Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23
Trip Lncognito Proposed
 for Gooemor of Kansas
Commercial Travellers Want Him to Inspect Branch
 Railway Line

TOPEKA, Kas., December 22.-A few .Dys ago Governor Stubbs promised ..n United Commercial Travellers as
 Iation to make a trip over the Cent . Branch railroad with the officials
 the Missouri Pacific company to lu- 5ct its condition. This promise was
 rdc a few days after Vice President
 ark had agreed with the governor
 spend $75O,OOO for track and other nproyements next year. The trip as
 tnned was to be made in private
 IT carrying the officials of the Missouri
 Icihc, representatives of the U. T. C.. ..d Governor Stubbs.
 After a conference of the conner
 ti travellers who use the Central Branch line on their trips to the towns !. Northern Kansas, it was decided that
 governor should make the trip Gin
 z. They want him to go out to ,Dmc point on the west end of the
 mural Branch over the Burlington .I make the return trip unannOuneed .ud by easy stages, using eaboOses and
 a regular day. coaches of the passen- g,r trains. This would give the gover. .or taste of what commercial travel .- experience every day in the year.
 .'I am ready to take the risk,' Gov
 aar Stubbs said today, "Riding over
 J.. Central Branch, whether in a special rr or cabOose, has no terrors for me. .ars ago l rode over brand new rail ,rds in tool ears at the rate of thirty les an hour and | am satisfied that
 thing is so bad as that. can tell
 u. condition of the track even if the al, have good springs. l used to build
 rIrOads and I am not easily fooled, '
 The governor told the committee om the '. C. T. that it would be i'm. ,,~ible for him to make the trip ''in-
 E. as suggested. because of his wide pIuaintanee in the Central Branch ter tory unless he should disguise himself $ a tramp, permit his whiskers to grow ,r two or three weeks, or wear a false card.
 some of the commercial travellers in ,r that the governor take this course
 ther than advertise a special trip in
 private ear. If he goes on a special rain precautions will be taken when td stretches of the track are reached, Hd everything made to appear that the .utral branch is not as bad as. painted.
 If the governor would slip out to .e western end of that line in dis ase and travel to Atchison on all inds of trains and ears, as We have to .avel, said a commercial traveller, he would get an experience that .ouId be worth something. Let him on a pair of overalls, rubber boots, a .ouse and an old ragged Overcoat, and necessary to hide his identity the -. T. c. will provide him with full .t of false whiskers of the regulation 'opulist pattern, such as were worn ftecn years ago in this state-the ug flowing kind with the Abe Lin in thrat- latch appendage to prevent dds and sore throat. Rigged up in this .,bion. Governor Stubbs would find
 t all he needs to know about Cent 4 Branch tTavel.' With this plan of examination of .atral Branch travel by the governor, zen suggested to Bailie P. Waggener, .e general attorney for the Missouri rrific, in Kansas, he said it was latter for the governor to determine ls himself. ''The habiliments of pOpu ~m as suggested by the commercial ayelers would be an appropriate garb IT Mir Stubbs, " Waggener said, "as would give us the composite picture
 a brand of Kansas politics that has turned to remind us of the days of ue early nineties.'