The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-28
He IS A BUSY MAN.
Governor Bailey Has Fourteen
Men Cleaning House.
Task Is Little Short of
Stupendous.
HIS FARM is HANDY.
Will Have to Draw on It's Con-
tingent Fund.
Satisfied That Politics Is Bad
Business Proposition.
HIS FARM is HANDY.

What would you thinkifit required sew
eral months salary to conduct a cam
paign of house cleaning at your house2
That is what it takes at the governors !
residence, and while the state viii
largely pay for it now. the expense of
maintaining the establishment Will run
up until it viii eventually come out of
Governor Bailey's private pocket.
There is a force of IA men at work
at the governors residence this week.
OF course it does not require all of
these to do what is strictly known as
house, cleaning, but a good number are
employed that way. The average per
son has little idea of the work there is
about cleaning a house like the COVER
nor's residence. For instance, the one
item of cleaning the curtains cost $50.
There are nearly a hundred of them,
and some are so heavy, but of such f1ne
texture that extreme care has to be ex-
ercised in cleaning them The total ex-
pense of housecleaning at the COVER
nOr's residence win mount up to con-
siderable sum. And in addition to
house cleaning the walks around the
woodwork is being given fresh coat
of paint in anticipation of President
Roosevelts visit on Friday.
Governor Stanley said he ran about
thousand dollars a year behind each
wear that he was governor In other
words he left the governors office $4,O00
poorer than he went into it. Governor
Bailey has made up his mind he will
have to do the same thing
"A man with nothing but his salary
to depend on could not afford to live IN
that house out there" said the governor
today IF he did he would have a
mortgage on his life when he got
through OF course. the state makes
an appropriation for the maintenance
of the governors reSidence-lf 1t didn't
it would bankrupt the average man
but even with that appropriation
guess III have to draw on my contln-
gent fund from the farm up at Bailey
Vile That farm is q mighty good
thing to have around IN case OF TINS
Governor abbey does not think the
average man ought to try TO nold a
public office unless he is financially able
to do so aside from the salary he would
receive In connection with the office If
a friend asks him for an appointment
with the idea that he viii be able To
get rich off the salary, the governor DIS
courages him unless there IS some
special reason otherwise.
I never encourage a man to take an
office unless I know he is in position
where he can afford to hoid a pupnc
office and is absolutely fitted for the
place" said Governor Bailey today. 30
MANY men who want to work for the
state are not financially able to hold the
places. A man has no business In poll
tics unless he has other means of sup
port, and 1 try to discourage tnS seen
ers after places.
Il have succeeded in talking many OF
my friends out of places since nave
been in Office. They were men to Whom
I would have been compelled to give
positions if they had insisted, but after
had talked to them on the subject 1
generally made them see that 1 was
right [ realize that many men beneVe
public position is a stepping stone TO
success, but many young man mas
/ taken a place in public office ana
4 after working there for several years
/ has been compelled to retire to private
! life no better off fnacially than he was
when he took the place, and without d
profession or the necessary business
/ training to see him through life
L never went into politics until l was
able to see where I would land in case
of a. failure to get what I wanted. The
! business is very expensive. A cam
paign for an Office is an expensive thing,
and a man cannot hope to save mucn
money out of the salary he receives. NO
man who is not comfortably situated
financially ought to get into politics, ana
I am doing all I can to keep such men
out of the business
DR.. H ". Roby. secretary of the state
! medical board. returned Monday night
from Kansas City, Kas., where he mas
begun crusade against illegal medical
practitioners. He started in by causing
the arrest of c. H c. Jordan and H. G.
/ Bennett on the charge of practlclng
medicine without a license duly author
| lied by the state medical board
1t is said that Kansas City, kas-, IS
/ a great place for quack doctors OF all
/ kinds and these arrests are only the
| beginning of a crusade against them.
About forty such practitioners have
been listed for prosecution and It SAID
that there are still more
The mandamus suit of William Ram
DO against Joe Larrabee, in which the
supreme court a few days ago upheld
a special act of the legislature and de-
cided that Lara bee must make a tran
script of record for Rambo in a criminal
prosecution in which Rambo was de-
PENDANT. and that Wyandottee county
must pay the expense of the transcript
in accordance with the provision of the
new law will be reopened if County At
torney James s. Gibson has his way
about it. Mr.. Gibson came to Topeka
Monday afternoon and filed a motion t.
this effect.
The motion alleges that Wyandotte
county had TO notice at all of the suit
until its decision was announced in the
Dspers It is also alleged that tht
county is the party really interested. a:
it will have to bear all the expense, anC
that I.arrabee was not properly repre-
scented by counsel in the suit In thu
: Rambo case alone the cost of making
the transcript will be 5000 and there are {
number of similar cases pending which
: could be appealed in the same wa,
and the county would have to pay from
IS OO0 to $4,000 for making transcript
OF. cases now pending alone.
This special law was one that wa
engineered through by Senator ]. K
lCubbison, Cubbison is also. it might b
explained attorney for Rambo Tn
law provides that when a defendant il
. n criminal prosecution IS too poor {
, pay for making a transcript in his cas-
: to make an appeal to the suprem
court, the county must stand the cost
: and it applies only to Wyandott
county.
: The county officers of Wyandott
county do not seem to have know
] anything about it until a test case wa
. taken to the supreme court and the lay