The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-16
Congressman Fordney Opens
Campaign at Marysville.
Old Time Republican Rally at
Calderhead's Home.
TARIFF SPEECH.
Defended Course of the Regulars
in Washington.
Charges Insurgent Congressman
With Being Democrats.

"AoA OC1uS DomOCr8CS.
MarysV1lle, KAN, June 16.-Joseph
N. Fordney, member of congress from
nich1gan, who has been sent to Kan
sas Dy the congressional committee to
speak In the interest of the national
aom1nlstration, opened his campaign
mere Wednesday evening where he
spoke 10 a large crowd of representa-
| i've kansans. Mr.. Fordney is a
MEMBER OF the ways and means COM
mlttee OF the house and assisted in
framing the Payne tariff bill. He is
IN Kansas now for the purpose of de-
tending that bill before the people.
NIr. roroney also served with Con-
gresham Calderhead on the confer
| ence committee when the differences
between the house and senate were
ironed out.
| Mr.. Fordney went into the details
OF the work of preparing the Payne law
lor maj passage. He told about the
dltferent schedules, dwelling particul-
arly upon the woolen, sugar and struc-
tural iron schedules. He made an elo-
quent speech and held his audience
for two hours, enlivening a dry sub
| Ject with his interesting descriptions
facts.
He complimented Speaker Cannon
and Congressman Calderhead and
pointed out the untruthfulness of many
of the charges that have been made
| against them, particularly those pub
| hshed in the Salina Journal, BriStow's s
paper.
| He defined a Republican as a man
who votes the Republican ticket He
| did not think that a Republican con-
| gressman who in voting 116 times on
a measure cast 80 of his votes for the
Democratic party and only 26 for the
Republican party was Republican.
| Reports from Marysvi1le are to the
effect that the Fordney meeting was q
grand Republican rally and a great
\ aid to the party in its campaign in
Kansas.
Russell ]. Harrison of Seldom, Demo-
cratic candidate for governor, writes TO
say that he will file his nomination pa
pers about June 20. Mr.. Harrison is a
candidate who is not on the Demo-
| cratic slate, but rather is making an
active campaign on his own hook.
| Harry Bowman, chairman of the
state board of control, takes serious
| and vigorous exceptions to the charges
made against the board by Candidate
Wagstaff and writes as follows to tell
something of the work accomplished
| by the board and how it is done:
ct note among other things that
| Wagstaff says that draw pay and mile
age for trips that have no connection
with my official duties. No member of
| the board has made such trips, but on
| the other hand we have made trips on
state business not only in Kansas but
| to other states and have paid the ex-
| penses out of our own pockets. Com
plant was also made that we were not
devoting our entire time to the work
! of the state.
"The state pays US to do a certain
| amount of work and not to give a
certain number of hours each day or a
certain number of days each month.
We have not only done all that is re-
quired of us by law. but have done
much more than is required of US.
There are times when our work has
been such that we have been COM
PEELED to work not only all day, but far
into the night. Some of the most i'm
portant work that 1 have done for the
state has been blocked out and prs
pared in the quiet of my home at New
ton.
Think of what has been accom-
plishedi A complete and systematic
business system has been put in under
the board of control law for the state
charitable institutions, and the per
capita cost of maintaining the patients
and inmates is less than it was ten
years ago, and this in the face of the
fact that the cost of labor and supplies
has greatly increased.
held that under our constitution and
our statutory law the state could re-
cover from the estate of August
Freitag for his care and maintenance
at the Topeka insane hospital from the
| time of his admission in 1888 to the
time of his death at the insane hospital
in 1905. Prior to this decision the ques-
ton had been disputed one in this
state, and as a result the guardians
administrators, attorneys and relatives
1f = ~
property and the taxpayers of the state
footed the bills. While the law does
not require us to attend to these col
lections, yet we have opened up ar
account with each patient and are in
vestigating the financial condition nj
each patient. Since we took charge
there has been collected and paid into
the state treasury the sum of $137,-
11752 Eventually the state will recov.
er a large sum from those who arc
able to pay, without lmpoVerlsnnent
and the taxpayers will be justly re-
lieved of some of the cost of public
care.
at have personally taken charge d
this work and have done more than the
attorney for the Buffalo, n. Y, hos
pitaI who receives a retainer of 81, ,50
| a year and devotes only part of hi:
| time and has an agent who looks VI
the financial condition of the patients
and receive $1,000 year and expenses
The attorney who attends to this wori
in California receives $1,000 year anC
the cases are not turned over to hin
until after the secretary of the hospita
has been unable to collect the same AM
until after the state commission il
, Iunacy has endeavored to do the Same
IT am sorry that space will not per
init me to go into other fields coveret
by the work of our board, which ar
| of as much Importance to the publ
t as what 1 have above mentioned"
w. A. Holland of Emporia, candidat
t for state railroad commissioner, file
= his nomination papers today. Mr.. Hol
$ land adopted the rather unusual pla
U of going into every one of the fxUer1f