The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-10
Auditors Did When somebodySaid
ThereWasn'ta Saloon in Kansas.
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
A Joking Time Had With Judge
BaiIey's Jerusalem COrn-GOvernOr
LeweIIing Makes a speech.

the meeting from different parts of the
state.
Most of the people at the evening ses-
sion were gray haired men. There were
a few young men present and few wo-
men.
After Rev. F. S. McCabe had asked the
blessing of the Divinity upon the assem-
bly,, Governor Lewelling put in thirty
minutes at most elaborate effort to well
come the visitors to the Kansas capital.
! The governor was in very good voice,
and had with him his best hand book of
eloquence. He said nice things
about the visitors, nice things
about Kansas, nice things about
Topeka nice things about Kansas
agriculture, not forgetting irrig alton and
his own recommendations that the state
board be succeeded by department of
! agriculture to sort of oversee the agri-
| cultural interests of the state, but in his
enthusiasm clean forgot to say one word
of welcome to the group before him who
waited with baited breath and Whiskers
on their chins.
1t was simply an oversight. The gov
! errors intentions were undoubtedly
! honorable.
President Potter of the board had his
mouth all puckered for most thankful
reply to the address of welcome that
never came, and he couldn't allow it to
get away so he went on with his orig
! inal idea just as though he had well
come in sight
Kansas was one of the greatest states
in the union, he said, and he had the
figures right there to prove it 1t was
third in beef fourth in corn, fifth in
wheat, and mighty near first in morals
! always There is not legallZed
saloon in the state, said Mr.. Pot
ter, and a gentleman from Wichita
| who stands almost next to Mr.. Brieden-
thai in importance in the outgoing ad-
minstration smiled wan smile beneath
his iron grey mustache. Eyes from
Leavenworth, Atchison and Lawrence
sought the floor. 1t is perhaps com
mendable to Mr.. Potter that he pro
nounced it "Anhouser," unless it was
with malice aforethought, and there
were loud cheers when he said that at
the Paris exhibition Missouri took the
premium for beer while Kansas took the
premium for education.
Secretary Coburn then took up a great
deal of we'll used time in reading his re-
port. 1t was literally filed with figures
in regard to printing and printed reports,
mailing, etc He had been tireless, he
said, in his efforts to keep up the work
in his office and to make speeches
around the country occasionally. He be-
lieved in increasing the office force.
There were other reports also, he said,
that should have been issued, but the
fact that the campaign for the suffrage
amendment took $1,000 of the appro-
priation, it would depend upon the action
of the present legislature if they were
printed or not.
Mr.. Coburn said a great many dis
couraging things about the state fair
idea and was glad the board had dropped
it. A state fair was senseless show. he
said to attract people to town. 1t was
of no benefit to the farmer and the only
persons it gratihed were men who had
things to sell or were lucky enough to
bet on the right horses.
Ex-Gov. Clicks paper on "The Re-
lation and Duties of Farmers to Their
State Board of Agriculture" was lengthy
but interesting.
Mr.. Click started in by saying that he
would like to see monument erected to
Judge L. D. Bailey, the first president of
the Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
He said that the best work the board
had done was to teach the Kansas farmer
to be a gentleman. There is no doubt
? the board did it. The Kansas farmer
must walk on a higher plane than that of
the mere partisan, he added.
Mr.. Click did not take kindly to Mr..
dwellings suggestion that the state
{ board of agriculture be put into the
ia politics and Mr.. Click, as every body
knows, abhors politics.
The speaker appealed to the legisla-
l ture for more funds with which to run
the board He spoke feelingly of Kan
) sas' success as d prize winner at the
. Worlds fair and believed in further
| building up her agricultural interests.
Samuel T. Howe, ex-state treasurer
had a paper on Taxation and Assess
: ment," but Mr.. Coburn read it for him
3 Mr.. Howe is very much op
3 posed to the present method Of
assessing property at less than its
: value. 1t made an unequal
distribution of the burden of taxation, he
}, said He would like to have the state
board of equalization increased by the
addition of more of the state officers anC
have the assessment based on the exac
: valuation of property determined by thi;
board as based on cash sales during the
4 year prior.
During the meeting there was an ami
) mated discussion in regard to Jerusalem
f corn and Judge Bailey.
, L NJ Bickering, of Finney county
arose and suggested that as Judge Bailey
l brought the Jerusalem corn to Kansas /
name should, in respect to him, bs
r changed to Bailey corn.
? Mr., Click, as a matter of ancient anC
important history, told how the corn haC
been accidentally brought to America by
some careless fellow, who got two grains
j of it mixed up with his household effect
t while he was moving over
: A gray bearded gentleman at the righ
O of the speakers desk arose and begged
leave to amend, that it be called Bailey
a Jerusalem corn. He was immediatel,
confronted by another gentleman wht
desired to pass the honors further b.
r calling it the Click Bailey Jerusalem
: corn.
Mr.. Finley of Ford, then arose AM
,, brought the jokers to their senses by de
4 claring that Judge Bailey was particu
Iarly good man and as Jerusalem corr
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