The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-13
ADVICE TO FIRST VOTERS.
Interesting Correspondence" Now Be
ing Circulated in Jewell County.


cent Republican meeting here which
was addressed by E. w. Hoch, a cir
cular letter headed, 1.-The Following
Correspondence on Voting Will Proba-
bly, Interest You" was circulated
among the voters. 1t purports to be a
question addressed to an old Republic
can by first voter" and the old Re-
publican's reply. The correspondence
is as follows:
Dear Sir: This is the first cam
paign in which shall vote. National
| ly l have selected the candidate of my
choice but in state matters L find the
task more difficult. 1 am told that
the real reason that Governor Bailey
failed of nomination was because 1t
was feared before his first nomination
that if he became the candidate of the
party, he would serve four years as
governor and become the most power
full rival of Senator Burton for the U. S.
senate. That after he was nominated
and elected a fight directed by Burton,
Kelly, BurrOw and Curtis was waged
against Governor Bailey'S administra-
ton. Aid to this fight was lent by
most of the other state officers who
belonged to the Burton faction, as did
also the state senate. That by the as
sistance of certain leading state papers
that are owned by the Burton hackers
and the railroad influences, a boss bus
tiers crowd was organized and Governor
Bailey was temporarily discredited, and
his nomination defeated, or at least
such a row made that he declined to
stand for denomination Then came
Burton's arrest, trial and conviction.
Now tell me what you think of the Re
publican state ticket. 1 have read
William Allen Whites articles ana
have made up my mind that L would
rather be a bolter to a party than
traitor to state Yours truly. >,
Dear Sir:-In answer to your in
quiry as to what 1 think of present
political conditions in this state, have
to say that I am very much mixed;
1 think. however, you are on the right
track. Francis Cation, in his inquiries
into human. faculties, gives under the
head of Gregarious and Slavish In
stincts,' the curious party feeling That
exists among the herds OF wild oxen OF
South Africa He states that these
oxen have no love for each other as
individuals, or for their leaders, but
that they have almost an insane pas
sion for keeping together, apparently
from a vague fear of wild beasts. How
amazingly like a political party?
There are a few. sharp-horned steers
that go ahead believing, Close your
ranks or the wild beasts will devour
you,' and the Eliminating herd reply,
Close up, let me follow. Behold our
mind and our conscienceH Cation goes
on to show how this gregarious Slav-
ishness is found in the lowest barbar-
Gus tribes, and how it has only been
bred out of men in the most modern
times and in the most favored locali-
ties.
folly of partisans. What trifies they
dignity with the name of great achieve
ments. What absordities are the seri-
Gus occupations of their lives! They
talk of courage, honor, glory, of viz
tue, decency, etc, and throughout the
acts of all their whipping in insist
that you vote for Kellys, Burtons and
Burrows, and against honest men, To
I1s,l-I orin To mo- ST
woven from the warp and wool of UNI
variegated. bad citizenship. Did God
make parties to while away the tedious
ages of eternity? To help the devil?
Is man the joke of jokes?
THE antics of the insane are laugh
able because they are the result OF ser
ious effort directed to the accomplish
ment of nothing. We hear a maniac
to see king so poorly clad, with pad
ded cell for throne. We see another
deliver himself most sOlemnly of glow
ing periods on honesty, virtue and good
itizenship-urging you to vote for
thieves. And God sees all, an indisttn-
guishable mass of chronic idiocy, ever
struggling madly, vainly for position,
riches, fame. Party the esteem of null
titudes office their service, position
their praise. But what has state
achieved when ignorance commends,
applauds or slaves, and at the same
time votes for those who loot the
school fund for private gain. We rant
of freedom, glory, our eyes fixed on the
mob and run ball bearing pneumatic
tired Hincky Dink for legislative hon.
ors. To be chriStened a cracker jack
or a warm number by an lgnoramus
has more of charm for US than 1sraeFs
songs. My friend, the twentieth CEN
tury in its political partisanShip is as
as the fifth, as heartless,
cruel, inhuman and corrupt Our anceS-
tors were slaves to a creed, their pos
terity are slaves to a party; then -four
ished the bigotry of church now is the
intolerance of partyism. With the
ferceness of the Druid and Torquema-
da, without their solemn ceremonies,
and the barbarity of the Aztecs, with
out their splendor, the Republican par
tisan of this campaign, at the same
that he urges the cleanliness of Roose- |
Welt who directed the prosecution Of
Burton, demands of the herd that each
vote for Kelly, Burrow, ct al How
like the sharp horned steer in the Afri-
can Simile.
Idols are ideas petrihed. The fetish of
the savage IS an attempt TO enDody an
'aThe placing of certain men upon the
Republican state ticket is also attempt
to embody an idea-less crude, that is all
What is the idea by these candidates en-
bodied? Is it honesty? Is it virtue? Is it
ton. their sharphorned steer, answer To
worship graft and DOODLE. honesty must
be sacrificed and Gov; Bailey was lmmo-
We lie to ourselves that we may worship
that there is nothing rational in the sweet
recollections of childhood, of mothers
prayers and counsels, nor in the multitude
OF emotions that are constantly eliciting
smiles and tears. The thing we do is to
stick TO our pig-tail and vote for ne vel
low dog on the ticket, that is good citi- |
zenship-O. yesi o, yes.
The child walks amid heaps of illusions
which he does not like to have disturbed. |
THE BOY, how sweet to him is his fancy; |
how dear the story of barons and battles. |
What a hero he is while he follows his |
heroes, By our votes we invite him to
follow hero Kelley. hero Burrow, hero |
burton and other heroes that have looted |
the sacred fund set apart for his educa- |
ton. We are doing right by him, he will |
grow up a great and good citizen 90.
In conclusion let me say that 1 need no |
heroes in mine. I have no fear of the |
sharp horned steer, nor the wild beasts, |