The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-29

| found the state penitentiarx full of
| politics and bedbugs," he said, land l
cleaned it out.
'I checked up the state grain de-
partment for the first time in its his
! tory and found a shortage of $4,000
and padded payroll of $4,000 per
year, and 1 prosecuted the old inspec-
tor, even If he was chairman of the
Wyandotte Republican committee.
1.-THE state banking department had
not been keeping any check or tab on
the state banks but now that depart
ment has the most effective Superyi-
sion over the banks than any state in
the union. and the federal supervision
of national banks does not compare to
1t. Now that department calls in all
the directors and makes them o. K.
all the banks paper and sign their
endorsement.
There is a great hue and cry now
about high taxes and revision of the
taxes downward. 1t is intended to de-
ceiVe. 1t is made in a general way.
If the taxes are to be revised down
ward it will be necessary to start with
the county commissioners. the city
councils, the township boards and the
school boards, who make the levies for
local taxes. The money raised in this
state from local taxes amounts to 20
millions, while only three millions
were raised last year for state taxes.
Can the governor levy taxes or appro-
pirate the money after the taxes are
collected. You know he can not do so.
The legislature has sole power under
the constitution to appropriate money
and all l can do is to see that this
money is judiciously and economically
expended. So you can see that this
cry they have raised against me is
ridiculous. You will have to elect a
Legislature and county commissioners
instructed to revise the taxes down.
ward before you can get any results
along that line. The so-caIled slogan
does not apply to the gubernatorial
race at ALL
Look to the Candidates.
The governor urged his hearers to
stand their candidates for the legisla-
ture up on a platform and make them
tell where they stand on the matter of
control of public utility corporations.
ut takes common sense and backbone
on the part Of the people, he said, Ito
make the primary law the best law on
the statute books"
At the conclusion of the speaking
the Quaker leader called for good old
fashioned Quaker handshaking affair.
and things We're surely lively in that
Quaker meeting house for awhile. The
governor could not De dragged away
for half an hour.
The governor liked his Quaker
speech so well. and it's reception. that
he repeated it at Hugoton and at Rich
field.
The Hugo-on meeting was a regular
boss buster event. The governor had
full house in spite of the efforts of
the county bosses to throw cold water
on the meeting, and he shed his coat
and collar and sailed in. From the ex-
pressions of the crowd after the meet
ing it is certain that he turned the
tide his way. The Stubs style made
a great hit with the crowd. They be-
lieved he was sincere
HugotOn a Historical Place.
Hugoton has history second only
to Osawatomie so far as stirring times
are concerned. When Hugoton was
founded in 1856 by d coloney from
Mcpherson county it soon became a
thriving town Then along came Sam
Wood and started all the trouble by
founding town nearby he called
Woodsdale, and started out to discr-
ganize the county and shift the county
seat. The Hugoton people won all
elections on this point. and finally the
trouble culnlira ted in the famous Hay
Meadows massacre in No Mans Land
down in Oklahoma, near Wild Horse
lake
Woods started this trouble, so it is