The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-06
CHAPTER xL.

| out unfortunately may not-l
This writer begs the pardon Of its
readers for injecting so much ex-
traneous matter into this department;
/ but the fact of it is, there is so much
politics to the square inch just now
/ in Topeka and the state of Kansas it
| is pretty difficult to dig down into the
past for "reminiscences" which might
| be more interesting to the geenral
reader.
With the expectation of not break
ing it, q promise is herewith recorded
that there will be some genuine
"Reminiscences" in this column very
| soon, and they will extend through a
number of chapters. and the chapters
will be at least column long.
Meanwhile. it is often better to
dwell upon the present than to go too
far back into the past. when the op-
portunity iS afforded to do one or the
other, to say nothing of the delights of
prognostication.
Our friend" J. E. H, who writes
the bright things under the caption,
"On Second Thought" appearing daily
in the columns of our highly es-
teemed" morning contemporary, on its
editorial page, says he is not candi-
date for the state senate in this Ian
guage:
I'VE might as well kill that joke
before 1t goes any farther. My candi-
dacv for the senate was fathered by
members of the newspaper gang in
Topeka who wanted something to use
as space-filler on dull days. I am
not a candidate for the state senate
have no desire to go to the senate
Inasmuch as 1 have my living to make.
could not afford to run for the SEN
ate, even though 1 had the desire. II
l could afford to run l could not be
nominated. If 1 were nominated
could not be elected. I am a lot of
the other things you are thinking
entertain and express certain views
with reference to our social and
economic problems. No man who exz
presses views as widely at variance
opinion as are mine could be elected
TO any office And, anyhow, I don't
want any Office
Wen. that's pretty sensible For the
life OF US we cannot see why a good
newspaper man wants to mix ND in
politics, to the extent of running for
an office, but you must remember De
gustibus non est disputandem, (see, if
you need TO the back part of the die
tionary where the foreign quotations
lie) but the big boss Of the paper to
which j. E. H. gives a part of his tai
ent, has an ambitious taste differing
from that as above set forth by the
contributor aforesaid.
The most important park problem !
which this city has before it just now, |
and the one which should be solved |
this winter so that work may be be-
gun early in the spring, is a big, broad |
beautiful park for the East side, ad-
jacent to the Santa Fe shops There
is no other part of the city which has |
more need of such a park and it ought /
to be a fine one. The State Journal /
has a most sincere and earnest desire I
to further this project, as it has al
ready done in the past. The park I
ought tc be near enough to the shops /
so that the men and women and youth /
who toll therein. may go out from the
doors CT the main shops at noon and
take their luncheons in the summer
in the shade and amid the pleasant
surroundings of a park.
Speaking of parks. that was a most
lamentable and distressing accident
which happened at Central park
Tuesday, resulting in the depIorable
the drowning Of little Fred
erick Matteson Harper. Why can the
city not prevent such drownings?
Would it not be possible to fill those
ponds so that the depth of water
therein would not exceed three or
four feet? Isn't this worthy of the
of the commissioners.
We can lock the stable door now
rather than not lock it at all
A most interesting item appears on
tor Charles Curtis and Senator Joseph
L. Bristow have shaken hands over the
bloody chasm of political differences
and will harmonic on that great and
craftsmanship problem: Who shall the
postmasters be in the Second and Sew
enth districts?
[Chapter XII next.1