The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-24
STUBS IS BACK
No "Third Party" in Kansas,
He Says.
Recognize Only Roosevelt Con-
ventiOn as Regular One.
DOES NOT GIVE The PLANS
Unable to Tell How Electors
Will Get on Ticket.
Closing Date for Nomination
Makes No Difference.
DOES NOT GIVE THE PLANS

Governor w. r. Stubs returned
from the Chicago convention today
more firmly convinced than he was
when he left Topeka that Theodore
Roosevelt will be the mex: president of
these United States There will be
no third party in Kansas" said the
governor. There is no need of third
party in this state. But ROOSEVELT S
name will be on the ballot in Kansas
in November and the colonel will
sweep the state.
mo third party will be projected in
any of the states that are already con-
trolled by the progressives. What
would be the use? Roosevelt only
aims to do nationally what Wisconsin,
Nebraska, Kansas and the other pro-
gressive states have already done in
their state governments. Roosevelt
does not want a third party in progress
sive Republican states. 1t is to be
formed only in standpat states to
sweep the bosses and the standpatters
who represent the old era out of
power
Still Wears Roosevelt Badge.
The governor is as cheerful and con-
fident today as he ever was over the
ultimate success of the progressive
OAo
Roosevelt badge showing the colonePs s
old slouch hat in the ring. 81 tell
you,'' continued the governor, that
Theodore Roosevelt had a majority of
the legally elected delegates to the
Chicago convention. The national
committee stole from seventy to ninety
delegates from him AMI the conven-
ton ratified the committee with the
fraudulent delegates seated by that
committee voting on theie own cases.
II sat on the national committee
two days and heard the evidence. The
action of the committee was the raw
est farce I ever saw or heard OF. The
Indiana cases, for instance, were plain
steals. The evidence of fraud on the
part of the Taft forces in Indiana was
piled up by the ton, and it was indis-
putable, too. And Michigan, I tell
you the steal of the Roosevelt dele
gates from Michigan was as bad as
that of California. In the Michigan
cases the committee did not even take
the trouble to look at the evidence.
The Taft men laughed and voted the
Taft delegates in as carelessly as a
negro boy picking berries out of a
white mans patch.
Recognize Only Roosevelt Convention.
I'VE progressives were in the ma
jority and we recognize only the
Roosevelt convention as the real par
ty convention in Chicago. Roosevelt
is our nominee and we will elect him.
Il wish you could have been in
Chicago Sunday. If you had you
would have seen the Roosevelt men
and the Roosevelt quarters confident
and cheerful and enthusiastic, while
the Taft men looked like they had
been attending a funeral.
Il tell you, the Taft men did not in
tend or want to nominate Taft, but
they were afraid to try to switch to
some one else without the Roosevelt
men would agree to go into the deal
with them. Barnes the New York
boss, went to Flynn of Pennsylvania
twice and offered to switch the entire
New York delegation to any progress
sive Flynn would name except Roose-
welt.
'"The Roosevelt men in Chicago were
positively happy when they got the
news that Taft was finally nominated
And when the news came that Jim
Sherman of New York had been named
as his running mate we cheered. The
Taft people offered the nomination for
vice president to a half dozen progress