The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-05
TOO MANY JOBS.
Governor Insists State Boards
Should Be Reduced.
Would Cut Board of Charities to
One Man.
SAME WITH OTHERS.
Penitentiary and Schools Man.
aged the Same Way.
Congressman Long Is on the
Way Home.

t NOAANAiACCO tli1A1 SNSl tildt Ills TeCOmQlSI-
dations of two years ago that a number
Of the state boards ought to be conf
bined and cut down, were correct. He
says that one man could satisfactorily
do the work that is done by whole
! board. and that the educational institu-
tions of the state ought to be controlled
I by single board of regents instead Of
a board for each institution.
! This latter move Governor Stanley
| strongly recommended to the last leg
/ islature, but there were too many poll
I ticians who wanted jobs and the leg1s-
/ lature did not cut down the number OF
jobs to be given out.
Governor Stanley started in his ad-
ministration with the idea of cutting
down the boards. His first move was
to eliminate the board of pardonS ell
tirelv and do the work of that board
himself He also cut off the state ac-
countant as sort of vermiform APP
pendix.
There is absolutely no need of main
tanning five members on the state board
of charities" said the governor in dis
cussing the subject. 1T is a useless vast
of public funds. One man can do the
entire work of the board, and do it sat
isfactOrily. 1t viii take his entire time.
| though, Just as. it should. He would
have to put in all his time keeping tab
on the expenditures of the institutions
and exercising sort of general super
vision over the superintendents.
"One man could do the same with the
penltentiary and state refOrmatory. Now
there is board of directors for eacn.
Both boards could be done away with
and one man do all their work.
Then as 1 have said before, the three
educa tional institutions ought. to be-
controlled by one board instead of three.
Now there is a sort of rivalry between
them. Each one pulls against the 9TH
ers for appropriations With three
| boards their work overlaDs more or less,
would be overlapping and favors
would be equally distributed.
These are only three instances where
boards might be cut down or eliminated
state. OF course. a move like this is
not popular with the politicians who are
expecting the Jobs which would be
eliminated, and for that reason it would
be hard matter to bring it about"
A Washington dispatch in a morning
paper states that Congressman Long is
already on his way home from Wash
! ington to look after his senatorial can
didacy. r. H. Faxon, Mr. Longs pri-
I vate secretary, who has remained in To-
/ peka, says that this is untrue-that Mr..
/ Long is still in Washington and the
4 time of his return to Topeka is still un-
certain, although he will proba bly, come
next week Congressman Curtis and
Calderhead are also preparing to return
/ to Topeka as soon as they can get their
committee work into shape in Wash
/ ington, and all the senatorial candidates
except Mr.. Bowersock will give their
personal attention to their candidates..
4 BCWerSOck says that he will remain in
| Washington and allow the legislature to
elect a senator without any interference
from him.
George ]. Barker, candidate for speak,
er, came up from Lawrence at noon to-
day and is at the Copeland canvassing
the speakership situation. The majority
~f cta f1,@ ~
today, however, have been Pringle meE.
L. V. Mckee of Frankfort, repre-
senta tive-elect from Marshall county is
in Topeka today. He does not say that
he will vote for Pringle for speaker, but
he says that he will support the state
administration. He is warm friend
and admirer of Governor-elect Bailey.
and comes from a county adjoining
Bailey's.
Mr.. Mckee will. of course. support
/ Congressman Calderheld for United
States senator as long as Calderhead
has any show. In discussing the mat
ter TO-DAY he said:
L am opposed tc Curtis first, last and
all the time, and I do not in the least
blame Bailey for taking the position he
has. AS to the speakership of the house,
shall vote to support Bailey's admin
istration | do not care to pledge N.Y.
self absolutely to Mr.. Pringle because a
change might arise in the situation
which would make some other man the
choice of the administration. 1 do not
mean by this that I am tieo to Bailey.
but l believe in standing by his admin
istration and I shall do so.'
The Barber county election case was
I argued in the supreme court this morning.
This is the case in which H. c. Walker,
the fusion candidate for the legislature,
appeals from the mandamus granted by
Judge Gillett in the Barber county dis
trict court to compel the board of county
poll books instead of the totals. This
| elected E. H. Nixon representative while
the totals elected Walker. A decision by
the supreme court is expected tomorrow.
It is expected that c. c. Coleman, at
torney general-elect, will announce the
appointment of the balance of mis- office
force tomorrow. He has second and third
assistants and stenographer yet TO ap-
point. Third Assistant James Clayton is
a candidate for reappointment and John
S. Dawson, now bond clerk in the state
treasury. is a candidate for the same
/ place. So far as is known one has been
making a fight for appointment as second
assistant the place now held by Captain
Clad Hamilton. Captain Hamilton is not
the kind that asks for appointments. but
he might possibly accept in case the place
were offered him again. although he has
| never said So In fact. he has given his
friends to understood that he expects to
give his whole time to his law practice in
! the future.
Jim Simpson, who was one of the
lucky guessers in the Kansas C'itv con
| vention hall lottery. guessing the exact
total vote on governor. viii receive 81
$50 as his share of the nrize rnonr-- if
TO more exact guesses turn UP. Thus
far there have been five. Where two or
more persons guess the exact vote the
corresponding number of highest prizes
will be added together and distributed