Barton County democrat., 1914-04-10

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They claim credit for the creation
Of the Public Utilities Commission,
failing to state that Gov. Hodges was
on the committee that drafted the
bill that was finally passed and that
Democrat votes pushed Il over.
They brag Of women's suffrage but
fail to say that the amendment that
gave the. women of Kansas the right
to vote was written by Governor Hod.
ges, then member Of the State
Senate, and introduced by Senator
Cook, another Democrat.
They boast of the law abolishing
railroad passes, but fail to show that
but for the thirty odd Democrats who
voted for this measure when it was
passed, the anti-pass law would not
be on the statute books today, and
also fail to state that the law as it
reads at this time was written by
Governor Hodges, then a member Of
the Senate, and by Senator Getty of
Wyandotte.
So it is with other boasts in these
resolutions. They very wisely failed
to mention irrigation in the west
state publication of text books, the
state board of administration for ed.
ucatiOnal institutions, the fire marshal
law, which is reducing fire risks to a
minimum, and other important laws
that were passed by Democratic ad,
miniStration.
We mistake the temper of the peo
pie of Kansas if they permit Them
selves to be fooled by amy such wishy
washy statements put out by a once
great political party, as are contain.
ed in the resolutions passed by the
corporal guand Of the Republican
State Central Committee .. the past
week, and we believe the Capital told
the truth when it said the resolutions
were not binding.
The old axiom that figures won't
lie, but liars viii figure" is again
sustained. by labored article in the
Topeka Capital of March 29th., con-
cerning the expenses of certain de-
partments OF our state government.
The statements made show how hard
up the opposition is for political
thunder and to what extent they will
go in attempting to befog the minds
Of the voters Of Kansas, so that
they will once more bFndly vote the
Republican ticket.
For instance, this article says that
the Board OF Administration. which.
by the way, was advocated by Gov.
HOch in both of his messages to the
legislature during his four years of
office, and which, although vetoed by
Governor Stubbs, was advocated by
him IN the veto message, one Of the
points in his message being that the
salaries provided for were not suffi-
Gent, has cost the state tax payers
to date $13, 3,1SO.9O, as against $4,S12.-
60, over the old board OF regents law
for the year 1912, pointing with glee
to a saving Of $4,000 in favor Of the
old law.
But they fail to show that the ex-
penses of conducting the business Of.
ficers of our higher educational insti-
tutions has, in the same period, been
reduced by s13,243OO, which makes a
showing of a saving in favor of the
new law, without taking into consid-
GRAFTON any Of the other reductions
of running expenses, duplication of
courses, etc., in other departments Of
these institutions.
They attempt to create a feeling
against the hotel inspection law pass
ed at the inStigation Of the hotel
proprietOrs and the travelling public,
paid for by the hotel men and not
costing the people Of Kansas one PEN
ny.
Also they are attacking the fire
marshall law, modelled after the law
passed by many other states, passed
at the inStigation of the men who
pay the fire losses in Kansas, paid
for by them without the cost OF a
single penny to the tax payers Of the
state, and which has already reduced
the fire loss in Kansas fully twenty.
five per cent.
They would condemn the board Of
irrigation, thus depriving the people
of the western third Of the state of
an opportunity to show that the soil
Of that locality is as productive Of
crops as is that Of any other section
of Kansas when given the proper
treatment and encouragement.