The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-26
STUBBS' DILEMMA.


Governor Stubs suggestion that the
Republican party in this state is al
ready the Kansas wing of the new
party that Colonel Roosevelt proposes
to form is one of the most preposter-
Gus political propositions that has ever
peer advanced. Equally so is his in
sistence that the gathering at Chicago
which named Mr.. Roosevelt as a presl-
Dental candidate was the regular Re
publican national convention. There
was nothing to that gathering that
savored of it's being any kind OF {
convention. This IS recognized by the
colonel himself in the preparations
he is now making for the calling of a
convention in the course or a re"
weeks at which he and a vice presl-
Dental candidate will be formally nomi-
mated by the new party that will then
come into existence.
But Governor Stubbs seriously de-
clares that the crowd at Chicago which
met after the regular Republican con-
vention had adjourned was the onl5
true Republican convention and the
candidate it named is therefore the
candidate of the Republican party of
Kansas. The righteousness of this
contention is made plainly apparent
nv the efforts Of Colonel Roosevelt ane
his friends to get some prominent
Democrat to accept second place on
the new party's ticket. Democrats are
also to be invited to a place on the
advisory committee that is charged
with assisting Mr.. Roosevelt to Or
gaEize a new party. And yet, Governor
Stubs would attempt to string the
people Of Kansas into a belief that a
presidential ticket with Roosevelt in
first place and a democrat in second
place should be recognized by the Re-
publicans of Kansas as their regular
national ticket, and should have the
place of the regular Republican ma
tionaI ticket on the kansas ballots on
election dav.
However, Colonel Roosevelt has
knocked these fine plans Of Governor
Stubs into a cooked hat. Fol at the
very time that Governor Stubs was
giving voice to them in Topeka Colonel
Roosevelt delivered himself of an in
terview at Cleveland in which he an
nounced thai the new party he pro
posed to form would be a new party
i "a NAS 9AOAAA4 0R"
that he had decided to cut away en-
tirely from the party with which his
whole public career has been identified
There must be no compromise, nc
straddle," said the colonel in his usual
Iy emphatic fashion, and from the way
his followers at Chicago truckled to
him, it is evident that what the colonel
says goes with those who stick to hin
So Governor Stubs will have to give
up his ~ingeniously formed plans tic
force Roosevelt and his running mate
on the Kansas ballots as the regular
Republican national ticket. He will
either have to land with both feet i
the new Roosevelt party or he will hav
to pass it by as has already been done
by Governor Hadley of Missouri, Gov
ernor Dineen of Illinois and others O.
the erstwihle Roosevelt enthusiasts.
OF course the Interior motive behind
Governor Stubs unusual proposal is
He wants to suppor Roose-
Welt and be a power in the new Roose-
welt party, and he still desires to main
tain such a semblance of regular Re-
publicanism that he can press his AN
for the Republican United States
nomination in Kansas. But
the boss of the new Roosevelt party
who happens to be the colonel himself.
has put down his foot on any such
attempt to carry water on both Shout
ders. So it is up to Governor Stubs
now to make some definite move in one
or the other.