The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-09
Jokes About Special Session at
Farmers Meeting.
Says New Bridge Law Would
Warrant One.
DOES NOT DISCUSS POLITICS
Discusses Good Work Being
Done by X. 8. A. C.
Says He Is Proud of Enemies
He Has Made.

At the second days session of the
Farmers institute at Watson Cover
nor Stubs was the principal speaker
on the program for the afternoon ses-
sion The hall was crowded and a
score stood up at the rear of the
hall to hear the governor speak. The
farmers cheered the ex-farmer re-
peatedly through his address and at
the close gave him unanimous vote
of thanks and the women gave him
a box of prize winning cake
The governor is in his glory when
he can go out and talk to a farmer
gathering. He would rather address
q little meeting like that at Watso
than to attend a banquet or speak at
a big meeting in the city. He rarely
declines an invitation to attend lit
tie farmer meeting when he can pos
sibly get away from his office. He
went out to Watson IN the afternoon
in his auto in freezing weather. a
ten mile drive, to talk to hundred
voters and a hundred women and yet
he has declined invitations recently to
address larger meetings to which he
could go on a train without risk1ng
an attack of pneumonia.
The governor did not talk politics
at Watson on the contrary he tod
about his own experiences on the
farm, and how he got his start from
breaking a couple of big mules TO
harness. It was a good story and won
MS audience at the start
The report printed about the watson
meeting about a special session of the
legislature is a joke. The governor
was talking about the charge OF high
taxes made against his administrator
and he declared that the state tax
showed but q trif1ing increase com
pared with the increase of county, city,
township and school taxes He talked
about the need of q bridge law ana
state engineer to draw up bridge spec
iffcations and o. K. all bridge con-
tracts. He thought good bridge law
would save a million IN taxes Tor the
state and was important enough 10
warrant a special session of the leSis-
Iature, but he has no more idea OF
calling a special session for that pur-
pose than he has making trip to
Africa.
The governor told his farmer
friends about the work of the Agricul-
turaI college at Manhattan and was
given close attention He talked OF
the penitentiary and the board OF con-
troll Institutions and the blue sky law
and many other phases of state work
and economy and attention to details.
The only mention he made of poll
tics was when he briefly paid MS re
spects to the critics of his admin1stra-
tion. His friends, the politicians, he
said were still fighting him. The pri-
mary and anti-pass laws had put them
out of business and they were ike a
big calf that had just been Weaned
avay from it's mother They were
bawiing for milk. 81 am proud of the
enemies 1 have made" declared the
governor His story and the telling
It brought down the house
The Farmers institute at Watson
closed its three days session today
after a most successful meeting. E.
l.. kendrick, w. l.. Coultis T. r. Bor-
man, William Casebier. William Mel
son. Lawrence Simms. Henry Bartel-
son, Seward Roberts, c. NJ. Warner
and ]. E. Thompson were among the
speakers during the three days of the
meeting. Mrs. Ida McPeak and Mrs
Kungle read papers during the ses-
eli