The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-17
WHAT Mr.. HOCH SAYS.
State Treasury VIII Be Fully Investi-
| gated Under His Administration.

| Governor-eleet Hoch announces thai
he will do what he can to do away with
factionalism in the Republican party il
Kansas. He says that while he will
naturally give the greater recognition
to those who worked for him personal
| ly in his race for governor. he will 60
/ into the machine crowd to make ap-
pointments when he finds the right kind
of a man.
Il want to eliminate the terms boss
4 busters and machine from our politi-
| cal vocabulary" Mr.. Hoch is reported
to have said. Il am looking for good
men on the machine side of the fence
| to appoint to Office. In the nature OF
I things the men who stood by me and
men who pulled off their coats and
worked for me and who were my per-
sonal friends will gett he greatest recog-
milton in the matter of appointments
But I propose to cross over fractional
lines when 1 can find a good man by SO
doing. 1t makes no difference how
bitterly a man has opposed me in the
past If his personal record is all right
asks, his attitude toward me in the past
Will not mitigate against him All l
want to be assured of is that he did not
skulk in the brush during the recent
campaign.
Generally speaking the Republican
milton in the matter of appO1n tmentS
With the exception OF TWO or three I'LL
nor planks. wrote 1t myself L dRSse
to make my race for governor on the
things it commends and asks for.
hope to see every plank in 1T crystal
Iized into law. 1 hope we may go far
Their and pass other god laws of which
it makes no suggestion.
L want above everything else a good
primary election law, care not who
for that. but 1 do want a primary law
and 1 shall use such influence as
can bring to bear to secure it. do
not expect to use the patronage OF the
office to bring about the passage OF any
law.
II will throw all my own personal in
f1uence into the task of securing the
things which the Republican platform
..The State owes it to Tom Kelly and to
its own citizens thorough investigation
peatedly in my speeches that if 1 were
elected governor fnere shoulq pc gay SUI Il
1 do not want to smirch any mans good
name. / do not want to conceal any
that the truth of the charges against
Kelly and other state officers be known
Il believe the state should have a better
system of accounting, a better way OF
checking the transactions between the
auditor and treasurer. I am going to
work for better system there and for a
better system generally OF transactlng
,
gotiating the sale of municipal bonds
needs overhauIing. 1 can not see why If
a school district has bonds which 1t de-
sires to sell to the state school fund COM
missiOnerS that it cannot sell them direct.
1 do not see why it is necessary to pay
commission to a go-betWeen TO secure
the sale of such bonds. The commission
which goes to the go-between comes
directly out of the pockets of the people
There ought not to be any such com
mission. The school fund commission is
paid to invest the money of the commits
sion properly. Municipal and school
district officers are charged with the
work of looking after their own bonds.
am against the system which puts
money in the pockets Of outsider for
looking after this business
"One of my dreams since was elected
governor is that the legislature might get
together and run so economically as to
over last session Pass the laws which the
journ in thirty or forty days. 1 realize
that the short session of which rdreamed
is an improba bility, but I'd rather be a
member of the legislature which could get
through in that length of time than to be
governor of Kansas. Other than the
things I have suggested here. have
made few plans have made up my
mind to one thing. If I promise a man
an office he is going to get it, no matter
what pressure may be brought afterward
to induce me to change my mind 1 do
not expect to begin work on my message
until about the middle of December. The
suggestions which 1 shall make therein 1
have not yet crystalized into FORM