The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-19
KANSAS COMMENT
A POLITICAL PRoPHEcY.


In 1912 J. N. Dolley. now chairman
OF the Republican state committee, will
pc the candidate of the Stubs faction
Tor governor. He may not win at the
primary pr but he will be supported by
Mr.. Stubs and all the administra-
tons friends. From next January
until that time he will have some good
appo1ntive office under Mr.. Stubs,
probably bank commissioner. In 1912
Governor Stubs will oppose Senator
Curtis for reelection just as Mr.. Bris-
| tow opposed Senator Long. or course
after being governor for four years
Mr.. Stubs will have many influential
friends. some of whom will of course
be political appointees. 1t may be
pointed out now that no governor has
ever been elected senator, but In reply
to this let it be remembered that no
governor has ever had chance at the
senatorship through a primary. Ex-
Governor Stanley could have won the
senatorship nomination easily through
a direct primary, and if Mr.. Stubs
makes no serious errors to counteract
his present popularity. he can prob
ably win four years from now at
primary. Curtis will be fought as
Long was and very largely by the
same element. Bristow's influence as
a senator will all be used in Stubs
interest and squarely against Curtis,
whom they will picture IS not being
a man of the people," Stubbs may
have some trouble two years from
now, but it will not serious. Four
race at the primary he will be opposed
by some strong Curtis man, but with
four years influence of a senatorship
and of a governors Office behind him,
Dolley nominated for governor and
Stubs for United States senator the
original purpose of the reform move
ment started in 1904 will have been
achieved and the best offices in Kansas
placed in the hands of men who will
win by direct appeals to the people.
Remember this political prophecy and
see how nearly it approaches the
facts.-Coffeyville Journal.
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THE TRAMP.
Providing he doesn't encounter the
police, the tramp is the most free and
independent individual on earth, but
he doesn't get much out of it. No tie
binds him, and he is free to go where
he will, and he goes, but he doesn't
get much pleasure out of travel, and
good deal of hardship. A noted tramp
recently wrote of his experiences for
magazine, and his statement indi-
Gated that he would like to quit, but
lacks the will. For twenty years he
has been fitting across the continent,
until there is little of novelty for him
to see, but the call of the road he finds
irresistible. A hard life, with
violent and lonely death always i'm
minent, he goes on tramping, because
he must, or thinks he must. Man is a
creature of habit. and once he starts
as a hobo, he may learn that as thor
oughly as other men learn work, and
find it is as hard to quit. Not many
men would exchange places with the
tramp, which means that most trampS
begin young; when habits are easily
formed, and when, if ever. one is lazy.
The lazy boy frequently turns out to
be a useful and industrious man be-
cause his family, or family pride
taught him the folly Of idleness and
sloth. And, in time, he comes to re-
gard his bondage of work as a bless
ing, and is duly grateful, if he thinks
of it at all, for whatever person or
circumstance gave him the start in
the right direction He may have less
freedom but he has more of every
thing else, including self-respect, than
the boy who follows a worthless ca
reer, because it seems easier at the
start; it is surely the harder course as
the years come on.-Atchison Globe.
o.
LET IT ALONE
The man who fools with whisky
even in the slightest degree, is TAX
ing big chances. He may console
himself with the belief that he can
let it alone If he wants to, but the
odds are always against him.
The best thing to do with whisky is
to let it alone entirely or, in one way
or another, it will get you.
A Saline county farmer bought an
empty whisky barrel to put cider in.
He lit match and held it to the
bunghole, to see that everything was
all right inside. a gas had generated,
and it exploded: and when last seen
the farmer was soaring over the tree
tops with his raiment on fire. A posse
has been organized to catch him when
he comes down, and it may be hoped
that the lesson will prove of value to
him.-Emporia Gazette.