The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
Boom for E. B. Schermerhorn
for Governor.
BelOit Gazette First to Advance
His Claims.
He is A RICH MAN.
Could Well Afford to Make the
Race.
Not Radical Progressive ''But
Radical Enough

A boom for governor for E. q.
Schermerhorn, member of the board of
control has been started by the Beloit
Gazette. This boom isn't such a bad
idea either. Mr.. Schermerhorn would
make pretty good business governor
and mighty poor political governor
and a little more of that sort of adj
ministration would not injure Kansas
the least little bit.
Mr. Schermerhorn is a wealthy man.
He made all his money himself and
by hard work and he is about ready
TO retire from active business lie now.
While he has been a member of the
board of control since its organization
he also kept tab on his business inter-
ests. But Mr.. Schermerhorn has de-
cided to quit the board of control work
and take a rest. He is going to take
his family for a long loafing trip to
Florida and other points this spring,
starting just as soon as he can be re-
lieved as member of the board OF
control.
Maybe just as soon as he gets
thoroughly rested and comes back to
his home at Galena the boom for gov
ernor will be organized thoroughly and
he will be brought into the game. Mr..
Schermerhorn, while not a radical
progressive. is progressive enough to
suit the average citizen. He is just
q plain ordinary but mighty success
states business affairs in first class
shape
Fred Knapp, secretary of the board
of contro! since its organization to the
first of the year is the editor of the
Eeloit Gazette. He knows Mr.. Scher-
merhorn very well and what he said
about the new gubernatorial possibil-
ity is worth while. The Gazette edi-
toriaT says:
If the Republicans of Kansas are
upon whom all factions of the party
can unite and who possesses every es-
sential qualification to make as good a
governor as the state ever had, they
will find that man in the person of r
b. Schermerhorn, of Galena, who will
retire from the state board of con-
troll on April 18th. His service on
this board is not all there is to rec
ommend him to the people of the
state.
He cane to Kansas in the early TO's
without a dollar and by the exercise
of sound business judgment and meth
DDS and through tireleSs energy he
has developed into one of the wealth.
lest men in the state. It was his wide
business experience and known integ-
rity that pointed him out for ap-
pointnent by Gov. Hoch as a member
OF the board of control when it was
first created in 1905. The time he has
given to the state has been at a per-
sonal sacrifice to himself. and his re-
signation has been in the hands of
the governor for more than year.
Mr.. Schermerhorn was a member of
the legislature from Cherokee county,
IN 1903 and 1905, and as the chair
man of the house committee on rail-
roads in the latter session champion
ed and secured the passage of more
wholesome railroad legislation in the
interest of the people than has ever
been enacted in a single session Of the
legislature before or since. Among
these laws were:
Providing for the election of the
members of the board of railroad COM
missioners.
Creating the position of attorney fol