Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-05
HARRIS DODGES
Democratic Candidate
for Governor Falls to
Specify
Any Good Reason Why He ShOuIF
Succeed Governor HOCh.
DREW A BLANK.
A Self. Confessed Democrat Posing
as a Republican.

the Democrats hope to make Govel
nor of Kansas, says that the peopl
are finding fault with Governor Hoe
because of This sins of omission"
Colonel Harris-and It will per
haps be recalled that he won hi
title while fighting in an army which
sought to destroy the Union-was
recently in Washington searchni
for campaign material. While Their
he submitted to an interview in which
he made the statement that there l
great disaffection among Kansa.
Republicans and grave dissatisfaction
with the record of E. w. Hoch
Governor.
Asked to what cause the disaffei
ton and dissatisfaction might proper
ly be attributed the mail order
candidate stammered before answer
ing and finally stumbled into tn
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 whoT
Harris must rely for votes If he
hopes to make even respectable
showing at the approaching election
have right to know what it is tha'
Hoch has omitted to do. 1t is wei
known that the Democrats have ne
issue of their own on which to make
their campaign. They called thef
state convention early in order tina
they might "steal Republican thun
der" by adopting platform ex
actly in line with the one the Demo-
Gratis expected the Republicans II
adopt. The Republican convention fol
lowed the will Of majority of the
members Of the party, however, and
adopted platform which means more
to the people of the state than ha,
any platform on which Kansa
campaign has been waged in many
years. The Democrats are now in
the unique position of party of
great pretensions offering nothing OF
which to base a bid for votes except
men partisan and fractional prejudice
Framed as it was by Democrat
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 has
never stood for anything in Kansat
it stands for nothing now.
The spectacle of David OvermyeI
and ]. W. Orr and W. w. Rose de
a platform declaring for the
enforcement of the prohibitory law
is proof sufficient that with Kansas
a 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
he history of Kansas discloses the
TACT that the platform declarations
If Kansas Republicans have all been
,rystallized into law. Two years ago
he Republican party made twelve :
specific platform promises to the peo-
Die of the state. Ten of those prom.
SEES were religiously kept. The
,enefit to the state as a result of the
work. done in Kansas by the Republi.
AN party during the Hoch /
is almost in
alculable. True to its re-
ord-the Republican party through
he Hoch administration did things.
The history of the state during the
ext two years will be the record CT
Republican accomplishment. Kan
as people have lost patience with
promise long deferred in
ulhllment Democracy will stand no
how in Kansas until it ceases con-
Inual protesting and begins to ad-
ocAts Something.
As . real Democrat Mr.. Harris Of
,hieaRo acts naturally when be
peaks Of ~nins Of omission" True
0 his political nature he is long on
Iromiss and short on performance
L does not state frankly what be
lroposss 70 DO but harPs
= uhaa Hoch has failed
. % Ne must specify =
. Aopos - win TIE confidence of TIE
,sopls tAOuSh GsnsrAHtiss WIN con