The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-05
thing was left on the face of that part Q

thing was left on the face of that part OF
the earth.
If there was discoura cement before the
cloud came up. there was CONSERVATION
now. And young Hoch had Just bought
dying newspaper. with the certainty be-
fore him of famine in the land during the
coming winter.
10 make matters worse, the few bust
ness men in the town distrusted the young
editor His politics didn't suit them;
neither did his strict temperance princi-
pies; neither did his vim and energy-for
the old settlers having been long isolated
far away from a railroad. had become a
bit fossilized. The storekeepers had been
supporting the paper through town pride
and through sympathy fer the good fell
low who had been trying to make living
cut of it. not because they believed in
advertising Now they began taking ont
their advertisements. Since the grasshop-
pers had come they did not care to 'ad-
ver-tiz' any longer. they said drawing
out the accent on the second syllable.
The new editor declined to beg for bust
ness as charity; he would take it as bus
mess or not at all
through He threw OFF his coat and rolled
up his sleeves He reduced his working
force TO himself and a boy-just as shirk-
ing and as unreliable as the average boy
of seventeen who is not continually prod
ded and watched-and that boy was ye
'Old Timer the writer of this sketch.
Before long Hoch discovered that more
work could be done by himself alone and
the boy went for time.
Hochs economy did not stop there.
There was a stufy little room in the back
of his shop. Into this he put second
hand cook stove. a dry goods box for
dining table and one or two mai. kegs Tor
chairs He also provided himself with =
folding canvas cot So there in his office
he slept and I'd himself at the least pos
sible expense. Naturally there IS not
a parsimonioUs drop Of blood in HJeh'
generous body; but TO pinch and starve
during the grasshopper winter vas his
only salvation, 50 he pinched and starved
And that is the kind Of stuff that the next
governor of Kansas Is made Of.
In later years better times came T. the
little town. to NJ Hoch ana to his news
paper. the Marion Record. Tho town.
which had become a city Of half IS many
thousand people SIS IL had hundreds 81
the year OF the locusts. get the goai o. its
ambition. q railroad; Hoch himself quit
''baching" and went 10 Housekeeping Win
a pretty country school ma am his bride,
and the newspaper was gradually equip
ped with 2 more modern plant. with liza
proved cylinder and lob presses NV type
and steam power. But ii was The lan
months % famine. of discouTa cement e
unpopularity. that develored SO stun cat
Of which tbs next governor q karsas has
bsen made.
But the grasshopper year WIS not the
first that gave an mixing q z ~. hochs
character. re was born az D2aeiiie. *
AL during the war and tne stormy tine ct
reconstruction he was a Berla.lca1 oog
when 70 be q Republican e. 8 pFo-souther7
community meant 70 5ght t79rh ard tre
nail; q proclaim ones political faith Wish
ones head under the sPout = TIE tgFa
pump. and with vindictive Deruec-etie
boys webbing vigorously 1he psTap l'aasIle-
Then. years later than the gTssshoqos-
years. the same stuff sheae forth bFU.-
faatly again II was after TIA meteoFsc
rise OF popuiIsIn hzd placed :sockiees 1eT-y
In the national house ef FeTresen1ailF
William Perer IN The - nate. aid lhe PIP
ulist IeweiIing n the gusseF7s2tGT-as char
81 Topeka r W Horh wzs TIE iszeer CO
.he aooY of the Republican Legislature -
a memorials struggle Win the hlsh-
handed FopGlistsc gcveVaor wssc Ihe .z%
makers had To barFsessse tnsrasives p
THE capitol az Topeka against 3 tsresa ter
ed attack by the military Tsss governor
did actually ean CIT the SStcnal GUAR
but ths military COMPANIES. esT1tag as
they did, sEo-a the towns which sFsTe Re-
publican csnters, refused to take orders