The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-10
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If Governor Stubs will wait two
| or three weeks before calling his
| special session of the legislature he
will have given Kansas a chance TO
| gather in far greater glory than
| patching up peace between the war
ring bankers. Congress will likely
soon pass the proposed amendment
/ TO the national constitution author
| izipg the levy of a direct income tax
| and it will have to be ratified by the
legislatures of three-fourthS of the
states before it becomes a law. IL
1inois is already patting herself on
| the back in anticipation Of being the
first state to reap these ratification
honors OllinoiS will have a special
session Of the legislature next fall)
and she is looking down upon the
other states like the boy with the core
of the apple.
Now If the Kansas legislature is
called together Immediately after
congress adjourns it is as sure to rat
fly this income tax amendment as it
is to supply that deficiency in the
fish commission fund, and Kansans
can again point with pride to the fact
that the SunfoWer state leads in ev-
erything.
Ed Sinner, secretary of the state
railroad board, carries around enough
columns of figures in his head and
differential rates and long and short
haul dope to weigh down and depress
man who had heretofore success
fully done all the fretting for a don't
worry club. And yet Ed is one of the
most cheerful and pleasant members
OF the state house family
There is little ceremony or formal
ity in the governors office. The gov
ernor receives visitors in his shirt
sleeves these hot days and there is a
Democratic simplicity in keeping with
the Kansas spirit. The average Kan
than he will the man who gets swell
ed on his job
Speaking the other day of pompous
and naughty men, the governor was
reminded of his railroad construction
days. Then he often had occasion to
meet eastern bankers and railroad
managers and owners in a business
way. II always got the cold tone and
naughty glare in the outer office
from some $40 clerk he said, while
in the inside office the big man of the
concern was as plain and simple as an
old shoe and as cordial as an Irish
man on pay day."
There are more good stories told
about Frank Grimes, ex-state treasur-
er, than any other man in Kansas.
Here is one where the joke is on
Charlie Sessions, a we'll known news
investigation of the treasury under
the Grimes rule and there appeared
to be no lack of evidence of irregu-
laritieS in the conduct of the office.
Frank FARRELL of the Kansas City
Times was getting red hot story ev-
cry day and taking the hide off Grimes
and hanging it over the first page in
top heads a foot long. Charlie Ses-
sions' paper was friendly to the
Grimes crowd at that time and Char
a lines q
the investigation in the lower corner
of some obscure page in the paper.
farrell was hiding from Grimes
wrath. One day Grimes called Char
lie into his office and said: Look
here, Charlie, always thought you
was my friend, but you are not do
ing me right, now"
Charlie was astounded and wanted
to know what in the world he had
dOT6s, or failed to No.
well" said Grimes, "Here is Frank
FARRELL, who does not even pretend
to be friend of mine, and yet he is
playing me up for big heads and two
column write-upS in his paper while
stuff farrell is printing is good adver
Using, Charlie, and I can't see why
YOU are not helping me some in that
line, too"
Sessions was completely crushed by
the interview, while FARRELL, when he
heard about it, came out of hidinr
but the relish had left the Grimes
stories and they read pretty fiat from
then on. Both newspaper men agreed
on the one expression to fit the case
Whats the use? 2"
Speaking about expense accounts
it takes a wise guy to get a. padded
account past the eagle eye of Auditor
Nation. The other day some one
presented an itemized account of ex-
penses incurred on a trip, to Mr.. Ma
ton and among the items was one
for 81 for bus hire to the hotel In a
certain small town to the south of
here. Nation marked the bus
charge off with a pencil and turning
to his caller said in tones of grave
reproof: at have visited in that
town several times and there IS not
a single bus or hack on the town
site"
Secretary T. D. Coburn has swatted
the pessimist so hard that the talk of
Kansas prosperity is heard all over
the country, but now comes the sec
rotary in q new role and follows Dr.
Crumbine's injunction to swat the fly.
When the newspaper man entered