The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-07
CHAPTER XVI.
Much to say and no time in which
to say it'll

to say it'll
1t is O'Clock and no HAPPIER writ
ten. There has been so much doing
around this department today; so
many nice people have called; so many
fine things have been said about the
State Journal, that the writer could
not get away from his agreeable visit
ors, if he wanted to, but the result of
it is that there is nothing much doing
that is worth while in this column to-
day.
Things are happening all over the
country happening fast. There is a
boom of talk on in " ashington city.
and there is more and more trouble in
Mexico. Meanwhile. William Allen
White has finally deigned - say some
thing about what has appeared in these
chapters, although he announced some
time ago that he refused to read what
this writer says about W. A. White,
Governor Stubs II LaFollette. Mr.
White now says:
I'VE have been nominated for post
master general by some of our in
innate, sarcastic enemies. We are not
a candidate Tor postmaster general at
this time, nor shall we. be at any time.
etc, etc. We should proudly but firm
iy decline.
w nat We want, ana what We snail
have is the royal American privilege OF
living and dying in a country town,
running a country newspaper, saying
what We please when we please, how
weplease and to whom we please.
Compared with the power and in
f1uence of good permanent country
newspaper the little brief authority
of 4 measley old postmaster general in
office for four years and forgotten 1or-
ever, is 4 small and uninteresting
proposition.
I'VE want no job. We want a good
living in a good town, with the chance
to grow old wit ha lot of good people |
The Gazette is out of debt. Its owner |
has no political obligations out to any |
man on earth. Why should he cor |
rode his intestines yearning for an Of |
fee that would only shorten his life, |
take him Fame is about the cheapest |
wrapped in. Power is a gun that kicks 1
And the chance to do good may be
found just abundantly in a country |
printing Office as it is in the halls of
the rich and the great.
ITO write a book, to print a news |
paper, to help ones friends, and to /
love ones family-what is better than |
that? And when the good Lord passes
in the opportunity now and then to
take a club and lend a feeble hand at
smashing a political machine when it
gets too gay-What has the poStmas-
ter generals office in it that should
tempt a man from these realities
This world is so full of a number
OF things.
I am sure we should all be as
happy as kings.
ter generalship- We couldn't have it
if we wanted if, and we shouldn't
want it if we could get it
This world, ladies and gentlemen,
is full of good gravy, if you only have
the bread to sop in it..
All of which is decidedly interesting
and to the point. The State Journal
will, in an early chapter. tell its side
Of the postmaster general story. Mean
while, it is interesting to note that
Mr.. William Allen White, the friend
Of LaFoIlette and the thorn in the
flesh to President Taft, says. it will be
noted, that he wants to take a club
and lend a feeble hand at smashing
4 political machine when it's gets too
gay" {
w A. w. is not, then, opposed to a t
nachine-unless it gets too gay Well, s
your insurgent machine certainly did
get too gay in the Second and Seventh
Kansas districts lately-and you lend
10 more than a feeble hand. True,
indeed. t
This paper would like to comment I
further on Mr.. Whites editorial,
which is under the heading of "Our I
Job," but this will have to be deferred :
until tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Mr.. White devotes near S
y another column to what he terms
'Tafts Indolent Mind" Well, this :
writer admits that he cannot say much :
IN this subject at this late hour, but i
may devote part of a future chapter t
20 this subject. t
IChapter XIII next.l