The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
State Printing Bills Left Harm
less in the Senate.
Members Change Votes and Elm.
mate Objectionable Clause.
NOTPRINT THEBLANK
That Will Be Left to the Private
Concerns.
Mock Senate Planned for Next
Tuesday Evening.

After three hours Of consideration
Thursday afternoon. the senate sue
ceeded in hammering the poison out
of the Ganse bill providing for the
printing of all county. township and
school district blank books at the state
printing plant. It was in the course of
this animated discussion that some of
the insurgents endeavored to escape
the fire from Senator Price and offered
an alibi to show that the administra-
ton was not responsible for things
contained in the party platform.
Following the five days in which the
lobby of printers and book binders
were able to recover from the shock of
Saturday, the senate OVERRIDE the
principal objections in the Ganse bill
and four members changed their minds
concerning the advisablity of extending
the field of the state printing plant.
These four members went on record
Saturday in favor of this printing, but
when the roll was called on a motion
to strike the Objectionable sections
from the bill, they climbed in the OPP
position bandwRgon- and promptly re-
versed their guess.
1t was in the early discussion that
Senator Price fulfilled his promise Of
Tuesday and pulled the 1910 Republic
can platform on the administration
members. He had given advance no.
tice that this would be done and it was
this statement that gave the reform
erS a chance to prepare for the on
slaught. 1t was Senator Brady who
endeavored to prove an alibi to the ex-
tent that the section in controversy
was not binding on the party. He cited
g. H. Buchanan, speaker of the house
of representatives; Senator Clad Ham
1lton and Representative Robert Stone
as his authority for his allegation that
the section slipped into the platform
by accident" Their statements as
submitted to the senate were to the eff
feet that the section was not before
the committee on platform. and was not
in the report of the committee when
1t was submitted and adopted in the
party council This reputation Of
party promises aroused any amount of
fire from the men who were endors-
ing the measure and they questioned
recall slipped into the platform.
In denouncing the policies of the
handful of insurgents to dodge party
pledges, Price declared that the state
printer-elect had circulated more
than $4,000 postcards bearing this
party promise and he called attention
to the printed platform. which, he
said, was circulated in apparent good
faith and with a sincerity of purpose
until at the last hour there was an
opportunity afforded to dodge the
measure.
Senator Ganse helped warm the
opposition and the printers lobby by
paragraphs from a blank book agents
rate book, in which were instructions
that solicitors were not to visit the
Kansas cities like Topeka, Leaven-
worth and Wichita, which maintain
large book binding establishments. He
read further that discounts were to be
allowed in certain counties and in
these counties alone. Ganse declared
that if there was ever any question of
the existence of a blank book trust
that this testimony from the printers
themselves was enough to convict
them.
Glenn and Brewster defended the
rights of the printers to pursue their