolutely de-
pended upon to win and thereby save /
the country from four years of uncer-
tain political experim ents, which may /
involve the wreck and ruin of those
great national policies associated with |
his name. To remove Senator La
Toilette at this time from the progress
sive leadership of the senate would be
to take a powerful factor for good out
Of that body and weaken the common
cause in q vital place.
Judging from newspaper reports
and the character of the man, it does
not seem possible that Colonel Roose-
velt would not accept this nomination.
IL It came to him as genuine public de-
mand, for everyone who knows him
knows that he is not the kind of man
to shirx a plain public duty: and it is
as much his duty to serve his country
at this time as 1t would be to answer
his c0untry's call in time of war;