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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Kansas Commandery of the Military Order of Loyal Legion of the United States: At the Stated Meeting, Thursday, November 3rd, 1887 I have said that there are but two theories, two sys; tems of government, and I may add that there never have been, never can be but the two - the despotic and the dem. Ocratic. True it may be, that circumstances may combine to modify each of these in turn, but no power can ever assimilate them. They are set over against each other in an antagonism as old and as continuous as the existence of the human race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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George Tobey Anthony was born on June 9, 1824 in Mayfield, New York, United States. He was the youngest of five children. His parents were Benjamin and Anna (Odell) Anthony, ardent members of the Society of Friends. Benjamin Anthony died when this son was five years of age. Four years later the family moved to Greenfield, New York.
In Greenfield Anthony attended school in the winter months and "worked out" on the farms in the neighborhood during the remainder of the year.
At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a tinner at Union Springs, New York.
At the conclusion of his apprenticeship he opened a small tinshop and hardware store at Medina, New York. He was proprietor, merchant, and tinner, doing all of the work in the establishment.
Subsequently, at an uncertain date, he moved to New York City and entered the commission business, which he followed until President Lincoln's call for volunteers, on July 2, 1862. Gov. Morgan, in response to the call, organized the state of New York, for the purpose of recruiting, into territorial divisions, over each of which was a committee in charge. The committee supervising the sub-division which included Genesee, Orleans, and Niagara counties was composed of Ex-Gov. Church, Noah Davis, Jr. , and George Tobey Anthony. Anthony recruited and organized the New York independent battery and entered the service as its captain. The battery served with credit throughout the war, Anthony remaining with it until mustered out, June 12, 1865.
He was brevetted major of volunteers for distinguished service. Anthony and his wife arrived in Leavenworth, Kansas, in November 1865, when he began the second and more important period of his life. He became editor of the Daily Bulletin and the Daily Conservative, positions which he held for two and one-half years.
He was editor and proprietor of the Kansas Farmer for six years. It was in this capacity that he made his influence especially felt in Kansas. He had a practical knowledge of thorough farming in New York, a foremost state in sound agricultural theory and practice. This was in contrast with the slipshod methods prevailing in Kansas at that time.
He admonished the farmers to diversify crops, to rotate them in order to preserve the soil, to care for farm machinery, to care for livestock and to improve the breed, to economize farm management, and to improve home conditions on the farm.
In December 1867 he was appointed assistant assessor of Internal Revenue and in the following year collector of Internal Revenue for the United States. He was president of the state Board of Agriculture for the three years 1874-1876 and a member of the Board of Managers of the Centennial Exposition.
In 1876 he was elected governor of Kansas on the Republican ticket. He failed to be reelected for a second term. During his administration he recommended that the legislature provide for a reformatory for young criminals separate from the penitentiary, was instrumental in subduing refractory Indians, put down a riot caused by striking railway employees, and recommended that the legislature take action to compel railroads to fulfil their obligations to the public in cases where citizens had voted bonds to build the roads.
In 1881 he was appointed general superintendent of the Mexican Railway; in 1885 he represented Leavenworth County in the legislature; in 1889 he was appointed a member of the state Board of Railroad Commissioners; in 1892 he was nominated for Congress by the Republican party, but failed of election.
Anthony suffered from diabetes and died from pneumonia in 1896.
As a governor, Anthony was known for penny-pinching, and favored programs that did not cost the state much money. During Anthony's term, he was the first Kansas governor to read his message to the state legislature, the state's first telephone was installed. The town of Anthony, Kansas was named after him.
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Anthony was known for his extraordinary public speaking and debating skills. He met all the duties of the executive office with good judgment and firmness. Indeed, he was aggressively honest and rather militant in his attitude toward those whom he deemed in the wrong.
In 1852 he married Rosa Lyon. They had one son.
