Town and Country and the Sasnak from Fort Scott, Kansas • 1

MAJOR COMBS SATS: GREAT 8HTUJLL STORT UNDSa THB RED ROBE" HAS BEEN CROWDKD OUT TEMPORARILY BT TOO MUCH POLITICS. IT IS IN THIS WKBK. "PRINTING SALE- EILLS IN TOUR FIVE PAPERS IS A THOUSAND TIME3 BETTER ADVERTISING THAN POSTING BILLS." HE KNOWS. FOR HE TRIED IT. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, MARCH 23rd, 1906 NUMBER EIGHT.

VOLUME TWO. ym mmVhyfm MM( Hi 1 4 1i 1 aiisSfei i The Bourbon County GENERAL OFFICES: RICHARDS Press Association. BLOCK. FT. SCOTT, KANSAS.

Judge Biddle Is For Out Charles F. Scott GOOD STUFF ABOUT HENRY ALL-EN. rviuniu or TOWN AND COUNTRY, Edited by Ralph Richards. Fort Scott Mid The HMBtk, Founded by June Barton. In DNIONTOWN NEWS nrtmn R.

STEELE RRDFIEL.D HERALD UTBIT J. FRANK POOU SUBSCRIPT1GTJ R.1TB. BY trsd for trtumission (a tue mails second unless he keeps the public instructed that stirs him up and keeps him writing. To his friends here In Lawrence he frankly admits that the reason he is taking a leading part in the fight against me is that he is a candidate tor the United States Senate and that tny nomination to Congress will in-Jure his standing in the Second dis the following ringing speech introducing Hon. W.

R. Stubbs at The Davidson Theatre on Tuesday Evening Judge Biddle appears for the first time in many years at a Republican meeting. FOROOtTNTT SUPERINTENDENT. I hereby Moone bit self cortidM) for ftvfcfeot the deoMoa of the Republican Ooonty CenTeeHon of Bosrboa Oo. Graee Q.

Redlleld. candidate for repnblioan il kereby himdm Myself eaty.nbjeetMtliewmof th the I hareby annoanee myself a a candidate for the office of Sheriff Boarhon Covnry ut. )t te the deouio of the Republican county eonTention. I hereby annoanee myself a candidate for probate jude ot Bonrboo oouaty. subject to the aiaioa of the republican county eonTention.

I hereby announce myself as a candidate for canty subject to the decision of the republican I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the effee'ef Trotate Judse of Boarbon County subject to the decision uf the repullican county eonTention. B. Hudson. I hereby announce myself i rptLUan eonTention. i a candidate I hareby announce uirsolf as a oan.li.1a for oarbou County, subject to the will and pleaiurc EDITORIAL Are You Man for MAPLRTON DISPATCH (nCMi BT Hi A.

W.TWMAW. BDITB BT M. BYWQTOS. GARLAND GAZETTE EnmtD I. S.

BOTER. WK1LON9Y6HR "'00 elMs matter eeottltn to Act of Cowrrw County Superintendent of PnbUe InrBeion the efflee Ooy Trea-nrer of Bonrbon eonTention. r. A JOHHSOB. the office of county treasurer of Bourbon county convenlion.

AL. CABFBHTBa. Probate Judge subject to tte decision of the W. A. Cormnny.

tha nomination for the office of Sheriff of of the Republican County Convention. J. T. Walker, tha well known auctioneer. COMMENT.

Or Beast? acts: it your soul and all the decency The Prohibitory Law. FATE HAS DEGREED that tomorrow the men of Bourbon Count and the Second Congressional District of Kansas, who belong to the Republican Party, shall select their candidate to make the race against a democratic opponent for the office of Representative in the National Congress. Through the liberality of the candidates Hon. Charles F. Scott and Hon.

Henry J. Allen, who personally pay the expenses incident thereto, we will hold our first Primary Election upon this occasion. No matter how long you have lived in Kansas you have witnessed, it the time each nominating caucus was held, the disgraceful sight of a lot of ruffianly, bulldozing politicians, forcing the selection of candidates the majority of whom have not been the choice of the people' The caucus has been the place of residence of every conceivable dirty and disreputable practice. Force, whiskey, threats of financial and trade loss, and other methods of bribery and co-ercion have been indulged in. Tomorrow if we are men we will go to the polls and cast our votes for our real choice with a clear censcience and like worthy descendents of our ancestors and fathers who fought, first, that we might be free to have a mans voic.9 in our goverment, and second, that this Union should endure for ever.

If you are a beast and less worthy of attention than a filthy rag in the gutter, you will tomorrow be guilty of one or more of the follow i WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE The Most Famtjus Man In Kansas Indorses Henry Allen. William Allen mite says in ths Emporia Gasette: Without desiring In the least to disparage the other candidates for Congress In the Second district, who are, barring one, honest men, and gentlemen.and would make worthy representatives of any people in Congress, the Gaeette feels called upon to say a word for Henry Allen against whom a mean and unjust liRht is being wased. The writer hereof has known Henry Allen for upwards of twenty years. In all that time, both in public life and In private lifo, Mr. Allen has conducted himself as a gentleman.

He is a man of heart as well as of mind. In addition to being considerate and loyal to lils friends, he la a man of more than ordinary scholarship and learning; a student of public aaffirs who goes bo-npath the surface; his intellect has not stagnated nor grown too fast, and he la certain to be one of the big meu of Kansas. That his district has the opportunity to send such a man to Congress Is one of the unusual things in Kansas politics. Congressional candidates are usually pretty poor stuff, though, the Second district this year Is particularly happy in tho mental calibre of the republican aspirants. Hut mind and heart are not everythingthough they count for much.

The Important thing about Henry Al-J len Is that he Is absolutely honest.and has moral courage to be so In every emergency. This afflant has seen Allen's honesty tried. He has seen the devil take Henry up Into a high moun tain and tempt him, and he has seen Henry Allen stand the test. His moral sense is as highly developed as his keen quick brain, and he will do. There is not a rotten place in his character.

More than that, Henry Allen is with the people. being a demagogue, he Is in sympathy with the people in their struggles against aggrandized wealth, and he may be de pended upon in every emergency. And if ho were to go to Congress the dis- trict would have this important dis tinction over the other districts in Kansas: Their Congressman would not be a candidate for the United States senate. Allen's ambition Is for work in the lower house, and he will make a useful member. The Gazette feels no hesitancy in dipping Into Sec ond district matters.

It has just as much circulation there a3 the papers in other districts In Kawas had which dipped Into the Fourth district fight three years ago. A PERTINENT TALK. By Henry Allen at Lawrence for Our People to Read Before They Vote. It has been said In some of the news reports that I was coming here tonight to remove the scalp of your distinguished fellowtownsman, Wal' ter Itoscoe Stubbs. This is an error, I possess no mania for the scalps of other men.

I have never belonged to that peculiar class of Kansas savages who are always adding scalplocks to their political trophies. I regret that Mr. Stubbs' conduct In stepping in front of Mr. Scott and making him self the central figure in the Second district contest against me, render it necessary for me to refer to Mr. Stubbs at all.

The words of extreme unction and advice which Mr. Stubbs has spoken and written touching my unfitness for public life, would fill a large book. They ought to be assembled and printed in a volume labeled Stubbs' night thoughts on Henry Al len." Mr. Stubbs tells us that these outbursts are not Inspired by any personal feeling toward myself and that he has no selfish motive In his contest against me. He wants us to understand that, In all this effort, his good heart is actuated only by a pious fervor for the public weal, a high sense of public responsibility alone moves him; it is the fear that the public will make some bad mistake trict, while Scott's nomination will materially improve his standing.

I regret that Mr. Stubbs takes this viaw of it. I regret that he has chosen to Inject his contest into mine. I hope I will not tax your patience If I go with some minuteness into the various so-called charges which Mr. Stubbs has seen fit to make against me.

I will deal with them in the or der ia which he makes them in his late epistle, which I hold in my hand In tha first paragraph he says "What honest citizen can afford to endorse the State Printer bargain which is charged against Allen and which does not deny?" "What Is this State Printer bar Sain of which i.r. Stubbs has talked so much? Prior to last winter the printing for the state of Kansas was done by contract, at a stipulated price. The man who received this contract was selected by the legisla lure. He was required to furnish his own plant and the profits he made upon the contract depended upon his business management, and was great ly affected by the amount of outside Visiness he was able to do for the "general public. The State Printer is elected in January, the contract be gins the following July.

If the State Printer has no plant adequate to per form the contract he must make an expensive investment in the neces sary plant so as to be ready to do the work by the time the contract becomes effective. In the purchase of the printing-plant with which the last state contract was done, I had an In terest wlh Mr. George Clark who uad been awarded the contract by the leg islature. I invested a large amount of money in the printing establishment. I participated in the profits which ac crued from the work done for the state a3 well as the wprk which we did for the general public.

General J. K. Hudson, who was awarded the state printing contract several years ago, who is well known here in Kan sas, and who i3, moreover, friendly to Mr. Scott in this contest, wrote an editorial for his paper, the Topeka Herald, some time ago, in which he said: "There 13 nothing wrong from a moral or legal standpoint in mak ing the contract which it Is claimed existed between Mr. Clark and Mr.

Allen. The Herald is getting tired of hearing a lot of seasoned politicians holding up their hands In holy horror at the Idea of a partnership between Henry Allen and George Clark. If the transaction had Involved any additional costs to the state for the work-done, or was a conspiracy to defraud the state by suppressing competition it would alter the case, but since tho contract was purely a business matter between Mr. Clark and Mr. Allen, and since it cost the state no money, It is a matter which does not concern the public." Since Mr.

Stubbs entered Kansas politics he ha3 been a scandal mon ger. No man ever entered the public me or the state who has been so careless with the characters of men Take as a late example his speech at. Wichita where he made the astonish ing statement that he believed mem bers of the last legislature sold their votes to the railroads. This was tho legislature which Mr. Stubbs has ad vertised as one of the best that ever assembled; yet he throws a shadow of suspicion over every member by mak ing as speaker ot that body a charge In which he either lacks the courage or the manhood to particularize.

Mr. Stubbs seems to forget the psycholo gical truth that a man who attributes vile motives to his fellows, who is al ways mistrusting evil, and breathing slander, gives unconsciously some index aa to the character of his owd heart." er fails to comprehend the impropriety of such a method, and the want of moral rectitude thus disclosed. The selection of a candidate for congress according to this Erst class of men is not made with a view to public good, but that the private ends and selfish purposes of certain loaders may be host promoted. It is a peculiar fact that tho love of gold and the greed that controls this iirst class of men and their personal ambition, never accomplishes the peace of mind and satisfaction of soul in this world that is expected, and in the next world when their naked souls came up before the great Judge omnipotent, that their power is gone their riches have flown; they have no rival to crush; no rebate to obtain; no legislature and Judges to corrupt; tnat tney are there before the incorruptible, and all powerful Judge, who cannot bo bribed, and that they will naturally drift into the congenial atmosphere of the. degenerates in that spirit world; that all their conquests and all their success are vanity, a purer life, better aims and morals, A i'airer regard for the rights of others, instead of debasing the soul, would purify it, and build character upon which alone man will be judged, and and if in that undiscovered country the soul lives forever, purer souls, would naturally go among the virtuous, and those who had believed' in the square deal.

Now It is singular fact that the second Class of men above referred to, are much the most numerous. That society is largely composed, of men and women wfto believe in the square Seal, and as a matter of fact, they have the nower to select just who they please for their representatives. But to do this they must exert themselves: they have got to act independently; they have got to frown down upon candidates for of fice who are grafters and who belong to the first class of men above referred to. They should, never support for any office, a man who belongs to the, above named first class. It don't make any difference what party the candidate seeks an office in.

Parties are alright and necessary, but the voter should never forget that above party is his country, the country under which he enjoys the protection of his person and property. But the second class are largely indifferent and frequently fail to investigate. They too often drop the whole subject by saying "Oh they are all corrupt." A man who uses such an expression, is too lazy to investigate and lacks courage to vote his principles. It is another singular fact that when ever a courageous man with ability and determination, seeks to rectify the wrongs that gradually creep into our government, and to dethrone the grafters, he is almost universally upheld and encouraged in his work'. The most notable example of this perhaps, at least the most familiar to is that of Governor Folk of Missouri.

A young determined man who carried Missouri for governor by over 30,000 majority as a democrat, while Roosevelt, a very notable man of the same class, carried the state by an equal majority as a republican. Kansas, the land of the sun flowers, cyclones and Carrie Nations. but a land inhabited by an energetic, liberty loving people, two years' had its government controlled by men who belonged to the first class above described. To tho timid and the coward, it seemed an impossible task to throw off the yoke and to loosen the grip that these bosses had on our goveramant, our legislature and our But singular as it may appear, right in the high tide of their power, a man who took little nublie part in politics; a man of means and la.ge business enterprises; a man comparatively unknown and surely unknown as a public man. A courage ous man; living in a city where our state University flourishes, lifted un his voice and said "he would fight this powerful entrenched organization of bosses." The courage displayed was a continued surprise.

But the the people of the second class came to his rescue. An upheavel occured in this fair state of ours. The neonlo poke and the bosses went home out of a job. The legislature that convened, was still more or less influenced against good government; for it is im possible in a single effort, to rid a The great question in America today, is the "Square deal." The square deal in public offices. The square deal in Railroad management.

Tne square deal among insurance officials. The square deal in largo industrial establishments. The square-deal for the people. On this subject of square deal, there are several kind of people in America. One kind that believes that any sort of cunning or chicanery, is proper and legitimate in obtaining personal success or in the accumulation of money.

This class of people have a disposition that is well expressed by a saying attributed to Commodore Vanderbilt "The people be dammed. The most conspicuous example of unfair dealing, is the Standard Oil Company. After Miss Ida- M. Tarbail has so thoroughly exposed the methods of the Standard Oil Company in cursing outrivals; by the exercise of every sort of deceptive device, even to the extent it is said of causing to be burned a refinery of a small rival, that such "methods would be abandoned. But the testimony taken a few days ago in Kansas City, Missouri, before the.

interstate, commerce commission, shows beyond question, that the same policies have been continued in that great organization right along and that the same methods are now being adopted and carried out. One witness called before the commission who had been in the service of the Standard Oil Company for 2 years, did not know who the president or manager of the Company under which he was working, was. 1 speak of this simply as an illustration. It shows that a certain class of men have no re- gard for theright side of the question; that to bribe a legislature is a legitimate enterprise; that to corrupt jud ges and other officials, is one of the legitimate plans adopted for the success of their business; that public sentiment has no influence with them. It does not change their methods, but that they pursue secretly and uurelen tmgly, the immoral methods contin uousiy for the accumulation of money That the destruction of a rival by the impoverishment of men and moral, is a mere passing event that Hits upon the horizon ot their business plans and is then gone forever, unsung and unregretted.

In fact, they gloat over sucn destruction as a victory in bus iness. This same disposition prevails and more or less controls a certain class of business men in almost every community. The man who believes in it may be a church member and large contributor to public enterpris es, yet he lacks an appreciation of the moral phases of his business methods This is the first class. The second class of men and women in this in legitimate bus icss enterprise; believe in working for themselves, but with due consideration for the rights of others. They do not believe in success that result from the destruction of a rival in business They believe in the "square Such men have hiati purposes and high aims: believe in schools and church es, and have a high sense of morals They would shun perjury.

They believe in the government under which they live and condemn illegitimate and ll legal means by which the srovernment will become impure. They believe in tne putmc well-lare. buch men can not be bribed. They shudder at the disclosure made of the business meth ods of the Standard Oil Company vvnen tne officials that we select are of this second class, we can always be assured of trood government. We can always trust in the honesty of their motives however much mistaken they may sometimes be on cer tain-public measures.

And as the peo pie always select these officials, and have the power to select them, and as the people are the parties that are most deeply interested, it behooves every citizen to always exercise his vote inciependendent of personal friends, independent of the solicita tion of professed friends, not controll ed by pecuniary reward, directly or indirectly. And with a view of al ways having officers who believe in the square deal. One of the most pe culiar incidents in this campaign be tween Mr. scon, and Mr. Allen, is a personal letter said to be written to his friends by a prominent supporter of Mr.

Allen, which he closed with this pertinent sujnrestion. that the success of Allen would benefit the writer hereafter. Mow the most peculiar thing about this letter Is that the writ- ing, dishonourable and contemptuous You will sell your vote and with that is in you; You will be a Boss and at the dictation of a Boss above you act the part of a traitor to yourself, your country, your ancestors and your honored father; You will be a purchasable thing like a sow or a whining cur bitch, and sell for a pittance your vote to another bastard. When you sell or barter your right of franchise, yot not only betray every honourable man who has given his time, substance or life to the betterment of the goverment which protects you and your family and your property but you also do all you can to reduce public morals to the code of the harlot and the thief. He who either buys or sells a vote is both a thief and a traitor.

Your crimes will make themselves known in time. Neither your God or public opinion will forgive you the commission of such a flagrant and premeditated sin. Governor Hoch And Many of us were of the opinion that Governor Hoch was insincere in his efforts to close the notorious Topeka joints, but recent events in this community have tempered our ideas on the subject. When County Attorney Humphrey failed to convict in the whiskey cases and the suit against Josie Hopkins because a "liberal" jury ignored both the law and the evidence, we began to realize what the authorities at Topeka are up against. The country editors of Kansas who live in towns of less than five thousand population are probably cussing the governor without cause as far as his non inforcement of the prohibitory law is concerned.

It ia mighty easy to sit on. an editorial tripod in the midst of a rural community where the sentiment is healthy and all for law enforcement and become imbued with the idea that the whole world is like the neighborhood you live in. A few days spent in Fort Scott or any of the other large Kansas town will open the eyes of the innocents of the newspaper fraternity. The saloons and joints can be closed and be kept closed but the task is no snap. An assistant attorney general in each county containing a large town can do the work effectively.

He should receive a monthly salary and his income must be dependent on absolute A (uontidued on eight page..