The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-30
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Guaranty Law for Kansas All
Important Topic.
Governor HOch Says Plank Saw
ed Kansas to Republicans.
POINTS TO NEBRASKA,
Attributes SheldOn's Defeat tC
Silence on This Question.
IOrrens System Is Attracting
More or Less Attention,

A couple Of representatives and two
or three other visitors were present in
the reception room Of the governors
offices today and the conversation
turned to guarantee of bank deposits
with the result that many interesting
observations were made on this eli i'm =
portant question in Kansas policies
botn representatives had made a care
ful study of the proposition and they
went on record as standing for a law
that Will guarantee deposits and make
! the bankers toe the mark. A law that
| VIII be fair to the bankers'' might only
allow these bankers to form a giant
corporation and be very unfair to the
people and the smaller state banks
kansas has protected her state banks
! until there are now eight hundred of
these institutions in the state as
against some three hundred national
banks A strict and effective guaran-
tee law will affect the national banks
to greater degree than it will the
| state banks.
| Governor Hoch made the rather
startHno statement that If the Repub
/ Hcan party in Kansas had not adopted
the guarantee of deposits plank in its
/ platform 1t would have suffered defeat
at the polls last fall, and cited the case
of the defeat of Sheldon for governor of
/ Nebraska. "They are giving credit to
Bryan for that Democratic victory in
| his state,'' said the governor but I
want to tell you that I spent part of
| last summer lecturing in Nebraska and
l found that Sheldon was regarded as
| a popular and able governor in that
| state He would have been reelected
| sure as the world had the Republicans
not failed to insert the guarantee de-
| posit law in their state platform. The
state demanded that plank, and the
party went down to defeat up there on
the guarantee of deposits issue"
| None of the group favored the un-
; limited liability clause of the Oklahoma
law. but they wanted a million guar
antee fund and restrictions thrown
about the measure that would make it
effective and prevent combinations on
the part of stronger banks.
| A large majority of the members
elect of the next legislature have al
ready declared themselves for the
ers and machine men alike, but
| the bankers and their friends are
apt to hold a wide difference of
| opinion with other members as to
what constitutes a sd fair ana sieo,,ss con con,
of this question is apt to be long and
warm before it is finally written on the
| statute books. The conservatives and
radicals are a long ways apart at pres
ent and there may be difficulty in
| reaching a compromise.
| Real estate men in many sections of
J
/ passage of law embracing the Tor
rens system of land registration and
( transfer and such a measure is sure
/ to come before the next legislature
| The Wichita Real Estate Exchange is
| especially taking an active part in
| this campaign for a change in the
| land laws and is mailing out circulars
| dealing with the subject to all the real
| estate men in the state The law is
! said to have proved success in
| Illinois.
| The New York Tribune is respon-
| sible for the following joke on Gov.
/ ernor-elect Stubbs: ''W. r. Stubbs,
! leading Republican of Kansas, took
his little son to Washington recently,
and visited the senate gallery with
peciaily interested the boy; Mr..
/ Stubbs exI lained that Mr.. Hale was
the chaplain of the senate. oh, he
/ prays for the senate, doesn't hep
/ asked the lad.
NO replied Stubbs; he gets up
and takes a look at the senate, and
then prays for the country.
So far only the allegations of SEN
| ator Getty have been made public in
| the senatorial contest case in Wyan-
! dotte county, but now comes counsel
for the defendant and also the SEN
| ator-elect and after declaring that the
method of conducting the contest to
| deprive T. A. Milton, Democrat. of his
| office after he was elected by a large
majority on the face of the returns,
! to be a disgrace to the state, says:
! $50 far the contest is a farce. There
has not been a shadow of evidence
! that a single Illegal vote was cast,
and from what l can learn the
| prosecution has examined all of its
! strongest witnesses. 1t is simply an
| effort to slur and stigmatize the
| Croatian voters"
| Adjutant General Hughes, who has
been sending out invitations to mem
bers of the legislature to attend the
inauguration ceremonies and take
part in the automobile ride, is getting
some odd replies Among them is one
from an lola man who half jokingly
remarks: 81 will attend the in
auguration but don't count on me for
the auto ride. I have ridden in them
/ before We have them here in lola"
Now as General Hughes says, this man
has missed the idea of the invitation
which was extended with the object
of showing the visitors beautiful To-
peka rather than to give them an
automobile ride. Kansas farmers who
were raised in dugout own auto
mobiles now. What's an auto in
Kansas? One crop of alfalfa hay will
buy standard touring car
The Kansas penitentiary investiga-
ton began today. The Kansas mem
bers of the committee met with Gov
ernor Hoch yesterday afternoon and
received instructions to make a com
plete investigation of every charge
made by Kate Barnard of Oklahoma
and to even go outside those charges
and investigate the prison manage
ment and report wherein it could be
improved upon. The governor laid
it down plain that he wanted nobody
shielded.
II know that you gentlemen win
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