The Jeffersonian Gazette from Lawrence, Kansas • Page 2

0 THE JEFFERSONIAN-GAZETTE, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JAN. 9, 1907 THE NEXT SENATOR. alts gtffrtfirabm Sntt A Lawrence editor is spending his days milling twith the states men in Topeka. A correspondent of the Gazette writes that he is cutting about the same amount of ice that the boys do when they go swimming in July. 1 Tthe Missouri court is going to tell Aggie Myers next Friday whether she is to live or die.

Friday is a day that puts most people up against it. -4 Bent Murdock is still running Roosevelt for president in 1908. If he doesn't quit it, Teddy may take it into his head some day to Most people know that if they have been sick they need Sao ft Emttl-sion to bring back health and strength. i t- But the strongest point about Scott EmtitefoTi is that you don't have to be sick to get results from it. It keeps up the athlete's strength, puts fat on thin people, makes a fretful baby happy, brings color to a pale girl's cheeks, and prevents coughs, colds and consumption.

Food in concentrated form for sick and well, young and old, rich and poor. And it contains no drugs and no alcohol. ALL DRUCOtSTS; BOc. AND 91. OO.

The Gazette has not been to Topeka. It has not mingled with the statesmen who loaf about the corridors and assume the wisdom that they never have. It has not talked with many from the Mecca of politicians, either. It has confined its efforts for the accretion of knowledge chiefly to the careful reading of the newspapers of the state, for they know the situation better by fair than do the wise men at Topeka. And here is wThat the Gazette is willing to bet on: The next United States senator will be either Curtis or Benson, with Murdock a possibility, and all others away back of the distance flag.

Mr. Stubbs would much prefer Victor Murdock above the others, and in his choice he is wise, for there is not a cleaner, more able and promising man in all Kansas than Victor Murdock. There are other things that Mr. Stubbs is thinking some thoughts about, also. A successor to Senator Long is to be elected two years hence, and if Murdock is elected now, it will practically eliminate Long, if he is not already eliminated, and there will be an open field for a new man at the next legislative session.

In that event, Mr. Stubbs will be at the door with his ticket of admission. The field is against Curtis. Murdock, Stubbs, Bristow, Campbell, Gatty, Leland, all but Benson have trained their men to hate Curits, and to vote for anybody to beat him. The field has united on Benson if driven to the ditch by the Curtis forces.

And there is where Benson's star shines, for Curtis will elect him, if he, Curtis, can not elect himself. It will follow as a dead moral certainty that Benson will be elected If Curtis can not be, for the combination against the Topeka man has made it impossible for him to go to any other candidate than Benson. And the strong point about Benson is that any man who votes for him, will not have to make apologies to his constituents when he goes home. Everybody in Kansas knows that Judge Benson is a clean, able man, for whom any man may vote with honor to himself and his constituency. Curtis has more votes by far than any other two men.

But if he has not enough to elect, he will go to Benson. If the combine against Curtis has not enough to elect, it will go to Benson. And that is the situ ation today. It may change to morrow. Almost any smart boy can learn telegraphy, and get a job as operator at a country station.

The pay is so small that an intelligent, grown man can not afford to work for it. The boy who caused the Rock Island wreck, is eighteen years old. It is not right to place such responsibility, upon a boy. Men make the same mistakes sometimes that this boy made, and cause deaths as he caused them, but a man is not so likely to make them. The Rock Island lost property enough in that wreck to have paid a man for several years of work, to say nothing of the awful loss of life and the suffering of the victims.

The rail- I roads are not alone to blame for this. Every trade, calling and profession, has in it boys who are not competent to fill the places they occupy, merely because they work for less money than can afford to work. The law ought to prohibit the employment of boys in such responsible positions. The Gazette notes with interest that the leading democrats of Kansas and Missouri are beginning to sit up and take notice of Barney Sheridan's Kansas City Post. It is straight democratic, some thing Kansas City has not had since the days of Or.

Mumford, and at the head is a man who says democratic things in an unmistakable tone of voice. The Star has been democrat or republican, just as the wind blew and the dollars came, and it has always been for sale to the highest bidder. The Post would not sell an opinion for the wealth of the Star. Possibly that is where Sheridan makes his mistake. Nelson has made millions by his readiness to sell anything.

The success or the failure of the Post will prove whether honesty and ability and integrity pay in politics, or whet her it is necessary to be a boodler in order to win. One state has barred lobbyists from the floor of the legislature. The others ought to do the same thing. Legislators are sent to the state capital to do business for the state, not to put in their time on the floor listening ro lobbyists who want to coax or buy them, as seems best. JI1TFEI1SONIA2? GAZETTE COu C.

S. Finch, so Brune. V. J. FUntora.

CUrenceS. Hall. at the poatoffic. Lawrence econd-claas mail matter. TERMS.

The Dllr Qm year by mail J3 00 Om month by carrier Om weak by carrier 10 ITbe JefftnOBlan2Gastt. Oae year, by mall SI. 50 tf paii in advance 1 -00 fae Weekly JefTeraonian Gette published Wadoeaday and has a larscr circulation than II other weeklies published in Dous'aa. County mbined. JANUARY 0, 1907, The Atchison Globe declares that the "Smart Set" is as rocky as Walt Whitman's poetry.

The statement, if generally read, should give the Smart Set quite a boom. There were two kinds of people who were in hard luck New Year's day. One kind was made up of kids who had to go to school, and the other of unfortunates who had to work all dav. f-H The man who caused the horrible wreck on the Hock Island can understand now what Napoleon meant when he said of a man's act, "It was worse than a crime; it was a "Politicians are doing nothing but loaf today," said a Topeka paper on the first day of the year. And if you will watcli them, you will see "that they put in the other three hundred and sixty four days doing the same thing.

The government made a net profit of fifty-nine millions during the year just past. The government lacked just a million of making as much as John I). Rockefeller, which is doing well for a dinky little government like ours. It is the smooth republican scheme to revise the tariff along certain lines, and thus spike the democratic guns to be used in 1908. The republicans will need to spike some guns.

Tariff worship is going out of style, and the republican party must keep up with the fashion if it hopes to win. The Bill Allen White crowd has evidently thrown up its hands in the speakership fight. Bill himself sends forth a wail that would have made a calamity howler, ashamed of himself. He makes I' -1 1 A 1 1 ine aire propnecy mat me crown that is "agin" him is going to ruin lie state, and thinks the beginning of the end is the election of John Simmons for speaker. And yet, Mr.

Simmons is, as Mr. White well knows, as square, as honest a man as there is in Kansas, and he is well qualified for the place. Anyway, he will not have to hire a man for assistant speaker. Mr. White is making a genuine, blown in the bottle, eighteen carat ass of himself, and it is time he was taking a tumble to the fact.

Dr. J. A. Lippencott is dead. It would not be true, to say that he bad been forgotten by Kansas, or by Lawrence people, for he is held in grateful remembrance by thousands of people hero.

For six veal's he was at the head of the State University, but times and people change so rapidly that the present generation lias not had time to learn of the great and good work he did for the advancement of the institution. Hundreds of men and women there are, though, scattered all over the world who gained their education under his direction, and who remember I him as a father, and in whose hearts, he and his memory will always hold a warm place. He was a gentleman of the old school, a man who would be tyranniea now. and adjudged domineering and his rules were inflexible, his laws as unchangeable as those of the Medes and Persians. But his heart was gentle, his disposition kindly.aiid the girl or the boy who went to him in sorrow or trouble, left him with a lighter heart and with the courage that his reso lution and independence imparted.

He was an old man who filled a place that required young, progressive blood, but he did his work faithfully and well and had his physical strength permitted, he would have lived out his allotted time in the high place to which he had been chosen. He was a true, a good man, and he did his duty as it came to him and as he saw it, and he has gone to his reward, full cf years and honors. It would make you sore now, now wouldn't it, if you had to dig up three weeks salary for an old dinky university? Well, that was what John D. Rockefeller did when he gave three millions to the Chicago university. The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of a daily paper in Kansas is somewhat amusing to those who lived here fifty years ago.

If the papers got out an issue once a week, or even once in two weeks, fifty years ago, it was because the editors hustled and were of the "get there quick" land. The Leavenworth Times "calls" thef Gazette for saying that the people at large have no particular kick coming on the Standard Oil company, and says the Standard ruined a town out in Colorado by refusing to buy the oil the town thought it had. The Standard does those things all the time. But the fact remains that the Standard Oil company brought the price of oil down more than fifty per cent to the people of the country. The only ones who were hit hard were speculators and boomers, and the men who bought oil stock.

The general public has not been hurt by the Standard. This is a fact that you can substantiate by reference to the price of oil for years back. The Gazette has no more love for the Standard than it is necessary to have in order to obey the Biblical injunction, but facts are facts, and the facts are that the Standard has confined its skinning business to men who were skinning, or trying to skin, other people. A writer in the Atlantic Monthly tells about the great power the country press exerts in congress. As a matter of fact, the congressman, the western congressman in particular, pays far more attention to what the editor of a country weekly in his district says than he does to what the New York Herald, or the Chicago Inter Ocean or the Washington Post says.

If a congressman reads a criticism in a metropolitan newspaper of something he has done, or failed to do, he regards it more as an advertisement of himself than as a detriment to him. He knows that the men who elect him will not see it, while the attention of the country has been called to him by a paper that circulates all over the country. But if, in a country paper of his district, appears an article criticizing him, he breaks his neck to find out what has happened to cause it. He knows that several hundred voters will read it, voters who will cast a ballot for or against him at the next election, and he goes to work at once to square himself with the editor, although he would have paid no attention whatever to the same thing if it had appeared in a metropolitan daily. The success of Senator Plumb was due in a great measure to the fact; that he kept close tab on the country newspapers of He subscribed for practically every one of them, and his clerks read them, cutting out and bringing to him whatever of politics or public thought they contained.

Plumb could sit down with a country editor and discuss issues and quote exchanges in a way that would make the editor be lieveve that he himself had not kept good track of things in Kansas Plumb's memory was wonderful, his industry unending, and his ambition unbounded. And one of the things that he deemed of more importance than all else was to keep in close touch with the country newspapers of tiie state. From them he got inspiration and knowledge. He did not can what the New York World thought of, so long as the Medicine Lodge Cresset, the Emporia Republican the Atchison Glole and the other Kansas newspapers said he was all right. And they always said it.

Senator Long appointed W. Mackev for another term as United States Marshal, not because he wanted do it. but because he thought it was the smart thing to do. It remains to be seen whether or not the appointment will buy him anything. al It seems that there was this difference between Senator Burton of Kansas and Senator Bailey of Texas: Burton got only $2,500 and a sentence in jail.

Bailey got $70,000 and another term in the United States senate. Which seems to prove that a man should not be cheap. suppress the paper. The Kansas legislature will meet next Tuesday. It will be a very important session to the members who draw three dollars per, mileage and post office stamps.

A warm spring rain with the blue grass starting from the ground on New Year's day is something unusual, but then, Kansas is always doing something unusual. -t f- Billy Deford of Ottawa, has been appointed assistant attorney general of New York, at a salary of $4,000, almost twice as much as he would get if he were the real thing in Kansas. If Secretary Taft wants the people of this country to consider him great, he must quit writing letters. Almost any American can write as well as Taft does, and every American is a judge of a good letter. Taft does not write good letters.

Congressman Victor Murdock went in and told Postmaster General Cortelyou a whole lot of things he never dreamed of, that were happening in the postoflicc department. That was easy for him, for Murdock knows things along several lines that Cortelyou never dreamed of. There is a dispute as to the origin, or antiquity, of alfalfa in Kansas. It is certain, however, that it can be traced back authentically to the early sixties, and it is probable that it was here with the first settlers, many of whom wore alfalfa whiskers. "The cancellation of railroad passes to newspaper men promises to make a boom in the sale of foot- the Ottawa Herald.

Not on your life; if the editor can not ride" on a pass, he will stay at home. His business away is not so very important anyway. The enemies of Congressman Curtis insist that the railroads want him elected United States senator. The Gazette does not know whether they do or not, but it knows they did not four years ago, when they contributed twenty thousand dollars for his defeat. The Marion Record, which is owned by Governor Hoch and edited by his son, gives the professional political reformers a jolt that will take some wind out of them.

The first sentence of it is, "True goodness never goes on dress parade." Now will BUI Allen White and his Holiness gang be good, or will they tackle Hoch? In the speakership race, it looks at though John Simmons has the whole bunch skinned a city block. Of course the other fellows will keep on fighting, just to make a show, but the present indications are that they are up against a hard proposition. The field is combining against him, but he doesn't seem to he afraid of the whole outfit. By the way, have you been buying denatured alcohol at the priee charged for coal oil, as was promised to us? It is said something lias happened to denatured alcohol manufacture that renders it impossible to manufacture it at the prices promised. Something always happens to things that promise to make trouble for the truMs.

If there is a "people's lobby" at Topeka this winter to "look after the interest of the masses," as it is said there will be, the Gazette pre diets now that it will be made up of a lot of spavined old grafters who have been kicked out of every "crowd" that has ever held sway in Kansas, captained by one or two half baked idiots and worked in the interest of certain men for offiee. Watch the bunch and see how far we miss it. Simon Guggenheim won out for United States senator in Colorado. It can be truthfully said for him that he is a whole lot better man than the latter's in in his name would indicate. In fact, he is about the smartest and squarest man in Colorado.

When he gets to Washington and buckles down to work, the country will forget about the spelling of his name, and honor him for the work he does. 3 I a few thousand dollars and some rocky upland. The most disgrace ful thing Kansas has done in all her life was to sell the medical department of her university to Missouri. And Kansas City showed her contempt for the cowardice and cupidity of Kansas by making faces at Kansas and starting opposition at once. Charley Scott writes a mighty good piece about 'tainted' money for his Iola Register.

The other day the Gazette said he would write good things for his paper when he got down to Washington and had nothing else to do. What he says about tainted money is all fight. I lis idea is that no matter how the money was secured, and no matter how much blood there may be on it, it ceases to be 4 'tainted" when put to good uses. We have seen thousands of dollars that men made selling whiskey and gambling at the poker table go to relieve distress, and pay preachers, and support mission aries. And we hold that when it was turned from the one channel into the other, it changed from tainted money to sainted money.

Many people are going from Lawrence to Topeka, and have been going for two weeks. They have no business there. They go for various reasons. A few, a very few, go because they do not happen to be busy that day and want to see the statesmen milling around. The man who goes out for that reason seldom goes but once.

One day of it lasts a sensible man a life time. Another bunch is made up of fellows who are seeking some dinky office, such as clerk of a committee, spittoon cleaner, or roustabout. This is the most numerous class They get three dollars a day if they get the job, winch does not pay their expenses. Then there yet another kind. They are grafters.

They go and loaf around hoping to get a "rake off" on some 'deal' that is to go through. Thev arc usually found hanging around Copeland county, whisper a 1. 1 ing 10 oiner ienows oi ineir Kinu, and telling about things that never did hapDen and never will. They usually hold some poor fool can didate up, and bleed him tor mogh to pay their and tlien go home and swell around and tell that they elected a United States senator. This class is gener ally made tin of men who have been to the legislature once, and then turned down at home.

They sell their to stickers who have more money than brains, and are usually in the camp of. three or four different men (hiring the session, and attempt to bleed each one. Douglas county has representatives in each one of these classes at Topeka now. The democrats of Travis county, Texas, hit Senator Bailey one below the belt. It is the big county of the state, and by a good sized majority it turned him down.

However, as Bailey has no one running against him, it is more than probable that he will get his job again. There was a despatch in the papers the other day telling about a new book that has been published fn enVd, the book is a roast of the present generation for alleged race suicide, and the woman who wrote it found fifteen New York blocks with only fifteen children. She jumps the American people good and hard. Investigation shows that the woman has been married several years, refuses to take up her husband's name, and has no children. Is it necessary to he "funny" in order to be a reformer, or does it just happen that all professional reformers are funny? Mr.

William Randolph Hearst says he will never again, be a candidate for office. Mr. Hearst seems to have found out at last that it is no use. Secretary Shaw says a panic is coming, and advises people to take care of themselves. And yet, Secretary Shaw failed to get into the cyclone cellar before the storm struck liis quarter section.

Congressman Bowersock fde-clares we have too many laws. Which is true. But we have not noticed that Mr. Bowersock has had very many laws repealed during his several terms in congress. Six months and more ago the Gazette demanded to know whether the Topeka Capital was supporting Curtis or fighting him.

The Capital has steadily refused to answer, and nobody else can find out. The Kansas Federal contingent seems to have had a head end collision with the Interior department. Well, if Harry Bone can't wipe up Secretary Hitchcock and his aristocratic silk hat, he ought to lose his job. The "block system" was put on the Rock Island just a few hours before the tragic wreck occurred. The block system is a good system, provided the men in authority understand it.

The claim is made that some of them do. We never have found one who did, however. Mr. Stannard, who is the holiness candidate for speakerof the Kansas legislature, admitted that he has a railroad pass, and that he rides on it; that he rode on it to Topeka when he went up to become the Holiness candidate for speaker. Several of the brethren, who also had passes, but who had not been found out vet, had heart failure when Mr.

Stannard admitted the pass charge. So far as the Gazette is concerned, it thinks more of him than it would if he had denied it. Kansas City, Missouri, is trying to get the medical department of the Missouri university to locate there. Which is all right. But it was not all right when the town bought the medical department of the Kansas state university for Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Never Suspect it.

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