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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

ness. A few more men like William
Green in the city council will help to
purify and elevate city politics. to pull
the city out of debt. and devise the
best way to grapple with great muni-
cipal problems such as city ownership
of waterworks.
Voters do not need to put their ears
to the ground to hear the crack of the
party whip. The Republican machine
is doing its best to line up voters for
Wolf. But there are a whole lot of peo-
pie now days who are tired of the
howl of the partisan in municipal af-
fairs. City politics is question of
men, rather than party measures. 1t
is question of good citizenship rath-
er than good Republieanism or good
Democracy. And with the issue
squarely drawn on this proposition, it
should not take Third ward voters long
to choose between William Green and
c. v. Wolf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26
TEE puRroN p1scLosuRes.

The prosecution of Senator Burton IN
the United States district court at St.
Louis this week is the first time mem
Der of congress has ever been prose
cuted for the offense charged against
the Kansas senator. He may not have
been, and probably was not, the first
one who needed prosecuting, but he IS
the first to meet with such a move.
That his prosecution was justifiabl
is shown by the evidence which has been
brought out in the case, but it must be
admitted that it required considerable
moral courage on the part of the prose-
cutting official to attack a member OF
the highest legislative body in the
world-a body the members Of which
are hedged about by precedent and Gus
tom with barriers which seem to have
generally made them immune from
prosecution for wrongful acts.
To the United States district attorney
of the eastern district of Missouri, Colo
mel David p Dyer, and his able assist
ants, Bert D. Norton and Horace Dyer,
great credit is due for the prosecution
Of Senator Burton and the establish
ment of a precedent which ought to re-
suit in higher standard of official
conduct and an increased regard for in
tegrity in public officials from the high
est to the lowest. If high officials are
corrupt, lower ones will be also. If
members of congress are boodlers, how
can it be expected that state legisla-
lures will be above reproach? The
prosecution of a man who stands high
in official life cannot fail to have its
benehcent influence on all officials who
are prone to wander into the by-paths
of Doodle and graft. Therefore are the
prosecutors of Senator Burton rendering
great service to good government
throughout the country.
To those who know Senator Burton
and who have followed his career since
he first entered public life many years
ago as a member of the Kansas legis-
lature, the disclosures made by the wit
nesses at st. Louis this week come as
no surprise. Burton as a United States
senator is simply Burton as the Dickin-
son county member of the legislature
on larger scale. The reports of D. w.
Wilder as insurance commissioner of
Kansas indicate that Senator Burton
was in the same sort of business years
ago that he has been prosecuting since
he was-unfortunately for Kansas
elevated to the United States senate.
Just how extensive Senator Burton's
operations have been since he has
been in the United States senate has
not been determined. It seems. how
ever, that he was a representative of
the Weltmer magnetic school when that
institution had trouble with the post
office authorities. and it is certain that
the Rialto is not the only get-rich-
quick concern with which he has been
implicated. 1t is to be regretted that
a man who is supposed to represent the
state Of Kansas in the United States
senate has been so devoid of honor as
Senator Burton has been shown to be,
but those who are responsible for his
election knew what sort of a man he
was at the time he was elected. Now
will they endorse what he has done by
continuing to support him?
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ON TO KANSAS.

[From Bradford Record.l
There's a craze that's struck our city.
You can see it every day
By the Bradford Daily Record,
In the personals, to say
Mr.. So and So departed
Not this life, but better stilD
He is going out to Kansas;
So the craze has captured him.
You can hear it at the depot,
AS the friends foregather round
To shake their hands in friendship.
While for Kansas fields they're bound.
place this in your pocket, Jack,
And treat the boys you see,
And don't forget to write me back
If there's any chance for me.
Remember us to Billy, Jack;
He was our foreman here.
A better boss could not be found
In search from here to there.
A n 9" the bo SnoP With nRT oy % viii roam
AS they raise their hats and smile with
At his name above the door.
There's France and Joe and Curly. too.
With Patsy Mack you'll find;
George and Jim and Ed are there,
But few are left behind.
The 3. and S. don't seem the same,
With smiths and helpers new,
And sad the fate of the old supply,
For it's on eight hours, too.
Il think my time is short here, Jack,
For I'm getting lonely more
When schoolmates that 1 loved so well,
Like yourself, nave gone before
Yes, I'm bound to be in Kansas,
Though faint 1 see the fare,
Still. you'll shake this hand in Kansas
next,
And Independence share"
'Tis sad to see the walks that once
Were shoveled with such care,
Now shrouded in the winter coat,
For there's no husband there.
A sign adorns each home-.For Sale.
You'll find widows by the score,
AS they seek the Declaration
OF Independence evermore-
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in the southwest part of Manchuria,
anywhere along the coast from Ying-
Kow to Shan-Hai-Kwan, they Will
doubtless do so without paying any at
tention to the limits Admiral Alex1eH
has assumed to set. However, 1t seems
pretty certain that neither of the bellig-
erents will invade that portion of China
which lies within the wall, or even the
province of Pe-Chi-Li without the wall
Such restraint is probably all that could
reasonably be expected. If it is Loyalty
maintained, it should be practicable to
keep the Chinese government and it's
armies from taking any part in the war
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FREIGHT RATES.


The State Journal, in showing up the
outrageous freight extortions practiced
by the railroads upon the people of
Kansas, has finally stirred the Topeka
Capital to action. The Capital comes
out and admits that the Topeka rates
are very unjust. but the real motive of
the article is to defend A. D. Walker,
member of the board of railroad
commissioners.
AS the Capital was a strong advo-
cate of Mr.. Walkers nomination at
the Jackson county primaries and at
the Wichita convention, and is today
an ardent advocate of his election. this
partisan effort to uphold Mr.. Walker
is natural and apparent.
The facts still remain that Mr..
Walker was defeated in his own coun-
ty and was nominated at Wichita, de-
spite the most earnest protest and OBJ
lection of a representative body of the
largest shippers in Kansas. If there
were no other reasons, the united and
emphatic opposition of the shippers OF
Kansas to Mr.. Walker is enough to
bring about the efforts of this paper to
aid in his defeat.
The Capital says the shippers do not
bring cases before Mr.. Walker. This,
unfortunately, is largely true. The
shippers have absolutely no confidence
in Mr.. Walker and his board. They re-
gard an appeal to him very much as
| they would an appeal to a railroad at
torney; or as a lamb would appeal to
wolf. The shippers have tired of
bringing cases before the railroad
board. They are discouraged and are
without confidence, and we'll they may
ba.
The way things have been, Kansas
would be far better off If it had no rail-
road board at all.
The state needs a new board and a
radically different one. In the years of
Mr.. Walkers service he has been an
instrument of the railroads. rather
than a representative of the people. In
fact, the railroad board is about the
most useless thing the state has in its
| possession and it will continue to be
so with such men as A. D. Walker as
members. The millers did bring a case
before the board, but they got no sat
! isfaction. The stockmen brought a
case before the board. but they got no
satisfaction Wichita brought a case
i in the interest of the coal rates and
/
| of the old rate. The rate had been ad-
vanced from $3.50 to $1.6o, and after
great travail the board announced q
reduction of ten cents. which was
merely restoration of the old extor-
| tionate rate
Think of it! 1t would be the same as
if the railroads raised the Topeka rate
from 81 40 to $3.50, and then reduced it
back to $1.40 when all the time Kansas
City, four miles further, was paying
| only so cents. The matter of bringing
! things before a board of railroad COM
missioners is a good deal like preparing
a rabbit stew; the essential thing is to
first get your rabbit.
| So far as the extortionate rates on
interstate commerce are concerned be-
tween the east and Topeka, it would
indeed be a wise thing for action by
this city through it's Commercial club,
or otherwise, to secure a hearing be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion and ask that body why Topeka,
the same distance from the Missouri
river as Lincoln is, should pay from
four to five times the freight rates.
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That.s our IDEA of a mode aus

yard. That's our idea of a model hus-
band.
A Burns young woman went out
after bass the other day and came
home with the fish hook through her
finger.
Chairman Stubs has announced that
little money would be spent in the
campaign and already the interest in
the political fight is decreasing
In the last three months Lawrence has
paid its police force over 1000 In
turn the police have collected s45 in fines.
Possibly Governor Bailey may have the
appointment of q United States senator
Everyone has a guess coming as to whom
1t viii be-
At a Eureka social the other night or
binary apple pies sold for IS cents each
And yet Mr.. Tucker of the Herald talks
of a legislative graft.
The Pleasanton Herald carries the name
of Henry Allen at it's masthead for con-
gresham. while the Lawrence World
raises the Bowersock banner. One e1
them must lower its colors. Which viii
1t be?
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BOUNDS OF THE WAR,

Admiral Alexieff's definition of the
area of war in Eastern Asia is interest
ing, both for what it includes and for
what it excludes, says an editorial
writer in the New York Tribune. The
line of the Monaghan frontier to the
intersection of the Lao river" he
says. That means that the whole of
Mongolia is TO be regarded as belliger-
ent territory. At least it is not neu-
trail territory, and Russia is
to be free to occupy it
and use it at will as the base of mil
itary operations. That is in accord
with Russia's we'll established policy
of claiming Mongolia as her own ex-
elusive sphere of influence and for
bidding China to let other aliens into
it or even to build railroads or open
mines there herself without Russian
permission. Apart from the mainten-
ance of that policy, there is another
obvious reason for Russia's thus exH
Guiding Mongolia from the neutral
part of China. 1t is that she may oc-
cupy Mongolia sufficiently to protect
her Siberian railroad. That road act
ually traverses Monaghan territory
for only a little distance; but for a
great distance it runs so close to the
Monaghan border as to be within easy
striking distance therefrom. Russia
evidently means to send troops to the
Monaghan border and across it, as
much as may be necessary to restrain
the zeal of the Kalkas and other tribes
as to keep intact the single channel
which is to supply her army in the
east with men, munitions and all the
necessaries of the campaign.
Thence to Tsin-N in-Tun." That city
! is at the intersection of the Lao river
and the railroad which runs up from
Tien Tsin by way of Shan-Hai- Kwan,
and is about forty miles west of Mouk-
den. Thence southwest along the rail-
road to Kou-Pang-Tse." The latter
place is fifty miles down from Tsin-
Nin-Tun. and sixty west from Lao
Yang, and is the point at which a
branch railroad runs from the
Shan Hai-Kwan line across the Ying-
Kow, New Chwang and the Russian
| Manchurian line from Hardin through
Moukden to Port Arthur. 1t is alonr
this branch that the neutral boundary is
to run. Southeast along the railroad
to Ying-Ko So the whole Lao river
in Manchuria is kept within the bellig-
erent sphere. But the southwest corner
Of Manchuria, from Kou-Pang-T down
to Shan ai-Kwan, is declared to be
neutral. That means that there are tc
be more than a hundred miles of neu-
trail territory outside the Great Wall
and the questions naturally arise, how is
order to be maintained, and how are
the obligations of neutrality to be en-
forced in it if China, according to Rus
sian demands, is not to send her troops
outside of the Great Wall?
This proclamation of the Russian
viceroy is not. however, conclusive. Il
! simply indicates the bounds withtr
which the Russians mean. if possible. tS
confine their military operations. There
is no reason to suppose that Genera
Kuropatlin will hesitate to transgres.
those bounds if it seems necessary to d.
! so for the success of his arms AS fo
the Japanese. they will, of course. no
regard the prescription as binding upo,
them. If they want to make a landin,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

In vain successive postmaster gem
erals have protested against the spe-
cial mail bounty to certain railroads,
says the Philadelphia Record. For
another time the house has passed
these special mail appropriations, while
the members Indignantly declaim
against the aspersions that are cast
upon the motives of their legislative
action as we'll as their spoils hunting
in the Departments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

The Germans in Southwest Africa
are having an experience with the ma
tives, much like that of the American
people in their contact with the In
dams. The black man resents being
cheated, driven from place to place
and imposed upon. in ways not differ
ing greatly from those employed by
the red man.
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Cultivation of Roses.

Tn the growing of cut flowers the
greatest advances have been made with
1oees carnations and violets. There are
now annually sold in this country $6.000,-
moo to 81, 100000 worth of cut roses. This
renresents something like 100, 900, 900 or
9o5 900 600 flowers. The growing of roses
as an industry has developed especially
in the vicinity of our largest cities. such
az New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
WORLDS Work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

One of the great drawbacks to fish
ing has been the trouble of digging for
worms. A German scientist has dis
covered that a current of electricity in
the ground sends all the worms sour
rying to the surface. Now perhaps
some other scientist will provide some
easy way of obtaining that class of
bait which is not dug out of the
ground
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

The export trade of the country ap-
pears to be shifting to southern and
western ports Taking the Atlantic
ports as a whole, the exports of 1898
amounted to 643 million dollars and in
1903, 500 millions, an increase of less
than so per cent. In the case Of the
gulf ports, the exports OF 1898 were 131
millions, and those of 1903. s31 mil
lions, an increase Of more than $50 per
cent The Mexican border ports show
an increase in exports from 10 millions
in 1893 to q millions in 1903 also a
gain of more than $50 per cent. The
Pacific ports show a gain in exports
from 80 millions in 1893 to rs millions
IN 1909 an increase of nearly 100 per
cent. The northern border and lake
ports show a growth in exports from
So millions in 1893 to 1874 millions in
1908, an increase of more than $50 per
cent. Even in actual increase that Of
the gulf ports nearly equals that Of
the Atlantic ports, the absolute gain hi
exports from the Atlantic ports being
from 1898 to 1908, 277 million dollars.
and that of the gulf ports 200 mil
lions.
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Mrs. Catterton-"Mrs Wilter is a wo-
man with a, great deal of pride, isn't
she?" Mrs. Intense. She
told me she had ordered as many
clothes this season as she would if her
husband hadn't been in debt."-Brook-
Ign Life.
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The man seems to be unhappy.
Why should he be otherwise? Do
YOU observe the infant PRODIGY at
the bat? Yes. Well, the man is a com
nos-er. and mamma has kindly al
lowed Beatrice to play his fa-vor-ite
Sa-Iec-tion for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

Alma Enterprise: One of the funny
things at the committee meeting in
Topeka last Friday was that Cy Leland
and Mort Albaugh had to come to
Hoch's help in his first contest or he
would have been beaten in his choice
of a chairman of the committee The
busters have been saying that what
ever Cy ard Mort favored was good
thing to oppose. for it was certain to
be bad. What will they say now?
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POLITICAL COMMENT.

Emporia Gazette: The problem has
been put TO the Gazette in this excru-
ciating Lady or the Tiger" fashion:
If Burton is convicted will the Gazette
be for Bristow or Stanley to succeed
Burton? In that event in order to
keep from wounding the feelings of
Partially, the editor of the Gazette
might have to take the job himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

Perhaps the time is not far away
when Uncle Sam will do the fighting
for all America Panama has disband-
ed all her army but one battalion and
is offering her navy for sale. Cuba
has neither army or navy worth men
tioning. True we maintain IN adried
force on land and sea for our own de-
tense, but outsiders, who depend on us
for protection should contribute some-
thing toward paving expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

]. Thomas Lumber company having
purchased the stock of the Ewart LINN,
her company, Sixth and Van RlIran
street, have the largest and best as
sorted stocks of lumber in the CITY. See
them 213 West Sixth street and kan
sas avenue and U. P. railway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

Washington Post: Congressional de-
nunciation of General Bristow has
fallen Off perceptibly since he intimat-
ed that he still had something up his
sleeve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

TWO Butler county papers are BOOM
ing T. B. Murdoch for vice president.
Better come down to hardpan and
mention him for some place under the
next state administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

Senator Burton's main line of de-
Tense appears to be based on the fact
that he needed the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

shoot SO miles is announced. Jules
Vernes dream of submarine naviga-
ton has come true. Shall we yet have
the journey to the moon?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

A leading insurance company has is
sued a table of percentages of acct
dents liable to happen to all men, It'll
out regard to occupation. At the top
of the list are the at-home liabilities
The percentage of accidents which
happen to men while indoors at home
is 1880; the out-of-dorrs at-home per
centage is 1898, making a total of "a. IS.
The statistician might have added
without fear of contradiction that
more people die in bed than anywhere
else and thus established the danger
of staying at home or going to bed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

Some uf der mosd interesting comic
operoos efer, can be sometimes seen
across der alley from your vindow-uf
you turn oudt der light
Dis lankvich ISIS too deep. feel,
Pecaus dere ISIS different style
IF dishing oop der same oldt spell
Midoudt a differmendt der vile
Fer instincts: You might say like dis,
Il hate like sin der Lent to keeb.''
Schneider teller Says: Il miss
Der loin-uf-pork und cold-roasd sheep.
Opserfing' Lent ISIS not so fine
Und dandy like der Christmas tide"
Der nearing ISIS aboudt in line
Und dis ISIS fer you to decite:
Should remark, 20 measly Jay
To vich L lendt my umberell
1 wish you'd fetch id pack some day,
Fer you opserf id mighty veil,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26

The result of the Doodle prosecutions
in st. Louis is summed up by the Post
Dispatch in the following: THE su-
preme courts reversing and remand
ing Of the Schnettler Doodle case
brings out no new point of law and
will result merely IN another vexatious
delay and costly trial Five cases-all
that have gone to the supreme court
have been reversed. One-the Butler
case-was reversed and dismissed and
another-the Mysenberg case-was dis
missed in the lower court afterreversal
in the supreme court. Three are to be
tried again. Not one has gone to the
penitentiary. The record is discourage
ing. But there is no alternative ex-
cept to press the prosecution
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Phillipsburg Dispatch: If Mr.. Stubs
is as able man in politics as he is in
business, and he seems to be, he will
appoint Cy Leland a member of the
executive committee. Leland is the
best politician in Kansas and the leader
of the defeated faction. His appoint
ment would bring him into close rela-
lions with the new movement would
make him especially interested in the
election of the ticket and would bring
to the active work of the committee the
wisdom and good political and business
judgment of one of the shrewdest and
cleanest politicians and business men
in the state.
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Arkansas City Traveller:

Arkansas City Traveller: Governor
Bailey has shown his devotion to his
party and his devotion to duty in
Offering his services to the central
committee for campaign work this year.
1t is unnecessary to say that the abili-
campaign.
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Dot noiss you heard vas nod OCCASION
ed py der sudden remofal uf peer
boddle cork. Id vhas der proof-reader
trying to say .tCheneral Plug" oudt
loud.
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Beloit Gazette:

I Beloit Gazette: 1t has been customary
in Kansas for many years for the Repub-
lican candidate for governor to name the
chairman of the state committee, and he
| has done it again this year, and named
Stubs. The Burton men the state
ticket met and selected Joe Burrow for
chairman, but when Hoch got to Topeka
he knocked them out, with the aid of
| Leland, Albaugh and Richards, who are
on the central committee, and Burrow
was forced to withdraw. Joe is having
poor luck with chairmanShips this year.
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Oh see the grand Good work 20 on.
See the Hero direct the slaugh- ter
Is he not brave one? Oh don't
know. 1t is said that he has Nerve.
If that is nerve he should at once see
a dentist and have it killed.
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Downs Times2s Clark A. Smith must
think T. T. Kelly a man after his own
heart, else why did he give Kelly his
Chairman to manage the Campaign? It
looks like a needless shaking of the red
flag by the judge.
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Id ISIS a gread consolationing to know
dot der Teller vot turns to laff ad your
selluf ven your hat plows oof, ISIS al
mosd sure to loos hiss own.