The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-07

diers' reunion. From the same plat
form from which Stubs spoke the
previous day, Curtis f1ayed Stubs for
his iEsincerity and attempts to TOOL the
voters 1t was upon the writing OF
the provisions of the primary law that
Stubs was hit the hardest py the
senior senator from Kansas.
In his speech Curtis gave the state
administration credit for the passage
of the "bIue sky law, but declared
that it was drafted from measure ne
himself had prepared. Then Gurus
discussed the high taxes, charged
Stubs with tax lodging and raped
the chief executive of Kansas for MS
method of handling the state oil IN
spector's office, where he discharged
five men and employed S3 more men,
Curtis urged that it cost Kansas $751;
900 to collect $4,000 in the OIL IN
spector's office and declared tnaI
Stubbs by adding to the lists or state
employees had buil6ed a machine far
stronger and more vicious than the
state possessed under the OLD cohNeh
Discussing Stubs and the state wide
primary law, Curtis said:
He says today that the machine Wrote
the law upon the statute books, put ne
forgets to tell YOU it was the Stubs ma
This is taken from an authorized inter
view with Stubs in the World s Wo1n
for May, 1912. page 81:
'Hoch played even with Long. he
called a special session of the legislature
to pass a primary law. In that session
Stubs stood up as the principal leaoeF
and a bigger feature than ever before.
He stood squarely out against all corn
promise. Hoch having delivered one sting
ing blow in converting the legislature was
inca pable of following 1t up, ana nlnSelt
went on the floor of the legislature ara
pleaded with the members of the house
to pass a weak compromise measure. But
Stubs controlled enough votes to BRING
an adjournment without any measure IL
the complete law could not be passed.
That was the big fight of February, 1865
when Stubs conquered the compromise
80 you see by his own interview he ad-
mits that he passed the law which has
robbed a majority of the RepubhGans
voting at the August primary of their
choice of the candidates for the position
of United States senator.
/ desire to call your attention to the
following from the Topeka Capital, Jan
uary 80, 1908: House passed the primary
bill as reported by the conference com
mittee by a vote of 103 to TO- Stubs
''Stubbs was satisfied and said: You
have no right by primary election 70
its due representation under the const1tu-
ton I believe the provisions in this bill
are fair and in accord with the constitu-
ton of the United States. So you see he
not only voted for, but advocated the dis
trict primary bill If my friends retained
the letters 1 wrote them they would show
that I advocated the Missouri plan. thai
is to keep the senatorial question out o.
the urinary and have it settled by placing
all the candidates on the ticket OF the re-
spective parties in November and let the
candidates receiving the largest number
of votes of his party be the nominee of
that party for United States senator. 1
favored such law then and I still think
it better plan than we now have as a
result of Stubbstsm in Kansas"
P E. Laughin, of Marysville, Demo-
cratic nominee for state treasurer, was
in Topeka a couple of days this week
and attended the meeting of state can
didates at the party headquarters in
the New England building. LaughIir
won the state treasurer nomination in
the recent primaries after a close fight
with ]. D. Waters, Of Bonner Springs.
1t was a three-cornered fight with
Frank H. Cron, of ElDorado. third man
in the race. Now Laughlin is sure the
Democrats will win inA Kansas this
wear and will make an active, energetic
campaign confident of party success in
the November election