The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-11

Tt seems to have been nothing short
of malicious SANDER. this spreading OF
campaign thunder about two young
men who are trying for place in the
Kansas legislature this winter. It is
really high time that cleanliness in pol
ftics be a fact instead of fiction. for
when young men who wish to secure
toga or to@aree shy their castor or
their pepper box into the ring it is
signal that their life-past, present and
future-will be assailed by the cap
sicum tipped tongues of scandal mon
gers
What if J. B. Adams. Bun" Adams.
as he is known along the Walnut,
wishes to dip into society, has he not
right to? If this same Bun Adams,
of FL Dorado. wishes to be leader of
a progressive buggy ride along the
rural moonlit lanes and byways of But
Ter county. can he not do it? Would
the breath of scandal be waited his way
II he led a german instead of pro-
gressive buggy ride? MOI No! A thou
sand noes and not an aye.
Now this Bun" Adams did this very
thing. He was the driver of the front
vehicle of a progressive buggy ride; at
least it was the front vehicle for time
until he changed girls, got the one he
wanted, and followed a stray hay
wagon half the way to COwley county.
That wasn't his fault: it was the fault
of the girl She was so entertaining, you
know. And yet. this very girl, on ac-
count of her charms and because she
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wagon, which of course Travelled slow,
and guided the horse in lieu of direct
ing pair of hands the reins. yes this
very girl may rob the hall of represen-
tatives of a budding sage of the new
century. For now that Bun is in the
heat of the campaign, this story is be-
ing told about him.
Why? Because there was some jeal-
Gus man in a rear buggy who at the
next change probably wanted to ride
with that girl. Now. should this man in
the rear buggy stoOp in the infamous
political practice of allowing his per-
sonal reasons to make him a bitter DO
litical enemy of Bun? No, again we
say no. What is that fellows wish to
ride with the girl who rode with the
man who drove the buggy that followed
the hayrack that was headed for Cow
ley county compared with the asDira-
tions of said man in the first buggy be-
hind the hayrack to shout Mr.. Speak
err at the top of his voice in RepreSen-
tative hall during the next session of the
legislature. The comparison leaves the
man who was in the second buggy with
a mere bagatelle of coincidence for his
} berea vement.
And still at every turn of the politi-
cal campaign in Butler county. so it is
rumored, Bun Adams has to explain
how young man in the leading vehicle
of a progressive buggy ride who could
so far forget himself as to follow off
rumbling havrack could be entrusted
with the hopes Of Butler county in the
struggles for appropriations, janitors
pages and door keepers in the legiSla-
ture. No one has advanced any author
ity to show that progressive buggy rid
ing dfsqualites anyone from being a
representative. Gear" Reeds rules do
not touch on that mOmentiOus question.
: And still there seems to be some peo-
pie who doubt the ability of a man to
legislate and follow off a hayraek in d
progressive buggy ride
But this slandering of aspirants to
craftsmanship does not stop in Butler
county. In Shawnee county A. F. Will
Jams would like to be a representative
There seems to be only one thing in his
Z way Not a buggy ride but ping pong
All people who enter public life are Ii
/ able to do something that causes talk.
: This something may be anywhere from
accepting Doodle in the sum of five fig
i ures or refusing to have a union man
shingle his woodshed And so it is with
young Archie.
He played ping pong in q six days
tournament go-as-you- please and now
it is limited and basely rumored that he
would use the Speakers desk in Repre-
sentative hall for pin@ pong court.
This political talk is said to have been
started as a back fire on Williams pO-
litical ambitions because he did not win
in the ping pong tournament.
The following is from a certain week
1y Kansas paper, with the real name or
r the departed omitted she was not a
willing party to the debt nor the din
r ner:
"A CARD OF THANKS
I'VE, the members of the Rebekah
lodge. wish to thank the people for the
liberal manner in which they patronized
our chicken pie dinner, which helped to
defray all the funeral expenses of Sister
I Blank and rid ourselves of trouble
some debt-By Order of Committee"
To say the least, this small card ex-
plains all there is to be explained and
IT. hot 9,
troublesome debt she was about to in
cur she would undoubtedly have post
5 poned her demise until the committee
! could have given a watermelon feast,
+ which would be less expensive and al
e low a larger per cent of profit to go
against that troublesome debt
: 1t is. certainly high time that an arbi-
tration board is formed What is this
country coming to with all this con-
! slant banding together of different
{ classes of toilers. The Kansas supreme
court has lust had the audacity to &C
on a strike Why. even the mothers OF
!. this country have formed a union What
if they should go on a strike? That
would be worse than the coal famine.
The Bishops of the Episcopal church
i will meet in Philadelphia and again try
/ to find a man who will be bishop of the
q Jurisdiction OF Saliaa- It has been Of
! fered already to a man who didn't wan1
it while a minister of the church who
:, did want it has had no chance of re-
y fusinG it.
The Western Union announced long ag'
n that 1t could not deliver messages in Kan
IN sas at the Is cent rate established by tn
legislature. And still the surplus earning
of the company for the year past exceeds
RS those of the year before by AZ per cent
" The company managed during the yea
f. to reduce expenses over 1900 900. 1t doe
seem strange. this statement that
N cent rate in Kansas would bankrupt tn
II company.
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a rolling stone gathers no unss.' les