Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-01-29
Work at the State House
Inc usual Bills in Regard to Sunday Base Ball
a"q More Strict PrOhibitOry Laws Have Shown nm

NV hiOO up Will uulllUeT Vi
other former Great Benders, all
OF whom seem happy and content
ed.
Among other matters which
are being brought to the atten-
tion Of the legislature Ewing HeI
bert is asking for a technical
school OF printing and kindred
acts to be established at the
State Agricultural college. In
an open letter to the legislature
published in the State Journal he
advocates more of the pOpulistic
doctrine so recently hooted at,
but now accepted by the Re-
publican party. He says in part
A school that teaches printing,
binding and all its branches,
would be of great value to the
state and our country at large.
Some of the school books that
the state should print could be
printed there under direction of
of skilled men. All the blank
now sold by private firms could
be printed by this school and
furnished each county at some
where near cost. All the blanks
books and election blanks and
supplies could be printed there.
The state of Kansas should
print all the supplies she uses in
state and county, in school and
office, at either the state print
ing office or at the technical
printing school at Manhattan.
Let's do something for the boys
and girls along this line.
Z Just what Republican states
man will pick up some Popo-Dem
doctrines and advocate it soon,
we can't say.
It has just developed that Gov.
Hoch has neglected, in fact re-
fused to pay his campaign as
sessment for the campaign Of
1906, wherefore s. C. drummer,
chairman Of the committee in
that campaign, is hiding the
sack. After various attempts
to collect from the governor, Mr..
drummer made a final appeal
when Mr.. Hoch was bout to re-
tire.
Mr.. drummer who in the mean
time had been appointed a men,
ber of the state tax commission
again waited on the governor to
collect the assessment. Mr.. Crun
mer reasoned that since Govern
or Hoch had garnered snug sums
for his services as a chautauqua
lecturer while acting as govern
or. and since he was the first
state executive to profit by the
increase in salary to $4,000 he
would not go out of office with
this old campaign obligation
hanging over his head. But alas
the former chairman was mistake
Governor Hoch now plainly told
him that he did not intend to
that he had paid his own expen-
ses while making the campaign
and that was enough.
Mr.. drummer reminded the
governor that he travelled on a
pass during the campaign, had
been entertained, housed and
fed as an honored guest where
he spoke: his expenses were r
therefore immaterial but he fall
ed to move the retiring execu-
tive to give up any cash to liquiC
ate that 5000 note. Mr.. Crum-
mer was in the position of the
man who holds the bag in a snip
hunt
A petition has been presented
to the house which declared that
"Autos on the public highways
are becoming a menace to the ru
al population" The Legislature
was urged to take some step TO-
lward granting relief in the way
of stricter laws governing the
speed of these red devils and
checking the mad impulses Of
their lunatic drivers. A bill gov
erning the question was intro
duced early in the session by
Harbaugh of Sumner.
In mentining Matsoon's Sal
Jose scale bill in last weeks let
ter, I stated that the approprl
alton asked for was $500. l
should have been $4,000. Tn
bill has been reported back b,
the ways and means committee
recommending it for passage, bu