The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-30
Misrepresents Sentiment of Kan
sas Say Real Estate Men.
Want to Know If He Reflects
Governors Sentiments.
NEED NO ADVERTISING
Says That There Are Enough
People Here.
Letter Drafted to the Irrigation
and Land Congress.

| N B. Burge president of the Topeka
| Real Estate Dealers association, IN
letter written today to R. p. Cross, sec
! rotary of the great United States Land
and Irrigation exposition which VIII
be held at Chicago in December, 1ntl-
mates that Dave Leahy, private secre-
tary to Gov. W. r. Stubs, IS elther
| ignorant or is q fool.
IF the sentiments OF Governor
Stubs regarding advertising are the
same as have been expressed by Dave
Leahy,' said Mr.. Burge this afternoon,
| "Pu make an effort to have Governor
Stubs removed from the program az
the Chicago exposition. The real estate
men Of Kansas can not afford to pay
| out money for a Kansas display ana
have a Kansan on the platform VINO
is opposed to Advertising
The letter to Secretary Cross READS
as follows:
Il am in receipt of your letter of
October IS, and noted among other
things which you say therein, that you
ask the Following question, VIII you
do everything that you can TO pooss
Kansas at the Chicago land show: .
You also state in your letter, The gov
ernor of Kansas has been invited.
II want to call your attention to an
article appearing in the Topeka Daliy
CapitaI of october 27, in which Mr.
pave Ieahy. private secretary to Gov
e1nor Stubs, is quoted as saying.
What is the use of advertising state
What is the use of bringing the
neonla here? The more people
there are the more poverty there is.
who wants any more poverty than
there is?
with a man filling the important
position as private secretary to the
governor issuing such statements as
above quoted, don't you think we are
somewhat handicapped in kansas
Don't you think, as matter OF pusi.
ness. that such men should be cut OF
the nuh1ic pavrolI? just wrote
check for IS two or three days ago 70
assist in making a display OF Kansas
products and advertising shawnee
county in particular at your land and
IRRIGATION exposition, which Is TO pc
held in Chicago next month. 1t pays
to advertise. The man who says IL does
not nav is either ignorant or is fool.
It pays to advertise ones business; II
paws 10 advertise city, community
a state. For example, look at the de-
veIonment in the northwestern coun-
try through advertising Ihere are
hundreds of thousands Of acres OF lana
IN Kansas awaiting development 1t
is nonlllation that Increases value.
Then 1 want to ask is 1t not gooo
business proposition to go after
greater population?
educated to the benefits of advertising
and Just why an office-holding, good
politician should break IN
on a business proposition of advertls-
ing the state of Kansas is more than
can understand and certainly no
weight would be attached to 1t were II
not for the position he holds
IN the Topeka Daily Capital of Oc-
tober % appears another protest
against advertising a state by one MI
Charles Harris, an appointee Of the
who goes on to say that he
agrees with Mr.. Leahy that no more
people should be brought into Kansas, !
etc It would rather seem that the
governors official family is somewhat
opposed to the idea of advertising and
inasmuch as you state the governor
has been invited to make an address
on Kansas day in the lecture room of
the coliseum at Chicago, I would, |
therefore, suggest that you ascertain
beforehand the attitude of the COVER
nor himself before he comes to Chi |
cago to make an address on an occa- |
sion of this kind for the reason that
if his official family in Topeka is voic-
ing his sentiments along the line of adj
vertising Kansas, then it would be
risky proposition, indeed, to have Gov
ernor Stubs make such an address, |
for he might repeat in Chicago at your
exposition what his private secretary
has said in Kansas, and it would GER
tainly be very bad advertising
II wish you would take this matter
I'D with the governors office at To- |
peka and advise me of the results of |
YOUR correspondence