The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-31

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other words, the per capita cost of a
convict In the penitentiary under Gov
| ernor Hoch's administration was 1853
per year and under yours, $25S. 1 find
that for the. months of July. August,
and September 1908 under Governor
Hoch's administration it cost $50, SO6 SIS
/ 10 Keep 1850 prisoners. In July, Au-
gust and September, 1909 it cost &c.,
1854 to keep $50 prisoners. For those
| three months under Hoch, the earnings
of the penftentiary. were s21, 41s.1S, for
the same three months under your adj
| mlnlstration- the earnings were 81, 800.
DO you think that is good business
| You say that you can neither increase
| nor decrease appropriations, that not
you but the, legislature is responsible
Tor the increase which you first denied
| and then admit. You appointed the
| present warden of the penitentiary. Do
III not consider yourself responsible
for this unparalleled extravaganza? If
you do not, the people of Kansas do.
Schermerhorn and Longshore.
Again I call your attention to the
/ TACT, that the people of Kansas pay
Mr.. Schermerhorn $500 a year as a
member of the board of control and the
liaW specifically requires that he shall
give all of his time to the duties of his
otnce. Notwithstanding this rigid re-
qnrement of law, last year Mr..
Schermerhorn spent 124 days of that
time paid for by the state in his home
town at Galena attending to his. private
business and the state paid his railroad
rare ana expenses in going to and from
his home. Mr.. Bowman of Newton is
another member of your board of con-
troll an a leading supporter of yours
he spent last year 125 days of his time
that was paid for by the state in New
ton attending to his. own private busi-
ness and the state paid his railroad
rare and expenses to and from Newton.
one OF your appointees is Mr..
Longshore, Oil Inspector Mr. Long
shore finds oil to inspect wherever
there is political business to attend to
for you. He was at Independence
When opened my campaign there.
He attended the meeting of the Edi-
torial association at Garden City He
was at Newton when Governor STAN
ley spoke there in my interest, and at
Hutchinson at the reunion. Where
ever there is any political business
going on, Joe is there with his oil
tester in one hand and his. expense
account in the other. The same is
true of Amrine, the man of many
jobs; Mercer, and your other politi-
cal agents. Those men are supposed
| to be working for the state under
your direction. Do they fill your idea
| of business administration? During
| the time you have been governor, you
have been an active candidate for SEN
atOr and have been absent from your
| office much of the time, leaving the
conduct of the states business to your
| increased and unnecessary force of
| clerks and your Democratic private
secretary. You have not attended
| one-third of the meetings of the exc
cutive council of which the law
makes you a member. This continued
absence has compelled unnecessary
| expense in paying others for the work
for which you are paid by the state.
One Hundred More Employees.
Are you not aware that the state
now has on its pay rolls over 100
| more employees than Governor Hoch
found necessary under his admins
1 trat1on? Do you not know that the
| states pay roll for employees is near
| ly million dollars higher now than
| 1t was under Stanley, under Bailey or
under Hoch, and if so, how and
where? You were once a severe critic
! of useless employees. That was when
| you are in power and have the pat
ronage, you have changed your mind.
The people of Kansas believe in spite
| of your recent protestations, and it is
a fact that a majority of the last
| legislature were friendly to you, as
| shown by the fact that Joe Dolley,
| selected by you, was chosen speaker.
We know that you dominated both
| houses. Can you cite one effort made
| by you to keep down appropriations,
| taxes? On the contrary, did you not
| demand and receive a contingent fund
| two and one-half times greater than
| any governor had found necessary
| before? Was not this demand made
| first on the plea that it was needed
| to repair the state house and when
| the false pretense of this was shown,
| the demand was renewed on the
ground that it was needed to enforce
| the prohibitory law? Tell the people
| of Kansas just how much you have
spent of that enormous contingent
fund to enforce the prohibitory law
| and Justify the increase
| Is it not a fact that you favored certain
bills, creating seven new boards, all to be
| effect were introduced by your friends in
| the house, that the committee on ways
and means estimated that these new
boards of yours would have cost 1858, 600 OK
legislature driven to rebellion by this ex-
travagance, your patronage would have
been so increased at the expense of the
state. Is it not fact that the election
ers as against an appointive board was
long favored by the shippers of Kansas
and secured only after a bitter fight and
is it not fact that you proposed and
and Substitute for it a board to be APP
pointed by you? Is it not fact that the
house in 1909 passed two bills, one of
which increased the powers of the board
of railroad commissioners by giving them
control of all pipe lines. telegraph lines,
and long distance telephone lines, and
the other giving all cities the right to reg
ulate and control their local public utili-
the senate by your friends, because you
wanted a board appointed by yourself to
control all these matters? Why were you
opposed to the cities regulating their own