The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-01
Kansas Has Awful Time Get
ting Politics on Straight.
Best Guesser May Pick Blind
Mule for State Derby.
COAL STRIKE A new FEATURE
It May Provide Tasy Third
= Term for the Governor.
Morgan, Otherwise, Probably
WIN Get Capitol Support.

BY 4. L. SH ULTz
kansas voters never had so much
trouble getting their politics on
straight The govermorship sands
which seem so firm and established
IN the morning have shifted and van
81 ished with nightfan- The man who
visits the state house today and feeds
up On first hand gossip. would pHOb-
ably pick blind mule for the all
Kansas derby Monday afternoon
Just the other day the cOTme.n
I waved for silence that the state miafN
hear Walter Roscoe Stubs ring the,
bell. But there hasn't been a sound
ont OF Lawrence since the X. U.-Mis-
souri, football game.
Then everyone sharpened their PEN
ellis and figured The number OF stand
pat votes Morgan would lose and the
number of once-upon-a- time BuR
Mooser he would gain when Governor
.xlTen went to his support 1t looked
as thoS the state was Just about TO 7
count ten over the administered ton
All the sympathetic souls were stand
ing around hoping the fellow with the
big sponge and rough towel wouldn' z
rub very hard Then before the emo
tional ones got the Jumps out OF their1l
Threats the governor was up on hhsH
feet again and appeared as strong as
- Bermuda onion at the Wednesday,
fafternOOn meeting OF the Dorcas
society
Only the other day w p. Lambert-q
son loked as tho he could spot Man+
tO'-War to the first post and beat hin1S |
TO the nag. A few days later some5
folks with kindly interest OF the statefi
administration inspired Tom McNealt
and Stuhhs with ideas that they too-S
might be governor For time there-V
faftereit looked as tho this Mister Lam
bertson person couldn't carry flu /
germs. Next thing the state knew the \
/ gentleman from Brown county was
Tout among the sod breakers getting /
fmore votes
Big Days Over the HILL
There are also Tom NkcNeal and
Charles S Huffman-excelIent. loyal. |
patriotic citizens of whom little has
been said and less heard Maybe their |
big DAYS are just over the MIL DUO 4
for Fred W. Knapp.
/ Surely the state is moody and petu- !
liant this year. It isn't a bit true TO I
told form. The standpat crowd which |
was once so fire and water proof, |
threatens to split on Morgan and
tam bertson- The progressive wing |
aUf the party-even with the prestige |
land patronage OF the state adninfs- /
Z ation--sn't headed in any general \
Leaving Governor Allen out of it /
just for minute. all the state house /
power and influence cannot direct the /
administration followers to any can /
didate White. Finney. Reed Ed 7
iwards-au are doped for Stubs \
.Tr.gg. Lee. Bigger, Bailey-for Nor
gan. Motter. Miller. Hussey-for
s. Sartin. once manager for Stubbs and /
chairman OF the Bull Moose commit
tee when Governor Allen ran as the 4
third party nominee for state execu-
tive. is out FOR Lambertson-
{ There continues to be considerable \
talk of dark horses. But the COM
ipromise stage is likely passed Be
sides. it isn't such an easy matter to
get together on agreements in a pri-
mary campaign
The Third Term Question.
: Today Governor Allen has a place
in the picture again DramatizatioRl
of the coal strike-even a reasonable
winning Of victory for the industrial Il
court in keeping Kansas mines open
while others are idle-would put the II
governor out in front in big way II
ne wants a third term There isn't
much doubt about the governors am
bition in the matter among people
who keep fairly accurate books in
ipoliucs
should the governor run. il might \
put some pep in the campaign His
entrance would take all the fine
christmas spirit out of the Morgan Il
Organization and would probably mean i
a final AI1en-LambertsOn- Stu bbs-Mor-
gan race. on the other hand a swing
by Governor Allen to Morgan would
probably make it fight in which
Morgan and Lambertson would have
.the center OF the stage.
Things might have been more set
tiled IL this strike thing hadn't come
along. Just now il leaves Governor
Allen in a position to say yes or no
rather at his own convenience. The
other day Governor Allen is said to
have Indicated to a Morgan delegation
THAT they might come hack sometime
/ IN June-at least after this strike Is
out OF the way-if they desired his
fnal word. It isn't well to make gov
iernorship books just now and leave
lGovernor Aliens name entirely off the
white with Allen.
II Governor Allen gets in. he will
hold his close advisers who otherwise
would split and go to the four winds.
This situation is true even to William
Allen White who has declared for
Stubs. bat is ready to stay with the
governor for a third term.
once the governor should decide
+ to get ih. there is much probability
that administration opposition would
try to unite on Morgan or Lambert
SON The fact that the Morgan forces
have made bids for administration en-
idorsement would hardly leave them in
position TO corral the anti sentiment
in event conditions developed which /
put the governor in the race again.
Sentiment and enthusiasm seem at |
low tide turnout the state. Doubtless I
Il IS due to failure OF factional party /
leaders to either determine or define /
their own positions. Maybe when the Il
lines are more closely drawn the fight
Will warm up a bit. At this moment.
tho, the coming Of Al G.. Fields min
strels apparently means more in the
happy. care-free young lives Of the
community than the next Republican
nominee for governor