The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18
WILL WHITES HARMONY.
Emporia Editor Gives His Idea OF

Emporia Editor Gives His Idea of
1t.
There is considerable talk among the
Republican papers of the state just now
about Harmony. They all want it. but
there seems to be considerable differ
enoe In the brands of Harmony m-lieh
are on the market just now, and each
politician wants a different brand.
Among these harmony-talking newspa-
pers are the Emporia Gazette, the OF
tawa Herald and the Hutchinson News,
all belonging to the same faction of the
Republican party. yet each adivS-
ing different kind of harmony. The
Gazette points out the trouble with the
others harmony in the following edi-
torial
THE Gazette has talked a good deal
about harmony, and so have the News
and the Herald. These three papers can
have all the harmony they want, but
the other fellows don't want harmony.
What they want is pie, jobs, places.
emoluments. snaps. They ask for bread
and you give them harmony The trou-
BILE with Henry Allen and Bill Morgan
Is that they are too cold-nOsed. They
don't appreciate the pangs Of hunger
that gallop around in the breasts of
gentlemen who are in the red at the
bank, In the hole at the type foundry
and two weeks behind with the payroll.
To talk to gentlemen thus situated
about the beauties of harmony is like
throwing a stin-life study of rye bread
and cheese into den of hungry lions.
il is not homilies but hominy that these
fellows are after who are building a
bonfire under the governor and putting
cockle-burs where they will do the most
good under Mr.. Leland's trousers.
And still it is best not to fight back.
IT is just as well to keep turning the
other cheek. so long as you have lots
of it, Cheek is a drug on the market
when a man gets to be a plutocrat, and
a little crawling around on the stomach,
a
Bill and Henry as 1t has never hurt this
paper. and it furnishes a diverting spec
tacle to the other fellows.
And what's more it is a good cause.
The Republican party of Kansas may
be wrecked by the men who are lying
about the Legislature and abusing the
governor, and only patience and for
bearance and Christian charity on the
part Of the men who are abused and
their friends, can prevent general de-
feat next year. If the faction fighting
continues. if both sides fight instead of
one. the enemy will win next year. The
thing to do If you are friend of Gov
ernOr Bailey's and Senator Longs is to
get down and let the fellows who have
no state job use you for a door mat,
walk over you, revile you. prod you
stick pins in you, call you names, pull
your hair, gouge out your eyes; but
don't fight back. Blessed are they that
are prosecuted for righteousness sake
The fellows who are out and want in
have no official cares to bother them;
they have ample leisure to raise Ned;
and no particular bar on them in raising
it. There is no county election this
year. No ones friend is in danger at
the polls this fall There is no common
enemy to fight. and the natural desire
to the fellow who is in to shove the
other fellows out. compounded by an off
year, have produced results that will be
cyclonic unless men like Morgan and
Allen and Albaugh, face the breeze and
close their jaws Harmony is a good
thing to preach and to strive for.
Preaching and striving won't do any
good, but il won't do any harm, and
that is the main danger.
But above everything it is entirely
immaterial whether the Herald and the
News-or even the Gazette-is shocked
CT deeply panied or violently indignant
at the unfairness of the fellows on the
outside. They are going to keep it up.
and we may as well prepare to get used
to it,"