The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-02
COMES TO BUY CORN.
Something Kansas Has, That Gov.
Woodbury. Isn't Afraid OF.
THE GOVERNOR OF VERMONT HERE.

Welcomed as Representing New Eng
land Capitalize says New England
lest sauch More Honey in Minnesota
Than Kansas.
Governor Urban A. Woodbury. of Yer
mont is tall and straight with broad
high forehead and almost white hair and
who looks every inch governor was the
honored guest of Topeka yesterday
afternoon and last nighI.
Governor Woodbury. is Union veteran
and he does not need the G. A r. button
he wears in his cost lapel to tell OF his
services for his country, his empty coat
sleeve tells the whole story and you feel
it when he offers you his left hand
Governor Woodbury's travelling CON
panion is Col II. V. Allen, leading dry
goods merchant in Burlington, Vermont.
but who is \ member of the Vermont
National guard and holds the rank of
colonel and is inspector of rifle practice
on the governors staff
ave have now been absent from home
about three weeks" said Governor
Woodbury. to a STATE JOURNAL reporter,
"and we come to Topeka from the
farthest point west. We have been clear
through to the coast. We went west by
way of Omaha and while on the coast
visited all the leading cities. We are
now on our way home, and came into
Topeka this afternoon on the Union
Pacific from the west. Tomorrow we
expect. to spend in Kansas City, and
then, after day in ST Louis, we will go
directly home.
When asked what New England peo-
pie now think of Kansas, Governor
Wood bury said: They think a good
deal of Kansas. They think it is a great
state and they think the eastern part of
Kansas is especially good and from what
I have seen today of the condition of
things along the line of the Union Pa
citic and of the crops l am more in
clined than ever to think eastern Kansas
is all right"
How do Vermont and New England
people regard Kansas investnents?"
"They think some of them have not
paid out very we'll In fact they have
lost some money in Kansas as we'll as in
other states and other parts of the coun-
try, but they think there are still good
investments in Kansas"
How dc New England people look on
the property they have been forced to
take on mortgage foreclosures. and what
will they do with this property
"They think they would rather have
the money than the property, and sup
pose most Of the property is for sale, but
really, l am not we'll enough acquaint-
ed with the personal investments
made in Kansas TO speak about them.
"Our Vermonters are frugal people
and they have saved money which they
want 10 place where it will make some
thing"
us there much Vermont money to be
had now for Kansas Investments"
"Oh yes; there is for eastern Kansas,
but our people have lost so much money
in various places that they are now very
cautious about their investments Kan
sas is not the only state in which
they have lost money. 1t is fact
that of the millions of Vermont
money which has been lost in bad invest
ments during the last few years. only a
very small portion of it has been sunk Ia
| Kansas. Much more money from our
Kansas. and almost if not quite as much
in Alabama. During the last few wears a
good many financial enterprises, backed
by Vermont capital, have gone to the
wall, which has made our people very
cautious, but there IS still money there
| for good Investments. After what I b ave
seen in Kansas today l myself believe
Kansas is good place to puHmoney."
Governor w oodb bury said it is true that
| a large per cent of the money lest in
Kansas was owned by the middle class
or common people of the state and, he
said: although it takes about seven
times as much work to raise crop on a
Vermont farm as in Kansas yet by frugal
ity our people are able to save money"
When the governor of Vermont arrived
in Topeka on the Union Pacific from the
west yesterday afternoon at 2,57 o'clock
he was met at the depot by reception
committee of formerly" Vermonters,
headed by Mr.. E B. Merriam. who es-
corted him to the Copeland. where he was
received in the parlors by Governor Nor
rill and the other state officers and by
Mayor Fellows and several members OF
the city council
The object of Governor Woodbury.
| trip to Topeka at this time is to close up
"A transaction in which he and Mr.. E. b.
Merriam are investing a large amount OF
money in corn, which is to be held for a
higher market
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