Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-11-20
Two SunflOwer Calibates.

cnafus tnan lOr tnelr ent0uslattlc 10
terest in politics, they are now forced to
submit to a personal and political a.
front. 1t irks US to have to say that
two Republican politicians, OF whom we
should have expected better things, are
the guilty meD. Before the Republican
State Convention at Wi:aita, the Hon.
d. j. Hanna, conscious OF the incom-
pleteness of a bachelcT, promised that
if he were nominated a. d elected Gov
ernor he would take 10 himself Kan
sas wife before Inauguration day. The
Hon. j. w. Baily made the Same
promise.
Kansas still cherishes something of
the ideals OF the frontier. Rich and
cultivated as she is, her heart is still
true to the political economy OF the
pioneers, the founders and early set
tiers. There is DO place for the un-
married man in new commonwealth.
Kansas expects every man to do his
duty. The Republican managers had
to bow to public opition. BY nomi-
mating unmarried candidates who
promised to get married, they had the
additional merit OF seeming to pluck
brands from the burning. They WOO
the women to the Republican side.
Mr.. Hanna was nominated for Lieu
tenant. Governor and elected. He is
trying to sneak out of the spirit of his
solemn covenant by pleading the letter
of it. He says that if he had been
nominated for Governor, be would
have taken to himself a party OF the
second part. AS he was obliged TO
content himself with the Lieutenant
Governorship, be affects to regard
himself as released from his obligation,
But why was he elected? Because the
Kansas girls and women wanted to
turn him from the error of his ways,
reform him, convert him from half
to whole. Virtually he promised to
eject Lieutenant-Governor for nim-
self before January next There ls
time enough yet. If he clings to a
petty and literal construction OF his
contract, the day of retribution will
come, and femi0ine Kansas will be
avenged. Some one OF those master
full female characters that abound in
Kansas will make grim resolve, an
rex him, wiily.nill.. ard rule him with
a rod of iron. The Lieutenant-Gov.
ernor will be governed by stern
Governor. We see his fate and
chuckle thereat.
And how does the Hon. j. W. Bailey,
the Governor that is to be, the husband
that promised 10 be--how does he seek
to crawl out of his deliberate engage
ment to become engagedP How does
he strive to divorce himself from his
word? Why, he AYERS that he has
used all due diligence in looking for
wife. but can't find one. The infer
ence is that amid the hundreds o
thousands OF Kansas beauties there II
none to his taste. Will they swolov
such an insult!
Kansas has an almost new "Execu
tive Mansion. The Legislature nevel
meant this building should be th'
gloomy fortress, of solitary, th'
prison of misogynist Mr. Bale.
should be wise in time Even nov
Nemesis may be heard clattering alont
Y those polished floors. Is she the house
keeper? Is she the cook?
In the January morning what heat
Is this, dishevelled, timorous, tina
peeps out of the bedclothes while {
tremendous summoning knock is heart
on the door, door whose double lock
cannot bring couraget to that jumpin!
hearth That would be Governo
Bailey's head, if he wore one; and tha
| is Nemesis who is shouting her shril
warning at the keyhole. She goes
but another will come, Governor
You will be bullied; your coffee will b
dishwater, your beefsteak will b
calcined; your linen and your tempe
frayed. With demon laughter Nemesi
shrieks and bangs the tiatiron in tn
laundry. Nemesis sweeps dust int
, the Governors eyes and burns up hi
papers; Nemesis merrily snlps tn
buttons off his shirts. boards him t
mis- face and demands "charactel
and two weeks wages when he is sit
ting at the council board.
The Kansas women may trust Nc
mesis. She is woman Of grea
humor and hath unfeelipg iteration =
New York Sun.
Asleep Amid Flames.