Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-07-31

- ~As oiu ehht out tue Wedln'
er. can't express myself on the
wsather.s III did.you wouldn't have
enough DIS and MS anyhow to print
my remarks, and 4 you did print 'em
they'd set your psper afire. get you
into jail for sending inflammable stuff
through the malls.
The corn crop' Best prospect on
earth. Never had my belly full Of
roasting ears more than two or three
times since I've lived here. But in
about ten days I'm going to put my.
sef up at livery stable for a whole
month and have myself stall fed on
green corn.
Mr.. Reeves, who viii be the Re.
publican nominee for governor, and
for United States senator?"
I'm no seer and no prophet, and
nave no private wire into that camp.
Frankly, | don't know. Nobody know.
The Republican voter thinks today he
knows how he's going to vote. To
morrow he'll think he was today a
sucker and chump, and next day he
will think he was an old fool both
yesterday and the day before. This
Leland-Long-Stubb -Bristow cam.
paign-no, distemper, is such raz.
zle dazzle affair that it's got the fel.
lows to milling around like a herd in
a hall storm. l asked old man Brown
about 1t and he said, "PlP tell We.
Stubbs come along. got us into the
opera house, the band played a "Hot
Time" and Ruscoe unscrewed his
valves, started his bellows. and in
ten minutes he had us saiiin' around
on his platform like kids on a merry.
go-round. And he got us filled up
with something or other till we need.
ed to be bailed out. I sposedAt was
patriotism, idealism, sublimest aspia
rations Of the human soul. But some
irrevelant cuss said hot air." About
that time Leland came along with a
band and a sledge hammer and that
Stubbs platform slid out from under
US like the Republican party's prom.
ise to revise the tariff slides ont
and there we were bouncing around
In the dark with Cy and his sledge
hammer and Bill Bailey and his noise
until Joe Bristow bobbed up, and
whisked us through a hole In the
wall and started us back tother way.
and then we struck Chester and well.
say mister, I've had enough of this
Katzemjammer monkey and parrot
business In Republican politics, and
If you want to know who's going to
be nominated ask somebody who's 20.
Ing to attend the primary. Pm not.
They've proved to my satisfaction,
even II 1t amt SO. that our candidates
for governor and senator are too
crooked to fit the state capitol. We'd
have to rebuild 1t and make a com.
pound s Of 1t to fit their curves
That's what Brown thought about it.
that he didn't have to make a choice
between rotten apples-he'd fake to
the woods and the tall grass and corn
and let the mud singers fight 1t out.
Who will the Democrats nominate
Mr.. Reeves? Will they do better?"
Il told you that I'm no prophet.
But you know that there were hun
dreds OF Democrats from Kansas at
the Denver convention, and did
make it point to find out what they
thought about it. They came from
all over the. state and represented all
classes of people. With very few ex.
ceptions they we're for W. H. Ryan
for governor. Harrison was not con.
sidered as being In the race. Botkin
had considerable following in spots,
though grave objections were being
urged against his nomination and the
objections were counting tremendous
ly.
You know | was not for Ryan orr
ginally. ! tried to get another can
didate into the field. I did not real.
lie Ryan's strength then. knew
that he had lived In Kansas more
than thirty years and until recently
on his farm in Crawford county; that
he had been active and prominent;
had served with distinction In the
senate; had been recently twice elec-
ted mayor Of Girard BY all the peo-
pie there regardless Of politics, and
that he was strong In his county and
where known. and strong among the
miners. Moreover he's about the on
y man prominently mentioned for the
office against whom no serious OBJ
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