The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-21

Governor Bailey was interviewed
while IN Washington, and true to the
Kansas instinct, the first thing he told
was what a great wheat state Kansas
is and how the coming wheat crop is to
be the greatest in the states history
When the interview got around to poll
tics the governor told how Roosevelt
would carry Kansas next year. The
interview was in Thursdays Washing
ton Post and is as follows:
The bachelor governor of Kansas.
Hon. w. J. Bailey, arrived yesterday
and is tarrying in town for a few hours
prior to journeying on to New York.
Looking even plumper and more cheer
full than during his service here as q
member at large of the Fifty-sixth
congress, for which he is pleasantly re-
nnembered. the governor had nothing
but good words to say regarding mat
ters kansan- In the same room with
him a the Normandie, as he chatted.
was his old political side partner, Hon.
Cyrus Leland. of Troy. q member of
the recent Kansas legislature, and for
many years member of the Republican
national committee for that state.
Il was talking with some millers the
other day observed Gov. Bailey, and
they We're assuring me that the coming
season promises the greatest wheat
crop in our history Kansas is now
the greatest state in the union in the
number of bushels of wheat and corn
it raises In 1900, we had the greatest
yield of any state in corn In 1901, We
had the greatest yield of any state in
wheat and last year we had the great
/ est yield of any state in wheat and corn
combined.
4 believe that is correct isn't it.
( Cy?" inquired the cheerful governor.
That's very near it," responded the
astute campaign manager, who had re-
moved his coat and engrossed himself
/ in a newspaper. over the broad pages of
I which lowered his white head
ssWeH. as to politics. resumed the
4 governor in reply to an inquiry, there
/ isn't much doing in Kansas just now.
/ The legislature has gone home and
everybody is feeling good over the big
/ crop prospects. We have aboliShed our
/ old system Of elections, so that there are
no elections at all this year, and little
i occasion to think about political mat
fers We wipe the slate off clean now
every two years and dismiss the subject
till the next election period Gomez
around.
Is the Iowa idea taking root down
i'm your country2" was asked.
people are not discussing it." re
piled the governor who remarked IN
/ passing that Governor Cummins was d
very bright man and that he had no
ticod the newspaper dispatches about
( the Iowan's recent visit to the federal
capital
And Kansas people are taking no in
terest in efforts to revise the tariff " ne
was asked again
L didn't say that" he answered. '''
say Only that they are not discussing
it,
we had a pretty good legislature.
continued Governor Bailey. They
didn't do everything that was wanted
Of them but they disposed of consider
able le-islation One old bone Of con-
tention. the question of how railroad
I commissioners should be chosen, wa'
settled. by referring the election Of those
officials to the people Things started
up quite hriskly before they adjourned
but now it IS very quiet, and Mr.. Le-
land and [ are taking a little run Il
the capital and to New York L wan
to fix up some little matters here fol
my friends
What are the Democrats going ts
make their leading issues next year.
asked the governor, turning questioner
Probably tariff and trusts, according
to the view here in Washington, wa'
answered. What do you hear on tina
subject out in Kansas"
II should guess they will have some
thing to say about trusts and combina'