The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10

words. Cartwright had smoked his last
cigarette and written his last story
Lewiston Journal
ARIZONA KICKLETS.
The Eccentric Western Editor Maps
Out His Programme for 1904
We take 1t that it will be of interest
to the millions of readers of The
Kicker to know what it's programme
will be for the coming year, and this
occasion seems to be an aus2icious one
to announce it.
We shall continue to be independent
in politics. but at the same time take
care of number one. Number one
means Jim Hellso. That is, we are not
going to be ass enough to pitch into
an administration under which we are
holding down three or four fat appoint
ments-
We shall continue to expect and ac-
cept free passes on every railroad and
stage line from Maine to California,
and to make use of them as often as
possible. Being an. editor, we want
all there is in 1t. We will even accept
free lots in cemeteries, when rendered
in the proper spirit.
We are the mayor of the town. the
postmaster, a deputy u. S. marshal, a
state fish commissioner, a game ward
en-. and the owner of the only private
graveyard in the world. We shall let
go Of nothing during the coming year,
but gobble on to three or four more
good things. Our idea is that no editor
can have too much Of good thing.
We know of no reason why a female
Who has arrived at the age of twenty
one should not cast a ballot. and we
can advance fifty reasons why she
should sIi1 have the legal right So far as
Inc klcker's influence goes 1t will aid
woman to secure the elective franchise
and to vote early and often.
We have never made much effort to
convert the heather or to reform the
wicked. and we shall not get up and
hump ourselves in that direction dur
ing the coming year. If the heather
CONT know a good thing when he sees
II, and If the wicked can't realize that
honesty always pay 10 per cent on the
Investment, then they must wobble
along and take what comes.
We started out three years ago to
reach the presidency before we stopped.
The coming year will see us kicking up
the dust in a dozen different directions.
NOW and then we let go to get better
hold, but we never give up. Any one
looking for cabinet positions in 1908 will
please apply to US, enclosing stamped
envelope.
We deprecate war and it's attendant
horrors, and shall not urge upon this
government the advisability of annex
ing Canada or Mexico. If the govern
ment goes ahead, however, Colonel jim
Hellso will take the field with his He'll
so rangers and carry the banner to VIC
tory or death-victory preferred
Last year we shot two men and bur-
led them at our own expense. We have
no promises to make for 1904. The two
men needed shooting, and If two or
three others Of the same sort come
along and pull guns on US they will be
quite apt to meet with sudden shock.
The policy of 1.-The Kicker since it's
first issue has been in favor of honest
government, whether applied to a viii
lage or the whole country, and we
shall not depart. from it, AS mayor
OF the town we bounced the city mar
counts. Steal If you will, but do it as a
citizen and not as an officeholder
No tremendous Improvements have
been planned in the makeup of 1.-The
Kicker" for the coming year. It's size
and general appearances will remain
the same, and each issue will contain
about the same number of poems, muir
ders, Opponents and highway robber-
les. It's worth twice the subscription
price asked for it, and any one not sat
isfied can turn to something else for a
change.
Our policy has always been to print
all we could get hold of first, and to
apologize for mistakes afterwards, and
we see no reason to change it. Last
year we made 205 apologies to as many
different people, and the number in
1904 will probably run as high. We
have no personal animus to crafty, and
when we have made a mistake we
cheerfully correct it.
There is no sort of doubt in our mind
that we could tender some very good
advice to the President on how to run
the country, but we shall make no
departure from our past policy, which
has been to keep our mouth shut and
let the old thing wobble along. If
asked to mix in we may do SO, and
bring our guns along, but we prefer to
keep out of it.
We have favored neither free trade
nor protection, high tariff nor low in
the past, and we see no reason for COM
ing out with whoop during the next
year. When a man can send up to Chi
cago and get suit of clothes for $4.75,
a box of cigars for 81, and pair of
russell shoes for about the cost of the
strings, it looks to him as IL the coun-
try had found her proper gait and
shouldn't be meddled with.
There will be no change in our way
of running things at the city hall. Dur
ing the last year we had to throw about
fifty different men cut of the mayors
office for undue familiarity, and we
we shall be ready to begin on another
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