The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-23
ALLEN GOVERNOR
OF KANSAS NOW
New Executive lnaugurated in
State House at Topeka Be-
fore Huge ThrOng.
DISCUSSED MANY PROBLEMS
In Address After Ceremony MIR. Allen
Said Greed Is Spreadina-Mr.
CappeFs Farewell

Topeka, Jan. 14.-Henry ]. Allen Of
Wichita was inaugurated governor OF
Kansas at noon yesterday. Justice
Henry F. Mason Of the supreme court
administered the oath to Governor
Allen and the other new state off
Gals, who are:
Chief Justice Supreme Court-W.
A. Johnson, Minneapolis.
Associate Justice Supreme Court
R. A Burch, Salina.
Lieutenant GOYernor-Charles s.
Huffman, Columbus.
Secretary of State-L. J. Pettijohn,
Dodge City.
State Auditor-Fred w Knapp, Be
lott.
State Treasurer-WaIter L. Payne,
Burlingame.
Attorney General Richard J. Hop
kins, Garden City.
Superintendent Public Instruction
Lizzie E. Wooster, SaIina.
Superintendent of Insurance Frank
L. Travis, lola
State Printer-W. R. Smith, Column
bus.
Travis Still in France.
intendent of insurance, is a lieutenant
colonel commanding the 117th Ammu-
milton train with the Rainbow Divis-
ion. He is in a base hospital in
France recovering from injuries re-
ceived in a motor car accident. His
oath, subscribed to before an Ameri-
can consul, was read by Justice
Mason.
A Big Crowd at Ceremony.
Long before the time set for the
ceremony crowds began to move to-
ward the Capitol to witness the inau-
guration. The whole state was repre-
scented in the gathering and Wichita
sent large delegation. Harvey H.
Motter, chairman of the Republican
state committee, presided at the
ceremonies.
The house of representatives, where
the ceremonies were held, could not
begin to hold the crowd which came
to Topeka to see the man from
France" take the oath of office to
which they nominated and elected him
while he was at the front in Red Cross
and Y. NJ. c. A. work.
The 4th Regiment band from WITCH
tia arrived early this morning and pa
raded the streets. The band was sent
here from Wichita by the business
men of that town, in compliment to
their fellow townsman.
Allen Took Oath Last.
Governor Allen took the oath last.
That ceremony was preceded by the
farewell address Of Arthur Capper,
the retiring governor. After Mr. AL
len had delivered his inaugural ad-
dress the ceremonies concluded with
the playing of national airs by the
4th Kansas Regiment Band
The big crowd which overfIowed
the hotels and statehouse will be
given a chance to hear the new gov
ernor in his first speech in Kansas
since he returned from France at the
Auditorium this afternoon. Governor
Allen will tell about the Both Division
composed Of the Kansas and Missouri
troops, in the Argonne Forest battle,
and other features of the war. 1t will
be the first war talk and Kansas
wants to hear it.
The war and the problems which
have arisen from it were given much
attention by the new governor, who
said that "by military force, demOc-
racy has won its contest against au-
tocracy; it remains to be seen wheth-
er by constructive justice and wis
dom, it can win its contest against
anarchy.
''The problems that crowd upon US
forbid that we react into the easy-go-
ing life we held before the war;" he
asserted, as he pointed out the
alarming growth" of farm tenantry
in Kansas and the increasing mum
bers of unemployed as a result of
military rehabilitation and the re-
lease of munition workers.
The new governor remarked that
since the regulatory federal control
had been lifted from various avenues
OF business and production there has
been a definite tendency toward high
er prices.
Topeka, Jan. 14-Arthur Capper,
retiring governor of Kansas and
United States senator-elect, in his adj
dress gave an outline Of the course
he Purposed to pursue in the Senate.
He spoke of the wave Of Bolshevism
in Europe and said, 1T is not impos-
sible for America to contract the dis
ease