The Hartford republican., 1906-07-27
CHANGED HIS POSITION
To Obtain an office in Kansas
Dick Dorr as a Repu b.
lican.

Who has not said land that re-
minds me-" The story as it comes
through the columns of the eX-
changes anent the good luck and the
bad luck and all kinds of luck Of
Little Dick" Dorr, who now lives
in Wichita, Kansas, reminds some of
u Of the sto,y of his flop in politics
and the consequences thereof. Of
course this is a story and it may
not be true. The Record gives it
for what it is worth. You can
believe it or not believe it all at the
rate of 81 per year for this sheet.
The story runs something like this.
The trying ordeal of a double am
putation was over Little Dick"
would live so said the learned
medics. Slowly life came back andl
! the blood once more coursing
freely through his veins.
The Missouri Pacific Railway doc
tors advised that he sit on the front
poarch and get some of the fresh
Wichita ar. Dick looked down
whore his feet ought to be and then
tie thought of his wife and the lit
tie DORIS with mouths to feed and
backs to clothe. A shiver went up
his spine anu he thought fast.
His neighbor, who was a power
ful factor in Kansas politics, sat on
his front poarch too. Nothing sep
arated them but fence. In the
dawning light of happy thought
Little Dick" called his neighbor
over and pointing to his children
said, "Neighbor, know what | am
going to do for living. am 60
ing to run for the office of city clerk
of Wichita"
His neighbor was delighted and
said he could win easily and that he
should have his support and much
more in the same strain. Finally
his neighbor casually mentioned the
fact of Dicks long time Republican
proclivities and his unrewarded Re-
publican patriotism and that the sail
ing would be easy. Dicks heart
sank. For the first time he realized
that he had been a Democrat all his
life and had never voted anything
else. He said as much to his friend,
whereupon the stuff was all off.
His friend announced that he could
not be elected dog pelter on the
Democratic ticket in the city of
Wichita. Dick was in despair. He
looked at the backs to be clothed and
mouths to be :ed. Something had
to be done. Therefore Dick an
nounced very decidedly that he
could run on the Republican ticket.
In fact since he had been in the
West (since he came to think of it,
and had breathed pure Republican
ozone from the Kansas prairies he
had very decided leaning in that
direction. To make a long story
short it was decided that very night.
Dicks name went on the Republican
ticket. He made remarkable race.
Nothing could head him on the home
stretch and he won hands down.
Nearly everybody voted for him and
the railroad people twice. From
comparative obscurity and the brink
ofithe gave he was hoisted to one of
most conspicuous positions in the
city. He was the most talked
of man in Wichita. His lying enc
mics told on him that he had been
Democrat all his life way back yon-
der in Kentucky. Dick did not say
anything but just lauged. Nobody
believed them. Dick was elected
and makes fine officer. He hobbies
around pretty well, but will always
have to walk with a cane. Think of
Dick Dorr as a wild haired, rampant
Kansas Republican! If Dicks
grandfather could have lived to have
seen the ay.!l-Ciittenden Record.