The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
KANSAS cOAAENT
CAMPAIaN MINDs

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All or nearly all. of the candidates
Tor president have established literary
bureaus. and are sending out litera-
ture to enltghten the people so they
may be able to vote intelligent1y for
president And by 'intelligently' the
bureau means that the voter should
vote Tor its candidate. But who is
paying these bills? We are told that
the candidates with one or two ex-
cepions are men in ordinary f1nan-
clai circumstances. Perhaps not
more than two of them can afford this
expense. Who Is putting up for it
all 1t is sure the railroads and cor
porations are not. for if they were,
they would put their money all into
one pot and support tho same man.
There are others besides the corpora
tons that dig up for these candidates.
They are politicians who want office
and power, and are willing to pay for
II, ana their hope is that they may
De able to make such a strong fight
that II their candidate does not win,
they can get what they want by de
livering the goods to the man who
does win And there is a whole lot
more money put into the campaign by
the politicians and their hackers than
there is by the trusts and corpora
tlons.-Lawrence Gazette.
EDITORIAL TROUBLES
Editing a newspaper is nice thing.
II we publish jokes. people say we
are rattlebrained. If we don't we are
fossils.
If we publish original matter they
say we don't give them enough seleo-
tons. If we give them selections
they say we are too lazy to write.
If we don't go to church we are
heather. If we go we are hypocrites.
If wa remain in the Office, we ought
mr. haze La q
then we are not tending to business.
If We wear old clothes they laugh at
u.s. If we wear good clothes they say
that we have a pun.
Just as likely as not some one will
say that we stole this from an ex-
change.
We didn't. Yet 1t isn't original. It
was mailed to us by a clothing mer-
chant who has some sympathy for an
editors troubles--Hutchinso News.
SNOW BATHS.
People who are sick, and who have
not been able to restore their health
by sleeping on the porch, or by diet
ing themselves on horse feed, or by
drinking health coffee made Of saw
dust and molasses, will be interested
in the information that the SNOW
bath" has been pronounced a great
remedial agent by certain eminent
Many people are trying this cure.
It is simple. All you have to do is to
wallow in a snowbank after remov-
ing your clothes. If you survive you
will become a SHOW bath enthusiast.
The freak cures are numerous, but
they are not new, and sacred and pro-
fame history shows.
1.-THE grass cure" said Nebuchad-
near wearily, after splitting out a
bull thistle that he had bitten off by
mistake, 'is doubtless a good thing
for my indigestion. but it's me for the
doughnut factory and the large plat
ter OF ham and eggs.-Emporta
Gazette. leo
STUBBS LIKE A LIGHTNING ROD.
After the passage of the primary
law. Bent Murdoch was asked by a
Stubbsite, How is Stubs feeling?"
His head is sticking straight up in
the air like a lightning rod replied
Bent. This is the first Official con
firrnation of the fact that Stubbs has
his political lightning rod up but the
people have been aware of it for some
time just the same. Also, that he is
hoping 1t will be the senatorial light
ming that will hit it.-Hutchinson
News.