The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-26
STUBS TO WAIT.
Will Not Make Important APP
pOintments Now.
Expects Legislature to Adopt
New Board" Plan.
UNDER SINGLE HEAD,
Would Be New System for Man
aging State Institutions.
Until Action Is Taken Appl1-
cants Must Wait.

| When the news gatherer today
! asked John Dawson, secretary to
! Gov. Stubbs, that eternal question
| about appointments the sphinx smiled,
and, contrary to his usual custom,
unburdened himself as follows:
"Gov. Stubbs has made little pro-
gress towards the selection of persons
| in the public service. In scarcely any
of the more important positions has
| he vet made selections. In one or two
instances he may have offered places
| to well known men who are taxing
their own time to determinee whether
| or not they will accept. On the minor
positions he has done nothing about
appointments except to give patient
hearing to the applicants and their
supporters All applications and en-
dorsements, either oral or written, are
being entered, for convenient rerer-
ence, in a book under suitable head
ings. one page being devoted to oil
inspectors, two or three to grain in
spectors, and so on with all other
jobs.
ut is a curious fact that there are
many applications for jobs which DO
not exist One of these is governors s
messenger. There must be more than
a score of applications for this place,
two messengers for the whole state
house and they are appointed by the
executive council in which tr1ounaI
the governor has only vote.
THE governor gives almost his en-
tire time to consulting with senators
and representatives and state officers
and state boards about state aHalrs'
The crowds who come every day TO
the governors office on all sorts or
missions are very large but In the
course of the day he usually manages
to see them all. OF course the mem
bers of the legislature must have the
right of way to his private office over
all others as they come on state busl-
ness. 1t is a little difficult sometimes
to explain to an admiring supporter or
the governor just why he can't see
him at any time-just for a minute,
but usually the callers are considerate
of the incessant demands upon his
AFTER the session is over the COVER
nor will take up the matter OF ap-
pointments systematically. There are
no personal promises outstanding, and
every applicant will receive fair con-
sideration.
"a number of appointments must
be confirmed by the senate and these
will receive first consideration but not
until after all the administrative
measures have been prepared and in
troduced into the legislature. Pend
ing bills and measures proposed may
abolish a number of these positions,
notably the managers OF the Hutchln-
son reformatory, the directors of the
penitentiary and the board of control
A bill has been prepared pursuant to
the governors message to merge tne
business management of all the penal
and charitable Institutions under one
board as is the case in Iowa and Min
nesota Naturally the governor viii
not seriously consider appointments
on any of these boards until that Dill
is enacted. It may be killed in the
legislature. but not likely as a con-
siderable number of the members OF
both houses are known to favor the
new system of managing the state IN
stitutions which has been so success
fuI where it has been tried, and the
success of our own board of control
gives assurance that the consolidated
management would make hit in this
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