The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-25
He Expects to Garry State by
10000 Votes.
SAM BARBER AGAINST STUBS
Shawnee Candidate for State
Senate Talks Plain.
North Topeka Veteran Relieves
Mind ON L. II.

! nee for governor, believes the Kansas
| Democrats will win in the November
election with 10000 votes to spare.
| Hodges claims that his own majority
| over Capper will equal the plurality of
Wilson over Roosevelt in this state. The
| entire state ticket, the legislative and
| majority of the congressional districts
will be Democratic this year according
to the Olathe senator's political weather
! forecast.
| Everywhere have visited in the
| state, there is evidence of big Demo-
cratic gains" said Hodges. Even the
Progressive Republicans are dissatis-
| fed and are leaving Roosevelt, Stubs
and Capper. OF course they cannot ex-
| pect to control the support of the reg
| ular Republicans and it is very easy
to forsee the result of the fight. In my
| opinion Wilson will carry Kansas by
80 900 and the Democratic state ticket
will not be far behind that figure. We
viii control the legislature on joint
| ballot, elect at least six Of the eight
congressman and will send Democrat
| to the United States senate"
Hodges is spending his entire time in
| the fight. He was in Topeka last night
| and left this morning for Quenemo.
where he will speak this afternoon.
Samuel E. Barber. Democratic sena-
torial nominee from Shawnee county,
has issued an u1timatum that under NO
conditions will he support Governor w.
r. Stubs for United States senator.
Barber makes his position clear and
plain and will make his campaign on
the promise that if elected, he will
oppose the naming of Stubs as Uni
ted States senator from Kansas.
You can put it down fiat" declared
Barber, Il will not support Stubs foI
doesn't
make one particle of difference to me
what the other senators will do or how
| the people vote in November. Stubs
party has repudiated him in the pri-
maries and from a purely technical
| standpoint there is as much right and
| justice in questioning his nomination
| as there has ever been to question
the nomination of Taft-and I under
stand Mr.. Stubs questions Taft's NOM
ination right seriously.
'-As governor. Stubs has been ar
bitrary, arrogant, egotistical, and over
bearing and by false issues he has
| built a political machine in Kansas
that was never rivaled in the days
| of the convention system I under
stand my opponent has signed state
ment No. L. That binds him to Stubs
il the Republicans win in the state. If
the voters want Mr.. Stubs, they should
support my opponent. If they do not
want Stubs in the United States SEN
will not vote for him.
Riley county Republicans will meet
in Manhattan tonight to perfect the
organization of county Republican
League and the selection of a county
central committee that will work for
the success of only such men on the
ticket as have pledged their support
to Taft. The league and the new
county committee will lead an open
fight on every man for national. state,
congressional, legislative and county
office who is not openly supporting
the Republican, nominee for presi-
dent.
Resolutions will be offered which
will aim at driving the Bull Moose
candidates from the state ticket. |
Roosevelt's significant statement in
Ottawa last Saturday will be made the |
basis of the fight on the Progressives |
and the declaration, Il trust that every |
Progressive candidate will get off the |
ballot and out from under the Taft |
head ding" will be kept before the men |
on the state ticket who are support
ing Roosevelt.
1t is also proposed by the Riley |
county Republicans to inform Con- |
gresham R. R. Rees that while they
appreciate the aid he has claimed TO |
be secretly giving, yet his assistance |
would become more valuable if he
were to come out in the open and |
make a straight fight
At meeting Tuesday night, the |
following officers were elected by the |
Manhattan Republicans: Prof. o. H. |
Fallier. president; John E. Hessin,
vice president; Henry Otto. secretary;
William knipe, treasurer. Members |
executive committee, John E. Hessin, |
D E. Deputy, Frank Dent, DR.. ]. c.
Colt and ]. NJ. Kimball. United
States Senator Charles Curtis and
other Republicans will speak in Man
haitian before the close of the cam
paign.
Theodore Roosevelt's trust the
people" movement is shattered by T
N. Mcclure, a North Topeka veteran,
who recalls the statement of Roose-
welt in May, 1907, when he told Sena-
tor Foraker that he was above tie
law. Mcclure is inclined to doubt tha It
RooseveltS past record indicates "a |
strong sincerity in his doctrine of re-
call of presidents and ali public Off
Gals.
Il remember in May. 1907 says
Mcclure, when he and Senator Ray
nor and Senator Foraker of Ohio were
having their trouble about his dis
charging all those colored soldiers
without giving any of them a chance
to prove whether they were guilty ~
innocent, and he sent Colonel Stewart
away down into Arizona just because
the colonel wanted to be treated white. |
Senator Foraker was going to offer
resolution to give Colonel Stewart and
all those colored soldiers a chance IF
a trial by jury or court martial to see
if they deserved such treatment as
this good man was giving them-the
man who wants the people to rule
He told them plainly that if congress
passed such a resolution, he would
veto it and # they passed 1t over h
veto he would net pay any attention to
it: that he was above the law. Now
how are all the common people that he
talks so much about going to do Any