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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
EDIToRIAL coMMENE.
BEG Pride 81 the stage.
New York Tribune

New York Tribune
Egg and vegetable proof stage COS
tunes will become popular if outbreaks
like the one which took place at an up
town theater on Friday are allowed 10
go unpublished A farce was being per
formed in which the fun provoking
characters We're 1rishnen and lrlSh
women. The situations, costumes and
ated and produced the laughter to pro-
woke Which they were created But sew
eral hundred proud lrishmen saw IN
suit to their cOuntrymen in the play,
and arming themselves with eggs OF
uncertain age and vegetables OF queS-
tionable soundnesS, took their places in
the auditorium. At a given signal the
dissatisfied auditors bombarded the
players with the unsavOry tokens OF
their disapprovaI and succeeded IN
breaking UP the performance.
The occurrence undoubtedly gave the
actors much discomfort and caused the
managers of the playhouse no small
amount Of annoyance, but it served as
a timely warning to playWrights and
actors. Plays with Dutch" Irish, ne
gro and Jewish characters have been
popular for many years on the Anerl-
can stage The ChriStys and the Buck
leys introduced to the public an exag-
gerated, impossible plantation negro,
and he has abided with us ever since
Comedians of the Gus Williams
school gave US a "Dutchman" who
never existed, with a language WHICH
was never heard off the stage, and the
followers of the school are still doing
business. Harrigan and Hart held the
mirror up to nature, and went nature
several points better; and their humor-
Gus dialogues based on true irish wit
amused many thousands of people.
The east side Jew whose language and
appearance are at best mirth provoh-
ing, was made superlatively gro
tes4-Is 10y ns,-n VINO mp rs1lfs.led m
On the stage, and for the sake. of MAX
ing a humorous hit he has often been
sburdeued with low characteristics
which he does not possess. But it was
all in the play" and while there may
have been individual objections to some
of these caricatures there has never
been any armed uprising against them
The Harlem. incident may, however
change all this. Hereafter when n
tDutchman" appears on the stage the
members of the AriOn or the Lieder-
kranz may demonstrate their disap-
prevail of his makeup or his language
by pelting him with Frankfurter sau-
sages and empty beer stems. The ne
gro citizen will then feel justified in
taking offense at the way in which he
is shown on the vaudeville stage and
proceed to break up the show, and the
members of the east side benefit and
fraternaI organizations Will not be slow
to pelt the men who hold them up TO
ridicule, possibly with matZos and SUI
perannuated fish. If all this does not
happen it will be because the cariea-
tured people have not taken the cue
given them by the Clan-ra-Gael-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

from the Topeka fans, was. RELEASE
your town ball players and get some
men" Then the second game went to
Des Aoines by the score of 10 to and
Topeka didn't send any telegram to St.
Joe for DeS Moines took the third game
by the score of IA to IL. But those were
two off days for the Giants. viii Bryan
the manager of the Des Moines team,
knew that luck was with his men and
that in the future the story would be
different He objected and said that
Topeka had too strong team for this
league and was paying salaries that
were too high. Bryan was correct, as
after years have proven.
The cities represented in the Western
league that year were Topeka, Leaven-
worth, Denver, Omaha. Lincoln. 81.
Joe, Hastings and Kansas City. LeaN-
enworth had a good team. but one day
on the LeavenWorth grounds Topeka
PLAYED them five innings and won by
the score Of Fl to 1, and II was sore
blow to Leavenworth. But the Topeka
rooters were mad because the Giants let
the others have one run. 1t was Den
yer who fought Topeka the hardest for
think that Topeka had no right to the
pennant But Topeka got it.
If you ever happen to see that veteran
of the national game, Pat Tebeau, ask
him about the time when the Denver
team took the two out of three games
away from the G. G. G.'s. Tebeau Will
tell it with many a chuckle. and he'll
add that those were the palmy days
of baseball when everyone knew
whether a $50 gold piece was square or
round
Tebeau will tell Of the hot contests in
the days of the old Western league. He
will tell of the time that Denver came
to ToHeka and the Giants took two out
of the three games. Then Goldsby took
his men to Denver for three games. The
Giants won one and the Mountaineers
took one. Then came the rub. 1t was
the fercest baseball struggle Denver
ever saw.
In the third game the score stood
Topeka and Denver in the last in
ming. There were two outs and Smith,
for Denver. was at the bat. There was
man on first and one on second. In
those days the rules allowed four
strikes and Smith had cleayed the air
and he wanted to fan Smith. for in the
previous innings Smith had twice
driven the ball against the outfield
fence. Conway doubled up. unWound
and threw the ball and Smith met it.
He sent it way over the fence, and Den
yer won. and the grand stand gave
Smith just $67 when he got home.
One by one the Giants retired from
the game. Jack Sneed opened a ticket
brokers' Office in Columbus. Ralph
johnson went to the Klondike a few
years ago. Danny Stearns, as Tebeau
has said. "the best man that ever
graced first base.'' has been lost. Perry
Werden played with Minneapolis until
season or so ago. For a time Holi-
day played in the big leagues, but he
too, retired from the game. All that's
left OF those famous Giants is a memory
that VIII last until the men who backed
the team have crossed the river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
THE ANTI. FACTION FACTION

A new faction is about to rise in the
Republican party of Kansas-just as
though there are not already factions
enough. The new faction will be the
anti-faction, and it will probably be
under the leadership of E. w Hocb.
Mr.. HOch announced while he was in
Topeka this week that from henceforth
he viii be opposed to factionahsm. II
am for neither Leland Republicans nor
for Burton Republicans" he said. but
1 am for Republican Republicans"
There are doubtless a considerab bic
number of Republicans in Kansas who
feel just as Mr.. Hoch does. They do
not like the fight between the Leland
and Burton factions for the control of
the Republican party in Kansas. Con-
sequently Mr.. Hoch proposes to be ac-
tive in the future in behalf of men who
are not active with either faction, and
it is quite possible that he can secure
sufficient following along that line to
form a third faction for the overthrow
of both the others.
But is it possible to get along without
factions in a successful political party?
Mr.. Hoch would scarcely argue that
the government of the nation. because
they are bound to arise Questions Will
come up to which there are two sides
and men viii array themselves accord
ingly. Political parties are often an
evil, but as often a necessary evil.
Just so within each political party
if it is successful. There are bound to
be party leaders Their ideas and poll
cies will clash Each will have his ID
herents. Each, with his adherents, will
form faction. 1t is practically in
evitable
Sometimes the people get tired of ex-
isting political parties and new party
is formed. This happened with the rise
OF the Populist party in Kansas. The
old political parties were denounced for
their corruption The Republican party
was overthrown temporarily and the
Democratic party was absorbed tenn
porarily, but eventually the Republican
party was purified sufficiently to regain
the confidence of the public and the
Democratic party righted itself once
more. and now the Populist party has
gone almost out of existence while the
two old parties are alive and doing busi-
ness again.
Just so with party factions. They
may become overbearing when success
full and a new faction may arise and
overthrow them. but there viii be fac
tons just the same. The boss busters
were only a sort of third party faction.
just as the Populists were third polit-
ical party. Their prime object was to
overthrow Cyrus Leland just as the
prime object Of the Populists was to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
LAW AGAINST REBATES.

There Is an apprehension that, after
the scanning. amending and discussion
of the Elkins antitrust measure passed
by the last congress, weak spots viii be
unexpectedly found lurking in its pro-
visions.
The Worlds Work truthfully asserts
that no amount Of preliminary discus
sion can throw much light on the real
value Of the antitrust legislation Of
congress.
1t is divided into two parts-that
aimed at interstate railroads and that
aimed at other interstate CORPORATIONS.
The Elkins bill. which strengthens the
present interstate commerce act, is
aimed at preventing the giving and re-
ceiving Of secret rebates. 1t looks as
II its rigid enforcement would make re
bates practically impossible. In the first
place, It makes rebates an offense where
there is no discrimination shown. Tn
der the former law they could not be
punished unless discrimination We're
proved. Now variation from the pub
lished rates and failure to publish rates
are in themselves punishable.
In the second place the penalty of i'm
prlsonment for individuals is done away
with. and every offense of an officer or
agent is made the offense of the corpo-
ration. which may be fined for it from
81 900 to $4,000 in each case. Under the
old law evidence that would lead to the
imprisonment of persons was almost
unatta4nable.
In the third place. the taker as well
as the giver OF rebates is made ac-
couhtable. and the chances Of detection
are greatly increased.
Finally, the courts are given power to
proceed civilly against corporations. and
to enjoin illegal actions. a power. more
extended and elastic than that of Grim
inal procedure. Special authority is
also given to advance cases under the
Jaw by summary action. and to appeal
from the court of first instance directly
TO the supreme court. which ought to
save much time and uncertainty. It is
the opinion Of those best qualified to
judge that this law can be made effec-
i've
At the same time. 1t is to be remarked
that unity Of interest between the
main TRANSFORMATION lines and the main
Industrial combinations has made the
Did form Of favor by rebates less fire.
auent and less sought after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
COMING OUR way.

Things are coming Topekas way.
The water plant which has furnished
an unlimited source of litigation for the
attorneys and a supply of the product
to a limited number of people will soon
come into the possession of the city. It
will then furnish more of the needful
to the people in lieu of less to the law
yers.
The Topeka City Railway company
which has been a source of anguish TO
the minds and agitation to the frames
Of those who Datronize it, is about to
be rehabilitated.
Like our old friends in their new Eas-
ter clothes. we viii hardly know the
waterworks and the railway under
their new lease of life. We viii speak
to them instead of at them. We will
talk of them with pride. instead of rail
at them in righteous anger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

Miss Laf is jolly visitor at Can
ton.
wamego's oil bubble appears to have
burst
A Beloit family is a mother cat nurs-
ing two baby kittens and two squirrels.
LIE Roy is to have a new mill that will
not grind with the water that has
past.
Sedan is to have a tannery. Only
cattle hides viii be solicited how
ever
The Chanute council is deluged with
bids for exclusive street railway fran
chises.
Miss Boots is Linn county teacher
that makes her unruly pupils toe the
mark.
The newly chosen mayor Of Emporia
is a laundryman. His election may iron
out a few of the Town Rows.
A Gray county ranchman who had a
mile of wire fence stolen, feels thank
full that the post holes were left.
A Mcpherson man sent away 10000
tobacco tags one day recently. OF
course he shipped them by freight.
Our idea of a thrifty man is the Law
renee citizen who has saved enough to
buy a $4,000 building, washing dishes at
$14 month.
A remarkably common sense Cotton
wood Falls girl has taken to china
painting lately just to show the boys
she is not entirely artless.
A Mcpherson couple are so chummy
that the wife often dresses in her hus-
bands clothes and accompanies him on
evening strolls along the streets.
A Lincoln county pastor has kindly
requested his audience to refrain from
stamping of feet or clapping of hands.
1t is plain to be seen that he is not an
evangelist
The married ladies of PhilHpsburg
have organized in a club with the mot
to: From the beginning always ready
This is a cheerful breakfast outlook for
the husbands.
William Allen White says his first
public lecture in Kansas City recently
was absolutely his last. Often when a
man is old enough to know better he is
too old to do it.
The worm appears to have turned in
the De Boissiere case at Ottawa. The
original attorneys have become clients
and some of the mine points of posses
sion" bid fair to slip away
One Of Mrs. Nations pioneer lieuten-
ants assisted the demon rum power in
the Topeka spring election The trou-
bic with great moral forces" is that
they. sometimes fail to care for the rent
and butchers bill
One of the things Kansas is trying to
keep quiet is the fact that it took u
years to get a letter from Arkansas
city to Denver. Such news at Wash
ington might send Roosevelt around by
Little Rock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
THE ANTITRUST VICTORY.

The decision of the United States cir
cult court of appeals, announced and
printed in this paper Thursday. is a
most hopeful victory for the couserva-
tive and practical regulation of the
trusts. 1t means that paralleled rail-
way lines in the same territory cannot
be consolidated to regulate rates and
control transportation. It gives a new
meaning to the Sherman antitrust act
and sustains the theory of Attorney Cen
eral Knox that we need not so much
new laws as the enforcement of old
ones The opinion must give satisfac-
ton to President Roosevelt who in his
recent speech in Milwaukee on the trust
question expressed his hopefulness and
faith IN the outcome of this suit on the
action taken by his cabinet officer, At
torney General Knox.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
TIE WATERwoRKs

The only menace to the successful
conduct of the waterworIs system of
Topeka by the municipality as now de-
termined upon by Tuesdays election.
lies in partisan politics. If able and
qualified men are kept and placed in
charge of the waterworks plant and it's
operation, Topeka and her people viii
greatly profit. The mayor and the
council must keep their ears from the
political wire pullers.
With the waterworks in the hands of
men who understand the business. sue
cess and satisfaction will follow. Under
control of politicians failure and ex-
pense viii be invited No administra-
ton would dare place our fire depart
ment under political control: let no ad-
ministration put the waterworks under
a political ban. With the water supply
managed as our fire department is. it,
too, will be a pride of the city and the
same satisfactory results will ensue.
With civil service municipal ownership
and control will be popular and sue
cessfuI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11


Good fortune is the ehum of industry.
It's d poor poster girl that isn't stuck
up.
The worst enemy man can have is
a fool friend
One man seeks justice, while another
man fees from it.
No, Cordelia, a barnacle isn't tramp
who sleeps in a barn.
The industrious blacksmith is always
blowing about his work.
Ananias was an unfortunate individ-
ual who lived before his time.
Lots of men want the earth-and
without it the farmer isn't in it.
big head" is an ailment peculiar to
men who wear small hats.
No man ever thinks he will marry
widow-and he doesn't She marries
him.
When the world discovers a mans
weak spot it hammers away at 1t every
chance it gets.
An old bachelor says that when man
hasn't enough worry of his own it's his
cue to get married.
Nature supplies enough for all, but
she is just a trife shy of the ability to
divide it equally
When the average actor announces
himself as a star his associates are
apt to pronounce the word backward.
A charitable man is one who f7nds
good excuses for people he doesn't like.
There is such a thing as being too good
for ones own good in this imperfect
world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

Philadelphia Record: The municipal
elections in Chicago. Cleveland and Gin
cinnati, the results Of which, for one
reason and another. were deemed of
more than common interest, really were
determined. as they should have been.
by issues of municipal administration.
They all go to prove how difficult it is
to overthrow the existing order. The
mayors of all three cities were re-elect-
ed. The success of F1eischmann Gre
publican) in Cincinnati, of Harrison
(Democrat) in Chicago. and Of Johnson
(Democrat) in Cleveland indicates a po-
litical stand-on. No light is thrown on
the forecast for 1904.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
auAKER REFLEcTIoNs.

Borrowed trouble perpetuates itself
Don't depend on luck to push you uphill.
Disappointed genius may be known by
its hair cut
Nothing hatters a man 50 much as to
ask his advice
In a designers competition the result is
always draw
A lawyer may be good natured even in
his cross-exa animation
Woman is a delusion which the average
man is inclined to hug.
Time never hangs heavily on the hands
of the man who enjoys his own society
The black sheep generally lives to ripe
old age, whereas the spring lamb dies
young.
A rich mans pride forces him to drink
champagne, when very often he prefers
beer.
Physicians believe that one good turn de-
serves another. The doctor pays a visit
and the visit pays the doctor
Now Casters just one day away.
And egg-nog comes in kegs.
The poet sings his Easter lay,
The hen lays Easter eggs
Nell-.-That western heiress married a
penniless duke who weighs over 300
hounds Belle-ssWeu. you can't blame
her for wanting the most for her money. "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
REFLEoTIoNs On a BAoHELo1

lFrom the New York Press.1
Bachelors are such by selection: old
maids by lack of it.
Consistency may be a jewel, but it is
not received in any pawn shop
Every woman would like to have her
son go into the ministry if she weren't
afraid that might hinder him from be-
ing president
When a woman gets careless about
the clothes she doesn't wear in room
with her husband it is because she
knows that sort of thing has ceased to
interest him.
The man who knows that hundreds
of millions on hundreds of millions are
spent on rum win argue himself black
in the face about the ruinous waste OF
building battle ships.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11
A Strike Against the Churches ?


More or less of sensationalism is al
ways to be expected in reform move
ments in Kansas. That which is phe-
nomenal elsewhere is normal in that
state 1t is so in politics, sociology, re-
igion. morals, and education. Thus it
was in the beginning. thus it is today,
and thus it is likely to be for a long
time to come, though probably not for
ever and forever. The latest reform
movement IN the Sunflower state has
to do with the good cause of equal
suffrage. Under existing laws women
are permitted to vote for municipal Of
ficials, and they are credited with hav-
ing made good use Of that right They
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

daily. papers for the commendable man
ner IN which the recent campaign for
the election of the city officers was
conducted. The absence Of personai-
ties and yftupeEation in the canvass
just closed demonstrates that a poliu-
cal campaign can be conducted with
due respect for the opinions Of all par
ties, however much they may differ
and tends to the unification Of senti-
ment and work in one common purpose,
that which is the sole aim of the To-
peka Commercial club-The growth and
prosperity of Topeka'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

Because Carter Harrison has been
elected mayor four successive times his
friends are beginning to talk about him
as a presidential candidate. If four
elections render a man eligible. what's
the matter with Golden Rule" Jones?
OF course he is neither Democrat nor
Republican but he gets there just the
- NJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

1t appears that the alum baking pow
der legislature which has gone as far
as the introduction Of a bill and no
farther, in nearly every state in the
Union was taken seriously in Missouri.
where somebody tried to put the meas
ure through and much trouble has re-
=rfffad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

The characters of the Pencils are
now receiving an airing in the Buffalo
courts The investigation of that auto
mobile disaster has begun and the YER
dict probably viii be that Penneu es-
capped arrest on a charge Of murder by
running his wagon over a precipice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

Prayers in the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture cost the state Sc a day. After siz-
ing up the results the Washington Post
declares this to be a wicked waste Of
the public funds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

Persons who know D. J. Kelly of
New York who is charged with being
mixed up in that Missouri bribery
scandal, VIII be slow to believe that
he has used money in an illegitimate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

It will take Tom Johnson four more
years to equal Carter Harrison's record,
but Tom seems to have the same kind
OF a cinch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

It is said that next year when the
Democrats ask Mr.. Bryan for presiden-
tiaI bread he is likely to give them a
Stone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

oxford had a queer election. There
was but one candidate Tor mayor and
he was defeated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-11

Des Moines played the St. Joe team.
of the Western LEAGUE and won by the
score Of "A to ;. Then Des Moines came
over to Topeka and the Giants took the
first game of the series by the score of
10 to g. The telegram that went to
Manager Alexander, of the st. Joe team