The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-10

written on the SuDJeCt anu never
has a state received such vast
amount of free advertising. 1t
would make her if she received no
further benefit. We give short
article from the Washington Post
that is sample of the kind of write
up we are getting from the great
papers of the country.
KANSAS AND THE OCTOPUS
From the Washington Post.
Kansas is the eldest and the darling
child of the Republican party, and it
was on Kansas soil that the principles
of that party were first tested and
there they first triumphed. John
Brown, Jim Lane, Subsidy" Pom
Kansas was the product OF these,
fashioned by them and Beecher's
sermons, Greeley's editorials, Love
joys stump speeches and the Sharp's
rifles supplied the Emigrant Aid
societies by eastern phlanthropists.
1t is not strange, then, that Kansas
is always strenuous and always In
political turmoil. sFor mauy years she
was the banner Republican state, and
always whatever her hand has found
TO do she has done with her might,
The Benders ec.ipsed all American
rivals in the trade of burking, aud the
burning OF negro at the stake out
there Is said tf i've been consider
able improvement in the fine art of
torture as practiced at the lynchings
OF less strenuous communities.
The agrarian movement was more
pronounced in Kansas than in any
other state. 80 fierce was 1t that
even so strong character and impei.
ious an intellect as John James In
gals sought to placate 1t, but his DID
for its support fell on deaf ears, and
agrarian Kansas preferred the ver-
bose PETER to the most brillia nt man
the United Sta ties senator has known
since Judah P. Ben jamin. Kansas
never did anything by halves. In the
Fifty-second congress she was repre-
sented by B. H. Glover. John Davis
: Jerry Simpson, John G. Otis and
) william Baker. Euough politics
| could have been squeezed out of that
= crowd TO start a revolution in SPAR
or Italy, and these men, If set to it
5 could have supplied ''prnciples" suf.
ticient in quantity, unique enough IL
S quality and varied enough in assert
ment TO run the South American re-
publics and Santa Domingo quarter
of century. Mr.. John Davis, the
profoundest one Of them, declared
, that the Venetian government OF the
doges, In the elder day wnen Venice
: was the mistress Of the waYe and the
1 first commercial people of the world
Mr.. Davis declared that Venice had
the only respectable government that
had ever been established among men,
and that the doges had only antici-
pated the Popullst party by few
centuries.
But the Populist party was impos-
sible and could not live-even 10
Kansas-aud IN 1900 we find Kansas
back in the Republican camp, as
strenuous as ever, and more so.
, Some years ago Kansas struck oil
! aud the octopus went over there tt
; gather by every vile that's ju.ti
> fed 10y monopoly. Kansas had Learned
the trick of chasing the octopus from
u the Popullsts, and now she was face
to face with the monster, and light
has resulted. Kansas does nothing
= between awake and asleep, and nov
she is wide awake and in the Oil bust
ness up to the elbow. She is alst
standing up TO the octopus like .verl
Hector or Tfop, and il the courts viii
s only stand by her, she promises tn d.
" a great many disagreeable things Il
: IL.
, The constitution of Kansas is liabl'
= to get hurt in the scrap, but If j
holds out the octopus will be gla'
enough TO get out of the state with
e reasonably filled pocket-book.
q Let everybody whose grocery &C
g count is an indictment against tn,
government hope that Kansas hai
found the way to do the trick au'
Il tame the octopus and make gentle
man of IL.
d Gov. Hoch has sent in quite
i batch of appointments. Amonl
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