The Topeka state journal., 1905-01-13
AN OLD FRIEND.
Stubbs Gave Most Important
Chairmanship to Creech.
Like Speaker He Made HisMOney
I'm Railroad Building.
WON'T STAND IN WAY.
George Clark Has No Intention
of Playing ObstructiOnist.
will Facilitate the Publication
of New Law.
WON'T STAND IN WAY.

AS chief business manager and
auditor of disbursements of the house
of representatives, Speaker Stubbs has
selected J. w. Creech of Dickinson
county. and made him chairman OF
the ways and means committee
It is the ways and means commit
tee of the house that spends the
money. Consequently Speaker Stubbs
was anxious to select a man whose
business experience in large enter
prises would TT him for his work
Speaker Stubbs knew Mr.. Creech
because they are both in the business
Of railroad contracting. Mr.. Creech
made his money building the Rock
Island lines in Kansas. He is now
rich man, like Mr.. Stubbs himself, and
politics is merely a pastime with him.
OF course some might think that
the friends of the railroads were get
ting things too much their way in the
house, but Stubs and Creech are
both mighty good men; they are
smart and popular, and are able to
run things.
Mr.. Creech did not get the job be-
cause he was a railroad contractor
He has been associated with Mr.
Stubbs in many other enterprises. He
was, among other things, Mr.. Stubbs
successor as president of the JeruSa-
lem exhibit at the st. Louis exposition.
J. Ralph Burton was the first presi-
dent of Jerusalem StubbS was the
second, and Creech the third. Bur
ton resigned because things got too
hot for him; Stubbs because he want
ed to take charge of the Kansas cam
paign. The proba bility is that Mr..
Creech wishes he had followed the
lead of his predecessors, for under his
administration, Jerusalem has not
been place filled with singing angels
neither have the streets been paved
with gold. The scarcity of gold was
just the thing which bothered Mr..
Creech, and his associates. They
could struggle along without the
angels, but the lack Of gold was re-
sponstble for the threatened receiver
ship, and the settlement with the
stockholders on a basis of about 25
cents on the dollar. The enterprise
was a dismal and expensive failure
from start to finish, as far as money
was concerned There have been no
complaints from an artistic stand
point.
The work of the president of the
Jerusalem concern has fallen of con-
s1derably since the exposition, and so
Mr. Creech viii have time to devote
to the state finances. The income of
the state is likely to be more reliable
lnan that of the city of Jerusalem.
Consequently IL is not expected that
the state will have to settle with its
stockholders at 20 cents on the dol
lar
Mr.. Creech speaks very highly of his
geniality and liberality. He is a big
man, puDt on plans and specifications
calling for about ESQ pounds avordu-
pols, and wears good clothes like a
man who knows how It is done. In
addition to making money out of the
railroads, Mr.. Creech is also a banker
stock raiser, and investor in anything
which looks good to him. He took
out a large stack of chips in the game
OF nara work when he accepted the
positlon OF chairman of the ways and
means committee of the house.
The house OF representatives acted
rear naughty Thursday afternoon
While Speaker Stubbs was in the hack
room fixing up the list for another COM
mittee, the members hastily passed n
motion to adjourn until Monday at ? Z.
m This was just what Speaker Stubbs
nad Iold them not to do, and conse-
quently Speaker Stubbs was mad
II had been in there" he said. ssI'U
bet they wouldn't have adjourned" !"
ana the probability is that Mr.. Stubs
ls exactly right No man has ever held
tne mouse OF representatives so neatly
IN the hollow of his hand as Mr.. Stubbs
he IS certainly it. What he SAYS goes
The house simply took a base advan-
tase OF nm Thursday. and quit when
he was not looking.
Speaker Stubbs was especia1lv an
noyed by the adjournment of the house
Thursday because he feared that Geo
clark, the present state printer would
take advantage of his opportunity. and
fail to provide the enrolled bill in time
TO be signed by the governor and print
ed IN the Tuesday morning official state
paper.
Mr. Clark has no intention of this
kind BE will do nothing to interiors
with the passage of the law Thursday
afternoon as soon as the law was Dass-
ed by both houses he sent to the state
mouse Tor copy, so that he might get
II and set 1t up and in the forms ready
TO be printed on short notice Monday
afternoon He said today to a State
Journal reporter:
I have no desire to interfere in anv
way with the passage and publication
or this law in time for the Legislatures
TO go ahead with the election of a state
printer on Tuesday. This is an enahline
act, and to my mind it merely indicates
that the present legislature recognizes
the weakness of its position and IS trv-
ing to hedge itself about with all posi-
bic precautions. The passage of this
law does not in the least affect the con
sututional question involved, and it is
upon the constitutional ground that
shall make my fight. expect to pre-
sent my case to the supreme court in
due time, and there is where the fight
will be-
If T. A McNeal wants to be state
printer bad enough to demand it, ne
can probably get the job. There are a
good many members of the legislature.
however, who think that McNeaI has