The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
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When the fgurehead of the battle
ship Kansas, which had been sent Dy
the government to The Kansas state
/ Historical society, arrived in Topeka
/ the other day, Architect Chandler went
to Governor Stubss office and made re-
/ port as follows:
/ Governor, that fgurhead has ar
| rived; what shall do with it?''
The governor looked up in mild won,
der. whats a figurehead, Chandler
he inquired. in all seriousness.
Chandler went away. Since the gov
ernor had declined to assume any Of
! the responsibility for this winged SYM
| boil of the strength and speed of the
/ battleship Kansas. then he would dc
| the best he could So he ordered it Sc:
/ up on the state house grounds at a
1 point on the north side of the east
wing of the capitol building. And there
| it will remain. a brass eagle of heroic
size with extended wings, until such
| time as the new memorial building is
| finished; then it will occupy a place OF
honor in one of the courts of the big
| hall-perhaps 1t is covered with sew
| eral dozen coats of paint and perhaps
it can be cleaned.
| Secretary Coburn returned this week
from trip to Virginia. A newspaper
man asked him to give his impre: 5tons
| of the Old Dominion state expecting to
| hear a panegyric on the sunny south.
But it was not so. The secretary illus
trated his opinion of Virginia and her
people by the following story:
while 1 was down there walking
about the streets of a certain town with
| a friend we ran across an old negro sit
| ting on the edge of the sidewalk whit
Ting stick My friend was having
some excavation work done and was
| anxious to find more laborers, so he
| asked the negro If he was looking for
work. The son of Ham looked up in
surprise as he replied: Me lookin' TO-
work. boss? Not if 1 kin, fin ennything
else to do
c. E. Denton, secretary of state, has
been vindicated and committee trav-
eled all the way from New York state
to Topeka to accomplished that most
laudable end. When Mr.. Denton. at the
cost of considerable pains and labor
compiled a complete table of statistics
of all things relating to the cost and
operation of the primary law and made
the same public there were square deal
papers that accused him of being on
the wrong car, of knocking the primary
law. etc. But this week one of those
same square deal papers, in telling the
story of the New York committees
visit to Topeka in quest of Information
about the primary law, quoted one Of
the comm1tteemen'S praise of Mr.. Den
ton for having compiled such valu-
able and complete fund of Information
about the law.
the men of other times had in their
haste condemned.
State Superintendent FairchiId was
IN Jefferson City last week in attend
ance at the first convention of count
school superintendent in Missouri
that office having been created under
a law of the last legislature of that
state. While there he met the superin-
tendent of scIools-of the city of Spring-
field and the Kansan took off his hat
and bowed in reverent establishment to
man 81 years of age who appeared
hale and hearty and in the full posses
sion of his mental faculties. Spring
held is city of 10000 inhabitants. yet
this old gentleman appeared to be
master of the school situation in that
city and was among the most active
and interested of the school men in at
tendance at the convention.
There Is a strong suspicion that ex-
Governor Hoch is getting ready to |
enter the Fourth district congress
s1onal fight and give Miller the race |
of his life ever since the Marion man
wrote that tariff revision editorial In t
his newspaper. In this article Gov
ernor Hoch drew with master hand |
a picture of little old Rhode Island |
picking up the great western states I
of Missouri, Iowa and Kansas and
putting them in her pocket. Hoch |
then splashed a lot of ink in protest
that such things should be and he
held up TO high Heaven the represen-
tatfves of these states who had sat |
Suplnely by and allowed a state not /
SO big as a single Kansas county to
take such. liberties with the empire /
of the west.
fore by many papers as just the man /
to put the rollers under Miller And l.
1t may yet come to pass.
John Dawson, attorney for the rail-
road board, has returned from ST.
Joseph. MO, where he went Wednes-
day to represent Governor Stubs at |
the Ad Mems Booster banquet held in I
the Auditorium of that city that
night The governors of Nebraska,
Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma were
invited to this banquet. Gov. Hadley
sent Senator Cron of st. Louis. Gov.
Haskell of Oklahoma went himself /
and Gov Shellabarger Of Nebraska |
sent his labor commissioner to repre-
sent him.
The banquet was a notable oc-
casion. One thousand guests sat at |
the tables and after the feast some
six thousand spectators gathered. in
the auditorium to hear the speeches.
When Mr.. Dawson entered the hall
he was mistaken for Gov. Stubs, the /
Kansas reformer, and he was given a
tremendous ovation by the crowd.
John took his seat at the table where
two large sunf1owers had been placed |
in front of his plate and then the
crowd was sure he was Stubs and
the cheers were multiplied.
He had splendid time. and while
he boosted Kansas while in St.
Joseph. he is boosting St Joseph now
that he has returned to Kansas.
Mr.. Dawson stopped off in Sparks,
Doniphan county, on his return home
and addressed picnic at that place
afternoon.