The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-27

applied to the employment of several
hundred employees in the charitable,
pena: and educational institutions of
this state.
Four years ago the management of
the State Agricultural college was full
of politics Governor Stubs appoint
ed some big men like Arthur Capper
and the late ex-United States Senator
Harris on the board of regents and
requested them to get the best man
in the country available for the presi-
dency regardless of politics Henry J.
Waters. Democrat from Missouri,
was elected president of the Agricul-
tural college at a salary of $4,000 a
year by Republican board of re-
gents. Mr.. Waters stands at the head
OF the list in the United States in
point of ability and general fitness for
this most important position. VIII
YOU MT. Hodges, say that it was SO
per cent politics and ? per cent bust
ness for Republican administration
tc search the country from end to end
and hire the best qualified man that
could be obtained, regardless of poll
tics, to a position with a higher salary
imam the governor of the state re-
ceiVes?
The Charitable Institutions.
When Governor Stubs was in the
legislature he introduced the iii
which became law placing all the
charitable institutions under the man
agement of the board of control As
a result of this law those institutions
with several hundred employees have
been taken entirely out of politics and
placed on rs sound a business basis
as any comm ercial institution in the
state. During the past four years
there has been an increase of 573
persons in these charitabl institutions
that had to be fed, clothed and build
ings erected to provide shelter. The
cost Of food, labor and material ',as
been higher Than at anv previous
time in recent years and vet the aD-
preparations for these institutions
amount to 100000 year less than
the appropriations for the same insti-
tutions for 1908. Neither the SUPER
intendents nov the board of control
have any tight under the law to ever
ask one employee in these institutions
whether they are Democrats or Zee
pu3hcans. or make any suggestion -
them about how they vote. Is this
90 per cent politics. Mr.. Hodges. and
? per cent business, and what
agement of these institutions if you
were governor?
Penftendary Out of Politics
The state penitentiary under Ward
en- Codding is one of the cleaneSt. m ost
wholesome and best managed Depiten-
tiaries in the United States, both from
a humane and business point of view.
During nearly four years of the
present administration the bank COM
missioner's Office has been admins
tered in such a way that not one del
lar has been lost to a single depositor
in nine hundred state banks with al
most a hundred million dollars on 10
post. Neither has a single invesror
in all the building and loan associa-
tIons, representing almost twenty mil
lion dollars Of investment, lost one
dollar invested. The officers. directors
and management of almost one hun
dred state banks were overhauled ard
Strengthened UP and put on a good
sound basis. As an example of the
above fact. one of these banks with
the officers and directors were re-
quired to put UP $4,000 to make tire
! bank good. Another institution was
reorganizeI and the officers put uD
vestors. Both of these institutions
wanted to have receivers appointed
but the officers had been derelict in
/ duty and We're responsible for the
administration to protect their pa
! irons by making good the loss.
| Examination of Banks.
/ The examinations of state banks in
/ Kansas are the most thorough and
businesslike of any state in the Union.
( and the blue Sky Law, administer
/ ed by this department, saves to the
people of Kansas more money each
I year than the entire cost of the state
! government. The expense to the state
! VI LIlS
amounts to less than 5000 per year
! in excess of the expenses several years
/ ago when the department did rot
, transact one-half the volume of bust
! ness it is now transacting. Mr.
i Hodges, will you say that this addi-
/ tional expense is not warranted whcn
1 this departm ent is saving millions OF
dollars to the people of the state az
! nuaIly and protecting their interests
j in banks and building and loan asso-
Citations so that not one dollar has
been lost in FOUR years? Do you pre-
1 tend to say that this is SO per cent.
politics and > per cent business"
Four years ago there were several
/ hundred deputy fish and game war
dens throughout the state who en-
/ joyed special privileges under the law
in fishing and hunting, and taken as
a whole they were a tremendous po-
liticaI asset to any state administra-
1 ton. Governor Stubs appointed a
scientific fish and game warden to
the head of this department and up
| to date no one has ever been able to
discover whether he is a Democrat or