The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-01-21
THE STATE PRESS.

Clay Center Times: Did the pos
sibility ever strike politicians that,
had Willetts been elected instead of
Humphrey, Mrs. Lease would have
succeeded Senator Plumb?
Lawrence Journal: II Kansas
City does not get the democratic
convention she may lay the failure
to Kansas. A great many democrats
there are who would be afraid to get
that close to prohibition state.
Atchison Champion: II 1t were
not for an occasional county seat
outbreak like that which at present
prevails In southwestern Kansas,
our militia would he the most
thoroughly useless thing In the
state.
Concordis Empire: w. l.. Marsh,
reform county attorney of Potta-
watomie county, was arrested last
week on the charge Of drunkenness
aud this week he was arrested again
charged with receiving q bride. He
seems to be typical reformer.
Junction City Republican: Hav-
kicked like bay steer against mort
cages, the Kansas alliance Is about
going into the business of being a
loathsome mortgage itself. The
Kansas Alliance Cooperative Mort
gage association has been formed.
Kansas City Gazette: Each Of the
downtrodden Alliance congressman
from Kansas has a private secretary.
And the lola Register states that
Funston, that "tOol OF the pluto
crats,"is the only representatives
from Kansas who cannot afford this
luxury.
Abilene Reflector: A st. Paul cor
respondent calls Ignatius Donnelly
1.-THE brainiest man In Minnesota"
and announces that he Is likely to
be the farmers alliance candidate
for the presidency. There must be q
regular brain famine in Minnesota
this year.
Clay Center Times: 1t is fashion
able to call Major Hudson Flight
ing Joe" but somehow Q great many
tilts he il1ulges in remind the cas-
ual reader Of the bull which had
the Misunderstanding with the loco
motive, and there Is no name which
exactly fits that episode and the
principal actor therein.
Emporia Republican. Plumb,
PETER, Perkins-previously Pome-
roy. People predict Peck. Person.
ally Peck possesses prime prere-
qusites-pleasing presence, pure
principles, pluck, power, party popu.
larity. Probably Peck prefers pre-
sent paying position. Professional
pride, properly preserved, precludes
political preferment.
Lawrence Record: 1.-THE republi-
cans had offered a prominent colored
man, one who was thought worthy
to run for q state office, a menial's
position, what q howl there would
have been from one end Of the coun-
try to the other. And yet the cam
didate for state auditor on the ALL
anoe ticket last year has been ap-
pointed superintendent of spit-
soohS hoA SohSicsS.
Lesvenworth Times: Strangely
enough the law Of Kansas provides
punishment for the man who offers a
bride but none for the man who
takes the hribe. 1t looks very much
as IL this law was passed by the legis-
lature with an eye to self protection.
We favor stringent laws for the pre-
vention Of bribery, which shall pro.
vide adequate punishment for both
the briber and the bribed. The man
who takes the bride is even worse
than the man who offers it, and
should receive greater punishment.
Bibrery has become q great deal
too prevalent in this country. Men
In every walk OF official life are cor.
rupted. The crime never will be
ersdicated. perhaps, but, like any
other crime, much can be done to
prevent 1t. What can be done
should be done, and done quickly.