The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18
Receiving Petitions to Strength.
en- His Hand on Guaranty.
TO ELECT ALL JUDGES.
That Is One Reform Advocated
by the Governor.
w. A. White on JacksOn's Candi-
dacy for Congress.

nOur1Shment, but this week there is
plenty of food for thought along that
line. The governor is beginning to get
| returns on the petitions being circu-
| lated over the state by the state banks
| in their various localities. These petit
lions do not directly indorse special
| strengthen the governors hand in
| whatever extreme he may go to protect
and foster the guaranty law. Some of
| these petitions have over one hundred
| s1gners; more contain less than fifty.
| Then In addition there are letters IN
every mail and kilograms daily urging
| a fight to a finish for bank guaranty.
| There is not the slightest doubt that
| the governor will call q. special session
to enact new guaranty law If the
| states three lawyers advise this course
| after arguing their answer before Judge
! Pollock. Attorney General Jackson,
| Alex. Mitchell and Judge G. H. Buck
man, the three attorneys in the case,
have the full confidence of the governor
| and the bank commissioner. They are
true blue square dealeAs and their
| ability and judgment are unquestiou-
| ed. On their report, to be made in the
| next ten days, rests the decision of
| whether or not a special session shall
be called.
The governor is very much in earnest
| over this guaranty matter and is deeply
| 1ncensed over Judge Pollocks adverse
| decision. Speaking of these matters
| just before he left for Washington. he
| said:
Il think that the judges of all courts
! should be elected by the people for linn
tied terms of office. Judicial powers
too directly affect the liberty and rights
of the individual to be created by ap-
pointment. Executive and even legis-
lat1ve officials may be appointed to of
nee with less danger than can accrue
from the appointment of judges.
| This Pollock decision is a sample of
now hard a blow federal judge may
strike at the laws of a state A fed
| era1 Judge is an appointee of a national
| administration. Our national admins
| tratiOn had declared against state guar
| anty of deposits and now comes this
federal judge and declares the state law
| unconstitutional. Yet the national gov
eminent requires all banks in which It
deposits money to guarantee these de-
poslts- The state government requires
| similar guaranty. The county and
township and school districts require a
| similar guaranty. But a working man
| who saved for five years in order to
| accumulate $500 in a bank is denied a
guaranty of his deposit by mandate of
| the federal government which itself de-
mands a guaranty for its-money. When
| the state of Kansas comes along and
decides to make the state banks guar
anty the deposits of the individual citi-
zens of that state a federal Judge de-
cides that the state cannot have this
| power over its own corporations.
| II think it is a shame and an out
| rage, and 1 boil over every time 1 con-
slider this unjust decision. The national
administration has gone On record as
favoring government guaranty of de-
posts by the postal saving banks plan
and yet denounces as unsafe and dan
gerous the plan of state guaranty CT
| deposits.
II am in favor of fighting to the end
for the state guaranty of bank deposits
and believe that the large majority of
| the people of this state are with the
friends Of guaranty in this fight"
Ike Lewis home paper, the Stafford
county Republican. contains the fol-
lowing announcement of the candidacy
of its favorite son for the office of SUI
perintendent of insurance:
Ike Lewis, present assistant super
| intendent of insurance, has finally
conf1ded to the Republican, in a per
sonal letter. that he is going to get
into the race for the Republican nomi-
nation for superintendent. We've all
been looking forward to this an
nouncement for we felt sure he would
finally concede to the wishes of his
many friends over the state, and es-
pecially here at home, and agree to
make the race. That he should be
nominated with hands down goes
| without saying. That he will carry
his home county almost unanimously
i is a foregone conclusion, and this lat
ter fact ought to do more at making
MN popular over Kansas than ali
else.
We've all known him personally
since the hard years. when he was
first brought into the lime-light polit-
ically when some Republican. leaders
were casting about over the county
trying to find some chap with
strength enough of manhood and
character to overcome the then ire
mendous majority of the Populists
and farmers alliance. Somebody
-
township and discovered Ike Lewis.
A one-armed school teacher and far
mer- He was brought down to St.
John, stood up before the Republican
convention and received, with favor.
So much so in fact that every member
of that convention made a personal
fight for him at the subsequent cleo
tion He won by a substantial ma
jority and succeeded so we'll that he
was reelected by a bigger majority
for the office of treasurer at the ex-
piration of his time as county clerk
after the convention had already
nominated him.
success politically and he couldn't
have stopped had he so desired. He
was made clerk in the office of Supt.
Church, under the Stanley admin
istration, and he's been there ever
since, finally reaching the next best
place in the office by series of de-
served advancements by his super
iors. He has been there over ten
years and if there's man in the state
house that knows his job better than
Ike Lewis, we'd like to know where
he is. He has been studious and is
? now without doubt, one of the best
informed men in Kansas. on insurance
matters 1t is eminently fitting that
t | he should be made the chief. Kansas
, would make a grave mistake to do
otherwise and Stafford county, in
presenting him feels it is Offering a
; bit of the best what is. We shall ex-
pect Kansas to accept him by an ov-
: erwin lining majority. both at the nri-