The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-07
HODGES LAST SAY
Democratic Candidate for Gov
ernor Speaks.
Addresses a Large Audience in
Topeka Auditorium.
SPEECHES PERSONAL.
T. F. Morrison Calls Stubs Rab-
BILE ROusing DemagOgue.
Senator Hodges Attacks the
State Administration.

Senator George H. Hodges, Demo
cratic nominee for governor, and T. F.
Morrison. Democratic nominee for at
torney general, spent two hours Sat-
urday night at the auditorium, in
which they told 1900 persons of the
misdeeds and riotous extravaganza of
the Republican administration and
promised relief if the affairs of state
we're turned over to the minority party.
John Switzer, chairman of the Demo-
cratic county central committee, pre-
sided at the meeting. J. w. Kelley,
candidate for representative from the
Thirty-fourth district, made short
speech, which was followed by a thirty
minute talk by T. F. Morrison of Cha
mute, who predicted Democratic land
slide and lambasted the state admins
tration for alleged misconduct in office.
Il have a message for you tonight
said Morrison in opening his speech,
land that message is that George H.
Hodges will be elected governor by U.s.
900 plurality Joe DOlley has been tell
ing me Stubs would get a big Demo-
cratic vote. When I go to a district
he names, I find they are saying the
trouble is in another district. For two
months have been going from one dis
trict to another hunting those boilers
and now come to Shawnee county
and find they are not here. The fact
is 1 haven't been in a county in Kad-
sas but what l have found that from
to 40 per cent of the Republicans
will vote the Democratic state ticket
Tuesday.
'And now am going to tell you the
story of a man who was looking in and
the same man who is now looking out
"a rabble rousing demagogue whose
name is, Walter Roscoe Stubs, who
two years ago said the state expenses
had been wantonly increased and that
if he was elected he would fire these
fellows on the pay roll. They elected
this man who dares SANDER the living
and malign the dead. What did he do?
He put 1S4 more men on the pay roll
than has ever been there before. He
began inspecting and today he has men
up and down the railroads inspecting
everything living and dead; and these
men are the cogs in the big machine to
beat the Indian for United States SEN
ator; and Kansas is paying the bills.
Appropriations have been increased to-
enormous proportions, but Stubbs
changes the issue and does not defend
his record or tell the taxpayers where
the money has gone.
There is that 5000 contingent fund
for the governor. which after being at
tackled in the legislature was referred
back to the ways and means committee
and two days later Mr.. Stannard and
the other insurgef1t reform ers brought
it on the floor again and your insurgent
legislature passed it.
''Yet Governor Stubs dares go up
and down the state talking of the Won
derfu1 laws enacted by his legislature,
but he does not mention that five OF
were written and introduced in the
| senate by George H. Hodges, whom the
! grandstandfng Kansas governor is try
ing to defeat for election
Morrison. in the course of his address.
referred to Stubs as 1.-The political
mermaid of Kansas who is not
enough woman to embrace and not
enough fish to eat"
Senator Hodges Speech.
When Senator Hodges was intro
| duced he was given a noisy reception.
| He came to Topeka to reply to the
| charges made by Governor Stubs in
Olathe. Hodges home town. He said
in part;
''I regret sincerely that so late in the
campaign anything personal should
have entered into this contest Tonight
1 shall answer a few of the charges
made by our honorable governor in my
little home town. Let me say in open
| ing that there has been too much rabble
| rousing in Kansas. The abuse of legitf-
mate business interests in this state the
past IS months by these inf1amerS of
public prejudice has become almost
fad. All corporations are not thieves,
and until proven to be, should be treat
ed honestly. It is time to get rid of
to business in a safe, sane way; and
the results will be satisfactory all
around This trouble has been manu-
featured by a few inflamers of public
prejudice, who call themselves bust
ness men, but who want to line up
few votes on a fake issue.
Governor Stubs has been so kind
as to tell you of the good laws on the
statute books, but he has overlooked
telling the people that "a Democrats
tod Low ND 1iS1oY1
voted for them, and that "a votes were
necessary to make these bills become
| laws. Sometimes we had 80 Republican
votes, and that was one vote more than
enough to insure the success of the bill.
| And today Governor Stubs is holding
up these laws in the state as a COM
modify and bartering them for votes.
Then Hodges went into the matter
of state taxes and read the following
letter to show the state expenses under
the last IS months of the Hoch ad
ministration and the first Is months
of the Stubs regime:
Topeka, Kan, July 81, 1910.
Senator Charles Curtis, Topeka, Kan
| SaS.
"I have your inquiry of this date and
will say that the total amount of mon
| ey paid out of the general revenue
funds of the state treasury to pay the
| running expenses of the state for the
| first Is months of Governor Hoch's sec
| OHQ tcIiII was S1s1Oo'tOO' liz NSNc--
amount so paid during the first Is
months of Governor Stubs administra-
ton was 1928, 1906.
| JAMES M NATION.
Auditor of the State
Haven't they a nice scented, clean
administration up there?' continued
Hodges, 1.-The state allows Governor
i Stubs $1,000 year for his grocery bill.
If you don't believe it hunt up page IA
session laws 1909. Why don't he tell
| Won about it7 WHY don't he tell YOU
about his $50, 600 contingent fund? Then
there is Mr. Jackson's $4,000 contingent
fund. What about it? Then there IS
the bank commissioners office which
is one of the most incompetent, rotten
institutions in the state with eight ex-
an1iners where four did the work be-
fore. There is Mr.. Watson, whom Mr.
Flack, of Abilene. took to the ball game