The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
FIX The SALARIES
That's the Way to Reduce Tax
alton in Shawnee County
Is the Declaration of N. b.
Burge, Senatorial Candidate.
WILL BRING PEOPLE HERE
Make Conditions SO Home
Builders Will Come.
Time to Get Busy and Get
Things for Shawnee County.
(By Raymond O.. Wales.)

IF I am elected senator from Shaw
nee county this fall am going into the
legislature with three distinct objects
in view, first, to work for straight
second to work for regulation of
expenditures and salaries about the
state house, and third, to get every
beneficial thing for Shawnee county
that is possible to secure. am going
in for Shawnee county first, last and all
the time" Statement of n. B. Burge.
This is the only platform Mr.. N. b.
Burge is using in asking the nominal
ton and election to the state senate
from Shawnee county. A hundred and
sixty pounds of ambition and energy.
twenty-five years of experience and
success in Kansas. an unlimited
amount of public spirit are the physical
and mental assets Mr.. Burge is capital
izing for his campaign.
Barring the first paragraph of this
story in which Mr.. Burge is quoted, the
remainder is written by a friend, one
who has shared his condolences, one who
has assisted in a meager manner to
work out Mr. Burgess plans, one who
knows him to be earnest, sincere and
deep thinking, hard working man. The
object of this article is to give the citi-
zenS of Shawnee county some idea of
the man who is ambitious to work for
them in the next state legislature.
n. B. Burge has been a resident of
Topeka for the past twenty-five years
and of Kansas thirty-three years. His
A. B. C.'s were taught him by an his
toric HooSier school master and his
education was rounded out at Manhat-
tan in the State Agricultural College.
Naturally this training impressed
upon Burgess mind the possibilities of
agriculture and the magnitude of the
real estate business. He has been, is
yet, and always will be strong advo-
cate of the theory that the earth yields
power and prosperity in greater abund-
ance than any other medium, or bust
ness. Burge began life on farm,
knows it's every passing phase and pos
sibility; knows it's hardships and it's
happiness and is the most enthusia site
man in the state today when he talks
of his company's ranch in Western
Kansas where alfalfa stands knee high
to mule and the jack rabbits and
prairie chickens play peek-a-boo among
its blossoms.
But it requires more than farm ex-
perience to make a real good senator
Whether Burge anticipated twenty
five years ago that an opportunity
would come to him in the year 1912
to represent his county in the senate
is scarcely probable. But he set out |
about that time to widen his circle of |
friends and increase his usefulness
There is a little old lady down the |
avenue. she is gray haired now, but |
along with Cliff Histed, the Kansas |
City attorney; Ralph Faxon, president |
of everything west of Wichita and |
publisher of the Garden City Tele- |
gram; Ralph Cav, the junior MEM
Der of the law firm of Hazen & Cav.
This lady taught these boys the short |
cuts to stenography and success.
They all attended the business college |
about the same time. Burge began his
career as stenographer in the office
~,
Great Northern Railroad company.
Here he learned something of |
the inside workings of a great
system. For four or
five years he was chief clerk in state
labor commissioners office under w.
L. A. Johnson Here he learned some
thing of the magnitude and import-i
ance of labor and it's organizations
While in the labor commissioners
office he was granted a vacation for
month-that was in 1902. He spent
he month down among the oil men
md derricks in southern Kansas. Be-
lore the month had passed he had
eased several pieces of land, came
pack to Topeka, sold those leases to
capitalists, cleaning up more than he
sr's Office in year. Burge decided that
of his old time friend.
he earth, was more lucrative occu-
patton than drumming out dictation.
lie forthwith cut loose from a
steady job and went into real estate
business for himself
Two of his notable successes in the
cal estate development business,
in Topeka and. Kansas
Inows about. These are two of the
most beautiful residence districts ever
Ldded to Topeka, Elmhurst and Pine Is
hurst Both these districts reflect n.
3. Burgess desire to build up, to inn ;
prove, to give to humanity, as he
,oes Through life, something worth
While, a credit to himself, his asso-
iates and fellow citizens.
While Ralph Faxon may boast of
being president of more organizations