The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-28

by factions and personal eInnities of
their leaders
In every section of the state where
Senator Hodges name has been mem
toned he Is spoken of as a popular
and able leader 1t has been alleged
by the Democrats and many Repubh-.
cans that Governor Stubbs fears the
Oiathe man more than any opposition
in his owp party or any other Demo-
crat VINO had ben mentioned for the
Ilace-
Under the heading of ''Why Not This
MANI" the Morrill, News launches the
for congress IN the First district Mr..
Steele is a Brown county product. He
finds fault with both McNeal and An
thony and offers himself as a regular
Cato to stand between his country and
the pride of the patricians and the
folly of the pIebeians- Here is what
MIR. Steele has to say in his paper
about himself Mr. McNeal and Mr..
Anthony:
ssWho Am I2 In presenting myself,
1 feel that 1 owe it to my people of the
First district to tell them something
of my history. I was born on an
Ohio farm, emigrating to Kansas in
the early sos when the state was in
its infancy. T have endured poverty,
privation and untold hardships- Have
lived days without sunshine; suffered
days with clouds and nights without
dew. Having served my apprentice
ship on a farm, in the shops and on
the section. Securing my education,
through my own efforts. in the coun-
try and high school Spent eight
years as a teacher, rising from the
country to the city school; then passed
from school work into the newspaper
field. In this latter work I am now
engaged, battling for the rights and
privileges of the people or Kansas,
which I would continue to so do in
the halls of congress.
"On nv part this shall be no muck
raking campaign. However, in aspir-
ing to this high office against the pres
ent incumbent it is natural that /
should point out some defect in his
work.
"Who is Anthony? Personally. 1
find no fault with Mr.. Anthony. As
representative of the First district.
feel that he has betrayed his trust He
has identified himself with the Can
non and Aldrich factions and thrown
his influence against his own people.
He owes his position to no personal
merit but to the memory of a great
father whose lofty ideas he has failed
to perpetuate and glorify. He never
was known to identify himself in the
cause of right, but has ever sought to
find favor in the eyes of the money
power, and thus allowed the interests
of his constituents to be trailed in the
dust
.sWho is McNeaI? T. A. McNeal. his
opponent, is a yellow journalist, a
writer of funny stories for a weekly
magazine. He has always been an Of
flee seeker and is now serving his
third term state printer. McNeaf
has never been a producer. but has
been a consumer Never leader,
but follower; a parasite to society
and a thorn to the Republican party
He has not been an office seeker that
| he might serve his people. but solely
for the salary it offered. He is not
with the people because he believes
their cause is just. but because he is
tdoWn and has not the ability to rise.
He is not seeking the office now in
I question that he may champion the
cause of the right. He boldly declared
/ in his Hiawatha speech that If he
were a millionaire he would vote with
the sugar trust. 1t is the salary he
wants He further said in that Hia-
watha speech that he could not af-
ford to retire. He also was in favor of
specifying the terms of federal judges.
He did not want them to hold office
for life. while he has been a constant
office seeker
Mr. Steele prints picture of him
| self in large and small sizes on every
page of his paper this week He is
better looking than either McNeal or
Anthony, and besides he wears a flow
er on the lapel of his coat.
| Some of the farmers and country
newspaper men of the state may be
| inclined to think of Charlie Sessions,
the candidate for secretary of state, as
a city newspaper man and a metro
pOlllan sort of a dude, who was born
in a big printing Office and spent his
the traffic squad at busy street corners.
But this is not so. On the contrary,
Charlie spent his youth in the Ohio
corn fields and the only traffic he
lodged in those days was the market
cart on a dusty country road
| They tell a story on Sessions that
will be appreciated by every farmer
boy.
| Charles folks lived in a little Ohio
village where jobs were scarce and the
pay was small When the Sessions boy
got old enough to work he hired out
! to a farmer and plowed corn in the
| summer and cut this corn in the fall
| and winter. After a few years of hard
work the kid had saved leather wal
| let full of dollars and he resolved to
| embark in business.
1 A butcher in his home town kindly
consented to sell his business to this
coming Armour and the farmers ap-
1 prentice became a vendor of meats.
| The boy bought his meat for cash,
and in the guilelessness of youth, sold
the meat on credit. When his money
was gone he tried to collect his meat
bills. but there was nothing doing.
There could be but one end to this
venture. One night Charlie an
nounced to the loafers in his packing
plant that the shop would be closed
| on the morrow until further notice.
The next morning Charlie came
| down to his place later than usual
and found that some village wag had
pasted the following sign on his door:
"Gone out of business. Proprietor
is cutting corn on the - farm
The cut-up who had written the sign
was a good guesser. for the next day
| the ex-butcher could have beer found
| on the - farm cutting corn. The