The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-15
DEMAND SPEECH
Crowd at Waverly Force Curtis
and Wagstaff to Talk.
Anderson County Claimed by
Anti-Stubbs Men.
VOTER ROLLS SENATOR
Declares Governor Will Not Need
Democratic Votes.
He Is Moving Heaven and Earth
to Get Them" Is Retort.

to Get Them" Is Retort.
Waverly. Kan, July Ex-senator Cur
tbs and Tom Wagstaf did not intend to
hold a meeting in the auditorium in
the park at this place Thursday after
noon, but a crowd had gathered and
demanded speech, so a meeting was
held. Wagstaff spoke 80 minutes and
curtis more than an hour. Curtis VIII
stop and speak on the broad prairies if
three men gather together there in his
name. He is not missing q chance to
talk about the tariff and Stubbs to ev-
cry kansan who will listen to him. And
most Kansans will listen to the Indian
senator.
The senator and the candidate for
governor left here at O'Clock for
Burlington where they spoke last night
to large crowd in the county seat Of
Coffey county.
Anderson county. where Wagstaff
spoke Wednesday night, Is claimed by
county by 1S7 votes over Leland two
years ago. 1t is fact that Wagstaff
has made gains in the county.
Speaking. at Garnett, Senator Curtis
got worked up to pitch of anger
when some man sitting in the front row
made reply to Wagstan by declaring
that StubbS would not need Democratic
votes. When the senator arose to
taking his voice with him, declared:
The governor may not need Demo-
cratic votes, but he is moving heaven
| and earth to get them. He appointed
a Democratic secretary and he has filed
other fat offices with Democrats and
Populists solely in order to get Demo-
cratic votes. The governor dragged me
into this fight Now never have sought
a fight or never lodged one, and 50
help me, never will
| Speaking further about Governor
Stubbs. the senator said: He said not
| long ago that overconfidence had cost
the American people dearly in the past
Yes, it did, and overconfidence IN Gov
| ernor Stubbs, on the part of Kansas
| people. cost the state million dollars
| last year.
Congressman Scott was in. Garnett
Thursday morning and met his friend,
the senator, before the latter left for
Waverly- The senator had paid high
! tribute to the congressman in his
Pieasanton and Olathe speeches. scott
has made no reply to Stubbs and it
appears that he does not intend to an
swer the governors lola challenge. The
| Second district is full of Stubbs mon
who are supporting Scott, and if the
| congressman. and governor get into
night 1t will tangle. the political ball
| of yarn.
Stubbs and Appropriations.
In his speech at Waverly in the af-
| ternoon. Senator Curtis said: ~
ITO show how little regard sCSovernoY1s
Stubbs has for the people and to show
how willing he is to deceive and nisS2
lead them. desire to call your atterf-
| tfon to his keynote speech made at
Berryton, Shawnee county last winter.
| in which he said that the governor
| should have authority to veto any
item in an appropriation bill.
THE governor knew when he made
that statement that the constitution
| had been amended so that the governor
has had since 1905 full authority to veto
any item in an appropriation bill This
question was submitted to the people
| in 1904 and carried. So the governor
| not only is responsible for the appro-
priations that he recommends to ths
legislature but he is responsible for
| each and every item contained in an
appropriation bill. desire to call your
/ attention further to his efforts to de-
| ceive the people He came out in A
signed letter last fall and claimed
credit for his administration for the
enactment of the state printer law
which provided for the election of tho
state printer by the direct vote of the
people and claimed how many thou
| sandsso dollars had been saved by rea.
| son Of this law and took all the credit
| unto himself and his administration
| He knows this law was recommended
by Governor Hoch in his message 20
! the legislature. He knows the house
| bill was a committee measure. He
| knows it passed the house by vote Of
| Sc yeas, no nays, and the speaker HIM
self (Stubbs) did not vote On question
| of adopting the conference report the
| yeas were SO. the nays 26. On this
question in the senate the vote stood
yeas 81, nays none SO the credit for
| the enactment belongs to E. W. Hocn
| and the members of the house and
senate who, regardless of party, voted
| for it.
HE also claimed credit for passing
| the bill which requires interest to be
paid upon state funds. This bill was
int nv n hiS me "a q
| a committee bill, passed the house,
| yeas 103, nays none. The senate vote
was yeas, "a, nays none. so this law
for which credit was claimed by Gov
ernor Stubbs for himself and admin
istration was enacted upon recon-
mendation by Hoch and credit is due
to Governor Hoch and house and sem
Il ate members who voted for it.
Il There is another thing which should
be remembered in speaking of the
large increase in appropriation which
Il have brought to the attention of the
people a number of times and 1 have
shown where the increase the first year
of the governors administration was
1890 900 greater than 1t was the last
year of Governor Hoch's administra-
tion.
| sNr SchermerhOrn, of the state
| board of control, said: The people who
keep close tab on state affairs know
full well where the money goes but
dare not tell for the peculiar conditions
that exist I say to you that no con-
II ditions could exist that would justify
| the governor and his officers from tell
ling the people honestly and truthfully
where their money is being used. The
: taxpayers of Kansas are entitled to
: full account, which they have not hal
from the hands of Governor Stubbs-
sIf the governor desires to give the
state business administration he
should reduce the number of employees
= in eyery department to the actual num-
ber needed.
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