The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-31
WRITING THE MESSAGE.
A Document of Profound I'M
pOrtance TO Kansas
Now In Preparation Day and
Night By Gov. Leedy.
On It's Statements and Recommenda-
tions Much Depends How This
Important Message is Be
ing Prepared.

Governor Leedy is writing his message
and he is working very hard, harder than
governors often work. The message win
be complete tomorrow evening unless
there are more Interruptions than usual
Il viii not be 50 long as the message OF
Governor Morrill, and neither viii it be
of the government. including the various
state Institutions and the boards which
Governor Leedy leaves his hotel at
o'clock in the morning, that is if he sue
Watch Ior nun h<e Nultures; even lnousn
they know that he positively declines 10
talk about appointments
He goes at once to his rooms IN the
Neale block With him are W l. Brown
Of Kingman and his private secretary T.
q Lutte. Ar- BroWn IS ms coniaFaliai
clerk at least he serves in that
paclty- Leaving MT LlJtle 70 look az tsf
the cofiesp ondence- governor l-eedF
walks into his private office with Mr.
Brown. Then he takes OF his coat and
pushes up his sleeves.
MI Brown follows suit and then both
men dispose OF their collars Mr.. Brown
takes q place a. me table ana Governor
Leedy tells him what his views are on
certain quest ion Then Mr.. Brown writes
them and the copy IS turned over to
the governor. who goes over it carefully,
eliminating and adding 10 it until the
manuseript is satisfactory. Tt is then
turned over TO stenographer to be
transcribed
Sometimes after he has given AR
Brown instructions he viii call in a stem
ographer ANA dictate directly untu Mr..
Brown runs out cf material, when the
stenographer is dismissed and the regu-
lar line Of work is resumed.
Sometimes when Governor Leedy finds
himself rather undecided on a question he
sends Mr. Brown and everyone else out
of the room. Then he thinks" A jour
nal reporter interrupted one Of these
reveries today. II was just trying to
think said he Il sometimes find that
rather difficult to do know that some
times people think they are thinking
when they are not and 1 may be in that
situation now
But Governor I.eedy is said to be a
good thinker. lie sometimes walks back
ward and forward in his room at such
t5r7es but he more often sits quietly in a
fNen during these times when Gov
ernor Leedy especially desires 10 be alone
office is not locked. An intruder may
push it open and he is greeted as pleas
an1y if he We're an invited guest
If the visitor stops i'm the outer office
to consult Mr.. Little. he is told that the
governor is not receiving any one nut if
ne possesses the amount of cheek at
tnbuted to politicians ne does not stop
to consult Mr.. Little.
When the Santa Fe whistle is heard at
the stroke of noon Governor l4eedv puts
on his coat and collar and leads Mr..
Brown to the hotel where the gauntlet is
again run, for the office seeker IS omni-
After dinner Governor I.eedy stays in
his room until u. m, When he goes once
up where it was left off and the after
noon is spent in much the same manner
At o'clock the governor takes supper
and then he goes once more to his Office
and while The man ia search of an office
rapid progress with the message. u is
then that he works without interruption
and it is often midnight before he leaves
the once iol ms room
Governor Leedy seldom sees 4 letter
He gets an average of 100 letters a day
but they are opened by Mr. Little or ilX-
ecutive Clerk Fleharty. All applications
are filed and if an answer is required MT.
Little or Alr. Fleharty attend to that