The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13

taxpayers $4,000 to clean the bedbugs
out of the penitentiary. He charged
further that they have done away
with contract labor at Lansing" Then
he went on to contrast his recent visit
to Lansing to his later visit at the old
soldiers home at Dodge City
AT Lansing prison saw the pris-
oners eating dinner in a. banquet hall
with pictures on the wall, beautiful
pictures, and potted plants in the win
dows and pyramids of flowers in the
room. They have string bands play for
them and these convicts get off Satur-
day afternoon and play at outdoor
sports At Dodge City / talked to the
old soldiers in the assembly room and
there were no plants or flowers IN the
room and the walls were bare except
for old glory draped across the upper
end of the room. If the Stubbs admin
istration. has to waste money 1T ought
to be wasted on the old soldiers ratner
than these convicts-
Speaking further he said that the
governor wanted to pick the repre-
sentatives for the next legislature tne
congressman for Kansas and the next
United States senator ana ye. .er run ~, nUu
governor at the same time. For my
part he said, 81 am running oniy los
the office of governor. The people can
pick their other officials
Notes of the Trip.
Olathe is bully town. They nave
paved streets there and an mterurpai
road and lots of nice looking Issioe -,
anI business houses. But-their city
water is muddy Olathe is noted Iur-
Their for being the home OF senator
Hodges. They think highly of the SEN
ator in his own town or
In Johnson county there is Gu
rious mix-up in politics. !nere
all kinds of Stubs men there ~
Charlie Scott and few Mitchel meil
FOR Wagstaff The county gave Stupps
a big majority two years ago ano
there has been little change Site
then. This is the enemys country
with a vengeance.
How many deaf and DUMP men
tended the Curtis meeting at Olatne
rTst,a state Journal representative does
not know. He had forgotten apou'
the school for the d. If and DUMP pc
ing located there, and in the course
of the meeting, wishing TO optaii ~
formation asked two bright lookll.s
Young men who sat behind him. ORt
nanciI and offered them with smile
The correspondent was embarrasseo
but he took the pencil ana got the
information correct and on the ieeL
The oldtimers at Olathe hang ou'
in the court house yard ana nolo :
CONGRESSIONAL session every AFTERNOON
at which they settle all the problems
that are yexing this nation and the
world at large.
The people of this state have heard
a lot about the Curtis handshake, o.
course. Well, the black chief has los
none of his cunning. He uses TWO
hands with equal grace and eftectiVe'
ness. and he knows more people thar
solomon had wives The senator real
ICES full we'll that he is facing Re
fight of his life and he is ready TOT II
He has begun the battle in that thor
ough and systematic way of his tha'
has won for him so often in the past
He is terribly in earnest He mas
drawn his tomahawk and hopes &c
wear red scalp in his belt be1ore ne
quits the war trail
Among the men worthy or note a.
La Cygne is William Goss, who came
there in 1856. He is man or the
old school and the old times He
talked about the great ingalls, rather
than the men of these times. A
Pleasanton there is Col. H H. Nc
Laughlin, an old soldier. big OF bod!
and big of heart, who came forward
to meet his friend Curtis.
At LaCygne the sentiment on gov
ernor seems to be about as 1t wa:
two years ago and Mitchell is strons
there. At Pleasanton Stubs is a!
strong as ever, but there are town
ships in Linn county where Wagstaf
has made gains. Stubs carried Linz
two years ago by about 800.