The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-07-05
Democratic Candidate
for Governor Falls TO
Specify
Any Good Reason Why Nc Should
Succeed Governor Koch.
DREW "A BLANK.


the Democrats hope to make Cover.
nor of Kansas, says that the people
are finding fault with Governor Hoch
because Of "his sins Of OMISSION
Colonel Harris-and it will per-
haps be recalled that he won his
title while fighting in an army which
sought to destroy the Union--wos
recently in Washington searching
for campaign material. While there
he submitted to an interview in which
he made the statement that there is
great disaffection among Kansas
Republicans and grave dissatisfaction
with the record of E. w. Hoch az
Governor.
Asked to what cause the disaffec.
ton and dissatisfaction might proper
ly be attributed the mail order
candidate stammered before answer.
ing and finally stumbled into the
statement that Hoch is charged with
sins of omission" 1t is up to
Colonel Harris to specify.
What is it that Governor Hoch has
omitted to do during his term that
Colonel Harris would have done had
he been Governor of Kansas during
the past two years?
If Governor Hoch is to be attacked
by Democrats for sins of omission the
Republicans of Kansas, on whom
Harris must rely for votes if he
hopes to make even respectable
showing at the approaching election,
have right to know what it is that
Hoch has omitted to do. 1t is well
known that the Democrats have no
issue of their own on which TO make
their campaign. They called their
state convention early in order that
they might STEAL Republican thun-
der" by adopting platform ex-
actly in line with the one the Demo-
Gratis expected the Republicans to
adopt. The Republican convention fol
lowed the will of a majority of the
members of the party, however, and
adopted platform which means more
TO the people of the state than has
any platform on which a Kansas
campaign has been waged in many
years. The Democrats are now in
the unique position of party of
great pretensions offering nothing on
which to base bid for votes except
men partisan and fractional prejudice
Framed as 1t was by Democrats
who have never before expressed
sentiments in harmony with the prin
ciples they now pretend to advocate
the Democratic platform naturally
lacks the true ring. Democracy ha:
never stood for anything in Kansa.
it stands for nothing now.
The spectacle of David 0vermyel
and j. w. Orr and w. w. Rose de
manding platform declaring for thu
enforcement of the prohibitory law
is proof sufficient that with Kansas
Democrats party platform means
what it did to David Bennett Hill
something to get in on
With the Republican party in Kan
sas it is different. The Republican
party has been dominant throughout
the lifetime of the state. 1t has writ
ten every law of consequence on the
statute books of the state. Study Of
the history of Kansas discloses th'
fact that the platform declarations
of Kansas Republicans have all beer
crystallized into law. Two years age
the Republican party made twelve
specific platform promises to the pee
pie of the state. Ten of those prom
Uses we're religiously kept. TIL
benefit to the state as result of tn
work done in Kansas by the Repuhli
can party during the Hocl
administration is almost in
calculable. True to its re
cord-the Republican party through
the Hoch administration did things
The history of the state during III
next two years will be the record {
Republican accomplishment. Kn
sas people have lost patience VII
. Democratic promise long deferred
fulfllment. Democracy will stand +
show in Kansas until 1t ceases co..
tinual protesting and begins to q
vocate something.
the state q splendid railroad law an