The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-30
Three State Officers Are Deliv.
ering Addresses Today.
Governor w. r. Stubs Is at
AtchisOn.
SESSIONS BACK HOME.
Secretary of State Pays Visit to
His birthplace.
Troy Chief Launches the Boom
for BreWs ter.
ESsIONS BACK HOME.

Governor Stubs spoke at Atchison
today at the Memorial exercises held
at that place. Attorney General John
Dawson delivered the Memorial day
address at Troy, in Doniphan county,
and State superintendent Fairchild
went to Ellsworth to pay public trib
ute to the soldier dead. These three
are the state house orators.
Secretary of State Charles Sessions
returned today from a weeks visit at
his old home back in Ohio. Mr.. Ses-
sions used to cut corn for SIS a month
in the old home county. When he
first came west to take a place as
reporter on a Kansas City newspaper
he worried during the journey over
the offer of SIS a week for his services
on the new job, fearing that it was
SIS a month after all. But the western
metropolis appreciated the Ohio farm
er and made him a star reporter. Then
Kansas received him at his true worth
and made him a state official. The
Ohio farmer boy made good because
he used a lot of common sense and
energy in every days work. Governor
Stubs thinks that Sessions is the wise
head of the state executive council.
state Chairman Dolley paid more at
tention to Sessions advice during the
last campaign than he did to that of
any other man in tho state. The
homely virtues of common sense and
hard work have b1ossomed into the
fancy flowers and fretwork that the
world calls talents and brilliant &C
mplishments.
Ralph Faxon, editor of the Garden
City Telegram and president of the
Kansas Day club, is a young man. but
he cuts a lot of ice in western Kan
sas and in regular Republican circles.
Ralph admires Arthur Capper, spoken
of as the harmony candidate for gov
ernor, but can not do much for his
newspaper claiming that its editors
make Capper more trouble than his
personality can balance. Speaking of
q Capper boom in the Sterling Bull
1etin, Faxon says in his Garden City
Telegram:
sWhy should the Bulletin be author
ity as to the statement that the Cap
per candidacy is satisfactory to regu-
iars2 The editor of the Bulletin is
fine man and a fine editor, but an in
surgent. Why should he speak by the
card?
But to this papers notion, it is not
merely that Mr.. Capper wouldn't prlhg
auv measure of regular support as
COMPROMISE candidate, but that he, ad-
mirable man though he is. has no pc
culiar executive qualifications or train
ing for public life"
The Troy Chief has launched the
boom of state Senator S. NJ. Brewster
for governor. Brewster would be the
idol of the regular faction of his party
for this office because OF his eminent
ability as a campaigner. If Senator
Brewster decides to make the race he
will be a formidable candidate. He has
been a commanding figure in the state
senate the past two sessions of the leg
islature.
State Senator Stannard is still sore
over the press agent graft" What the
tor Ia a what
him to break out at this late day no
one seems to know. With the cause OF
the outbreak unknown the senator >
mouthings of reform sound like joke
But the senator takes it very seriously.
He writes the State Journal ONCE d
week. The last epistle received would
indicate that the Great Reformer had
a torpid liver and active bile. He de-
MES that he is a candidate for lieuten-
ant governor on the Capper harmony
platform. Surely he does not appreciate
Mr.. Capper's kindness in exploiting his
reform ideas. Then again the senator
denies the inference that he failed to
nav taxes on his tank cars in 1905 and
1906. He says he had no tank cars at
that time. But the senator did not say
whether or not he paid taxes on all the
cars he had in 1907, nor does he make
mention of the hard work the tax COM
mission had to make him pay any
taxes at all. The senator declares that
he is not the issue in this uplift cam
paign, nor are the reporters who held
senate clerkships the issue, nor the
newspapers that hired the reporters
that held the jobs that MIXED the COW
with the crumpled horn that threw tn
dog over the house that Jack built.
Not So but the senators who "filched
the state treasury" They are the is
sue. Even the allegation that a Santa
Fe official wrote bill that Senator
Stannard introduced in the legislature
is not an issue in this battle against
unrighteousness.
To sum up the senator's violent
epistle in one sentence and still do JUS