The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Governor Stubs Spends Sunday
Resting at Home.
Well Pleased With His. Cam
paign to Date.
IN EASTERN SECTION
Wagstaf and Stubbs Will Cover
Same Territory.
Meetings Appear to Lend Both
Aspirants Confidence.

| home and left Sunday night for the
northeast corner of the state on a
| weeks speaking tour. He will go first
/ to Clyde in Cloud county. and from
there will go to Marysville. where he
speaks.
| The governor was in fine spirits. His
reception in western Kansas last week
was in the nature of an ovation. In
Stafford county, where the Wagstaf
supporters had claimed the earth and
the fulness thereof. he says he found
host of friends who appreciated the
fact that he had maintained the fish
and game department of the state dur
ing the past year and a half out of his
contingent fund. the legislature hav-
ing forgotten to provide an appropri-
alton for that department
AT Ness City he held the largest
meeting of the campaign, and at
Dodge City he spoke to crowded
house and received a great reception
on all Sides
Richard ]. Hopkins. candidate for
lieutenant governor, who came to To-
peka Sunday with the governor, after
making the western trip witt him, left
last night in his company for the
northeast trip. Mr.. Hopkins is max
ing regulations as a campaigner His
friends say his square deal talk on
control of corporations has made a
dCCluCd pI0SSlOn WITH MS hearers.
An idea of the governors reception
IN STAFFORD county may be gained from
the following description of the Staf-
ford meeting by Earl Akers, editor of
the Stafford Republican,:
If Mr.. Wagstaff and his machine
whatever of carrying Western Kansas
against Governor Stubs they have I'M
doubtedly counted their chickens be-
fore they Matched.
Governor Stubbs and Dick Hop
ktns, candidate for lieutenant COVER
| nor, spent today in Stafford county
and to say their reception was en-
thusiastic is putting it mildly. They
were met at Great Bend by Earl Akers
! of the Stafford Republican and Ray
the country by automobile. The party
arrived at Seward at noon where dim
ner was had; proceeded thence to
Hudson where the governor made a
short speech to crowd that had
gathered; from there to st. John,
where they arrived at $3.50 p. m. The
court room was crowded, not all be-
| ing able to get in.
| ing, paying especial attention to the
question of regulating public service
| corporations and the necessity for
| sending good men to the legislature.
Governor Stubbs made his charac-
teristic speech. He answered Mr..
| Wagstaff's charge that prisoners were
costing too much per capita to be
kept at the penitentiary. The governor
declared that any man of common
sense. should at once see that the
whether there would be 500 or 1900
prisoners; that it would take the
same number of guards to patrol the
wall of the penitentiary; the same
number of guards to watch the min
ers.
"The governor then spoke of the re-
| mova1 of the Oklahoma prisoners out
| of whose labor the state of Kansas
| dollars, and declared that in his opin-
ion the people of the state did not
desire diseased prisoners brought into
| the state. kept on poor board at the
/ the purpose of making money out of
them. That if the machine crowd
were in favor of that they ought to
tell the people in plain language so
that all who favored them in that
| issue could vote for Mr.. Wagstaff.
'tThe governor then explained in
what a frightful condition he had
found the penitentiary when he as
| sumed the Office of governor. How he
had succeeded in cleaning out the pol
| cells have been cleaned up, better
food provided for them and how the
! penitentiary had been changed from a
| deformatory, as Warden Coding found
|
| tory in fact and in spirit.
1.-The governor took up in turn the
tax question: the question of regula-
ton of public utilities. and from the
frequent Interruptions by the audience
| to applaud, there is no doubt that his
audience was with him almost unani-
| mously.
| mo candidate could have cared for
a better demonstration than was made
at Stafford.
| ''It became apparent early in the ev-
| ening that the great crowd that had
gathered could not get into the opera
| house and as there was no larger
| building available an automobile was
| brought into the streets and utilized
| for a stand from which Governor
| Stubbs and Mr.. Hopkins spoke to the
hundreds of people who crowded as
near as possible to the auto.
| ''At this meeting the governor gave
| an account of his stewardship and
assured his audience that a candidate
| should not be reelected for a second
term unless he had made good the
| first. He told of closing the saloons
and joints in Crawford county"