Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-06-25
Special Correspondence

AN(t 1bob lbS ObotS OhlNNi SAIJ1
the Agricultural College, the
State Normal, the Pittsburg
Manual Training, and the Hays
Agricultural Colleges have just
completed the most successful
years in their history? Didn't
William Allen White and Billy
Morgan publicly confess thatth
State University had never been
in better shape than during the
past year? Then, do we recall
the stories that have been pub
lished the past year in the Cap
per publications to the effect
that the State Educational Board
of Administration was running
our state schools?
The fact is that the patriotic
Mr.. Capper, through his pu blica-
tions, during the past year, has
done everything in his power to
discredit the State Board of Ed.
ucstional administration, and
make it's work failure and so
bring untold injury on our big
state educational Institutions
and all this for purely political
purposes; but, fortunately the
Capper publications have only
discredited themselves, aud Mr..
Capper.
The State Board of Education
al Administration has been sue
cess. The schools under their
charge have just had the most
successful year in their history.
The fight on this Board is a
dead issue, and the man who is
principally responsible for the
fight, is dlscredited politician.
The editor of the Leavenworth
Times makes great sport of
Governor Hodges statement that
his administration has saved the
state $lls,O00.0O in rebuilding
the state twine plant at Lansing.
The Times undertakes to say
that Hodges simply used $751;
COCOON repairing" the twine
plant and that the claim that be-
cause he did not spend '$773, 600
as did the state Of Wisconsin in
constructing twine plant, his
claim of having saved the state
$11s,OO 90 is ridiculous.
The trouble with the Times is
that 1t is disposed to resort to
any sort of falsebood TO make its
point. When the Times says
that the $50, 100000 was used in
repairing" the TwIne Plant
that is simply straight out, in
territorial falsebood, knowingly
made. The Times knows full
well that the old twlne plant was
completely destroyed. The
Times knows also that no ''re-
pairing" was done, but that an
entirely new plant, with entirely
new machinery was erected, and
that the new plant erected at a
cost of $58, 100000 isin every sub
stantial detail in the matter of
buildings, equipment and capa-
city equal to the plant erected
by the state of Wisconsin at
cost of $173,O0O.OO. Instead of
letting the building OF the Kan
sas Plant TO a contractor, the
state used its own labor and
manufactured the brick and the
lime, and did its own work of
construction, while in the state
of Wisconsin the construction of
the plant was let to contractor
on the outside. The difference
in cost between the two plants
to the tax payer of the respec |
tive states was $115, 100000.
Governor Hodges statement
therefore that his ad ministration
by the application of business
methods saved the tax payers of
Kansas, 100000 is very far
from being ridiculous.
This is only another example
of the unfairness of the Times
and other Republican papers of
the state which are devoting
their efforts to returning the old
gang to the pie counter.
S. T. SEAToN.