The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-06-08
It Looks Good for Morgan


Ernest Hazel, Sr.: 81 have just
returned from a two weeks automo-
bile trip for my firm, the Lockwood
Hazel Printing Company, of Atch-
isOn, and visited in all twenty-one
counties in the two northern tiers of
counties in the State. After calling
on and talking with all the county
officials, bankers, business, travelling
men and farmers along the way, it is
my opinion that W. Y. Morgan will
carry every county I visited with
big majority. In fact, I believe he
vii get more votes than all of the
other six candidates put together.
Sentiment is fast crystallizing for
Morgan all over the northern part of
the State where I travel. -Atchison
Daily Globe, Sunday, June 4th
Senator Alfred Docking, of Man
haitian, who has been nprominently
mentioned as a candidate for Repub-
ican nomination for Governor, has
given out a statement in which he
says that he will not be a candidate
and that he will support W. Y. Nor
gan for the nomination. Senator
Bookings statement is as follows:
'fNo, am not in the race for
Governor, but thank most sincerely
the good friends who had such confd-
ence in me in the putting forward of
my name, and who said some mighty
nice things. 1t is my hope to always
merit their trust.
"After close scrutiny of the plat
forms, programs, public utterances of
the various candidates, and with due
consideration for the things that
must conscientiously support in the
interests of the farmer, livestock
man and all of the people, I shall vote
for W. Y. Morgan. do not find him
making promises aobut things that
belong to the Legislature to pass, or
about matters of transportation,
mrkets, etc, that are in the hands of
the Federal Government. He gets
the-idea that the Governor does not
make the laws, nor pass the appro-
priatons. A business Governor is
what we need to have the machinery
of the state government going eff
GENTLY and with the least possible eX-
penditure that will assure results.
Simplifcation is needed, unnecessary
agencies, boards, etc. should be elm
mated. Obsolete red-tape methods
should be changed. This is good
business management and involves
team work that W. Y. Morgan can Sc
cure from his official family. What a
state needs is a working Governor,
who is on the job, knows the state af-
fairs, manages them to the best of
his ability as he would his own, can
get cooperation from his officials, is
fair and deliberate in all things, and
has abundant sympathy with the
widely diversified life and occupa-
tions of Kansas. I feel that he will
not be unmindful of the program of
the splendid women of Kansas, for he
was one of the very first to openly
espouse the cause of woman's suf-
frage years ago. find, upon inquiry,
that he has no labor troubles with the
men in his employ or any with whom
he is associated, and that their rela-
tions are fine. Mr.. Morgan, dis
cover, is earnestly interested in the
public schools of the state, and Q
warm friend of practical agricultural
education I find his relations with
farmers and stock-men of the South
west are very cordial He has stood
for the vital problems that effect agri-
culture, realizing that it is the
foundation of Kansas life and pro
gress, and his mnd is open and CO.
operation always ready concerning
these fundamental needs. The five
points he emphasizes show this, and
his ideas upon right economy.
For these reasons I shall give him
my support"
r0.,,av..,,z, PJavars Agai, in Havs