The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-30
KANSAS COMMENT
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.

l
vice President Fairbanks is still
| touring the country, as restless as Sa-
| Ialnlel, the 1mmortal-the most dis
| tingulshed victim Of the Wanderlust in
| the world.
Yesterday we heard of him address
ing a convention of buttermakers at
Wahoo; today he hurls thunderbolts OF
e sequence at the Amalgamated Asso-
clation of Hired Men at Medicine
Lodge; tomorrow he may stand in
gloomy grandeur before the United
6rotnerhood of Shirtmakers at Lost
This singu1arly gifted man seems
aoIe ana willing to discuss and shed
gazing radiance upon all subjects IN
the WorId-except two. He tells the
FARMER how to make hens lay hard
boiled eggs; he explains to the cheese
makers that one COW is of more prac-
tlcal value than dozen steers; he
demonstrates to the night policeman
tnat II is possible to sleep standing. He
is fountain of Useful Information,
tistics.
But when the humble interviewer
asks him for an expert opinion as to
the compromising of cocktails, or for d
prediction as to the chances of a GER
tain gentleman from Indiana for the
eyes, the clarion voice dw1ndIes away
to shuddering sigh, and the vice
president of the United States is silent.
silent, upon a peak In Darten. -
o.
ANOTHER VIEW.
Conner Davies of the Concordia Kan
san has at last tumbled to the fact
that the political matters for the var1-
Gus congressional districts of the state
are fixed up by the bosses who lounge
around the Copeland hotel at Topeka.
We are surprised at Corners lack of
the ability to look through a ladder.
He ought to know that for the last
quarter of century the Repub lican
state and congressional tickets are
named at Topeka and then when the
railroads furnish passes to the country
delegates who are named to attend the
state convention, these same delegates
are expected to carry out the plans of
the bosses. And they always do it.
We had SUPPOSED all the time that
Conner was member in good standing
of the board of arrangers, but it seems
that he balks on sending Calderhead
back to congress from the Fifth dis
trict. Well, some of the Republicans
up here kick on sending Reeder every |
time there is a congressional conven- |
ton, but the Copeland gang fixes it UP |
and then when election time comes the |
average Republican voter says he will |
obey orders and vote her straight. If |
Editor Davies will GUST the Copeland |
crowd and allow the common voters in |
his party to have some say he will have |
republican party. But he can't do it. |
Smith County Journal.
NO PANIC.
There will not be any panic. The |
wealth of the country is not centered |
in Wall street any more. The f1urries |
there are serious but they are simply |
gamblers luck. The men in Wall |
street win or lose on the gamble. In |
the interior they win or lose on the |
of the world. 1t is play
money in Wall street that is being lost,
fictitious values; in the west things are
nv ntt al mn oct will
have a sympathetic tremble but it can
not go into commissions. 1t is too
healthy-Lawrence Journal.
THE SPIRITOF PROGRESS.
We are not contented with any,
thing. Last year 1t was hockey pokey
Ice cream, this year it was ice cream
cones and next year, it will be some
thing else. Last year it was the BIZ
cycle, this year tits the automobile and
next year it will be the fying machine.