The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14
Gov. Hodges and Party Enter
tained at Phinipsb1rg.
Senatorial Candidates There
Judge Doster Spoke.
|IH jewell, SMITH and PInuRs
Governor Spoke to $500 n Z
Counties in One Day.
He Defends Record and Assa1Is
Republicans.

SORoWAACo4cs
Philiipsburg, Kan, May H.-GovefnoG
Hodges talked to nearly $500 people n
his trip Wednesday through Jewell.
Smith and Phillips county. He con-
cluded his first days visit in the sixth
district by addressing nearly 500 vot-
ers at q Democratic banquet in PAtfs
Mpsburg last night.
The feature Of the day in the sixth
district was the unusual attendance ae
all Of the meetings. This IL the bu4y
season OF the year among farmers ana
with the election nearly seven months
away. but small crowds had been ox~
pected at the day meetings. At Man
kato TOO people heard the governor -
q 10 O'Clock morning meeting. Perh41U
one-haR Of the men in the crowd Woxo
farmers- The same situation wae roS
in Smith Center, whore crowd q
about 1000 attended an afternoon meet-
ing. Every township In Phillips coun-
ty was represented at the Phtlhpoour9
banquet and delegations were oooe
from q half dozen neighbor1ng towns
and counties.
In ali OF his speeches. GovernoR
Hodges devoted much time TO the de.
Tense of his record. although he 0to
not overlook opportunities to nay the
Republicans for their alleged SINS q
omission and commission. He cnareea
the Republicans with extravASauce u
the state printers Office when the lec-
fslaturo was required to appropF1noo
nearly 5000 to cover deficiency un-
der the administration OF Tom AcNen4.
He declared that affairs in the bank
they should have been when ]. N Dol-
ley wrote to his personal friendn ad-
yisine them not to invest in 1ndepou.
dent Harvester company stock UuS
failed to cancel the company's penny
to do business in the state until -
months after the letters were wf1tteos
He met the charges that the output at
the penitentiary coal mine had fau1A
on, by referring to the act OF the 1SIS
legislature which vas e,n compeasd, y ~ s.
900 for coal PURCHASED by the seAte ~
der the Stubhs aduiinia4r4t104 and -
excess OF the 1s11 appropriation Of Sees-
900 for cOAI. xH instance o1 tne bun.
ness ah1ninistfAficn was mentionsa
coiapafative re6ot9d3 81 the ReDu4
cans and Democrats IN the Ma44oy
ment OF the affairs Of the state Oh NJ
spector's office.
.Under the last year Of the Republl-
HODGES, ut cost S34,Ss2 to operate The
Office OF state oil inspector and tA98
administration turned into the STATE
treasury $S9 165. Under the hrse yer
DGm0CF0I1C
6S7 to run the Office. The Democret1
turned into the treasury 81 .0o0 Under
Republican management 186 men fouuo
soft political jobs through the oppOr-
tunities offered in the oil inspectore
office. Now the Same work 10 done by
seven men and a girl and at one-thtr9
the former cost. Is that politics? LOOK
up the records and be your own jugs.
Democrat Departments for Les.
ssT'he Democrats are charged with
extravagance. Yet the records show
that every state department under
Democratic control Is maintaine9 Iok
less money than under Republican
rule and that every Republican offico
in the state with q lone exception -
costing the taxpayers more money
than ever before.
.sRepublican campaign orators
charge mismanagement- But they
haven't mentioned the fact that 1t was
necessary for the legislature to make
deficiency appropriation OF some
$4,000 for the running OF the stsse
ton Of Tom McNeai, q Republicau.
Look that up. too.
"Then the Democrats are charged
with no. mining as much coal at tine
lansing prison on as ns',ns IN some fofs fns.f
mention the fact the Democrats tooE
men from the coal mines and restored
the prison twine plant that was de-
stroyed by fire q year ago. They don't
Democrats duplicated the Wisconmu
prison twine plant, which cost fhae
state $4,000 and was built by KAN
sas at q saving Of 100000. Neither
Democratic legislature was in 1913
called upon to appropriate $4,000 tor
coal purchased by q Republican e0-
ministration after that administratio1
had already exhausted its original
l - R<~~,
Then the governor sarcastical1y re-
ferred to the alleged misrepreoenfa-
tions of his administration by un-
friendly publications.
sHave you read the statements In
| the columns Of the Republican pre-
| or I might say some of tho Republl-
can paperA?" said the governor ~ bG
turned his attention to the oppoattton
newspapers Fair? I challenge any
man to show that the papers under
the control Of a man who seeks elec-
ton as governor-this year a. Q Re-
lpublican-hAye not made special ef-
fort to be unfair. I could tell you Of
Imisrepresentations which were NOT
could tell you Of the refusal Of theec
papers to print our side OF q c0ntr0-
versy even over q signed statement.
could tell you of the refusal Of theSe
papers to even sell us space at regu-
lar advertising rates that We might
tell the voters our side Of the story.
"FAir? What do you think? pu
you wonder that we find 1t necessary
to go before the voters Of the STATE q
imam to man and denounce these dr.
Itorted statements and tell Of our rec
lord from the platform? Az thinklmG
men and women who demand fair pay
and honesty in active politics - vel
as its advocacy in personal platforms
what do you think %
Judg0 Dogtee Spoke at BnmQuet.
The governor spoke about 40 min-
utes at each OF his three meetings AZ
the Phil1ipsburg banquet, Judge Franz
IDoster Of Topeka, and w. L. BroWn q