The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-19
Democrats Talk of Starting a
Daily at Wichita.
Meeting of the Clans Called to
Discuss Project.
HARRIS MANIFESTO
State Employment Agent Calls
on City Clerks.
Asks for the Cooperation in
Supplying Harvest Hands.


That the Democrats were in no way
dismayed by the results of the elec-
ton in Kansas last fall shown by
the fact that they are now working TO
establish a state organ in Topeka IN
the shape of a weekly paper and have
called a meeting in Wichita with the
object of starting a big daily newspa-
per in that city.
Charles Harris. director of the state
| free employment bureau, is Senolng out
| letters to the city clerks of the state
| asking them to comply with the law and
assist him in providing harvest hanos
| for the state for the coming season.
The legislature of 1901 passed law
making the city clerk the city employ
ment agent and requiring him to assist
| the state agent. No compensation is
provided for this extra work and many
city clerks have refused to render any
| assistance whatever. One notable ex-
ception is that of City Clerk Burge OF
this city, who, during the past year,
has paid particular attention to this
section of the law and maintains an
active and efficient free employment
agency in connection wit. the city
clerks Office.
In reply to a letter from a Columbus
call itself the Guaranteed State Bank,
Commission er Dolley has declared that
no state bank will be permitted to use
the word guaranty" or guaranteed In
connection with it's official name. The
state bank commissioner, however,
draws a pretty fine line of distinction
when he says that while the law pro-
hibits any state bank from advertising
that its deposits are protected by the
state, vet declares that It can adver
iS of
ty association and has the protection of
the fund. What is the difference be-
tween what Is prohibited and what is
not in this Interpretation of the law,
pray tell?
News of a political nature being
scarce at this time the newspaper
writers of the state are many of them
engaged in a controversy over the re-
spective merits of the books. the
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. The
Emporia Gazette. Hutchinson News,
| Osborne Farmer, Kansas City Journal
and State Journal have all taken
debate is not in sight. The editorial
| in the Hutchinson News last Friday
proved beyond a doubt that "Billy"
| Morgan has not read the White Com
! pany at all. or at the best has hur-
/ riedly SKINNED through 1t in a quer-
ulous way He refers to the Dead
wood Dick novels as a comparison for
lDoyle's masterpiece and speaks of one
of the White Company characters as
a Jack the Giant Killer. Now this
| particular character, Alleyne. was one
| of the weaklings in the book: he did
not kill a single person in the whole
course of the story and only had one
fight, that with a page boy, and the
latter would have killed this Alleyne
had he not fallen into a river. So
i there you are. Walt Mason of the
Emporia Gazette now goes after Nor
| gan forty ways from the jack in reply
to that strange and fearful editorial
| as follows:
| OF course when Mr.. Morgan OBJ
| tanned a copy of 1.-THE White Com
pany," after having denounced it
strenuously in several vigorous ar
ticles, he began to read it in hos
tile frame of mind; he was deter
mined in advance to find fault with it,
and he naturally criticises it severely.
saying that it is only fit to be classed
with "Deadwood Dick" and Mick
Carter He goes to such extremes in
| ridiculing and abusing it, after having
skipped hurriedly through it's pages,
that his insincerity is at once mani
fest. He refuses to treat seriously a
story that has won the admiration
of the best critics of the world, and
falls back on the safe old generaliza-
ton that SCOTS novels are incompar-
able This department has read SCOTS
novels until it knows them by heart;
and there is not one character in them
that appeals to the Fat One like Sir
Nigel, the knight without fear and
without reproach, who wanders
through the pages of 'The White Com
pany." In the creation of this char
acter Conan Doyle performed the i'm
possible; he presented a bald, half
blind, puny ridiculous hero, and made
you love and admire him. Scott's he
roes are always too good to be true;
they were usually porridge-fed Scotch
men who went around in boiler iron,
clanking like a crate of old castings,
buttoning up their iron pants with a
stovehook, and opening an oven door
in their faces when they wanted a
chew of tobacco. They were always
riding around on. farm horses, and
trying to push each other off with
long poles. and they had to be hoist
ed onto their horses with derricks,
their armor was so heavy. man
who reads two or three of SCOTS
books in succession can taste iron fl
ings and red whiskers for six months.
His women are the silliest creatures in
the whole range of fiction. and where
ever he introduces a humorist the
tragedy begins. He is extremely par
tiaI to half-witted testers, who pirate
BY the page in Galashiels Scotch: and
If Hon. Bill Morgan prefers that sort
of twaddle to the swift-moving mar
!, rative of Doyle, we can only give him
the right of way, and cry "Banzaii"
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