The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
He Quotes Governor HOch's Pre-,
election Speech.
THEY FALL FAR SHORT.
Officers of Institution May Mix
in Politics.
Administration Leaders Tool
Care of This.

Stubbs board of control BILL as amend
ed by the senate, was read in the SEN
ate Tuesday afternoon Senator Wag-
gener in one of the most direct and
pointed speeches made in the senate
chamber during this session, opened
| the Republican family closet and
shook and ratified the family skeleton
to his hearts content in full view and
hearing of the Republican senators.
There was no stopping the senator
from Atchison. He cared nothing for
the shock he gave the Republican
family circle in the senate and its
friends in the neighborhood. The sem
ator from Atchison, of whom it was
said during the campaign would come
to the senate with wool in his teeth,
blood on his jaws, and suspicion bark
ing at his heels" left nothing but sus-
picion barking at the heels OF the ad-
ministration when he had finished his
He went after the present boss
buster anti-machine administration IN
no uncertain language He held the
senators who are being whipped INTO
/ line by the administration lash up to
ridicule. He brought to light the tact
that many of the Republican party
pledges of the recent campaign have
! been shattered. He made statements
which many of the senators knew to
be true. for they had witnessed the
Senator Waggener's speech was
made after the administration mem
bers had attempted, by parliamentary
maneuvers, to apply the gag ana
was coming if the senator from Atch1-
son once got the chance to have his
say
The conference committee report
recommended that the Stubbs board of
control bill be passed as amended by
the conference committee, and one OF
these amendments was that senator
yVaggener's amendment to the BILL
made by Senator Waggener during the
discussion of the bill, be stricken out
This Waggener amendment was that
no superintendent of any state .lnsh-
tuition or mem ber of the board or
control should attend any political
convention as a delegate or take any
part in any primary or election or
campaign other than to vote, and that
any violation of this provision be Suf1-
cient cause for removal from Office.
The purpose of this amendment was
to remove the SuperintendentS and
board of control and the institutions
When the amendment was offered it,
was adopted unanimously by the SEN
ate committee of the whole and Sen
ator Dolley, the administration spokes-
man on the floor, announced before
the senate that the amendment would
strengthen the bill and was most i'm
portant amendment and he unqualf-
fledly favored it.
After the Stubbs board of control
bill. which had originated in the
house, had been amended In the senate
it was sent to a conference committee
to be finally adjusted and reported
back to both the house and the senate
for final passage.
Much to the surprise of Senator
Waggener. in view of the action of the
senate committee of the whole in
adopting his amendment. the confer
IA iSl
amendment by Senator Waggener be
stricken from the bill.
Waggener's Scorching Speech.
Speaking on the report of the con-
ference committee Senator Waggener
said:
I offered an Amendment that
members of the board of control and
superintendents shall not take part in
any convention, nor in politics other
than to vote. and that a violation of
this provision shall be sufficient cause
for removal from Office. The confer
ence committees report is that this
be stricken out.
4 offered this provision as an
amendment to the bill when the bill |
was before the senate committee of |
the whole. The senator from Ed
wards (Smith) smiled and said it was a
very good amendment, and the sena- I
tor from Wabaunsee (Dolley) agreed
with him. and the amendment was
adopted then.
'Th1S report cuts out the amend
ment that it shall be unlawful for anv
member of the board of control. or
superintendent of any state institution.
to take part as a delegate or other
wise in any political convention. or
campaign, and a violation a sufficient
cause for removal. I offered this
amendment in the committee of the
whole and it was adopted by a unani-i
nous vote, Senators Smith and DoIley
advocating and voting for it.
why has the senator from Wa
baunsee changed so suddenly? 1t is
advertised that he is to be a member
OF the board of control"
senator Dolley-'I will say that
am not a candidate for the position
and that / will not accept it,
In the campaign of 1904" continued
senator Waggener. the charge was
made that there was a brutal party
machlne; that Henry Allen was mixing
N politics and was neglecting his du-
tles, and the new movement was intend
Cd to wipe out the skull and cross
bones in politics."
Senator Waggener read from
speech of Governor Hoch: Men should
not be made to line up against their
better judgment"
During the entire day" Senator
Waggener continued, Senators have
been importuned to vote to strike ont |
this amendment. Strange things have
been witnessed during the campaign.
Senator Smith was called a boodIer nv
was an unmitigated cur and a liar Henry |
Allen denounced Tom Kelly at the
Wichita convention as an embezzler
Yet Smith and Leland were seen on the
floor of this senate in as fond embrace
as the enamoured lover and his youth