The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
HATCH new ISSUE
Kansas Voters Confronted With
Gins" and "Outs" Problem.
Fight on State House Assistants
Who Graduate.
IT is TAKEN UP OVER STATE
Politicians Cry Out Against
What They Call calculator"
Personalities Not InvOIved-It'S
the System They BemOan.
IT is TAKEN UP OVER STATE

Kansas voters are establishing a
new political issue for the Republican
primaries this year. 1t is an issue
which involves the graduation of as
sistarts and clerks to the big jobs in
the state house. In the fight which
has been quietly built around the sys-
ten, nominations to three state offices
are involved.
Reports brought to Topeka from
over the state in the last few weeks
have indicated a new alignment in
the fight in the coming primaries The
issue will not involve personalities No
policy is involved. 1t is merely u con-
tinuation of system which seeming
~ went into effect with the adoption
nominations to three offices-treas-
6rer, auditor and superintendent of
public instruction.
one of the remarkable things about
the fight is the seeming lack of or
ganiZation by either faction. Last
winter the seed for the fight was
pl-nted by Smith county paper
which wrote d booster story for Dan
Dyer of Smith Center, candidate for
state auditor The story was widely
circuA;ted over the state. Somehow
the seed seemed to take root and the
result is an issue in the primaries
which involves the promotion of as
slstantS or the elimination of the pres
ent crowd with the nomination of new
men and women.
"InS' and Outs
Whether the fight which involves
the promotion system will result in an
amalgamation of interests by the ms
against the "outs" is a matter of in
terest in political circles. Such an
alignment might be forced, it is
claimed, through a further develop
ment of the contest and "a keen issue
as to the rights of individuals to in
herit state jobs through the promo
ton system.
Recently one Kansas newspaper
took free swing at the state house
plan as an incubator system for the
Matching of future state officers. 1t
then pointed TO the number of state
officials who had been promoted I'M
der the system from assistants and
clerks to heads of elective state Of
fices. In short the story was an in
d-ctment of the system along the line
of attack started last winter. Other
papers in the state have taken up the
fight and d number of them have
threatened to force the issue in the
primaries in an effort to secure the
complete abolition of the system
w. D. Ross, state superintendent of
public instruction, is one of the men
who will be under fire. Ross prefers
the public crib to private life. He is
now looking for a third term and put
new rungs in his political ladder when
the legislature gave him a few choice
amendments to the state school laws
and created a board of school inspec-
tors and motion picture censors-au
picked by Ross.
State House Matching
The election of Ross came with the
retirement of Superintendent Fair
child Ross had been an understudy
IN Falrchilds office. After one or two
unsuccessful attempts to land the nom
ination before state conventions. Ross
landed employment under the Fair
child administration. He is now serv-