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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-30
WILLIS j. BAILEY.

The remarkable ovation accorded
Ex-Governor Bailey by. the SemIeenten-
NAL convention demonstrates that the
man from Batleyvile holds as warm a
place in the hearts Of the rank and
file of the people of Kansas as ever.
1t was as spontaneous as it was whole
hearted. and as unexpected as it was
spontaneous.
The semicentenniaI convention was
in no way a political gathering. 1t was
made up largely Of representative
business men from every town and
county in Kansas Politics had moth
ing to do with it whatever, and conse-
quently the tremendous and spon-
taneous applause that was given Gov
ernor Bailey was all the mere signih-
cant.
The reason for it is that people of
Kansas now realize that ". J. Bailey
did his duty as governor of Kansas,
and because he did his duty and insist
ed on investigating the state treasury
and in demanding an accounting to the
state of missing funds, he was made
the victim of political conspiracy
manipulated by the shrewd and fertile
brain of Thomas T. Kelly, aided by w.
r. Stubs, who imagined that Bailey
had not given him a square deal!'
These and their friends, utilizing the
personal popularity Of E. W. Hoch,
secured the turning down of Bailey.
The people now realize that Governor
Bailey was right
But being chief executive Of a state
does not make a man great. A mans
greatness is within himself. w. J. Bal
ley, defeated because he stood for hon
esty in handling the states money, is
undoubtedly a greater man than is he
who bows to the dictates of the CRATER
w. J. Bailey, private citizen and farm
er, with no official patronage at his
disposal is one of the greatest Kansans
of today.
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Among the anecdotes which a biog-
rapher tells of Governor Morris, the IA
NOUS American statesman, is the fol-
lowing story of pleasant and witty
bandinage:
When Morris was about to leave for
Europe on one occasion a dinner was
given by one of his friends, at which
Bishop Moore and his wife were pres
ent.
Among other things that passed in
conversation, Mr.. Morris observed that
he had made his will in prospect of
going abroad, and, turning to Bishop
Moore, said to him:
my reverend friend, I have bequeath-
ed to you my whole stock of impu-
dence.'
Sir, you are not only very kind, but
very generous; you have left me by
far the largest portion of your estate"
replied the bishop.
To which remark Mrs. Moore prompt
" added:
MY dear you have come into the
possession Of your inheritance remark
ably soon. London sTit-Bits.
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oUAKER REFIECTEoNs.
IRON the Philadelphia Record.l

LFrom the Philadelphia Record-]
The folly of gambling is only i'm
pressed on the loser.
Some people are perfect jewels, and
others are clever limitations.
When the lazy man has anything to
do he hates to waste the time doing it.
The world is full of circumstances
over which we pretend to have no con-
troll
The man who wastes the best years
of his life has to make the best of the
next best.
When a man says Il don't remember
he may really mean Its none of your
business.
Wigg-'He thinks he's a pretty warm
proposition" Wagg-ssYes, he's all
wrapped up in himself"
Mr.. Pickerei-"They saw old Perch is
too fond OF the booze Mr.. Bass-"Yes,
he drinks like a man."
Marriage isn't such a lottery as it
used to be. In fact it is getting to be
considered quite a game of skill.
'eAll the worlds a stage" quoted the
Wise Guy We'll judging from the
number Of lxickers." remarked the Sim
pie Mug Il should say that the average
persons ambition is to be in the bal
let
The girls who cast their bread upon
The waters seem to take
It quite for granted that It should
Come back as wedding cake.
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here?" he asked As he paused at the
door
NO" she assured. .1.hen should
have had to explain about the letter
HE don't like to have me putting IN
explained John J. as he sid through
the doorway.
ion told Dick. OF the piti1ul little forgery
made to bring things cut right, ana
showed him John Us idea OF a love
letter with its fnked-over rubber staIllL, =
ed fac-simile of his signature, but i-
was. a happy moment for Jonn y Wnst
Dick shook his hand man fashion, and
thanked him for what he had done
Forget it, was the only suitable re-
Spouse he could think Of, but Dick ana
Marion cannot.
Copyright, 1905, by z. c Parceiis-)
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KANSAS cOMMENT


= hA1Nh7 JAhRt1LL'S VIEWS.
Governor Hoch has not helped himself
IN the treasury fuss. Both factions of
the party are hammering him. Kelly's
friends says he prosecuted" them while
the anti-Kelly people say he has been
too lenient. Hoch is a fine hesitater His
political life depends upon his renomina-
ton for governor, and he is unwilling to
move promptly for fear of losing
Strength. Hoch is not the idol he was a
year ago. The Republican candidates
FOR United States senator may force his
denomination. in which case he will en-
ter the campaign without the enthusiast
tic backing he had in 1904 The sena-
torial candidates don't want conditions
disturbed any more than they are, and
a new man for governor likely would
Jar all the combinations now made and
making.-Holton Signal.
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THE FLUTTERED CRATER.


Gone is his nlien serene and bland,
He looks depressed and shabby
He stretches still the old glad hand,
But cold It is and fabby-
He hates each searching eye to meet,
He moves with hesitation
He looked for the uneasy seat
At the graft investigation.
To show dishonesty doth thrive
BY wiles of boodling factions,
He's called where earnest persons strive
To sift. some strange transactions.
Iilrliling the facts he may reveal,
Awakening a sensation,
OF many a big and little steal
At the graft investigation.
But soon, embroidered. he. at case
His blunt denials hurting,
r rom the proverbiaI bottle sees
me harmless smoke wreath curling.
Inc devious ways to note and track
9t the boodlers weird vocation
lIiey II need the thunbscrew and the rack
At the graft investigation
Chicago News.
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John S Mcguire, the Dayton meat
dealer who has for years been fighting
the beef trust, was talking in his Office
one day about the trusts methods.
For unblushing and unashamed
misconduct" he said, this trust re-
minds me of a poor young man who
had proposed to a millioAaire's daugh-
ter.
1.-The girl liked the fellow, but his
poverty frightened her.
" Think of the future. dear she
said. You are poor. You can give me
none of the luxuries to which I have
been accustomed from my childhood
But your father he began.
81 'Alasi he would no nothing for u.s.
she interrupted.
Does he play poker?' the youth
asked.
Is No
HE smiled confidently at that. and
took her hand in his.
your trust in me, love. and fear for the
future not at ALL Exchange.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.


LF'rom the Atchison Globe.I
The man who loves his joke is usual
" unpopular
There is one thing about fascina-
tor: 1t never fascinates.
Put yourself in the other mans
place, and you may stop abusing him
We worry as if we had to go through
a whole year tomorrow, instead Of just
one day.
The years, among other things.
bring you an added reverence for the
hot foot bath.
It seems as If every lodge is sending
out notice that assessments are due
three-fourtlls Of the time.
When woman scolds her husband
for spelling the children, she does IL
in d terribly pleased way.
If man wishes he were a woman,
he is either insane or so old and in
firm that he could find comfort in
knitting.
You have to behave pretty wei if
you don't want your friends when they
meet you, to wish it was on q side
street.
It is pretty good sign a man is
fond of his wife when he sits on the
kitchen table and watches her when
she is cooking.
Occasionally you see this sign in an
office: "LOafing Prohibited" Why
confine it to that Office? Why should
i"
One of these days some man win be
killed by his wife, and she viii confess
that she did it because, though patient
and tender every time ne complained.
when she got sick he always said. ~Oh.
you just imagine you are"
The Bill Aleeker society is the latest
organization among Atchison women.
1t is made up of women to whom Bill
Meeker at some time paid devoted at
tention, and the ages Of the mem bers
range from forty-flve TO fifteen One
woman and three of her daughters are
members.
When the mother goes down town
she tells the children she will bring
them a treat If they are good. and they
know they win get It If they are good
or not And this being given some
thing for being good when we don't
deserve it, continues all through life
but we are not grateful.
An Atchison man says that he gets
as little use out of his telephone as he
does out of his wife's literary club.
When he is at the Office. and wants to
using the line to talk TO her friends.
one of the children IS sure to be carrv-
ing on a conversation with one Of hep
friends or if his wife and children are
not at home the hired girl is using me
phone to talk to her steady. If he h
at home and wants to telephone Ia ff,s
office, he is told that the line is b,lz--
His stenographer has frienda. ana 4
beau who have phones. ana Sc p
using it
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CHESS.

The chess tournament and exhibition
by DR.. I4asker to be held in Topeka
this week. calls attention to the most
ancient and one of the most fascinating
of all games. Benjamin Franklin con-
sfdered a knowledge of chess a necessary
part OF liberal education. Daniel
Webster INDUCED in chess as a mental
recreation, and he frequently used it to
test himself before commencing work
that required his mind to be active.
Topeka people who enjoy the game
will have an opportunity 10 meet DR..
Lasker and out of town players will be
heartily welcomed.
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POINTED PARAGRApHs.

LFrom the Chicago News.]
A small man lodges when he meets
a great opportunity
A banknote often supplies the key
note to the situation.
You may lead a fool to wisdom but
you cannot make him think.
No, Alonzo. sour grapes were never
known to cause appendicitis.
A girl is never loved any the less be-
cause she has money in her own right
The elevator boy manages to reach
the top, but he isn't allowed to stay
there.
A millinery bill frightens a man al
most as much as a mouse frightens a
woman.
Many a man starves his family in
order that insurance grafters may live
on the fat of the land.
The average girl would rather marry
in haste and repeft~a6 leisure than to
never have a chance to repent at all.
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ERON OTHER PENS
a MORAL- REVIVAL.

When the conscience of a community
is quickened the effect is made the same
as that which takes place when only
an Individual is concerned. There is a
desire for better things in all respects.
There is new reverence for law and new
desire to repress the lawless. The de-
termination to have cleaner streets and
more honorable public officials affects
the attitude of the communities most
interested toward every form of vice
and all laxity in the enforcement of the
laws. The truth is that the American
people are experiencing q far-reaching
moral revival. 1t manifests itself in
different degrees and forms, but in its
essence it is the same in many states
and cities.-CIeveland Leader.
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A clever smuggling trick has been
played on a customs officer on tlRe
Russo-German frontier. An innocent
looking peasant reported to the officer
plot for getting a large number of
pigs across the frontier. The method
he said, would be to drive across at in
tervaIs of half an hour three, six, twelve
and two hundred pigs, the smHgglers
arguing that if the first three lots could
be sent over there would be no trouble
with the two hundred.
The officer was naturally on the alert.
In accordance with the peasants state
ment, three pigs were driven over, then
six. followed by twelve. Ali were al
lowed to pass, and preparations were
made to receive the two hundred. But
no more pigs appeared, and the twenty
one animals admitted had in the mean
time been. lodged in safety.-London
Mail
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IRON the New York Press. ]

FROM the New 7 ok Fress.I
Marriage is a great success when
some other fellow does it.
There is hardly any man who won't
lie about what a lot of farming he
knew when he was boy
Even when a girl has a grandmother
she can't make herself. believe she is
ever going to be old
A man always has a tender feeling
for a woman who was SO good to him
as not to marry him.
What a woman is afraid OF about
her husband is not that she viii dis
cover he has faults but that other
people viii
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JOURNAL ENTRIES


Looks as though a tracer will have
70 be sent out for that Russian reyoiu-
If this sort of weather keens nm the
spring poet is liable to blossom most
any time. That's one trouble with
Starting Starting spring of in the middle Of
A mean man wishes this department
70 suggest that there is a crying need
Tor a brand of aphasia that win At
tack the women folks. but this de-
SlrlInent positively refuses to do ii.
Whlle Mr.. Longworth is said to be
through the mill know that he will be
playing only second fiddle within an
other month.
Ed Howe will wish more than ever
mat he was back in Kansas when he
hears the news of the last few days.
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1he state Journal is a member Of the
ASSOCIATED Press and receives the fuli DAY
telegraph report Of that great news Or
8anizauon Tor exclusive evening PUBL
cation
The state Journal receives for exclusive
puQ4cation the leased wire report OF the
EQpllsherg' Press Tor the edition for sun
CAV morning
The news Is received in the State Jour
Aai building over wires for this sole pur-
pose
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HVMOR or TIE DAY

The stakeholder had vanished with the
coin. Hot upon his trail Were the 2etlois y
whittier bound2" asked the curious OF
..Bound to the stake" they made ans ans
wer. and. lamenting more loudly imam tise
martyrs Of old, passed on.-Pniladeipiil=
Ledger
The Girl-Oh. dear. wish I were. net
rich. I shall hate to have people Trims
that our is not love match
The Man-Yes. I suppose it does LOOK 3
il you were buying me--cisyelana
Leader.
IT want YOU to understand. madam.
that you are mere fraction IN tAis
Me a traction, what do you mean By
'sWhy. you're the better half. OF course.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
People always feel suspicious. Of things
with which they are not familiar SAD
yes answered senator Sorghum, that
is why nearly all of US have at one time
or another expressed doubt and disappro-
star.
wen" said the first physician, what
Il don't know replied the other. but
I'm trying to turn it into typhoid fever
I'm great on that Philadelphia Ledger
rs your mistress at home2"
she will be if you'll come back n
about three minutes, ma am I'm just
hooking her up. ''-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mrs. Kearney.'' said the stranger. in
i.That's me said the lady
well, ma'am, I'm very sorry to have
to inform you that your son mas neen ar
.sFur a salt? Go long wild ye. shure.
he uuz niver on the ocean in his Ioife. -
Philadelphia Press.
wouldn't it be nice for railroads If
H.-rr .Tn frA
How SOP
Then they could keep their trains run
ming time even after they had been
telescoped. Baltimore American
There's one thing" said Fweddy- q
the train containing his best girl moved
OF, that a woman can throw straight,
what's that?s asked Chony.
It's kiss. deah boy Haw, Haw-
Chicago Tribune
we are getting ready for great
number Of accidents said the man who
collects statistics for ono OF the maga-
"Ah. is there going to be another auto
mobile race2' asked the caller
.sOh. But just wait until the re-
formed chaps begin falling oft the water
wa gen after the first week in January -
Chicago News
no you think that the. government
ought to own the railroads
Sometimes. said the member Of con-
gress. If the government owned the
railroads we wouldn't be worried by these
runlors of suspended courtesies- We'd
probably get passes for cur personal
transportation the same as we now Gct
franks for our mail w shington Star
Miss Passey-A fortune teller has told
me where l should find my failure hus-
band. Mrs. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. give
me her address at once. Perhaps she
could tell me where my present one is
Judge.
Tommy-Pop. what is a hypochoudrIac2
Tommy Pop-A hypochondriac. my son.
is a man who begins to get worried when
he finds there is nothing the matter with
him--Philadelphia Record
7 see that young John D Rockefeller
has adopted for his motto the two simple
words, Aim high. Has hep But don't
most people carry their pocketboolzs be-
/ low their belts 2''-Chicago Record-EIer-
aid.
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Beans Mistaken for a Babv.

The Rev. DR.. Stone, the predecessor OF
Mr.. Murray at Park street church, Bos-
ton. resided in Brooklyn. Fond of Il
good horse, he was accustomed to drive
into town every Sunday. One stormy
winters Sunday morning he overlook
a respectfully dressed young woman
Flooding through the snowy street care
fully holding under her closely wrapped
cloak what seemed to be a baby. The
doctor, always gallant, stopped his horse
and politely offered to give her place
in the comfortable sleigh, at the same
time mentioning his name and profess
sion. and adding that he admired the
courage and zeal which impelled her to
walk 30 church with her baby on such
2, stormy day. =Hz
Slightly embarrassed. she accepted his
invitation.
Let me take the child TIL you get in"
said the courteous doctor.
Thank you. sir said the young wo-
man, with a laugh, but it's a pot of
baked beans!'
The doctor accepted the situation,
Joined in the laugh, and drove the good
housewife to her own door.-Exchange
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Governor Koch says call the evil
aenca placed before mes-that is, evil
dence that there is a $4,000 shortage
60 the school fund. that T. Il. Kelly
got the Garden City money personally
that he committed embezzlement in
the Comanche county bond deal that
ne loaned state money to friends, and
various other things prohibited by law
-"au the evidence placed before me. -
Gays the governor, would not alone,
81 nay Judgment. justify a jury IN ind
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FRoM rHE sINTH.

The difference: Governor Bailey, an
honest man, has replaced the 81. 200 the
supreme court said he had no right to
use in maintaining the Governors man
sion while he was governor. notwith
standing the fact that the Legislature
passed a resolution freeing him from it.
T. T. Kelly has never returned a penny
he has defrauded his constituency Of
Kelly is still in office, Bailey is out
IIns,ia SenfinaI
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THE DIFFERENCE.

a negro VINO broke INTO a bank at
Topeka and stole a few stamps was
caught and via be sent to the peniten-
tiary. The colored gentleman made a
mistake by not seeing to 1t that he was
elected 10 some position of public trust
and honor before he caused that short
age" in stamps. This man will be pun
ished but the men back of a 900
shortage viii go. scott free.-Lindsborg
News.
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ing either Of the men who have held
the Office of treasurer during the
period covered By the report, guilty
OF a crime Yet the governor says
crimes have been committed. He ap-
parently intends that no prosecutions
shall be commenced to punish the
l.rirl1il1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-30

The way to break the alleged hoodoo
of the Lane United States senatorial
succession in Kansas is to elect ]. La
Bristow. Phil Campbell or some other
courageous man of clean life. No tabled
fatality viii follow men of that stripe
nywhere.-Miami Republican.
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WERR NJ

There is some talk that the Republi-
cans viii nominate Webb McNall for
insurance commissioner McNall is the
only commissioner Kansas ever had in
the Office The INSURANCE companies
have had all the others. It is hardly
probable that the Republican state con-
vention can out general the insurance
lobby, but we know of one Democrat
who would like to cast a ballot marked
for Webb McNall for insurance COM
missioner, on any old ticket.--Mankato
Advocate.
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a GOOD PRBCEDENT.

A subscriber to the Belleville Free
man celebrated the arrival of a son
and heir at his house by paying up all
arrearages on the Freeman and adding
a year or two in advance and now
Tom Charles hopes the stork viii make
it a spoint to visit a number Of other
families who are tagging behind in
their accounts with the Old Family
Paper.-Lindsborg News.
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Aphasia has incapacitated Chauncey
Depew for making after-dinner speeches.
But that isn't the only thing he is in
eapacitated for. For instance. he seems
10 be incapacitated for properly repre-
aenting the people Of New York in the
United States senate.
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The society reporter: Il see that the
number of society's smart set has again
been reduced
Society dame: YES. we're really
obliged to do it every little while, don't
you know"
The reporter: do you anticipate any
further reduction?'.
The dame: .''Oh, yes. It will have to
be done from time to time The united
and unworthy must be weeded out. The
number of the elect will grow smaller
and smaller"
The reporter: Have you any idea
how small the really exclusive set will
finally become2' %
The dame: 81 haven't thought much
about it. Yet. I fancy the process of
elimination, don't you know, will not
stop until it's all narrowed down, as it
were, to me and Mrs. Astor!''-CIeveland
Plain Dealer.
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KNOWLEDGE.

Science is penetrating beyond the nor
lion line commonly held to limit it. AS
knowledge advances the horizon line re-
cedes. The progress in ethereal physics
has been OF late 50 marked tnat II may
reasonably be believed to hold the key
which viii unlock many of the prob
lens of physical science. All the phe-
nomena Of light, heat and electricity
have their origin in the ether.-Memphis
News cimitar-
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WHITEWASH.

Interviews with Governor Hoch would
seem TO indicate that he intends to
whitewash Tom Kelly. The expert ac-
countant says that the treasury is short
about $4,000. But Hoch agrees with
Kelly and Grimes, that this can be ex-
planned, and it now looks as though the
matter would be dropped. without an
effort to place the responsibility. If the
party goes before the people with this
whitewash where do you suppose we will
land next fall?-Beloit Gazette.
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There are four brothers in the
newspaper business in the Fifth dis
trict. They are w, a. Huff of the
clyde Republican; i. D. Huff. of the
Aorgauville Tribune; H. L. Huff. Of
the Vermilion Times, and a. G. HUFF
CT the Haddam Clipper. How Is that
Cor q quartette?
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Marshall Fields viii provides for be-
quests amounting to a god many mil
lions, yet it is stated that the bulk of
his fortune remains intact Mr. Fields
fortune was built up by two things:
adVertIsing and SQUARE dealing.