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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.

TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The only way to discourage a dead beat
IS to refuse him credit
Honestly, now. what has become of your
New Years resolutions
When some men wait on themselves, it
is a sign they are mad at their wives
Ottawa Herald: The mistletoe has again
given way to the catch-as-catch-can sys-
TEN.
Some DAY Governor Bailey VIII marry.
and his wife will always be sore because
he. didn't get her in time for the inaugil-
raj.
Nothing makes a rugged looking old
man quite SO disguised as to see a young
man get on the street car to avoid a walk
Of three blocks
A society girl of ST Joe is making prep
aratlons for a big wedding the second time
IN the past three years. and the women
up there are shaking their heads off talk
ing about it.
An Atchison girl refused to tell to whom
she was writing "a letter. and posted it in
a corner box after dark, and now there is
a story that it was a proposal Of mar
rage to Gov.-eIect Bailey
A widow viii shortly be the central fig
ure In procession wedding in Atchison.
Why not2 A widow, having her own mon
ey to pay for the red lights and music,
has as much right to procession as any
body.
Atchison will shortly have a case like
this. A W1dower. asked a woman to marry
hlnl. She refused and he asked another
woman, who accepted him Now the first
woman wants him, and there is going tC
be trouble You will be called upon tc
take sidess begin to argue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
ovERWoRKED LEGIsLAToRs.

It Is feared that the members of the
legislature are about to be overworked-
Thus far it has been in session ten days,
not counting Sunday, and the house has
been in actual session all of fourteen
hours while the senate has done perhaps
an hour or two better.
The strenuous life of legislator in
earning his salary by loafng in Cope.
land county or keeping his railroad
passes from going to waste is something
appalling to the average citizen. It is
little wonder that a much-needed rest
is taken from Thursday until Monday
afternoon.
When the legislature convenes again
at 4 o'clock on Monday, after each onA
has returned from telling some of his
constituents how he made" Long SEN
ator and Is now close to the senatoria4
throne. and to others how he did all in
his power to stem the stampede to Long
but found it impossible to head it oft
1t Is expected that both branches win get
down to work. The coal famine will be-
duly investigated a ban will be pu4
upon snake-eaters. the grafters win get
a chance to Introduce a few hold-ub
bills, and Senator Mcmillan viii try to
worry George Clark a little with his
proposition to put the state printer on
a salary, the army Of doorkeepers viii
stumble over one another in interfering
with people who have legitimate busi-
ness in the houses and rapidly fall back
when a lobbyist with a diamond shirt
stud appears. the brigade of janitors
VIII earn their salary by emotying 4
waste basket apiece a day, the corps of
( assistant ergeants-at-arms will put in
/ the time waiting for "call of the
house for an opportunity to be sent
after some DELINQUENT member who is
himself seeking an opportunity to call
full house with four Of a kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
The Presidents Salary.

HarpeF'S Weekly:
Our newspapers have given a good
deal of attention to the suggestion that
the salary of the president of the Unit
ed States should be made more com
mensurate with the dignity and import
ance of the office As we formerly
pointed out, the presidents salary is
no larger than that allotted to the gov
ernor general of Canada, and is only
one-f1fth as large as the salary received
by the president of the French Repub-
lie. As everybody knows, the Consti-
tuition Cart. H., Sec. y provides that
the presidents COMPENSATION shall
neither be increased nor diminished
during the period for which he may
have been elected. If, therefore, the
salary of our chief magistrate should
now be increased by law, Mr. ROose-
welt would not benefit by the increase
during his present term; but the bene-
At of the new statute would accrue to
him on and after March f. 1905, provid-
ed be should be elected president in
November, 1904 We have expressed
the opinion that the presidents salary
should be at least double Such a
change would be desirable, not only in
itself, but because it would raise the
standard of remuneration for the occu-
pants of many high executive and tu-
dicial offices authorized by the federal
constitution. We send six ambassa-
doris to foreign powers. but none of
them receives more than ST., 500 a year.
The British ambassador to the United
States receives more than double that
amount, and is provided with a COM
nOdiOus house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
THE PoIITTcAI Poss

The Washington Post discusses polit-
zeal bosses, using Senator Plat for a
text, but the same observations might
be made in any state by changing the
name. The Post says.
A few days ago we called attention t.
the sensational folderol in certain New
York newspapers about Senator Platti
about the revolt against his power ana
it's tyrannical exercise; about his ap
proaching downfall. and all the rest of
it. we took occasion at the time to
express our opinion Of the gossip and to
point out what seemed to Us to be the
inherent weakness of its inspirations
When we hear of a handful of poll
ticians running about and filling the ali
with vehement denunciations of this OF
that party leader we always feel rea
sonably sure that they are talking for
themselves and not for the organization
As everybody knows. the so-called boss
lasts just as long as his followers want
him, ana not a moment longer. He has
no power which is not freely conferred
upon him by the organization. He has
and can have no authority which the
organization cannot take away. Wheel
the time comes to depose a boss the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
JAYHAWKER lots

Marysville has the baseball craze
thus early.
Fort Scott still hopes for an electric
railway connecting suburban towns
The farmers of Decatur county will
for change, sow spring wheat this
spring.
Coal is so scarce at Fort Scott that
many small dealers are compelled to
have false wagon bottoms.
One great secret of Cyrus Leland's
Men tie to that kind of leader until
death.
The Smith Center library has been
presented with several Sioux Indian
war clubs. They viii take the place of
To Have and to Hold"
Some Chase county girls wrote their
names and addresses on eggs, but they
got only miles from home and into the
pantry of married man.
Editor Eckert writes from San An
tonic, where he is visiting, to Arkansas
City friends: I like to attend church
here they don't take up a collection"
And now a Wichita man has found a
cluster Of uncut diamonds, of the first
water, in his front yard It is said
/ they give out glow bright enough to
read the paper by after supper.
The editor of the OsaWatonie Globe
who has often purchased soap wrap
pers that seemed to have contained So
bills and didn' {. draws the lineat shares
in a perpetual motion machine.
An Arkansas City student fell and
broke his right arm the day prior to
examination. But he was plucky and
left handed and his paper passed close
to the hundred grade.
An Emporia colored man has relig-
ious visions. One is to jump. in the
river every winter with his best clothes
on. This dream, he thinks, is the re-
suit of too much lobster salad and
should be disobeyed.
A Pittsburg man who has fad for
driving of other mems teams will char
itably be sent to the asylum. Osa-
watomie is a great summer resort for
! people who have fads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
EDITORIAL CoA1mENr.
Double tbs Navy.


New York Mail and Express
There is at least one spot in the Uni
ted States where no doubt whatever .ex-
ISIS as to whether commerce follows the
nag. That spot is the headquarters of
the Maritime ASsOcia ton of New York
which is the largest representative body
OF vessel owners end sea traders in the
United States This association has Just
sent to members of congress an earnest
statement of the need which American
commerce is under of adequate naval
backing The Monroe doctrine is neces-
sary not alone to our political standing
it Is necessary to our business. The
Maritime Association has an eve on
South America. and in that part of the
world if sees the pretentious and Dor
tentious commercial occupation by for
eign powers which, in the worlds his
tory, has generally preceded the practi-
cal assumption of sovereignty" The
associations demand Is this-and the
words ought to be remembered:
we feel that It would be none too
great an undertaking, nor one in the
least degree exceeding our real needs. If
our present naval equipment as to ships,
officers and men were doubled, and this.
too. within the very shortest possible
period of time in which the increase
may be secured
It is safe to say that this plain de-
mand, coming from so responsible a
source, VIII not fall on deaf ears at
Washington. "a It is a significant renin-
der of a grave duty. It is not extrava-
CANT to demand the doubling of the
navy The navy has been much more
than doubled in the last ten wears. and
still is SO per cent behind what it ought
TO be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

had heard of. Coburn came to Topeka
to help him and was so thoroughly COM
petent that in a short time Hudson re
signed and Coburn was elected secre-
tary St. John wished to step from the
governors chair to the United States
senateN He wished Coburn to use his
position to help him on with the sena~
torial toga. Coburn was not poll
tician and would not dabble in politics;
he was looking after the interests of the
farmers. and he told St John so in thar
many words. All of which did not suit
St. JOhn-
At the next meeting of the board OF
agriculture St John appeared with q
written opinion from Judge w. A.
Johnston to the effect that Coburn had
not been legally elected secretary Of the
board. The move on the part of st.
John was so sudden that the board was
taken by surprise and Coburn was
ousted and another man elected who
suited ST John better 1t was just Il
years afterward, in 1894, that Coburn
was elected secretary, and he has held
the position ever since. His name and
his Red Line series of Books on farm
ing are known by the Beers, the Mex
leans, the English, the Germans, and all
the farming world. And still St John
did not think he was ca2ablei
Jerry Simpson. on his cattle ranch
in New Mexico. can read of the election
of Chester I. Long to a seat in the SEN
ate, and puff up and tell the Mexicans
how he beat Chester twice for con-
gress while they both lived in Maids
inlodge."
Judge Hazen always likes to Save
lawyers extra trouble when he can. He
asked an attorney a few days ago If he
intended to submit a brief in a certain
case and the attorney said he did. You
needn't bother yourself said Hazen
I have made up my mind and It will
take a mighty strong brief to change
my opinion"
Just to be fashionable I shall an
nounce myself as a candidate for judge
of the city court" said Jason Snod-
grass. I see that most everyone else
has"
Charles Blakesley is the authority
/ for the statement that H. p. Dillon of
Topeka. added milling" to the Kan
sas political vocabulary. Fred Van
degrift has q new one: 1.-The little red
ants Of politics, always found in the
sugar"
Mary Elizabeth Lease was the au-
thor of an article, in a recent publica-
/ ton, on divorce Col Mary Yellins
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Minneapolis Tribune: When the presi-
dent kicks over party traces or acts in
opposition to the wishes Of party lead
ers, it is common to hint that he is
playing to the galleries and looking
ahead to a denomination next year The
man for whom majority of the dele
gates to the next national Republican
convention have been practically In
structed two years in advance. does not
need to play to the galleries in order to
be renominated for president We i'm
agine that the president looks back
ward rather than forward in his acts Of
exceptional independence Of party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

The Chicago city council has prepared
a bill for legislative action. This bill
gives every city in the state the right
to own and operate street railways and
to acquire by purchase or condemna-
ton any existing lines. Debt incurred
FOR this purpose, however. is payable
solely out OF the revenues Of the street
railways, and the bonds are secured
only by q trust deed. giving the owner
the right to foreclose on default and
operate the line thus acquired Tor TWEEN
ty years. This is designed to protect
the general credit Of the city from de-
atruction by borrowing to buy street
railways The bin gives the city some
additional powers under present condi-
lions. In any grant for street railways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
REFLEcTIoNs 81 a BAcHELoR

From the New York Press.l
We love by inspiration; we go on do
ing it by force of habit.
Next to a good temper the most
cheerful thing in a family is a bank
balance.
Marriage is like a new pair of shoes;
II must be worn awhile before it be-
come comfortable.
A woman's idea of being in public life
is that it has something to do with Civ
ing state dinners and getting your
country out of trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Washington Post; The DoIliver vice
presidential boom viii be about the next
thing to come out Of Iowa. It VIII be
recalled that Mr.. Dolliver was some
what discussed as vice presidential
candidate at PHILADELPHIA in 1900 when
the Republicans nominated Mckinley
and Tom Plat nominated Roosevelt.
and the party declared in favor of adj
hitting Arizona. New Mexico. and Ok
1ahon1a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Votes like almost everything else ap-
pear to have advanced in price since the
present era Of prosperity set in. a. con-
gresham who was offered but $1,000 for
his support Of a measure became so in
dfgnant after thinking about it a few
weeks that he told the whole story to
his committed -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
ouAKER REFIECTToNs.

IFrom the philadelphia Record.l
The steam roller gathers no moss.
Melancholia seldom comes to a busy
man.
Love intoxicates some fellows and So
bers others up.
Luck never comes to the man who
depends absolutely upon it.
Some young men experience great DIFF
feulty in living up to their clothes.
The man with good intentions is Of
ten like an alarm clock that doesn't go
off.
The two things calculated to cause
the most loss ofssleep are q baby and q
poker game.
The fact that Rome wasn't built in a
day is a source of much qualification to
the. lazy man.
A good memory is essential to success.
It enables man to remember what to
forget.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Perhaps it hasn't occurred to the Del
aware Democrats to make overtures to
Addicks for a compromise on the basis
Of an even divide A move Of this kind
might at least bring the other Republi-
can faction to time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24
Bill BAILEY.


Have you read
About Bill" Bailey2
Something's in the
Papers daily
And the people out in Kansas. 1t is said,
Have stirred up a
Big cOmmOtiOn
Just because they
Have 4. notion
That Bill Bailey is q man who will not
wed.
It Is claimed
That ere election
Filled his foes
With deep detection
"Bill' had promised certain people he
would find
Some sweet maid
And would not falter
But would lead her
To the altar
But Bill says he promised nothing Of
the kind.
It Is strange and
Quite confusing;
And as well, It
Is amusing:
For the state has built a mansion that is
grand.
Now the people feel
Real harried.
For 'Bill" Bailey is
Not married.
And he will not offer any maid his hand.
If Bill" Bailey
Has no feeling
For the people
Now appealing
To his best and MODEST instincts, he
should be
Fired because he
Has gumption!
Think of all the
Presumption
Think Of how he's treating Kansas! Hully
Jay Lee in St. Joseph Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Klaw & ErlanRer viii loss-a lot Of
money which might be theirs if they
don't make a summer tour with Ben
Hur" 10 a tent. Everybody would go to
see the chariot race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

A bill providing for securing interest
on state deposit has made its appear
ance. 1t is in accordance with Governor
Bailey's recommendations in his mes
sage. 1t was introduced by a Demo-
crat Now we shall see whether or not
Republican members will make this an
excuse for not supporting it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Charles Finch Of the Lawrence Jour
nal is a disappointed, broken hearted
man. He ripped the epidermis from
Long for leaving his post in congress
and then Curtis and Bowersock follow
ed suit and then came the state printer
and senatorial caueuses and then.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Now that the senatorial matter IS out
of the way the regular grafters will de-
mand an inning. Part of their work is
to make it hard for the uninitiated to tell
whether a measure is introduced for
hold I'D purposes or in the interest OF
the ,tfbffe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

A bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania legislature appropriating
81 600 600 to be spent in road building. It
provides that where work Is done along
this line the state shall bear half the
cost. the county one-fourth ana the
township one-fourth. The measure is
reported to be finding much favor with
the country members.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Pennsylvania has a constitutional en-
actment which prohibits legislators from
coming into possession of railroad
passes. The Pittsburg Dispatch is re
sponsible for the assertion that "the
legislators with their passes in then
pockets carefully abstain from any
measures to enforce the constitutional
prohibition %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

At last it looks as though the isthmian
canal matter is nearing a conclusion.
The treaty with Colombia has been
signed and now awaits the action Of the
senate. Let the dirt fly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

The runoor that the president was
about to send a message to congress
recommending the adoption Of the Mic
aragua canal route. appears to have FIX
ed Colombia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

the right of purchase must be reserved.
The city gets the power to operate its
own cars or to lease tracks for twenty
wears to companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

The EFFORT to talk the statehood bill
60 deoth seems destined to fail. Bev-
eridge is no match for Quay in con
eost Of that kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

having been divorced from her druggist
husband that she might go to New
York unhampered and take her place
with the other brainy people of the
day. is well qualified to know whereof
she speaks.
It was 20 years ago last Saturday
and Sunday that the terrible blizzard
of 1888 ragged over western Kansas and
many people lost their lives.
Society started the fad OF spelling
out full names instead of using initials
The politicians have taken It up and as
a result David Tower Gregg is a can
didate for judge of the city court.
The snow came just IN time. The leg
islators who went home will leave a
trail which they can follow in return
ing.
Julian Ralph. who died in New York
this week. was a newspaper man. He
preferred to be newspaper man rath-
er than a Journalist" Some years ago
Ralph was in Minneapolis dapper
young man walked into the hotel
sauntefed up to the clerks desk and
began to remove his kid gloves lie
took a silk muffler from his neck,
brushed his silk hat, adjusted his eye
glasses and said: "Aw where is this
Mr.. Ralph2'' he asked the clerk The
clerk pointed to a man sitting IN the
lobby. The young man Went over to
him "AW is this Mr.. Ralph ?" he said.
Yes" said Ralph. Il am a fellow
journalist and the paper has sent me to
see if you would not like to be inter
viewed?" No" said Ralph and he
said it right short The man with the
dapper clothes and kid gloves depart
ed In a few minutes in rushed a young
man. His shoes we're muddy, his soft
hat was wet with rain, his clothes were
common place and he needed a shave.
where's Ralph2" he asked of the clerk
and received a nod in the direction OF
the man he wanted rs this Mr..
Ralph2" he said addressing the man.
Yes. it is. what do you want2" I am
q newspaper reporter and the Morning
Blade sent me down here to get a col
umn interview from you" The young
man sat down and prepared to write
II have been looking for just a COM
mon, ordinary newspaper man." said
Ralph I guess you are the man
want" The reporter got a column in
terview.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Two million Americans suffer the tor
turing pangs of dyspepsia. No need to.
Burdock Blood Bitters cures. At any
drug store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Charley. Charley would not pariey
With the Stanley men;
Eugene pulled out, put Charles to rout
And made Chester L. S. Sen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

It was 20 years ago last Saturday
and Sunday that the terrible blizzard
of 1888 ragged over western Kansas and
many people lost their lives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Society started the fad OF spelling
out full names instead of using initials.
The politicians have taken It up and as
a result David Tower Gregg is a can
didate for judge of the city court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

having been divorced from her druggist
husband that she might go to New
York unhampered and take her place
with the other brainy people of the
day. is well qualified to know whereof
she speaks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-24

Recent political events call to mind
many things. One Of them the fact that
empty stomachs and the cravings of
hunger were all that kept the late Judge
Albert H Horton from being a United
States senator from Kansas.
It was in 1884, the session Of the leg
islature which reelected John J. ingalls,
the first time. There was a fight, the
usual fight on ingalls,. To make
longer story short the fight finally sim
mered down to ingalls, and Horton, who
votes but who was picked up later by
the ant-Ingalls forces as the possible
man to beat ingalls,. Horton and the
anti-Ingalls forces went into a caucus
of their own in the senate chamber. By
much hard campaigning enough votes
were secured to elect Horton and it was
decided to keep all those voters together
until the joint session of the senate and
the house at noon the next day. The
warriors slept on their arms in the SEN
ate chamber that night. All went well
until breakfast time and then the
solid" Horton majority was hungry
The members adjourned to eat. 1t was
q fatal adjournment The members
were assailed by the ingalls, workers
and while they absorbed food they as
the senate and house met in joint ses-
sion to elect a senator it was found that
three who were Horton men on empty
stOmachs had turned to ingalls, when
they had been fed and ingalls, received
the majority of the votes and was re-
turned to the senate. If Horton had
sent hampers of sandwiches and steam
ing cans of coffee to his hungry ma
jority he would have been senator.