County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

However Capper was elected governor in the next election in 1914 and served as Governor of Kansas from 1915 until 1919 winning re-election in 1916. He did not seek reelection in 1948. It was drawn by the attorney of the American Federation of Women's Clubs.

Capper became a long-serving senator representing Kansas as one of its two senators for five 6-year terms. Arthur Capper (July 14 1865 – December 19 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. "Capper's" continues today as a bimonthly glossy magazine that focuses on rural living.