The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
Promises to Carry Utilities
Fight Before the People.
NEWS OF MIR. DAVIS
KiOwa County Man May Try
Hand at Big Game.
Would Like to- Be Next Lieu
tenant Governor.

Governor Hadley of Missouri has
announced his intentian of getting into
the legislative campaign in his state
next fall in the interest of the public
utilities bill which received a set back
IN the Missouri legislature this session. /
Governor Stubs of Kansas also had
a utilities bill killed in the last legis-
lature, but has not yet made public
his announcement of mingling in the
next legislative cam paign for the pur-
pose of making the utilities fight an
issue. 1t is expected however. that
Governor Stubs Will not remain pas
sive under the decisive defeat admin
istered to his pet measure by the in
surgentS and machine men of the leg
fSlature last winter, but will likely try
to make state control of utilities an
issue in the next Kansas campaign.
Governor Stubs received a worse
jolt at the hands of the legislature of
his state on the utilities bin than did
Governor Hadley. The Missouri house
passed the bill but it was allowed to die
in the senate. While the Kansas house,
whose mem berS were supposed to be
close to and amenable to the will and
best interests of the people, tore the
Stubs bill a1l to pieces, and then pro-
ceeded to draw up a bill of their own
THAT did not even resemble the COVER
nor's measure. The senate killed the
house bill. Stubs fought hard and
used every effort throughout the ses-
sion to get the bill through. Since the
legislature adjourned the governor has
not once mentioned the utilities bill,
but the people who have the privilege
of being intimately acquainted with
the red headed Lawrence statesman
know that he is a fighter who never
quits under fire and they expect to hear
more about the state control of utili-
ties another day.
Governor Stubs often declared,
when the utilities fight was at it's hot
test Git tasted a month";, that he would
ask for no better issue upon which to
go before the people in q campaign
and that control of utilities was sure
to come in Kansas sooner or later.
While in New York last month as the
guest of Governor Hughes, the Kansas
chief executive discussed at length the
control of utilities and the success of
the plan in the Empire state. He is
fortified with all kinds of argument
and a trainload of ammunition with
which to make the fight next year and
there is pretty apt to be something
doing in the good old summer time in
Kansas year hence in the utilities
line.
Cyrus Corning, editor of the Grand
Army Reveille, asks for a correction
of the published statement with local
papers last week that Captain P. H.
Coney had made an attack on Com
mander Morgan through the columns of
the Reveille- Editor Corning declares
that Captain Coney did not write a line
in the Reveille last week and he fur
Their adds that "a defense of Coney
against vile SANDER is not an attack
be both logic and justice in Editor
Cornings statement. especially from
the standpoint of himself and the host
of friends of Captain P. H. Coney in
this state
The latest piece of political gossip
now in circulation is the proposed can
hidacy of ]. w. Davis. representative in
the last legislature from Kiowa county,
Tor the Republican nomination for
lieutenant governor. Mr.. Davis was
the leader of the successful insurrec-
ton against some of Governor Stubs
measures in the legislature last win
ter and was regarded as the best de-
batter in the house. He is a big man,
this Kiowa county attorney, quick,
forceful, eloquent and full of courage;
he is always at his best when most
men either get ratified or look for COW
er. Mr.. Davis would doubtless win the
support of the machine men in his
party and his candidacy would draw a
sharp line between the administration
and the nti-administration candidates.
No one who saw and heard Mr.. Davis
In action in the legislature last winter
viii doubt for a minute that he is of
big enough calibre for any office in
the state. If he gets into the game he
place on the ticket as he is well known
over his section of the state as a bril-
liant lawyer and successful campaign
sr.
All laws of the recent legislature
that did not become effective upon
publication in the official state paper
will go into effect May 29. the date of
the publication of the 1909 statutes
the one exception being the bank
guaranty law, which will not go into
effect until June 80 Among the more
important of the new laws that go
int off n1f he r,f4 !,
the following:
All the bucket shops now operating
in the various cities of the state will
have to close. The new labor law
bars child actors in the theaters and
all boys under IA years of age from
the messenger service. Interurban
cars must be equipped with additional
conveniences. The cities will be re-
CURED to preserve the purity of the
waters of the streams in their vicinity.
Railroads will be required to erect hog
tight fences along their right of way
where farmers demand it. Fruit tree
agents will go to Jail of they misrep-
resent the brand of fruit trees they
| sell.
The prohibitory law has been made
the most drastic in its provisions ever
! attempted by any state. The consum-
1 ers as well as the dealers are sitting
up to take notice of this law.
There are laws providing additional
| fire protection for school children and
hotel guests. There are laws making
it a crime for employees of the print
ing office to smuggle out teachers ex-
animation questions. Establishing
normal training departments to city
and county high schools under certain
conditions Requiring managers OF
political campaigns to file statement
of receipts and expenditures of cam
paigns. Fixing standard weights anC
measures for commodities in the state
and placing the enforcement of tina
law under the state board of health
Aboiishfng the five oil inspectors a.
large Making it a crime to kill Amer
lean eagles. Providing for compre-
hensive system of warehouse receipts
Providing for the construction anC