The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-13
BAILEY AND HANNA.
New York Sun Discusses Their Un-
married State


An enterprising newspaper correspon-
dent has sent story east that w. J.
Bailey and D. ]. Hanna, governor-elect
and lieutenant governor-elect of Kan
sas, agreed that if elected they would
cease to be bachelors and take unto
themselves wives but that they are now
trying to crawl out the agreement. The
story tells how Kansas has recently &C
quired $4,000 executive mansion as
the home of it's governor, but that it
will be let out to roomers during the
coming administration because Cover
nor Bailey will not get married.
The New York Sun makes this the
basis for lengthy editorial under the
heading, The Sunfiower Celibates." 1t
says:
1.-The Kansas girls have a grievance.
Not less renowned for their personal
charms than for their enthusiastic in
terest in politics, they are now forced to
submit to a personal and political af-
front. 1t inks US to have to say that
two Republican politicians, of whom we
should have expected better things, are
the guilty men. Before the Republican
state convention at Wichita, the Hon.
D. J. Hanna. conscious of the incom-
pleteness of a bachelor. promised that
if he were nominated and elected gov
ernor he would take to himself a Kan
sas wife before inauguration day. The
Hon. ]. w. Bailey made the same prom
Use.
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 pio-
neers, the founders and early settlers.
There is no place for the unmarried
man in new commonwealth. Kansas
expects every man to do his duty. The
Republican managers had to bow to
public opinion. BY nominating unmar-
ried candidates who promised to get
married, they had the additional merit
of seeming to pluck brands from the
burning. They won the women to the
Republican side.
Mr. Hanna was nominated for lieu
tenant governor and elected. He is try
ing to sneak out of the spirit of his
solemn covenant by pleading the letter
of it. He says that if he had been nom
mated for governor, he would have ia
ken to himself party of the second
part. AS he was obliged to content him
self with the lieutenant governorship,
he 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 err
ror of his ways, reform him, convert
him from q half to a whole. Virtually
he promised to elect lieutenant COVER
nor for himself before January next.
There is time enough yet If he clings
to petty and literal construction of his
contract, the day of retributiOn will
avenged. Some one of those masterful
female characters that abound in Kan
sas will make grim resolve, annex
him, willy nilly, and rule him with a
rod of iron The lieutenant governor
will be governed by a 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 to below does he seek
to crawl out of his deliberate engage-
ment to become engaged? 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 inference is that
amid the hundreds of thousands of Kan
sas beauties there is none to his taste
Will they swallow such an insult?
kansas has an almost new executive
mansion. The legislature never meant
that this building should be the gloomy
fortress of q solitary. the prison of 4
misogynist. Mr.. Bailey should be Wise
in time. Even now Nemesis may be
heard gathering along those polished
floors. Il she the housekeeper? Is she
the Cook?
I'm the January morning what head
| is this. disheveled, tinorous, that peeps
| out of the hedclothes while a trefnen-
dous sCmmoning knock is heard on The
door. a door whose double locks canroi
bring courage to that jumping heart
| That would be Governor Bai1ey's head
if he wore one; and that is Nemesis who
is shouting her shrill warning at trs
keyhole. She goes, but another will
! come, governor. You will be buliied
your coffee will be dishwater, your
beefsteak will be calcined; your linen
and your temper frayed. With demon
| laughter Nemesis shrieks and bangs the
flatiron in the laundry. Nemesis sweeps
dust into the governors eyes and burns
up his papers; Nemesis merrily ships
the buttons off his shirts. boards him to
his face and demands a character and
two weeks wages when he is sitting at
the council board.
1.-The Kansas women may trust Ne
mesis. She is a woman of great humoI
and hath unfeeling iteration"
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