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7. R. IN THE FIELD
Going Back to Tell Kansas Taft's
Name Will Not Even Be
Presented.
JUST GIVE 'EM RECALL
And the People Will Rise Up at the
Chance TO Override Their
Courts.

When Walter Roscoe Stubbe. the Quaker
Governor Of Kansas, came cast six weeks
ago to act as a bellows in tanning the
ever 80 reluctant Roosevelt flame he
confessed that the Colonel could expect
little from abe Fast IL he should decide
To run and might not get the nomination.
! But last night Gov. Stubbs started west
ward after his second visit believing
he said. that President Taft's name
wouldn't even be presented to the Chicago
con vention.
Here's what In my judgment will elect
Roosevelt said the Governor at the
wolcott yesterday. 'In those six States
that have the legal Pr residential primary
the vote will be 80 overwhelmingly for
the Colonel that MIR. Taft's friends will
see a great light and will not dare to let
him stand for denomination. Those
States are New Jersey. Wisconsin. North
Dakota, Nebraska. Oregon and California.
Whate YER they say in the primaries willex
press the popular sentiment Of the Pacific
coast, the middle West and the Fast.
Probably Illinois will have a primary
too-Gov. Denison is working for it
and possibly Massachu usetts. which has
a primary bill before the Legislature
now. will be added to the list. In Kansas
we hope to have a preferential primary.
The State committee has absolute say
as to that. and believe it's going to say
Primary
Gov. Stubbs spoke in fremont Temple
in Boston on Saturday night. He said
il was the loudest pro- Roosevelt meeting
he had heard about, and that whenever
he mentioned the recall for judicial
decisions part Of the Colonel's Columbus
speech the racket of approval was 40
deafening that he had to pause while.
Yesterday Gov. Stubbs called up the
Roosevelt headquarters here and i'm
plored somebody to tell Col. Roosevelt
that insistence on the recall ought to be
made the main feature of the campaign
speeches which the Governor thinks the
x-President will make
Tell him." said the Governor to the
man at the Roosevelt headquarters,
that what he said about the recall is Just
what the people wanted to hear and were
waiting for somebody to say. Tell him
I've been among EN- and l know.
After viewing Massachusetts the Kansas
Governor says that II the people can only
have the sayso in the primaries the en-
tire Republican delegation from that
additionally standpat State will be for
Roosevelt, But the Governor pictured
the gentle Murray Crane as fighting for
Taft, tooth and nail. because. in the
Governors opinion. Crane would not be
reelected United States Senator again If
the people had the choice in primaries.
Senator Clapp." added Gov. Stubbs.
has been in Delaware and he tells me
that Roosevelt ought to get half the dele
cation from that State. Wen get some
delegates in Pennsylvania. Gov. Bass
says New Hampshire will be against
Taft As to New York. say nothing; it's
tho Colonel's own State and guess he
can take care OF il. But in the whole
East there's been a terrific change in
sentiment in the last month. It's just n
question Of turning public sentiment into
delegates"
President Taft. according to the Kansas
prophet. will not have q look in west OF
the Mississippi. except In Utah and pos
sibly Arkansas. Gov. Stubbe In to speak
for Roosevelt in Pittsburg tonight and
in Akron. Ohio tomorrow. Then he's
going back to Kansas to do little govern
ing and may make no more speeches
until after the Republican national con-
vention.
II was proudly announced at the local
Roosevelt headquarters yesterday that !
Victor Hugo Paltsits, State Librarian /,
Under the Hughes ssr nsmnstTati0n ION had
other former Hughes supporters were
meditating tho same step. Mr. Paltsits |
will be a candidate for alternate in the |
Twenty third Congress district and will |!
speak for Roosevelt. Robert d. Ireland |
who had charge OF Gov. Hughes's cam |
paign in the Thirty fifth Assembly dis |
frict, has also declared for Roosevelt.
The Murray Hill Republican Assooia- |
ton. with li6 members, has been formed |
to buck the regular Republican organiza- |
tion in the Twenty-seventh Assembly |
district, where B. W. B. Brown is leader. |
The association will have a full county |
committee ticket and Louis s. Grenner |
will try to capture the leadership from
Brown. All the members OF the associa-
tion are for Roosevelt.