The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-27
Stubs Is Back in His Original
Fighting Form.
He Is Big Favorite With Farm
ers at Livestock Show.
"STUBBS FILLS THE Bill"
That Is Sentiment FavOring
Candidate for q. s. Senator.
Send Man to Washington With
Practical Experience.

Wichita, Feb. 27.-Walter Roscoe
Stubs is 100 to 1 favorite for United
States senator among the hundreds of
farmers and stockmen gathered here
for the annual meeting of the Kansas
Live Stock association.
The demonstration here shows that
certainly a big part of the cattle and
farming interests are for Stubs. All
these facts are plain 20 anyone who
SklrmiShed around in the big crowds
which milled in the hotel Hobbies be-
tween their attendance upon associa-
ton meetings and visits to the fine
stock show.
I'VE want a man in the senate from
Kansas who knows the stockraising
and agricultural needs of Kansas. We
need a big, strong, forceful man who
is farmer and stock raiser, and
Stubs fills the BILL" That sum-
marizes the sentiment which fell free
ly and willingly from many lips, in the
visiting about the hotel Hobbies
1t was generally pointed out among
the delegates that with Kansas fur
nishing material amount of the food
and food products $50 necessary to win
the war, the state can aid still fur
Their in serving the nation by sending
representative to the senate with
actical knowledge of agriculture and
stock-raising, who can speak and vote
ence--
Same Old Fighting Stubs.
Rather indicative was an incident of
tuesdays meeting at which Stubs
and Capper spoke from the same plat
form. Stubs was the same old fight
ing red-headed Stubs. He was still
sum and sore from his automobil ac-
c1dent and patch of adhesive tape
bandaged his nose and upper lip He
got up slowly and stiffly; peeled off
his overcoat as he started to talk;
and in just a few moments was lean
ing forward and pounding his cIenched
right hand into the open palm of his
left as he hammered home his points
He warmed into his subject matters
OF intimate vital concern to the farm
ers and stockmen, and to the country
at large. He hammered home practi-
cal demands to win the war, and to
put aside everything except those
things vital to crush the War Lord of
Europe. He Decried the critic who
criticized but who offered no construc-
tive remedy
He had the audience with him.
ihere was no lace and no embroidery
to his language
When the meeting was over. two
stockmen were walking back to the
hotel. and one of them said: well,
Capper made very nice little speech,
out StubbS talks like man who
knows what he is talking about
And he does" was his friends re-
joinder.
Typical of the very many express
sions which were heard is one which
fell from the lips of M c. Campbell
one of the most successful farmers
and stock raisers in Kansas He has
owned and operated 2O,0O0-acre
ranch for thirty years in Clark county.
He was chairman of the Kansas live
stock sanitary commission under both
Governor Stanley and Governor
Bailey.
Only Farmer Candidate.
Not single candidate for United
states senator except Stubs is prac-
teal farmer and stock raiser" said
MI Campbell. "Capper, Scott and
all are successful in their chosen pro-
LESSONS. 1 have no criticism to offer,
but the farming and livestock inter-
ests of Kansas, by far the most i'm
portant interests in the state are
certainly entitled to representation
teal stock raiser and a practical bust
ness man. His experience in public
life has been wide. He has ideas and
the courage to back them up. That's
the kind of representative in the
United States senate that the argricul-
tural interests of Kansas need-not
only today, but in that all-important
period of economic adjustment which
will come at the close of the war
Food is as important to win the war
as ammunition. Kansas is one of the
great food producing areas in the
world. The interests of the nation and
the producers can only be best served
and be best joined together for eff
fective results by having in the halls
of congress a genuine Kansas farmer
and stock raiser who knows the bust
ness from the ground up. and who is
right now. and always has been, right
on the whole war question"
1t Was Big Meeting.
The opening meetings of the Kansas
Live Stock association brought out the
best first day attendance in the his
tory of the organization The live
stock and horse show are declared
among the best ever held in the state.
Mayor L. w. Clapp welcomed the
association to Wichita. ]. n. Tincher
OF Medicine Lodge responded. w. r.
, Stubs, president of the association, in
the presidents address spoke on prob
lens growing out of the war. Intro
ducing Governor Capper, Mr.. Stubs
said he wished to present young man
who was born in Kansas and who had
grown up here. and who had made