Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-10-28
What Hodges Has Earned.

"If the Democrats stick to
Hodges, of course I'll be beaten"
The above was said by Govern
or Stubbs in Topeka, as well a
other places in the state. He
made the admission above quot
ed In the very words, but he add
ed: but ten per cent Of the Dem
Ocrats, and perhaps more, win
support me-" .
And why should a Democrat .
vote for Stubbsi Geo. H. Hodg>
es has been advocating the very
things all his life that Stubs has
been advocating for the last two
years. Senator Hodges secured
the passage of the anti-paSs bill,
the primary election bill, of the
bill reducing freight rates, and
voted for every other progressive
law today on the statute books
which has been passed since Nh.
Hodges was elected to the state
senate in 1904.
Why should a Democrat turn
from a man like Hodges, whose .
whole life is a testimonial of sin,
cerity in the support of legisla-
ton for the whole people, and
vote for a eleventh hour recruit
like Stubbsf
Should a Democrat vote for
Stubbs on the score that his char
acter is better than the character
of HOdgesY Surely not. The life
Of George Hodges has been that
OF moral, temperate, sober relig-
iOus man.
When Stubs was breaking the
ten commandments, G. H. Hodges
was Obeying them, and later,
while Stubs was endorsing all
of the corruption of the Repub-
lican party, voting its ticket and
sharing the ill-gOtten gains Of
its patronage Hodges was a young
Democrat of johnson county, up-
holding the examples of personal
conduct and advocating the high
est ideals of the Democratic par
ty, declaring. to the people that
they should have reform railway
legislation, direct primaries, the
election of United States Senators
and judges by the people, a revis-
ion Of the tariff downward, and
laws that would put the trusts
out of business.
Today Stubs is the leader Of,
and at the head Of a state admin
istratiOn in Kansas, the most ex-
travagant ever known in the his
tory of the state. He has in two
years increased the state Offices
thirty per cent, and he has raised
our taxes from ninety cents per
capita for state purposes to $1.H
per capita. He helped to enact
new tax law that increases the
assessed value of every farm five
times what it was under the old
law, and increased the assessment
of the railroad companies and 9th
er corporations only three times
whatit was before the passage Of
the new law known as the Stubba
Tax Law.
Now, in view of all these things,
The Western Spirit says in all
candOr and sincerity, Mr.. Deb
Ocrat, George H. HOrgeS has earn
ed your hearty support. He has
stood for the things you stood for,
and he has fought for the things
You have fought for ever since he
was twenty-One years old. He d
a lifelong Democrat of pure NOR
ais, true courage and high honor.
Can you, will you turn him down
to vote for a man like Stubbsi
Dare you with due regard to
your character do such violence
to the party you believe in when
your vote for Hodges will elect
himY
If the Democrats stick to-
Hodges I'll be beaten" says Mr..
Stubbs.. Did you, Mr.. Democrat
of Kansas, ever have a better op-
pOrtunityi Will you ever have
better opportunity to cast your
vote where it will do good for
your family, as it will do in the
year 1910, if you "stick to Hodg-
es" and put him at the head Of
Kansas affairs in the governors
! chair with a Democratic legisla-
S ture to back himi 1t is for You
3 to answer, Mr.. Democrat.