The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
KANSAS CONNENT
SOME ARGUMENT.

! 1t is pretty hard to make the farmer
| who brings his stock to town to ship
| 10 market believe that the two-cent
fare, primary election and antipass
MEASURES are the paramount issues,
| when his stock stands around the
yards for a week before he can get
cars and when it does get started is
delayed SO much tht he gets to market
late and has to stand a big shrink
service IS what he wants--Osborne
Farmer. Yes, and the way to get that
service, Brother Walker, is to do just
as you are doing-stand up first, last
and all the time for your party, even
though 1t elects and REFLECTS men to
the legislature who refuse to pass
necessary and sensible laws Obliging
the railroads to be decent. The farm
er VINO, as you say, is not interested
much in the two-cent fare may acct
dentally get interested in the brand
or statesmen" you put before him on
your eagle-ized machine ticket next
year, and he may look at the ticket
through freight bills a little. You can
fool some of the farmers all the time,
and all the farmers some OF the time,
but you can't food all the farmers all
the time. And just now the farmers
have become awake to the fact that
your Republican machine-made sena-
tors and representatives are the very
fellows to blame. It's going to go
hard with your machine-made leg1sla-
tors in next election, and its very ike
ly that the plain, handsewed variety
10
BUCKET SHOPS.
Bucket shops are coming into their
own now at a rapid pace. missouri
has lately run them out ana the
Massachusetts, state senate the other
day, without dissenting vote, passed
a bill prohibiting their operation. The
bucket shop is an outlaw in Kansas
and in a majority of the remaining
states There are those who defend
public gaming places as being lesser
evil and the multitude of private
gambling places which it is contended
will spring up in the ABSENCE OF 'ne
former, but even the most liberal OF
these will not stand as apolog1sts Tor
the bucket shop. Bucket shop gam
bling is a species of thuggery. your
money is taken away in sem1genteel
manner, possibly but it is neverthe-
less taken away. No one ever has
run for his money in the bucket shop
sort of speculation. And he never sels
back that from which he has once
been separated.-Leavenwo Times.
OLIVE BRANCH REFUSED.
No wonder the politicians are afraid
of President Roosevelt. some Weeks
ago. Senator Foraker decided to fight
the president in Ohio In a very little
while, it was evident that Ohio was
for Taft. the presidents man. Iheh !
Foraker issued an humble statement |
saying harmony in the. party was para
mount to everything else, and that he
was for Taft for president. The in |
ference was, of course. that Foraker
would be reelected United States SEN
ator by the Taft people for his conces-
sion But no; they have given it out |
aat that Taft must be endorsed for |
president, and Foraker beaten for
United States STANDARDIZATION GLOBE
YOUNG.
When the Sixth. congressional dis
trict is left out of the political fold 1t
is not because ofstheir failure to ask
for things. THERE'S a move on foot
to bring out ssnat9F Z osng iSr 60 go ~
she next state cenMentions with a good
deal Of strength Fl am til rthwest.-
Concordia Kansan@