The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
GETS AN OVATION
Gov. Stubbs' Trip in Southwest
a ROusing One.
Greeted by Capacity Audiences
at Meade and Ashland.
HE TRAVELS BY AUTO.
Loses No Time in Covering the
Prairie Counties.
He Talks of Corporations and
Theodore Roosevelt.
HE TRAVELS BY AUTO.

Meade, Oct. Ex-Governor Stubs
spoke here at the opera house Wednes-
day afternoon to a large crowd of citi-
zens who had gathered from all over
the county to hear the chief executive
of the state. The governor had spent
the morning in an auto, driving 70
miles on a roundabout route from ASH
land, and was in fine shape here for
making hay. He ate a duck dinner at
the Crooked L ranch near here, and
that helped. too. He spoke over two
hours, barely having time to catch his
train at o'clock for Greensburg,
where he spoke last night. The gov
ernor did not speak in Comanche and
Clark counties during the primary
campaign so he is devOting most of his
time here to what he calls Giving an
account of my stewardship"
The State Journal readers are IA
niliar with the governors primary
speech and it will not be repeated here,
though he is now presenting it in bet
ter shape and even with more force
than he did last summer. But he al
ways says a lot of new things in an
original way every time he gets on his
feet. There was an unusually large
number of women and girls in the
Meade audience and the governor drop
ped politics for a few minutes to talk
-
worth while is the one who can sew
and cook and keep house. 1T does not
make any difference" he said, "wheth-
er the girls folks are rich or poor she
ought to learn how to work. The girl
who is a good hOuSekeeper occupies, to
my mind, a loftier pedestal than the
girl who can only play the piano and
paint. She will make a better wife
If her husband is poor her knowledge
is necessity; if he is rich her ability
l. ct -
way further toward making a happy
and well ordered home than the efforts
of the best cooks and housemaids that
money can hire
Regarding Corporations.
The governor attacked the corpora
tons in new and his own peculiar
original way when he said: "A cor
poration of itself is not a wrong thing,
but on the contrary is a necessity in
the accomplishment of big things in
the business world and in the develop
ment of new country. A corporation
has no ears, or voice, or brain, or move
ment, but it is controlled often bv men
who. having these things. and a lot Of
money behind them. go money mad
and traffic in necessities at the ex-
pense of the general public. The popu-
lar clamOr against corporations in gen.
eral has been excited for cause and the
evil corporations are responsible for il
A real antitrust law really enforced
would quickly put all dishonest cor
porations out of business"
Notes of the Trip.
Kiowa, Comanche and Clark coun-
ties are coming to be great wheat
counties Yields of TWENTY-FIVE TO
forty bushels to the acre were com
mon this year. Comanche raised
nearly two millions of bushels this
year. The people here are prosperous
and their homes and towns and public
improvements show it. Phey are
building concrete bridges of a most
substantial nature in Clark county
DE-. Northrup, the Coldwater hotel
man, used to cut people up in To-
peka, and was in a way to become an
artist in his line when his health failed
him and he came down here to recup-
crate. He studied medicine and sur
gerry with DR.. J. r. McCIintock of To-
peka, and when these two were young
men they were students in the office
of the elder DR.. Northrup at Valley
Falls. The Stubs banquet was held
at the Northrup hotel and it was a
spread par excellence, turkey furnish
ing the nucleus of the meal.
The Artesian Valley from Mfneola
to Meade is a beautiful place and the
men and women fortunate enough to
live there ought to be as happy as peo-
pie can be in this vale of tears. The
land is rich, the climate unexcelled
and the finest water in the world bub-
bles up through the ground in this
oasis in the dry country.
Coldwater was named by Michigan
men who came there from the original
Coldwater in that state. The water
at Coldwater is not any colder than it
Is anywhere else.
There are no ash trees in Ashland.
The town was named by early settlers
who came from Ashland, Ky.
When one leaves Ashland to go to
Mineola, a distance of thirty miles, he
opens Lot Ravencraft's pasture gate
at the edge of Ashland and drives to
Mineola, he comes to the other end
of the pasture at the suburbs of Min
cola. Ravencraft owns 1000 acres in
this tract
Governor at Ashland
Ashland Oct 13-Governor Stubbs