The Topeka state journal., 1908-01-23
KANSAS CONNENT
THE TALKFEST.


Under spreading chestnut tree the
peerless leader stands, and the chest
nuts fall freely every time he opens
his mouth.
1t would be difficult to imagine any
thing more platitudinous or stale than
MS recent utterances- At the jack
son banquet at Chicago he celebrated
Bryan and forgot all about Jackson,
ana MS tax was about as significant
as recitation in country schooi
mouse. He repeated the comforting
assurance that rather than see the
country ruined he will run for the
presidency, and that was particularly
the sum and substance of his dis
course.
He added that the prospects were
splendid for decisive victory, but
thousand candidates are saying that
every day, in a thousand different
ways.
Mr.. Bryan will. in all probability, be
nominated at Denver, not so much
because the common people are still
infatuated wefh him, as because of the
1act that the Democrats haven't an
other man who has even a small
chance OF kicking up dust in a presi-
Genital campaign. Many conservative
Democrats who grew weary of the
now in despairing effort to get him
out of the way for good, and some will
support him because they have ac-
quired the Bryan habit, for which
there is no chloride of gold cure.
Meanwhile, if Mr.. Bryan must talk,
and it seems that he must, he should
make an effort to say something worth
while. He isn't apt to create much
enthusiasm by going around indors-
Ing the Roosevelt administration and
telling how he hates to be a candidate.
-Emporia Gazette.
HIGH SCHOOL FRATERNITIES
The Kansas legislature furnished con-
siderable amusement for the newspa-
perS of sister states when it put out of
existence the high school fraternity 1t
may have been departure, all right,
but 1T now appears that the session
acted wisely and we'll. High school
fraternities in Chicago have been a
one of the larger cities of New York
the attention of the board Of education
has been called to very extraordinary
case of hazing by one Of the secret So
cieties connected with the high school
there. In Chicago the inexpediency of
permitting them to flourish longer has
been borne In upon the minds of the
board of education with so much force
that a resolution has been adopted by
the school management committee of
that body providing for the expulsion
Of students who shall continue to be
members Of the fraternities after a
certain date. If this resolution is ap-
proved by the board the fraternities
will, it is said, contest it's legality in
the courts, but they will go to the wall
in a short time if the prohibition is
enforced, as undoubtedly it can be in
some way. If the board of education
cannot terminate the existence of the
fraternities in any other way it can do
it by appealing to parents to forbid
their children to belong to them. When
the evils of these societies are present
ed to them in their true lieht they will
no longer permit their children to be
members of them.-Leavenwort Times.
HOME PRINT ARGUMENT
Another argument in favor of home
print was furnished recently when a
subscriber to one of our exchanges
stopped his subscription because of
the stand taken in regard to the Hay
wood trial last SUMMER. The editor in
fact, had taken no stand one way or
the other. The article had appeared in
the patent pages and the chances are
that the editor never knew it was
there. In the home print paper the
editor knows what enters the paper
Lindsborg Record.