The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
POLITICAL GOSSIP
RumOrs of Trouble Over Guar
amy Deposit Law.
Governor Elect Stubs FayOrs
Insurance Plan.
NOT ROYCE SCHEM Z.
Likely That Effort Will Be
Made to Defeat 1t.
Certain Constitutional Amend
ments Were Def Aated.

Indications are that Governor w.
r. Stubs is fixing up nice little fuss
between himself and the legislature
owe the guaranty deposit law Mr..
Stubs is quoted as saying that he be-
Iieves the only feasible plan for
guaranteeing bank deposits is mutual
Insurance by districts In other
words. it would appear that Mr..
Stubbs is going to undertake the job
of beating the plan of deposit insur-
ance proposed by John Q. Royce, the
ex-bank commissioner.
The Democrats claimed throughout
the campaign that the Republican
party was insincere in its promise of
a bank deposit guaranty and the att1-
tude which Governor Elect Stubs IS
said to have taken may tend to make
people believe that what the Demo-
Gratis charge is true. The following is
the platform pledge of the Republican
party with reference to deposit
guaranty:
Eighth - We pledge ourselves
through our candidates for the legis-
abling the state banks of Kansas to
mutually and voluntarily guarantee
deposits under the supervision of the
bank commissioner department and
request our candidates for congress
and the United States senate to favor
a law enabling national banks to par
ticipate therein
The Democrats said that this plank
was ambiguous and capable of al
most any Interpretation. 1t can be
interpreted to mean a straight state
bank deposit guaranty law, such as is
proposed by Mr.. Royce, Senator
Quincy and many others, or 1t can be
interpreted to mean a scheme of
deposit insurance such as Mr. Stubs
seems to be, inclined to favor.
While a member of the legislature
Mr.. Stubs was never very much in
favor of the guaranty deposit scheme.
Secretly he was said to have been op-
posed to it, though he took no active
part in the fight which was made on
It.
1t is claimed by the Democrats that
the contest proceedings which have
been started by w. w. Caldwell
against W. NJ. Moore IN the Cloud
Republic senatorial district are
backed by some people who bet a lot
of money on Caldwell at long odds,
who are trying to save their bacon.
Moore, it is said, has % majority on
the face of the returns. It is pretty
hard to overcome such lead with the
chances even that a recount will help
one man as much as the other.
An examination of the official
election returns sent in by the county
clerk of Shawnee county shows that
mistake of 230 in adding up Stubbs'
vote. Instead of having 7.040 votes
in the county, as shown by the county
clerks return, Stubs has 1870. The
vote of Attorney General F. S. jack
son was also found to be 100 more
than reported by the county clerk
1t is now certain that both of the !
proposed constitutional amendments
were defeated in the state. In Shaw |
county a eli
majority, but in most of the other !
counties they were slaughtered One |
amendment proposed to raise the pay
of members of the legislature to $500
instead of $3.50 for the session. and |
reduce their mileage from 10 cents to |
proposed to enable district judges to |
become candidates for election or APP |
pointment to the supreme court with |
out waiting for their terms of office |
to expire.
T. n. Funston of lola is being
doomed by the lola old soldiers for |
commander of the Soldiers home at |
Dodge City. The commander for the |
home is appointed by the governor. |
Stubs will make a change in the |
present management.
z. G. Hopkins, editor of the Well |
ington Mail, and formerly a Topeka |
newspaper man, is a candidate for the |
job of secretary of the state senate at |
the coming session of the legislature. !
He is in Topeka looking after his |
VIM. Kretsinger of EN- |
poria who was secretary at the last |
session, is also a candidate.
Dan B. DYER of Smith Center was in