The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25

der state desk and eat from the
state trough.
Governor Stubs is also great
sticller for the proposition, "a dollars
worth of work for a dollars worth of
pay" and the attorney general forgot
all about this. Whether or not the
oversight was Intentional or not re-
mains to be seen Just notice what
Dawson said in his telegram to Brew
ster. Here it is:
t'Shukers resigns, effective April 10.
offer you the position, and will give
you time to attend terms of Doniphan
county district court and the more inn
portant cases of your private practice.
Salary small, but will give you fine
opportunity to serve the state and
identify yourself with its affairs
Now how is Brewster going to give the
statehis full time if he is going to gall
want around attending to his private prac-
tice and if sixteen hundred dollars year
does not demand full time lot of people
would like to know it? Charles Shukers
put in fourteen hours day handling that
job and If Brewster takes it he will have
time to attend to a lot of private practice,
too. as the attorney general will give him
the time off, And 1t might be mentioned
that Brewster is some lawyer up around
He was county attorney of Doniphan
county for ten years and became famous
as prosecutor.
Parting of the Ways.
JGln dawson was once the governors
private secretary. Then the governor
found a place where John could practice
more law than he could as a private sec
rotary and a p Zee where the salary was
larger so the governor moved Dawson up
to attorney for the board of railroad COM
missioners. Dawson was also a candidate
for attorney general and during the pri-
mary campaign he hobnobbed with some
| of the regular forces good deal and took
| considerable interest in their affairs and
that did not please the governor little
bit. the governor does not believe IN
being friendly with the enemy.
During the legislature Dawson and
utility bill. Stubs wanted the senate bill,
and got it. But Dawson helped to write
the house bill and he knew it would hold
water and he was not so sure about the
| senate bill, although good lawyers had
told him it was all right.
One day Dawson was in the governors
| office and they talked about the two
utility bills. The governor jumped onto
the house bill with both feet and thought
it ought to be put into the waste basket
without further consideration. Dawson
| argued that the house bill was pretty
good affair.
John. did you ever read the senate
| bill?'' asked the governor.
| John admitted that he had read most
of it.
make believe bill that the house judiciary
committee introduced?"
John admitted that he had read that
measure pretty thoroughly and in fact
| had written a part of 1t.
Now, governor" said John, have you
ever read that house bill?'
The governor admitted that he had not
| perused it thoroughly but his information
was o. K. on that it was bum bill.
| Dawson and Stubs fused a good deal
! right then and the official scorekeeper at
the state house reports that Dawson has
not visited the governors office since that
| day.
| The Governors Veto.
A few days later the governor vetoed
1 inc cir thn col Of +ho of
torney general and his assistants on the
advice of attorney who told the chief
| executive that the bill would repeal the
/ law allowing the appointment as assist
ant attorneys general to enforce the pro
| hibftory law. That lawyer happened to be
Fred S. Jackson, former attorney general
gresham. The veto of the bill caused
John Dawson to send up a loud wall and
| he also rem arked, before he knew who it
was, that the lawyer who advised the
| governor to veto the bill was an ass
/ whose ears reached above the state house.
| The governor then found a few bills
| checked Up to him that he did not like so
| he just didn't sign them or veto them but
| let them die by constitutional limitation.
| He vetoed the Inheritance tax bill and
| then Dawson took the salary bill and the
| inheritance tax bill and all the measures
1 that the governor had let die into the SUI
/ prem court to get them alive again be-
| having a good lawyer to advise him bad
| slipped cog and had not killed the bills
| within the constitutional limit.
| All of these things have Joined to cause
! a mild declaration of war in the south
| wing of the state house and within a few
| days, especially if Brewster takes the job
| and attends to his private practice at the
| same time, there will be dead line drawn
! down the south corridor of the state house
| and anyone who crosses the line and goes
| into the door on the west side will be
| treated coldly If he enters the portals on
the east side of the building and the same
to those who enter the eastern gates first.