The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-27

ayers looked about a bit. Someone
recalled that there was a scandal
away back in 1898 when Judge Stuart
was first elected to the bench. The
Anthony managers fastened to secure
the records which showed that Judge
Stuart was formally charged before
| the state senate in 1899 on Sc counts
charging fraud and corruption in the
counties. 1t was charged that the
ballot boxes were stuffed that
| liquors, cigars and money were dis
| tributed by the Stuart supporters in
a room L 5 feet from a certain voting
precinct and that the returns from
four days to ascertain the probable
results of the election. BY a vote OF
10 to 16, the senate found against
Stuart.
and began the trial of cases in his
district. Then James Fallon, who
contested the Stuart election, filed
proceedings in the supreme court to
Gust Stuart from office.
While the Anthony papers were
busy telling of the Stuart impeach-
ment, they were only digging a ditch
for more trouble. The Stuart con-
tingent recited that the supreme court
held for their man and that he was
exonerated and permitted to serve. In
reply to this assertion the Anthony
papers looked a bit deeper into the
court reports and found that the de-
cision recited that the proceedings in
the senate were irregular and that the
favorable decision was not based on
the facts as presented to the senate.
And to this the Atchison Champion
replied by hurting another paving
brick at Postmaster Casey and tying
Casey to Anthony's coat tail and
pointing to the corruption in federal
proceedings in general
q
is busy campaigning in his district.
Each day he wades into the official
record of Judge Stuart and each day
Judge Stuart and his friends dig holes
in Anthony's congressional record and
link his name with the names of con-
gressmen whose political records in
Kansas are repugnant and distaste-
full.
1t is real war. The mere formal
tiles of a lineup on the progressive
regular issues is lost sight of in the
bitterness of the fight. Just who will
fire the next shot is a matter of
speculation. The fight has not
reached Shawnee county as yet and
perhaps some of the more choice and
palatable attacks on the personal and
official characters of the two men
will be saved for the closing hours of
the campaign.
The impression is prevalent in the
state house that the state contest
board will have plenty to do after
the primary if the Roosevelt electors
WIN. The Taft leaders declare they
VIII contest the nominations on the
ground that the Roosevelt electors
are not entitled to places in the Re-
publican column because they do not
profess to be supporting the RepubIi-
can candidates. Taft and sherman.
The state contest board consists of the
secretary of state, the auditor and the
attorney general who are all candi-
dates for reelection. These officers
are keeping mighty still about these
impending troubles. They will not
affect Secretary Sessions nor Auditor
Davis very much because they have
no opposition, but General Dawson
has an opponent who assumes to be
the progressive candidate for at
torney general And that is a good
joke on John Dawson.
Dawson has always been the most
aggressively progressive man in the
state house, he is the LaFollette of
Kansas politics and the states leading
trust buster. He is the author of half
the reform laws now on the statute
book, and is entitled to the credit for
the continuance of the two cent rail-
road fare while Oklahoma and Mis-
souri, are paying three cents; he is the
man who has secured all the reduc-
lions in express and freight rates in
Kansas in recent years; he carried the
war Ior the suppression OF the lQuor
traffic into the remotest sections of
the Bad Lands" and has many other
trophies of his work as a progressive.
Dawson refuses to make a campaign
or to recognize the awful danger
which threatens to engulf him in the
storm and strife now raging in the
Republican party even though it bids
fair to overwhelm the just as well as
the unjust.
There is a well defined report, in
hA
leaders are planning to endorse Daw-
son as a progressive. The original list
of hand picked progressives, en-
dorsed by William Allen White, bore
the name of Samuel Griffin Now, it
is claimed, the Roosevelt leaders will
back up and include Dawsons name
on the list.