Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-06-24
Governor Capper Files Nomination
Papers

Topeka June Ex-Governor Capper
today filed his nomination papers
with the secretary of state and an
nounced that he is a candidate for a
second term He will have no oppo-
sition for the Republican nomination
In statement given to the newspa-
pers, Governor Capper said:
Naturally, L would like to feel the
people had enough faith in me to vote
me second term. l do not ask any
one TO support me because it has been
the custom to give public official 2
terms / prefer Kansas should decide
this question strictly on the merits
OF the candidates, as it always should
be decided. Doubtless 1 have made
mistakes, but they have been honest
mistakes, and / believe my seventeen
months of experience has greatly in
creased my official usefulness. AL
though a governor may have lived all
his life In Kansas, as / have done. his
1rst term should be spent in investi-
eating, planning, initiating impera-
lively needed reforms.
within little more than a year /
have personally inspected from top to
bottom, every one of the states eigh-
teen educational. charitable and re-
formatory Institutions Many of
them twice. L have suggested or
made changes at every one. l have
also had searching Investigations
made into their condition and man.
agement by experts and by impartial
citizens. They have never before
been SO thoroughly probed and scruti-
nized. We have let daylight into
everything connected with them
Whatever has been found, whether
good or bad, has been made public
without reservation and irrespective
of whom it hurt. We have discover
ed that in the course of years some of
these institutions have fallen behind,
judged by new and rising standards, |
and must as quickly as possible be
brought to a condition of efficiency
surprising any previous stage of their
history. This can be done extrava-
gantly or sensibly. We propose to do
it well but sensibly. AS far as posi- |
BILE we are meeting needs, correcting
evils, eliminating waste. The legis-
lature will be called on to do what
only a legislature can do, and with |
the carefully digesIed information
we shall be able to lay before it, no
legislature Kansas has ever had will
be so weIl prepared to act promptly,
ana effectively
MANY of these Things are being
with great difficulty
of
political boards that control the state
institutions absolutely Heretofore
no Kansas governor has had to work
with boards not of his own choosing.
Il have been cutting off useless in
spectors and unnecessary employees. A
recent example is the State Fish |
Hatchery, where a force of twenty
was reduced to nine / have given
every state employe to understand
ad administration simply because he
votes right" We are enforcing the
new civil service law and retaining
every first class man l find in the
states service regardless of his poll
tics. A governor who does less yio- |
lates bis oath. 1 am trying to dis
charge my duties faithfully and con-
Trying to be just and
fair. Trying to give every one in
Kansas square deal. Trying TO be a
governor of the whole people
Il shall continue to work for econ
omy and efficiency in state and coun-
ty government, whether in or out of
office. To simplify and modernize
the entire system of public business
is the big problem of the present and
the future of Kansas. This does not
mean cheese-paring policy, nor an
or wasteful one, but a /
policy and a determination to get 100l
cents of genuine service for every dol
lar that is spent and not cent less.''
MITCHELL COUNTY FOR BENTON