The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-03-24
NO. 80.
SAYS KANSAS IS hot STUFF
sEE STANDS UPON THE MISTY E0UE-
TAIN TOP AID YELLs.
New York Sun Makes spicy IDeursions Into
Her History, and Psints Rsr People,
Politics, Legislature and Whlms
IN Strokes OF Dewy Humor.
From the New York Sun.

4 From the New York Sun.
Who that loves Kansas-and who
loves her better than we?-dOesn't feel
a happy smile crackle over his face as
/ he reads the concurrent resolution Of the
Kansas legislature asking the president
to reject Commissioner Gar6eld's report
on the beef trust and TO appoint some
man with experience, intelligence, indie
pendence and nerve that VIII qualify
him for the task of investigating the
gang of commercial highwaymen7"
Especially nerve" As we read that
resolution, Kansas stands before US, she,
: the immense, irrepressible, impossible,
7 invincible, by the Bible out Of Sharp's
rifles, she of the innumerable voices,
/ the grand dithyrambic universal kicker.
/ We see her dOwntrodden plOW joggers
/ rafting about in devil wagons and
] shOOing the money devil. Before our
musing eye the mighty ones Of old pass
by-LOrenzo D. Lewelling, Mary Eliza
| beth Lease, Annie Diggs, PETER, Webb
| McNall, the SOckless Socrates of Medi-
cine Lodge, all the heroes and herOines
of the perpetual heroic age. ChOirs of
girls drive about singing:
No man that amt a POpulist
Shall ever marry me.
Agriculturist subtreasuries look real.
Interstate and intercontinental railroads
follow the lines of latitude and longi-
tude, and have sidings and terminal
facilities in every backyard.
For Kansas was, is and ever shall be
in highest c. She stands upon the
misty mountain tops and yells- Was it
Mr. Stevenson who talked about being
Z 4 l. HO
II? IF we may say so with the peace of
Mrs. Nation, Kansas has three quarts of
dry champagne under her belt She is
exceedingly exhilarated in all innocence.
She is inebriated with the exuberance
of her own strenuOsity. The sunbeams
are as buttered rum TO her The air IS
hasheesh. The water IS saki. The soil
is pulque. She is keyed beyond all
keys; and she knows It and IS glad Of II.
She is the commonwealth of hyper
boles. She makes her statues IN poetry.
Nothing is natural to her but exaggera-
ton. The tailor in the folk tale kills
forty flies. Forty lives have I taken
today" he chants as he goes forth to
new cOnoueSts. That tailor was an an
cestOr of Kansas.
Take home a sunhower OF two. Eliz-
abeth Cheney of La Crosse, writes to a
Kansas City paper of the death of Ne
maha county follower of the Hon Willis
J. Bailey, lately governor of Kansas.
When nearing the end, almost ready to drain
the last drop in the cup Of life, he asked II the
legislature had conEened. He vas told that -
had not, but that the Inauguration had taken
place. Upon being handed the paper, he said
be did not care TO read the speech OF the gov
ernor-elect but would like to read Governor
Bailey's address. His dying word was Bailey
A pious man, no doubt, but his dying
word was "Baileyl' Politics IN Kansas
are fhot of the bat, all the time.
A Kansas man IN Chicago has not
changed his mental state. Hear him
sizzle in the Hiawatha Democrat:
Must a state which has produced John
Brown, a Susan B. Anthony and a John P. St.
John lean its neck 70 the yoke Of corporate IN
terestsi Can we think the advance thoughts
these pioneers have given rs as legacles and
hesitate TO enter untrisd fields. when our goal
Is to throttle the greatest octopus OF the agel
When the sons Of Kansas, fed By breath OF
her winds. rise up, they viii crush the power OF
Standard Oil in the beautiful state as erect
uaIly as cyclone ze2hyrs crush all Obstruction
in their pathway. 1 am proud Of Kansas
Proud of herr So say We all Of Us, so
say we all.