The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

! at the same cost and has a dash of
kindness without relaxing his discipline
or his demands for full days work.
The state reformatory at Hutchinson
has manufactured 5000 gallons of sorg-
hum from the sugar cane. grown on the
reformatory farm. and the superintend-
ent has sent Governor Stubs sam
pie bottle of the syrup.
This sample reminded his excellency
/ of the time he lived on a farm near
Olathe and the sum total of his earthly
possessions was five barrels of sorghum
nolasses. He had traded a mule for the
syrup, then he loaded the molasses on
to bobsled and hauled it over the
snow to Olathe and sold it to mer,
chant there. His sister accompanied
him on the trip and the governor stiH
has tintype picture taken in Olathe
that day of his sister, himself and his
molasses on the bobsled.
Senator Curtis was in Hutchinson
this week and the Hutchinson Gazette
quotes him as follows from an inter
view:
HE is in fighting mood, not because
he wishes scrap but because Gov
! ernor Stubs has invited one ans Se is
not the kind of man to run away from
trouble. I wish you would make that
plain said the senator. I didn't start
this trouble in the party. merely
called attention to some facts that the
newspapers had called attention to and
bear out, and Governor Stubs, for his
own purposes, singled me out for at
tack. Naturally was not going to
stand idle and take it. Besides, why
shouldn't the party inquire into these
things itself? If this eso-called reform
administration is not living UP to Its
| advance notices, not keeping it's prom
ises, the party is more concerned than
| anybody else. No. I have nothing to
add to my latest statement, which APP
pears in the morning papers today.
When the governor gives a satisfactory
answer to that, may have something
more to say"
Old Bill Hackney of Winfield is the
same hard fighter that he was OF
yore The wears have not Softened
afraid. Here is his opinion of the in
surgents and square dealers given in
the Winfield Courier:
Cleveland and his cohorts. aided
and abetted by self-styled Republic
cans-renegades then as now
carried the country in a war on the
tariff, and every farmer who will stop
to think will recall what followed.
In 1893 saw fine four-year-old
Norman-Percheron mare sell on the
streets of Winfield for IS. Do they
want to repeat the experiment over
| again? If they do, let them follow
the lead of the Stubbses. the Bris-
tows the Murdocks and the Madisons
| in Kansas, the. LaFollettes and the
CSllInuingSeS and ~ other democrats
| elsewhere - Democrats CARRIED in
Republican clothes. to give their
monthly declamations responsibility
and if they should succeed. low
prices of the farmers products Will
come again. and the cost of living
| will come down with dull thud, and
then they will know where they are
at
"They followed that gang in Kan
sas last year, and now they must pay
| out of their pockets this year mil
| lion dollars more than last, which
| with more than 100000 paid Kansas
| by the general government on war
| claims used in addition, brings the
| grand total we pay for Stubs and
| his reformers, more than we ought
| to. to 81, 5O0,O004more than dol
| lar each for every man, woman and
| child in Kansas. But 1t 1soO worth
| the price if thereby the people are
| made to understand the vicious
| character of these spurious so-called
reformers. the Kansas City Star. the
Topeka Capital and Bill White in
KANSAS people have been misled
| to their own hurt by like reformers
before, and they paid in colo casn
for their folly then, as now. VIII
some one tell US what has become
| Of those other reformers? They
have long since gone where the
Woodbine twineth,' never to be-
hoard of more, and these will go
the same way as soon as the people
find them out.
s0Those past and present were and
are all tarred with the same STICK