The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-20
UNDER The DOME.
Governor Stanley Talks About
Reciprocity Movement.
Says 1t Has Entirely Gotten
Away From Him.
SPREAD OVER COUNTRY
Applications Received From as
Far East as Connecticut.
Movement Concerns Not Only
Cuba but All Countries.


on the date that shall be determined for
the big reciprocity meeting there. to
participate in it. He does not care to
longer be at the head of the movement.
but he is anxious to see it succeed, and
he will help push it along.
The movement has attracted a great
deal of attention, in view of the pres
ent national interest in the subject of
reciprocity, but whether the organiza-
ton adopted in Topeka a few weeks
ago under the name of the Western
Reciprocity league will be adopted at
St Louis, or whether an entirely new
organization will be effected, has not
been determined.
The movement is still entirely form
ulative,'' said Governor Stanley in
speaking of it, land there is no telling
entirely away from me- When [ called
a few Topeka men together few
weeks ago and proposed an organiza-
ton to promote the idea of reciprocity,
my object was simply to get Kansas
in line and get our own people inter
ested in it. But the letters began to
come in from the outside and there
seemed to be so much interest that we
concluded to invite a few interested
people from other states to join with
us. The result was the organization
under the name of the Western Reel
procity league, and our idea was to
make it take in Kansas and adjoining
states.
But now it has gone entirely beyond
those boundaries. The interest has
spread all over the country and appli-
cations for membership in our Organi-
cation have come in from all sections
as far east as Connecticut. Men rep
resenting large business interests have
written us asking if we would not eX
tend the scope of our organization. A
representative of the Deering company
came down from Chicago a few days
ago to talk with me about it. 1 told
him that should like to see the move
ment spread and an organization
formed which should take in the en-
tire country, but now that it is we'll
under way that 1 should like to step
out and let somebody else be at the
head of it. / told him L had no author
ity to extend the organization myself,
but 1 would call the executive commit
tee together and lay the matter before
it, and the committee could take some
sort of action.
I'm the n eantime I suggested to Sec
rotary Hulit that he visit st. Louis and
Chicago and see what the business in
terests there felt about it. He has done
so and the idea seems to have taken so
extremely well that they are ready to
call a meeting themselves. My idea was
to get them interested and also the bus
mess interests of other Sections of the
country and then call a general confer
ence of all these interests, the same as
we did here in Topeka of the different
al organization.
But some of these eastern fellows
seem to think that we have formed the
nucleus of an organization and they
might as well gather around that as to
form a new one, and they may do so.
1t makes no difference to me what they
do, just so the movement goes forward.
think it is a good thing.
This Cuban question is not the real
N ovement-it is only an incident. The
real reciprocity movement concerns not
only Cuba but every other country with
which we may want to trade, and this
we secure reciprocity with Cuba, that
should be considered as only a starting
point and not as an end attained"
commissioner, but who is soon to be
relieved of his job, came to Topeka yes
terday to find out if the report that
Governor Stanley proposes to chop off
his official head is really so, and if so,
to argue with the governor about it, He
found out that the report is true, and he
is accordingly mad about it, He says
he is not being treated right by Cover
nor Stanley, and he has mind to go
back to Meade county and get himself
elected to the legislature again in order
to get chance to vote against Stanley |
for United States senator. 4 find that |
1 am to CO. said Mr. Wiley after his
interview with the governor. Cover
nor Stanley does not make any charge |
a gainst me, but he said that my success
sor would be appointed about April 1. |
John Haughey, of Wellington, will get |
the place 1 do not know why L AM to |
go unless it is because Haughey can do |
more for the governor in the approach |
ing senatorial contest than can. have !
done all in the way of my duties that |
the meager appropriation for my Of |
fee would permit. / have been for |
Stanley for senator and feel that [ have |
not been treated right.
Il have manag ed to make a living be-
fore I got this place and will do so
again. 1 would go back 30 Meade coun-
ty and run for the legislature and get |
a vote on the senatorial proposition if l /
had not changed my residence to Reno
county a short time ago in order to bet
ter attend to the duties of my office
My commission does not expire until
A pril, 1903, and my removal at this time
leaves me in the air.
Superintendent of Insurance Church
has refused to reissue a license to the
Bankers Union of the World to do
business in Kansas, because he thinks
the order is promising more than it can
fulfill 1t has Ill lodges in Kansas and
4 membership of 1853
Colonel veale, custodian of the state
house, is having the state house grounds
for spring. The flower beds are
being spaded up and the early flowers
planted. Already things are beginning
% look. green about the state house
grounds.
The railroad commissioners will go to
Ontario and Piper next week to investi-
gate complaint against the Kansas City
Northwestern Railway company for |
losing its depots and taking away its
agents at those points These and
number of other similar complaints
nave been before the board for some
lime, and efforts at adiudicating them
~ correspondence have failed.
The International Optical association
S a new Topeka institution which has
applied for charter. Its purpose, as
'et forth in the application, is ito be a
cooperative, educational and protective
association for its members The in