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Show WAS NOT GOVERNOR THEN, Dignified Chief Executive of Missouri as a Lawbreaker in His College Col-lege Days. Chase Brown of Chanute has a picture pic-ture taken in 1892, when he was a student at the University of Kansas, of which he is very proud. The picture pic-ture shows students of the university working out their poll tax down on the streets of Lawrence. Among the students whose likeness appear in the picture is Herb Hadley, now known by the more dignified term of Gov. Hadley of Missouri. Through a political polit-ical row about 50 students were compelled com-pelled to work out poll tax. The students stu-dents who had to pay this tax were each allowed to employ a couple of helpers, and because of this the work was soon completed. "Herb Hadley," says Mr. Brown, "was the most obnoxious ob-noxious lawbreaker of the whole bunch that day. And most of the bunch were engaged in breaking the law. Hadley got up on a goods box and it is said that in language not designed de-signed for parlor use told the assembled assem-bled students just what he thought of the town authorities that would compel com-pel students to work out poll tax. Mr. Brown was not of age at the time and he was working as a helper. The streets of Lawrence were improved very little by the work the students did that day. Crooked sticks, canes, brooms and other formidable implements imple-ments were used at the direction of the street commissioner, who rather sided with the students. The mayor of the town passed along the street In a carriage and several students who actually had shovels really filled them with dirt, and threw the dirt into the mayors conveyance." Chanute Trib une. |