The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-25

Hear'n as how the legislator was
meetin in Tupeka Me and Mirandy
packed our grips and told the hired
man what to do while we wuz gone.
and come off up here to see how
them fellers make our laws.
We went up to the building they
call the state house early yesterday
afternoon and waited, thinkin' we'd
be there in time for the big doin's.
Finally, after sittin there until it was
nigh unto time to do the chores, with
nLthin' happenin. and just about the
time we was gettin tired, here comes
them fellers flockin in. 1t wuZ four
o'clock when a tall Teller who was on
a raised platform hammered with a
mallet and told them all to be still.
Then some other Teller. who they
said was the sargent, yelled some
thing about gettin down to business
and the LEGISLATOR was on.
The Teller who was runnin the per-
Torrance kept calm fer one thing or
other and after awhile several other
feIlers got up and held up pieces of
paper.
They're All Gentlemen
He called them all Gentlemen"
but some of them didn't look it. and
then little lids would run out and
take the papers to the Teller on the
platform, where another Teller, who
had voice like the circus yeller,
man they said wuZ t'Speaker" would
call for some more things, which wuz
, from some Teller who was called
Chairman" and who said what he
wanted to get by. I'd like to know
how that Speaker" man learned
where all them Gentlemen wuz from.
He called 'em all and told 'em where
they was from. 1 spect they knew,
themselves.
Maybe They'll Be Laws.
They wuz some funny things-I be-
| lieve they called 'em Ibills-put in, all
| the way from changin' the insurance
rates to huildin' shelter for street car
sIores, and takin' all the poison out of
| nails.
! BY and by some gentleman got up
and called to the gent. on the platform
to tell him that his side of the room
! was teo cold and he could not get the
| janitor to make it warm. He called
; The janitor some name, which wasn't
a gentleman.
Then some gentleman who must not
! have got thru his dinner and was late
wanted to put a piece of paper in
which he did, and they wouldn't take
it cause it had the wrong kind OF
cover on it.
Maybe There's Party
Some more gentlemen then got W
and sed they wanted to see some fell
| lers on private business. Bet they are
up to some monkey shines, but IL
keep shy of them.
Wuz % minutes after four wher
they wuz thru and the Teller they cal
speaker sed as how they would NEE
I gain at nine o'clock in the mornin'
but that must of been too early fol-
some little gentleman for he asked en-
| to put it off till 10, and they did.
Just fore they quit the sargent
yelled to have all the workers tell hin
| when they got in in the mornin' and
when they quit at night. He sed they
wuZ only goin' to pay them after THU
when they wuZ there.
Then the gentlemen all left and they
/ wuz done for the day. one of EN- told
me- There wuz nothin' more to see So
me and Mirandy went over to where
the other legislators were. but we go
there too late. for they only had t
! work ! 5 minutes
faint Like at Home
I asst a feIler there and he told ms
they had meetin about a hour in tbs
II mornin and then in the afternoon
Me and Mirandy we works frun
afore sunup till long after dark. ant
looks like TO me as how L would b.
ashamed to take the money-they said
they got three dollars a day-anc
they play for only about ? hours
but they do say legislators aint go
no conscience so they takes the pa.
right along.
/; Afore 1 go back guess I'll see on
of them gentlemen and get him Z
get me job up here. They got tina
Teller who used TO start our hos
races at the county fair job. 81
guess / can get one. too
Id think them gentlemen would 81