The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-10
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Peter Pyle Asks Gov. Stubs a
Few Questions.
Wants to Know if He VIII
Support Taft.
JACKSON AND CHAMP CLARK
Did Winfield Democrat Desert
Speaker Too Soon?
Home This Week.
JACKSON and CHAMP CLARK

VINO lives in kenSingtOn, haStenS to
question Governor Stubs concerning
his loyalty to the party and the ma
tfonal ticket and demands a public
reply before the voters go to the Au-
gust primaries. Pyle submits five
special questions on which he asks
the governors immediate reply
through the newspapers. A copy OF
Pyle's interrogations reached the gov
ernor's office today.
Pyle is an insistent party He is a
Republican of long standing and with
iron clad credentials. In 1909 ne
helped reconstruct the Kansas laws
from the firing line in the lower
house. When Governor Stubbs offered
his theories that about every public
official from road overseer to presi-
dent should be elected by direct vote
of the people-the list including Unit
ed States senator-Pyle promptly en-
dorsed the platform. But subsequent
Developments have caused Pyle's
mind to be troubled and he wants to
know the attitude which Stubs will
assume in relation to the new third
party, if he will endorse the Republi-
can national platform, whether he
will support Taft and Sherman and if
the governor really urges the presi-
Dental electors to vote for Roosevelt.
In his letter to the Kansas executive,
Pyle writes thus:
Hon. W. R. Stubbs. Topeka Kan:
which was printed in the Topeka State
Journal of July s, and it contains a num-
Der of principles which all Republicans
can endorse 1 believe with you that ou1y
men of the best legal ability and of I'M
impeachable character should be appoint
ed as federal judges and that all judges
except Judges of the supreme court of tie
United States s.-ould be elected by a di-
rect vote of the people. In fact, I go fus-
the election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people as soon as the
constitution can be changed.
Under our law the members of the leg
1slature are instructed by the voters for
which candidate for United States sen
ator they should vote. This being true it
is very important that the voters should
know just how each candidate for that
office stands on all important political
questions before the primaries in order
that they may vote intelligently.
From talking to large number of Re
pubheeans in this part Of the state 1 find
stand on the following propositions:
l. Do you approve and endorse the Re
publican platform which was adopted at
Chicago?
? WIN you support Taft and Sherman
during the present campaign and work
for the success of the Republican party
nationally and in the state?
8. Are you helping to organize the new
party which Roosevelt is trying to organ
lie in opposition to the Republican party?
4. Do you advise the Republican can
didates for electors to support Roosevelt
instead of Taft?
g. Are you in favor of turning over ths
Republican organization in Kansas to the
new Progressive party which is being or
ganized by Roosevelt in opposition to the
Republican party?
I hope you win answer these questions
Equarely refusal to answer them wilt
be understood to mean that you do not
wish the voters to know just where you
stand on these questions. Pointing. 70
YOUR public record will not be a sufficient
answer to these questions. The questions
should be answered through the press Il
1i- 800 fru1v PETER PYLE.
Kansas politicians are discussing the
new friendship of Judge A. NJ. Jackson
for woodrow Wilson, backed by the
winfield mans declarations that he
was a staunch, tried and true worker
for the Champ Clark boom.
IT have Just returned from the great
est political convention which was ever
held in this country" Jackson told the
Reno county voters yesterday. 81 went
there as a Clark man, but when Gov
ernor Wilson was nominated, became
a Wilson man and I shall do all can
for hts election
Strange, the wise ones say. They re-
call the press dispatches which fol-
lowed the votes of the Kansas dele
cation when the ballots were in the
early 20's. They recall that it was
Jackson who was given credit for
swinging the 20 Kansas votes to the
New Jersey governor and this report
has apparently never Do6n Al
the time the Kansas Democrats desert
ed Wilson, the ''houn dog candidate
from Missouri was leading the race by
a nice majority. Strange, the wise ones
repeat. that Clark's best friends should
go to the enemy when the favorite was
the lead horse, and then declare that
they did not go until after Wilson was
nominated 1t will be remen bered that |
jackson got in the 1912 spotlight as
the chairman of the Democratic state !
Clark convention and Jackson was /
pushed into the gubernatorial race as
q dark man to oppose Hodges, a Will /
son man. Then Jackson deserted Clark 7
while the Missourian was in the lead /
Assistant Attorney General S. NJ |
Brewster has returned from his home |
in Doniphan county, where he has |
been making the campaign for a legis- |
lative nomination. Brewster, who rep
resented his district in the senate for |
four years, now asks for 1 place in the |
lower house. For the nomination. he |
is opposed by a wealthy Doniphan
county farmer, of Gerr an descent, |
whose affiliation with the progressive |
movement is deep rooted and genuine.
And on Brewster's shoulders is heaped !
the burden of the regular cause of the
party
Brewster was floor leader of the
senate for the regulars. When an
spectacular oratorical dis
play Was ~ DC SldSt III tIG SSudle. II
was always Brewster around whom the
fireworks were exploded When the
pet initiative and referendum hung in
the balance and the reform crowd sent
to Wisconsin for an expert demonstra-
tor and rendered the floor privileges
to the Wisconsin man and to William
Allen White, it was Brewster who
saved the day for ants. And yet
white himself admitted-see records
of Leahy investigation-that Brew ster
was a constructive statesman and per-
haps a progressive one. too. Now
Brewster wants to work in the house.
II the Troy man is elected. the wise