The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
HOCH AND STUBS.
Addresses Accidentally Omitted From
Part OF Yesterdays Edition.

paper several thousand papers of the
| city edition last night failed to contain
| the text of the addresses made bvs Gov
ernor Hoeh and Governor Stubs at
| the Auditorium Monday noon.
me error which was promptly COR
| rected, was not discovered until many
of the city carriers had gone out with
their papers and were beyond recall.
Those addresses, both interesting read
ing, are accordingly reprinted this
evening IN this part of the city edition
10 enaDle every reader to have at hand
the text OF the two speeches:
Governor Hoch's Last Official Word.
In turning over the duties of his
| once TO his successor, Governor Hoch
THE vital difference between a mon
archy and republic is this: in a mon
archy the officer is the sovereign and
the people the servants, but in a re-
yersed-the officer is the servant and
the people are sovereign. A great au-
thor mas said that government is a
stewardship and it's officers are stew
ards president Cleveland voiced this
hne sentiment when he said. Public
office is a public trust The people of
this great commonwealth have twice
conferred upon me the great honor of
executive stewardship, and as 1 am
now ABOUT 10 lay down this honor and
retire to private life, 1 trust it will not
be lnapprop riate to render a brief ac-
count of the achievements of the past
credit is due, that this remarkable rec
ord may become the permanent pos
session of the archives of the state.
Surely every citizen of the state, re-
CARELESS of party, must be interested
in this record, and every former citi-
zen now resident elsewhere must read
it with pleasure. 1 may be pardoned'
for believing that no other four years
i'm the history of the state will show a
record of saner, wiser or more pro-
gressive achievements, and with par
donable state pride 1 may be permit
ted to question whether any other state
can equal this splendid record. Every
pledge made to the people during the
two biennial campaigns has been re-
deemed, while very many wholesome
things have been done not definitely
pledged in party platforms.
What Has Been Accomplished.
Among these accomplishments let
me mention: A long delayed congress
sional reapportionment; a drastic pure
food law, vigorously and effectively en-
forced by Secretary Crumbine and his
assistants; the adjustment of the free
pass; reduction of railroad fares from
three cents to two cents per mile by
the board of railroad commissioners,
an annual saving to the travelling pub
lie of perhaps five million dollars, while
the railroad revenues are little less. if
any, owing to the increase of travel
and the adjustment of the free pass;
a depository law for state funds which
furnishes absolute security for state
money and is yielding about $4,000 a
year interest thereon; the erection and
equipment Of a fine state printing plant
at a cost of about 100000, every cent of
which has already been paid out of the
savings; the creation of a board of
control for the management of our
nine charitable institutions with Of
fees in the state house and marked
improvement in business methods; a
complete revolution or the whole taxa
ton system of the state, which has
multiplied our property valuations
about six times and reduced the rate of
taxation from an average of six per
cent to an average of about one per
cent, and put hundreds of thousa ndS of
dollars worth of property onf the tax
rolls that was never, there before: d
juvenile court law that is saving hum
dredS of incorrfgible boys and girls
from Jail stains and criminal careers
and starting them on the road to good
citizenship 1924 boys and 357 girls be-
ing handled by these local courts dur
ing the last year; a statewide primary
election law for the enactment of
which a special session of the legis-
lature was chiefly called, this being the
last of our unredeemed pledges; oil
legislation which has made possible in
three years the establishment of nine
teen successful independent oil re-
fineries where only one nearly bank
rupt institution existed before, and an
annual saving of about one million dol
lars to the consumers of coal oil alone;
a judicial parole law which is keeping
the prison brand off of many offenders
deserving another chance and saving
them to good citizenship; the enact
ment of a series of railroad laws I'M
equaled IN number, perhaps, and of
more far reaching effectiveness than
the laws of any other state including
the creation of the office of attorney to
the railroad board having the power
of initiation in the interest of shippers
No other state, I believe. has such an
officer: but a movement has Just been
started to supply the interstate COM
merce commission with this needed
help. A great strengthening of the |
banking department.
Administrative Achievements.
For these fine achievements the ex-
ecutiVe claims no particular credit; he |
only claims that every one of them
was advocated in his messages and that
every power of persuasion, or argument. !
Of appeal to reason, possible to him per-
sonally and officially was used in be- |
half of every one of these measures, |
but no official patronage or other Off |
cial club has been used to secure the
passage OF these laws. The governor
mas tried to confine himself to the legi-
innate functions of his Office and to |
government perfectly free to exercise |
heirs.
.'Of the exclusively administrative |
achievements it may not become me to |
speak, but am sure the generous and |
ndulgent people-of the state will pardon |
L few references to this subject a |
arge state acquaintance, the result of |
IN active participation in state affairs |
or a third of a. century, was utilized in |
he selection of appointees, and perhaps
of the executive appointments |
lave been made from the ranks of those |
Who were not applicants for public po-
ition. OF the three members of the
upreme court appointed by me, one
vas appointed by telegram. another by |
telephone, and the third equally sur
lrised with an unsolicited tender of the