The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-13
The Meeting at Cuba In Re-
public County.
RECORD OF LEGISLATURE
State Executive Goes Into Mat
ter Of Money Spent.
Notes of the Trip by State Jour-
nal Representative.

Cuba Kan May 13.-Speaklns oo
fore a crowd of more than 4oV re
public county voters, Governor Houses
aac1.red that the Democratic stAte
,ag;s,ature had fulfilled it's promise 70
the people to reduce the state ope,
atinr expenses by approprlatlhs neoi
+wo and a half million dollars less
+han had been recommended oS o'"'e
Auditor Davis in his report to the ID"
ro.kers 1t was the governors Iirs'
nolitical speech on his week erip
through western Kansas:
MANY Republicans and ProeressiWves W
were in the crowd whicn neau e
Cnha speech. Several times applause
interrupted the speaking ana the nlos'
;ntense interest featured the Cover
nor,s discussion of the work OF tne
Democratic legislature ano s.a.e
ministration. In his speech Sove!Hoi
Hodges stated that the 1913 aee1a ,ia4
ture had enacted into law more piat-
form pledges than any preceding lGs
islature in the history OF the state; ne
nointed to IA specific platform planks
that had been written on the stalule
books. ~. lao
,s,ature TO submit the initiative and
rafarendum to a vote OF the people,
The governor called attention TO the
stand of the Republican members OF
the house and senate when the resoiu,
ton was up for final passage. he reau
the roll call of the house, showing
that the Republican and Progressive
members of that body had stooo
bound to caucus agreement ana
voted against the measure Whlcn IL
but one Democratic memper Oh tne
house supported.
our pledges" said the governor. I'VE
have kept faith with the people. In
1911 every Democratic member OF the
state senate supported the I and X.
We had promised to 90 SO and we re-
deemed that pledge. But a reaction
ary Republican senate defeated the
measure and sidetracked the will OF
the people. In 1913 we again sup
ported the measure. During two cam
paigns the Republicans had promised
the people that they would do the
same thing. But they didn't. They de-
feated the amendment-Stone and
Brewster and Wilson of Greeley and
Keene and the other Republican
members Of the house."
Then the governor read the roll
call.
Turning then to the matter of ap-
preparations, the governor declared
that the Democrats had cut nearly two
and a half million dollars off the ap-
preparations recommended by the state
auditor.
Had you elected a Republican leg
islature in 1912. isn't it natural to
presume that they would have acted
on the recommendations of Auditor
Davis and appropriated every cent
Which he said was necessary to run
the states business?" asked Governor
Hodges. But the Democratic legis-
lature found that it could transact the
states business for less money than
Davis recommended and proceeded to
do it. Now my friend Davis is busy
hunting up material for the newspa-
pers to prove that the present admin
istration has been extravagant. Won
drous consistency.
Every two years the state auditor
recommends to the legislature the
amount of money needed for the sew
eral departments and state institu-
tions. The auditor-a Republican
recommended in his report in 1912
that the 1913 legislature increase the
appropriations $3,O13,0sS over the
amount appropriated in 1911. This
would raise the total appropriation
from $S,375, 5,502-the amount appro-
priated in 1911-to $11.3S9,3SS, the
amount which the Republicans con-
sidered necessary to run the state in
tions were made at time when the
Republicans were in power in the
state and WI n Davis believed they
would be returned to power. But the
Democrats elected the legislature.
And see what happened. They re-
fused to appropriate $11.3S9.sSs and
cut the amount to $S.s36,135. thus
saving the taxpayers $2,553.253
Think it over. Who was guilty of ex-
travagance. The Republicans in their
recommendations, or the Democrats
in running the states business for two
and a half million dollars less than
the Republicans said was necessary?'
l.. ur0niaWl RrOuyn ott
the Cuba meeting and made a short
talk. w. P. FEEDER spoke for ten min
utes. Short talks were made by Sam
uel Bartlett of Lincoln. candidate for
attorney general. and Frank L. Smith
of lola, candidate for superintendent
banker. presided at the meeting.
Notes OF the Trip.
Right Reverend J. Henry Then of
Lincoln, Neb., was one of the speakers
at the unveiling of the Oregon trail
monument. For % years Rev. Then
was a Kansan and lived in Wichita.
He is widely known in both Kansas
and Nebraska and his speech was one
of the features of the meeting on the
state line.
The Oregon trail monument is locat-
ed on the Kansas-Nebraska state line
Jefferson counties, Nebraska, and
Washington county. Kansas. at a point
two miles west of Lanham. And the
main street of Lanham is the state line.
On the Nebraska side of the street is
a saloon. A few hundred thirsty Kan
sans-and drOuthy Nebraskans as we'll
stopped at Lanham after the dedica-
ton. Most of the business was trans
acted at a point about 20 feet north of
the Kansas state line. But don't be
deceived. Governor Hodges and partv
passed through the town in an auto
mobile at rate of about 20 miles an
hour.
At Hanover the governors party was
entertained ct the home OF August
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