The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-06
WORDS OF CHEER.
Temperance Hosts Gather in
Convention at Topeka.
Thirty. First Annual Gathering
in This Cause.
GOV. STUBBS' SPEECH
Was feature of Night Session
at Baptist { hurch.
Says $4,000 Contingent Fund
Was to Fight Liquor.

The thirty-first annual convention
| of the Kansas State Temperance
| union held the opening session at
| the First Baptist church last night.
Among the long list of prominent
| speakers and politicians who spoke
was Governor Stubs. and the COVER
nor interested his listeners by touch
ing lightly upon his long fought over
contingent fund.
The whole secret of the $4,000
contingent fund was disclosed last
night when the governor said that
the reason he had asked for this
$4,000. was because he had been
asked for this amount to fight the
joints in Kansas. In other words it
was made to aid the cause of the
the governor stated that very little
of it was used and his desire was to
have it in case of necessity.
In explaining his views the
temperance question and in the
nor Stubs said:
at propose that there shall be no
drunkards on the pay rolls of this
state. There shall be no cigarette
fiends in any position connected with
the state. 1 will have this state gov
eminent stand for high ideals. 1 am
glad that 1 have the power to use this
office to throw into the work that you
stand for. 1 believe that we are go
ing to make this government of Kan
sas of the people, by the people and
for the people more than ever be-
fore"
"I was invited here a year ago I'M
der very different circumstances. At
that time you were anxious to know
what promises 1 would make about
the enforcement of the law, and the
prohibitory law in particular.
THE enforcement of the prohibit
tory law has been accomplished more
easily than 1 expected. At that time
Crawford county had about $50 places
that had been selling liquor openly
and had never been closed. Leaven-
worth county had about eighty such
places. Mr.. Jackson had been doing
good work. but it takes lots of time
and lots of men to weed out this traf-
fic. John Marshall, a brave man, and
one of the best men that ever stood
in shoe leather, went to Crawford
county to close those saloons. 1 told
him that all of the power in the gov
ernorship was back of him, and If
necessary, the national guard would
be at his service. Marshall closed the
saloons 1t took two months, it took
the sheriff and all the officers, it took
an ak, too. The stockades which were
built around the saloons were knock
ed down, the furniture burned, and
the jails filled. Some of them haven't
there isn't room for them in jail.
don't know of single open saloon in
Crawford county.
Assistant Attorney General Shukers
went to Leavenworth county and ac-
practically the same results
there. There are four candidates for
the position of judge in Leavenworth
and they all declare they want to en-
force the law.
"You have done a great work in this
state. 1t is an economic work. You
have cleaned out the jails. It is a COM
mon thing in Kansas to have the jail
empty. One Of the greatest and grand
est things in this commonwealth is the
success Kansas is having in closing
the saloons"
Tom McNeal, candidate for congress-
man from the First district, spoke on
The Press and Prohibition He was
Of the opipion that the press in Kan
5as was not always in favor of prohibit
lion. He stated that the majority of
the newspapers were in favor of it but
the rest of them were either Indifferent
to the subject or unconsciously lent
their influence to the side of lawless-
ness.