The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-04
Senator Brady of Lawrence as
Candidate for Governor.
He Is Talked of to Lead the
PrOgressives.
HIS LEGISLATIVE RECORD
Hugh Farrelley May Run
Against Phil Campbell.
Talk That Third District Man
VIII Not Enter Senator Fight.

The 1913 drouth in Kansas has not
cut off the prospects for a bumper
state candidate crop in 1914. Just at
this time-with the primaries IL
months away-there is a bright pros
pect for collection of available state
candidates that will keep the country
printers working nights in preparing
the primary ballots.
One of the latest possible candidates
for office next year is Senator Joseph
l.. Brady of Lawrence, who may be
crowded into the gubernatorial con-
test. Brady is newspaper man and
a Progressive. So, if the Kansas Pro-
gressives prove true to the present
political dope, Brady may become the
Progressive standard bearer in the
fight for the governorship.
Brady served during the 1909-11
sessions of the state senate and made
a record as a defender of the progress
sive measures. He fought, bled and
died for the 1. and r. and the recall
and voted consistently for all of the
reform measures that were in the state
platform.
After the death of the late Con-
gressman A c. Mitchell, Brady entered
the fight for the Second district con-
gressionaI job. Under the rules of the
running in the Second district that
year, deposit of $4,000 was required
of the candidates to meet campaign
expenses. Brady met the ante and
made a hard fight with all of the
Stubbs- Bristow- w White-Jackson oppo-
sition against him. AS result of the
combination, Brady was defeated and
elected.
Last year Brady again took a hand
in the Second district congressional
fight. He declared for Roosevelt and
,Nrir1 irA1n cd
the manner in which the Republican
presidential nominatiC1 was handed
to William Howard Taft Brady won
the Republican congressional nomina-
ton in a three cornered fight. But,
with the Republican league working
and the Stubbs ct al opposition strong
er than ever, Brady met his second
defeat.
But Brady always came back smiI-
ing He attended the Progressive
banquet in February and reaffirmed
his allegiance to the cause of reform
He proved that he was a game loser
and a real fighter. And those quail
fications make friends for men in
Kansas politics. Now Brady is being
mentioned as the Progressive guber-
Material nominee for 1914. And with
Brady at the head of their state
ticket, the new party followers in
Kansas expect to make real fight in
the next election
ambition to go to the United States
senate and make the race against
Congressman Phil p. Campbell in the
Third district next year. Just at pres
ent the Democratic senatorial fight Is
quite uncertain. There are entirely
too many candidates to make certain
the results of the race and it is stated
that Farrelly will next year abandon
the senatorial fight and try for
place in the national house.
Representative o. S. Gibson of Cow
lev county is also mentioned as a pos
sitIe Democratic congressional candi-
date in the Third district.
There are at least a half dozen pos
sible gubernatorial candidates on the
Republican ticket Yet none of them
have positively declared their inten-
tions of entering the race. Senator
James A. Troutman of Topeka has
been often mentioned, but Troutman
hasn't said a word that will in any
wise make certain his candidacy
Secretary of State Charles Sessions
has been repeatedly urged to get in
the race But Sessions is non-com-
initial
Arthur Cappers name was men,
toned. but Capper has flat footedly
said he won't run. Attorney General
John S. Dawson has also declined a
chance to get in the race.
Lately Representative A. NJ. Keene
of Fort Scott has been often men
toned as a gubernatorial possibility.
But if Keene has decided as to his
course. he has carefully kept his Sc
cret from the public.
Then there is DIR. Graybill of New
ton. It is said that Graybill wants
the nomination, but doesn't want to
fight to land it. Yet GraybilPs inten-
tions for next year are just as uncer-
tain as those of any one of the five
or six other possibilities.
Probably none of the possible can
didates will make formal announce
ment until some time this winter
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