The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-06

! determined early to make ms own ioi
tune and set out for the "ese -. ~ =,
] sixteenth year. After some years ~
/ the west he returned to Texas anu
| stf,aiad law earning a living in the
4 meantime by farming. He was aoHiie-
/ fed to the bar but later began pank-
! ing business and then entered poilllcs-
Reelected in Wisconsin
/ Honored for the second time py
/ election to the governorshlp OF tne
state in which he was porh' ~ San
1 county, fffty-five years ago, Governor
! Emmanuel Lorenz Phillip of Wlscon-
/ sin. was reinaugur;- on the flrst DAY
J of the new year. He said ne Wouio
/ have economy as his main pollcy TOT
! the coming term, as 1t was curing me-
/ first goVernorship. Setting a personal
! example, he directed that the lnaug-
uration ceremonies be as informal as
/ Dossible. including elimination of the
/ inaugural ball. Governor Phlnpp mas
( been particularly popular with GERMAN
and Swiss citizens of Wisconsin ana ne
sneaks both languages fluently. Men
1 of both nationalities call him their
''Landsmann."
Owns $4,000 900 Farm.
Frank Orren Lowden will be the
richest governor Illinois ever mad anu
will be one of the most versatile ioi
he has been farmer. school teacner,
LAWYER, legislator and once served as
lieutenant colonel in the First regl-
ment, Illinois National GUARD IN
1895 he married Florence Pullman.
one of the heirs of the mllhondlre
George Pullman, and the same year
came into prominence IN politlcs as d
champion of William Mckinley Tor
president Defeated for the Repuoh-
can nomination for governor by Chas-
/ S. Deneen in 1908, after the nomlnat-
ing convention had balloted Tor three
: weeks he received some consolation
i I. m n
gress from the Thirteenth district--He
retired after serving two terms, ana
+ devoted his time to his five thousand
/ acre farm in Ogle county. S1nnlsslp-
pi." as the estate is named, is said to
be one of the finest farms in the
country, equipped with every modern
farming device and worth more than
/ $2,000,000.
Began as office Boy; Now Wealthy.
When Frederick D. Gardner, of St
Louis, takes his seat as governor OF
Missouri he will be holding the only
elective office for which he was ever
! a candidate. Mr.. Gardner has amassed
wealth as a manufacturer and has
taken an active interest in commercial
matters, particularly as an advocate
of a rural credit system by which
farmers can obtain long time loans at
| low interest. After studying the rural
credit system prevailing in Europe
(Which he visited especially for that
purpose), he drafted a bill known as
the Gardner Land Bank bill and this
was passed by the Missouri legislature
in 1915. Mr.. Gardner is a native OF
Kentucky. After a public school edu-
cation he began his business career as
office boy in a casket factory which he
now owns.
PenniIess 80 Years Ago.
The man who came to Michigan.
penniless youth, from his native state
of Vermont thirty years ago and start
ed in eastern Michigan country
store, which later was developed into
a chain of commercial houses and aft
erwards into a large banking business,
celebrated the beginning of the new
year by inauguration as governor He
is Albert E. Sleeper and he has an
nounced that he will carry into the
governors office the same policy he
used as a business man for he has let
it be known that he will select his adj
visers and assistants for merit rather
than on political grounds He has de-
clared for budget system and for leg
islation to enforce the prohibition
amendment. and says he will try TO
make a dollar have as much purchas-
ing power in state taxes as a dollar
invested in private enterprises.
Gets Largest Vote, Ever.
Joseph A. A. Burnquist. Republi-
can, and a native of Iowa, was sworn
in governor of Minnesota last
Wednesday with the strongest en-
dorsement ever given a candidate for
the office in that state. He received a
plurality of 152. 900 in the recent
election-more than twice that ever
given a Minnesota governor. He as
sumes the place for the second time as
he served out the unfinished term of
the Democratic governor, Winfield
Scott Hammond, who died a year ago.
Mr.. Burnquist long has been in poll
tics and has had the advantage of be-
ing a skilled orator. He took the
Minnesota state oratoricaI prize at
Carleton college fifteen years ago.
One of the surprises of the recent
Subernatorial campaign in North Da-
kota was the entry of Lynn J. Fra
zier into the race with the backing
of the recently organized North Da-
kota Farmers Nonpartisan league
Comparatively few persons knew of
him tas he never has been in any ex-
cept local politics. except the 1899
1901 football followers of the Univer-
sity of North Dakota the elevens of
which were captained by Mr.. Frazier
for two years.
He was carried into office by an
overwhelming vote (about 10000 of
the 10000 casD and his success was
largely due to his proclaimed inten-
ton of putting into effect. if possible,
state ownership of grain elevators.
packing and flour mills His program
also includes a fight to break down
the present obnoxious system of
produce marketing" in North Dakota,
and to increase the profit to the pro-
Queer, and at the same time lessen the
cost to the consumer.