The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22

| maintaining the charitable institutions
had been cut down to the minimum.
He raped the penitentiary payroll and
the army of teachers maintained at
the university.
Republican defeat is better than
Republican success when success must
be won by the compromise of Repub-
lican principles were the impressive
words with which the speaker con-
cluded his address.
Chairman Stitch declared that he
proposed to draft both Bailey and
Stanley for service during the primary
campaign. He wanted those two
speeches delivered all over the state.
| he said.
Gov. Hoch Sends Word.
Governor Hoch was called for. but
the Marion editor was not present
| Chairman Stitch then read a letter re-
| ceived that day from the governor as
! follows:
| believing that Tom Wagstaff stands
for all that is good in government;
| that he is in accord with the progress
sive policies of the Republican marty;
that he will in office as he does out of
it, heartily sustain President Taft in
his difficult duty and not try to Grip
| pie him with premature and petty
| criticisms; that he will in the future
as in the past vigorously maintain the
ma esty of the law; that he will ad-
| minister state affairs with wise econ
omy; that he will not use his power
to dfscredft others and build a personal
machine; that he will try to harmon
lie the party by treating all factions
in it and all members of it fairly; that
he will use his power alike to protect
the people from corporate greed and
to protect legitimate corporations from
demagOgic damage: that he will give
the state a wise, intelligent progress
sive administration; that he will. in
short stand for a genuine square deal
all along the line, I tender him
through you my best wishes for his
success and commend him to nv
friends throughout the state as a man
who in my judgment, is in every way
worthy of the honor which he seeks
Homer Hoch was called for and the
son got up and made a rousing Repub-
lican speech in the absence of the
father. Homer referred several times
The crowd gave three cheers for
Hoch
At this point Ewing Herbert read
the resolutions. printed in the State
Journal yesterday. and they were car
ried amid a storm of cheers and ayes.
Wagstaff and His Message.
Tom Wagstaff. candidate for COVER
nor, took the stand amid cheers ana
shouts OF approval Wag had spent the |
Cay shaking hands with the visitors
and he had made a good impression. |
The Wagstaf smile is a winner. The
young lawyer followed two of the hest |
speakers in his party in the state. and |
as he said, You have set a fast pace
for me, and l must do the best [ can
following in the trail of the brilliant |
Bailey and the matchless Stanley
Wagstaf referred to the Stubs |
speech made in Shawnee county some |
weeks ago where in the governor de- |
clared himself as favoring the shorter |
ballot which is to say the appointment |
OF more state officers by the governor
that are now elected by the people.
The speaker went on record as oppos-
ca TO this plan. He referred to Bank
Commissioner Dolley as Joseph with
the coat of many titles
Wagstaf turned a clever phrase when |
he spoke of his experience while stud
ent at Kansas university. 'I got on
very well with most of my studies" he |
about the science of animals and in
sectS for the reason that the professor
in charge Of that department, who is
how the honorable fish and game war /
den of the state. was absent sailing Il
the north seas with Dr.. Cook"
Wagstan then went on to speak of Il
the study Of insects and how his OPP Il
ponent was trying to catch the sena- II
torial bee. IT is dangerous work. re-
marked the speaker. for bees swarm
when approached prematurely and then Il
they sting the adventurous one"
AT the conclusion of his remarks on II
bees and insects. Wagstaff said: "And 1 H
want to assure that this treatise on
insectology was not written by me with
Stub pen" II
Wagstaff came out suuarely for Taft II
end the support of the Taft policies
He said that the only thing the matter
with Kansas at this time was a little
case of Indigestion caused by Populistic II
elOQuence.''
He talked about the tariff. He en-
dorsed the resolution passed by the con-
Nention and closed by a cutting refer
ence to the business administration of
Governor Stubs. He called attention
to the signed statement of the COVER
nor when the latter had declared that
during the first year of his admins
tration ne had spent half million less
than had his predecessor. Wagstaff
then read the official figures of the ex-
penditures of the two governors dur
ing the periods referred to and said:
These figures show beyond the shadow
of a doubt that Gov. Stubs state
rents were $685.. 405.06 wide of the mark.
for Stubbs spent over $500, 900 In his
first year in office than Hoch did dur