Arizona republican., 1904-03-23
oHOENIX. ARIZ, MARCH 23, 190i
Kansas Republicans and Missouri
 Democrats.

The neighbOrlnS states ol NtHS10 and Missouri have been going through similar political experiences during the past year. In Kansas there has been an uprising of the republican voters against the republican machine, and in Missouri there is a revolt of large number of the democratic voters against the democratic machine.
 At this point, however, the parallel lines diverge, somewhat. The Kan sas republicans have overthrown and completely destroyed their machine. but the Missouri democrats are by no means sure of a victory over the ring which so long has disgraced that state. In Kansas the voters were so united at the primaries that the state admin istration could muster but one-fifth Of the delegates to the state convention, and several weeks before the conven- ton met Governor Bailey was com pelled to announce his withdrawal as a candidate for renomination. In Mis- souri the machine, comprising the state administration, all the boodlers indict- ed by Prosecutor Folk, and most of the professional politicians. is making a contest in every township. and may yet overcome the reform forces
 Tn Kansas the machine had become obnoxious, not so much on account of boodllng (for very little corruption was alleged) as on account of dishonest po- lltical methods and factional narrow ness. For illustration, Governor Bailey and the state machine began their administration by disreputable deals for the purpose Of controlling the senatorial election and dominating the legislature. The representative of an important county who had been elect ed upon his pledge that he would vote for a certain candidate for Units6 States senator was made speaker of the house by Bailey and the machine, and was thereby seduced away from the candidate for whom he had given his pledge. The eletcion of this obscure person, Pringle by name, to the high office of speaker through such a flag rant disregard of the principles of com mon honesty shocked the moral sensi- Utilities of the whole state. and "Prin- gleism" has already become a common noun in Kansas, denotlng the betrayal of a sacred trust in politics and a sord- i'd traffic in office for the benefit of a political ring.
 The people of Kansas made no al- loWance for the fact that, as an indi- rect result of the Pringle deal, high minded gentleman and broad-gauged republican Chester I. Long) was elect ed to the United States senate. That deal discredited Governor Bailey and the state machine beyond explanation. In addition to this, Bailey, dominated by the state committee, made all his appointments on factional lines No republican who had been identif7d with any other faction received the slightest recognition. And Bailey and the leaders associated with him have been forced to retire, while a plain and honest country editor, Edward HoCh, has been nominated for govern or by exclamation.
 In Missouri the democratic voters have had even greater cause for insur- rection than the republicans of Kansas were able to find. The prosecutions initiated by Joseph Folk. the St. Louis l prosecutor, have brought to light an astonishing state of corruption in the f1E ,,f. paper readers are familiar with the de- tails. Such boodlers as Ed. Butler men who have escaped the penitentiary | on technicalities kindly discovered by i the supreme court of Missouri-are in | complete control of the machine, and ! with them stand Governor Cookery and the state administration. Single | handed, Joseph Folk is fighting the en- tire outfit in his efforts to secure the ! democratic nomination for governor.
 In any other state in the union the ma sses in either party would rise in rebellion against their administration under such circumstances as exist in Missouri. To find the governor and | other officers and the entire machinery 1, of the governors party openly leagned with notorious boodlers in an endeavor to defeat an incorruptlble prosecutor of boodlers would mean a political rev. olution in any other state than Mis- souri. In any other state the voters of c party, upon finding themselves un- able to cleanse their organization would put the opposing party in power; bat neither of these things may hap pen in Missouri. Folk may be unable to defeat the ring, and if he shall be the candidate for govern