The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-21
But 1t Gathered in 20 for State
Fair.
Carey, of Reno, Is Best Trader
in World.
ROLLING STONE GOT MOSS.
But Eastern Senators Who
Voted for Salt City
May Look Back and Turn Into
Pillars of Salt.

College mathematicians who glory in
their control of the table of logarithms
and marvel in the dungeons of trigono-
metry, have the opportunity during this
session of the legislature to go to the
state senate with pencil in hand and
attempt to solve the mystery of one
Vote-one vote that has gathered in it's
rolling course a score of votes on its
molasses surface. They say a rolling
stone gathers no moss-but in the SEN
ate today there is a rolling vote that
has gathered enough support to build
up visions of a state fair in city of
salt and sand. And the senator's who
look back at that city and their votes
for the same. will, like Lots wife, be
turned into pillars of salt.
OF course, this rolling stone, the
vote of Emerson Carey of Reno county.
Carey came to the senate this year for
only one purpose-to bring the state
fair seal of Kansas to Hutchinson. He
didn't care if the legislature passed
laws prohibiting rivers from running
to the sea-he came here just for that
one law
This one vote, naturally was placed
on the open market-he didn't even
take the precaution to put a net over
it for protection against the flies. 1t
was right out on front on the sidewalk
along with the rest of the slabs of
bacon, ham and pork.
But see what this one vote has DONE
have scrambled for a chunk of it's fat
First 1t was handed out In return for
state normal appropriation. Then a
state university gift. Then a good
sized chunk of coin for the agrfcul-
tural college. Back ii jumped for a
trade on a bank guaranty measure.
then for a state fire marshal action.
Finally it leaped over into the camp of
the donors of county experiment sta
tions and in favor of a vote for the
init nd
forth it has traveled-like a hunk of to-
bacco around the cracker box brigade
in country store.
Today that one lonely vote-only n
mite among forty-has the largest par
value of any ballot in the senate
chamber. 1t is packed away, cured and
cooked. with dozens of others in a pork
barrel of large dimensions.
Topeka wanted the state fair But
All the capital city could give were
grounds and equipment worth a quar-
ter million dollars! The most beauti-
full and best improved fair grounds in
the west! A bonus of $20,00Oi The
glad hand of a city of $4,000 people
and all her accommodations ana at
fractions! Topeka had all these
things, to be sure-but Topeka didnt
have a vote out on the senate pie
counter-and there lies the tale.
Senators from all parts of the state
came to the senate not to represent
their constituents but to please Emer-
son Carey. Carney of Cloud county
and his thousands of constituents
couldn't possibly go to Hutchinson to
a state fair without passing right by
Topeka. But what did Carney care
about that. Bah! He is pleasing
Emerson Carey.
Waggener of Atchison-within few
miles of Topeka man who is given
column after column Of notoriety in
the Topeka newspapers and a man
whose home city is jammed annually
with Topeka visitors during flower car
nivaIs-what did Bale Waggener care
about that? of course his thousands
of voters would rather spend a day on
a railroad train. changing cars now and
then in order to go down in southwest
ern Kansas for fair.
MaIone-who can't even get to To-
peka without going up through Me-
braska and Missouri-his thousands OF
friends at home know of nothing hap
pier than travelling three days to the
Hutchinson fair. Mahin of Smith
stand aside, oscar, and allow these
Smith county crowds to pass-they are
fiocking to Hutchinson,
And these same senators-wringing
their hands and asking on hended
knee for the initiative and referendum
these senators refused to allow the
people of Kansas by vote to locate
their state fair-not on your life. 1t
is Careys fair-at the end of his car
line and under the possession of lots
1t isn't the people that want to go
to a state fair-it is a few senator's
and with the same old fashioned pork
barrel" methods they are building up
one of their own down on treeless
and sandy plain.
Don't be mislead on this fair business.
ladies and gentlemen of a large part or
Topeka to vote for an exposition that
would be within practical distance NJ
your homes. They didn't care whether
you had enough patriotism to see your
own state fair located in modern i'm
proved buildings in the capital city o.
whether you wanted IL hundreds of miles
away from your homes down among the
sand hills of Reno.
one little slice of the pork barrel pack
fng-one trade-this magic ballot was
able to swing back and forth across the
senate chamber with a score and ten SEN
ators clinging to its pendulum.
The few members of the senate who live
near Reno county-they are not to be
blamed. Their homes, their people. thelr
interests are down there. They have
right to be selfish in their views. But
the senators who are in Topeka's terri
tory-tfey will have no defense when
facing their constituents after the IeSis-
lature has adjourned
They overlooked state loyalty. they dis
regarded the desires of the voters who
sent them to the senate. they sneered at
the gift Of $4,000 in money and S250,09 IN
property that Topeka offered to the state,
matter to the vote of the people, they
closed their eyes to the map location or
their capital city-nothinE satisfied them
but that one vote of Emerson Carey-and
they fell for IT'S influence.
But each senator with a project who
traded his vote will get only one vote
ettirn while Carey got 20 votes for his
project Figure again, oh ye mathema-