The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
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The Democrats Running One of
Their Best Men
As Candidate for Governor of
Kansas.
HIS ''LIFE STORY"
Something of His Record Per-
sOnal and Public.
Made a Good State Senator
Widely Respected.

The Democrats of Kansas are run
ming one of - hest men for COVER
nor. Senator George H. Hodges is one
or finest gentlemen in the state and
has worked in the legislature for many
OF the same reforms advocated by his
opponent, Governor Stubs. These con-
ditions have operated to make the fight
for governor clean one so far as per-
sonalitieS are concerned.
That the reader may know something
more Of the Democratic candidate the
following taken from THE Life Story
of George H. Hodges is herewith
given:
Story of George H. Hodges.
mans neighbors are, after all, the
best judges Of his character and worth
as a citizen. The honesty, integrity
and business life of one who has grown
from boyhood to manhood in a cum
munity like Olathe, may best be mea-
sured by those who have watched his
every step and advancement from the
humble calling of herder of the town
cows, barefoOted and often hatless, to
a leading place in the business circles
of the state.
State Senator George H. Hodges is
one of the most conspicuous examples
In Kansas of what a poor and father
less boy may do for himself in apply
ing his energies of mind and body to
the things which make men strong and
useful as citizens. Few men in Kan
sas have risen to the place Senator
Hodges occupies in the business world
through the vexing trials of poverty
and by their own indomitable energy
and effort.
Respected at Home.
His has been a life of toll. In his
boyhood there was little time for him
to spend in the plays and fun and
frOlic so dear to childhood, for upon
his shoulders rested Jointly with his
brother Frank the nhlior9 fiOn and b11T-
den of supporting a widowed mother.
So faithfully has this loved and re-
spected citizen fulfilled every duty and
obligation as neighbor' friend and
business man that the people of Olathe
confidently expect the voters of Kan
sas to select him as their next COVER
nor at the November election.
If this result hinged upon the vote
of Olathe and Johnson county, there
would be no question as to the choice.
President Garfield once said that the
sweetest flowers that bloom Chamber
over the walls of party politics" In
the case of George H. Hodges, the
Democratic candidate for governor,
there are no party walls dividing the
voters of Olathe and Johnson county.
Here, where he is known to practically
every voter of the county, there is,
wide expression that he be chosen as
the next governor of the state. And
this practically unanimous express
Ocrats alike.
When the Hodges family landed in
Kansas, it was on hot August day in
1869. A train of covered wagons which
came overland from Richland county,
Wisconsin, where George was born
three years before, stopped at the lit
tie village of Olathe, which then SEEM
ed far out on the edge of the world.
In Grasshopper Days.
In one of these wagons was the
Hodges family consisting of father,
mother Frank and George and a sis
ter. In that wagon was all the earthly
possessions of the family.
AS they sat on the porch of their
spacious home Mother Hodges and
Frank talked of the day they stopped
at Olathe and of the dark and gloomy
pictures of the future. Millions Of
grasshoppers filled the roadway and
other millions were gnawing away at
every vestige of green. Then just as
the family were unloading their house
hold goods from the wagon a great