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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
AYHAWKER JOT.S

A soft answer was never known
to turn away a book agent, says the
Atchison Champion.
Our people may not IKE TINS
weather, says the Coldwater Tansman,
but when you mention wheat 1t never
fails to bring a smile.
The Newton Journal says If some
men loved their neighbors as them
selves, they would want everybody
hide kept full of booze all the time.
Jim Furney, who lives near Pratt
has some hens that are helpful for a
foot He sold no less than S5S worth
of eggs during the month of February.
Why is it, inquiries the Marquette
Tribune that the dinkieSt, d1rtleSt,
dingiest buildings in town are al
ways located along the railroad tracks
where the tourists all get a fulI view
of them?
A prominent and successful physl-
clan said to the Pratt Union recently,
when discussing the impossible cohal-
ton of the roads: THAT gives folks
who get sick a chance to get well De-
fore the doctor gets there
WHAT'S the fun of eating, the Law
renee Journal-World wants to know,
if you have to dose yourself with
medicine to make it digest! me
taste on the tongue is good, put the
ia ste in the stomach is better
That considerable progress is being
high school is evidenced by the fol
lowing note appearing in the Olathe
Mirror: Several new yells have been
added to the schools already classical
collection.
A boy or young man who works
for eight dollars a week and knows
what to do with his money is far
better off, rightly argues the Flor
ence Bulletin, than the one who gets
eighteen or twenty and gives 1T to
some bootlegger or professional gam
bier.
An observation by Sinful Peck of
the Hiawatha News-Democrat: If the
girls must smoke cigarettes, let EN-
smoke out on the street like the rest
of the sports. At the present rate
they are likely to burn down half
the barns in town before they acquire
the habit.
AS the weather man on the Lyons
Republican has figured it out: There
have been only sixteen colder Febru-
arys IN SO years than the one just
passed. The month was one of the
wettest in years, only IL clear days
during the month-and they didn't
want to be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
KANSAS COMMENT


DISGRACING A GOOD CAUSE.
IL IS a pity that a cause sd good and
Just as equal suffrage should be disgraced
- ~ Is IN England. Just now that gov
S Stnlhent Is wrestling with grave prob
LENS ru that have nothing to do with suf-
aase; Two women choose this as a fit
ing llme to make another OF their dis
sLAceIul demonstration. Mrs. PankhurSt
VINO was wisely kept out of Kansas has
Deen sent to Jail. 1t is the place for her
she lacks that refinement that carries
success with II. These women leaders
mean well but they have been SAIL, in,
erIicient in leadership. They are unsafe.
Ihere is some danger that 1t viii drive
ma I-hearred supporters of equal suffrage
10 the other side in Kansas but IL should
not 90 so. Suffrage is a principle, not a
conoition OF government. The leaders are
women OF the highest character and
finest tact.-Lawrence Journal World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Little oolly-Dog,
With hair SO curly,
Up with the sun-even so early,
Living your life in the worlds hurly-
burly,
Little-Woolly-Dog.
Little Woolly-Dog,
With tongue so pink,
Eyes that softly shine and blink,
OF this great game, what do you think?
-Woolly-Dog.
Little Woolly-Dog,
Who can say,
The meaning Of our little day
When we grope our best to find the way,
Little Woolly-Dog?
Little Woolly-Dog
You show US how
To be content with what is now,
Your philosophy is good-we must allow
Little oolly-Dog-
Rob. NJ. Campbell.
Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

A true primary provides the means
for making nominations by a direct
vote of the people. Has anybody in
Kansas a sufficiently elastic imagina-
ton to deem the plan for preferential
presidential primary suggested by Mr.
Dolley. or any of the other plans that
have been put out, as providing the
means for the selection of delegates to
the Republican national convention by
a direct vote of the Republicans of the
state? AS a matter of fact Mr.. Dol
ley's plan is about as complicated and
indirect as it well could be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

People lacking in self-contro1 are
in hot water most of the time.
X X J
This has also been an ideal winter
season for the man who likes to SHOW
ell snow.
X
And not a few brides are better
dressed on their wedding days than
they are ever after.
Nor would there be so many argu-
ments if more people always knew
what they were talking about.
y
Why criticize the miser for his pc
nuriousness? He is happy in it. Hap
piness is the goal every one strives to
reach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

Henry Allen, the genial and versatile
editor of the Wichita Beacon, has been
passing most Of his time in Kansas OF
late. And yet, he goes up into North
Dakota and tells the voters there that
T. R. is the choice of the people over
the whole United States for the Re-
publican presidential nomination. Nor
does Mr.. Allen gain his purported in
formation on this score from the senti-
ment expressed by the great majority
Of the newspapers of the country. The
preponderance of newspaper sentiment
is just the other way. So where did
Mr.. Allen get this information? A
good guess would be that Governor
Stubs provided it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

A number of Topekans have moved
their Lares and Penates to San
Diego, Cal. They have written home
frequently to friends that they had at
last found a veritable Garden of Eden,
where severe weather and climatic
disturbances $50 common to Kansas
were unknown. Not a few of these
friends, undoubtedly, have looked
with envious eyes in the direction of
San Diego during the last few weeks
when they have been up to their knees
in snow most of the time. But San
Diego was swept by a gale of ter
rife force the other day. Yachts in
it's harbors were tossed up on the
land. In the city, itself, telephone,
telegraph and lighting wires were
blown down in all directions. Has
Topeka suffered in like fashion even
during the unusually heavy weather
that has prevailed this winter? Well,
hardly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

People will not go to the Auditorium
| to see a free show. and they balk at
paying regular theater rates for the
| very highest class of Auditorium en-
| tertainment; therefore, next week S
| high grade entertainment for the price
of cigar ought to prove the happy
medium the people have been looking
/ for.
| Charley Kerr, the Montgomery coun-
ty representative who favors abolishing
the senate, has undoubtedly looked 1t
over and found that he can't carry that
senatorial district
The Mineola lawyer who remarked
to L. R.: Colonel you are busy man,
and we Will excuse you," may not pose
as a starter of new fads, but there Is
grim suspicion that an overwhelming
majority CT the people will repeat that
brief sentence during the next few
months.
On Tuesday last, a male resident OF
our be-yootiful little CITY was arrested
for slapping his wife on the east side.
The rights of a married man are De-
coming fewer and fewer. Oh, for them
good old days when man could slap
his wife-eVen on the northwest corner,
if he wanted to, and get away with 1t.
The average rich mans idea of
'roughing it, is to have the butler serve
the champagne in plain water glasses
and dispense with the finger bowls.
A number of those who contributed
funds to the cause of the Lawrence
textile strike, seem to be peeVed ne
cause said funds were used to pay the
salaries of the leaders and hire law
yers for them when they were plnched.
They should have taken second look
and observed that the petition was IN
behalf of the cause of the strike.
The word has more than one meaning.
Patience isn't always a virtue; in
some cases, there isn't anything to 90
but be patient.
1t would appear that Hon BristoW, IN
his opposition of Judge HOOK, dloh /
really desire to have any hand IN tine
appointment of a justice of the supreme
court, but merely to prevent Kansas
from getting a representative into tnstt
august body. Among those scrappIng
over the appointment of Judge Plthcy
of New Jersey we do not observe the
name of the elongated senator from
Salina-
Tn a wild search for something de
cent to say about a late spring, we can
find nothing except that it gives the
hammocks and park benches longer
vacation.
And, although it is a little early, We
may as we'll get out our hammer ann
commence on the spring poets. 1t Is
one of the safest of diversions, as tie
spring poets have no union, and they
don't amount to much in politics.
Whether or not Abe Attell tried to
make a deal with Tommy Murphy
doesn't interest us in the least, and it
isn't worth while getting any affidavits
on our account We can get up a
little enthusiasm over a chicken fight,
Just because we feel confident that one
of the bir hasn't been instructed 20
throw the fight, but have never en-
tertained any such confidence in a
pug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

People who turn up their noses at
the conquests of the North and South
Poles as being fruitlesS enterprises,
seem to overlook the fact that as get
rich-quick schemes for the successful
explorers. they are almost in a class
by themselves. So enthusiastic are
the people of Norway over Raold
Amundsen's exploit that they are
going to pay off an $4,000 debt that
has been standing against him for
some time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
DAFFYDLLS
BY U. NOALL.

If an ingenue made hit would a
star shoot?
(Be a little more liberal with your ap-
plause, boys, the actors will work
harder9
If the dog drinks does the catsup?
(Ding, dong, dell, pussy's in the well.)
If Horace Greeley's hen got loose
would Peter Cooper?
CIandle that man gently. He's full
of prunes.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

President Taft has laid out some
thing of a difficult row for his cam
paign managers to hoe. He insists
that they confine their attacks on the
opposition to a discussion of the issues
of the campaign. The difficulty in this
lies IN the irsistence of the opposition
to lay most of their stress on such
state issues as the initiative, the refer
endurn and the recall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

Kansas farmers usually have their
oats planted by this time of year. Nor
are many of the potato growers in the
state going to get their crop of spuGs
set out by st. Patrick's day, which is
the extreme limit for potato planting
among those inclined to be supersti-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

Forty-six of the labor leaders ami
others, indicted at Indianapolis on
charges connecting them with the ter
rible dynamite conspiracy in which the
McNamaras played such a leading part,
pleaded not guilty the other day. AMI
Sam Gompers has failed to pronounce
them innocent" Sam has either lost
the power of speech or he is wisirg
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
(Chapter xC next.)

s.Irish Flats writes to the Meade
Globe that when Mr.. Dolley Informed
President Taft that a great majority
of the people of Kansas are opposed to
his nomination he was talking
through his hat seHe can't prove his
statement" insists Irish Flats" for
money. marbles or chalk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Winter weather has been on the
boards so long that the Fourth of July
will arrive before you are expecting II.
And almost Immediately thereafter will
come the advice to do your Christmas
shopping early.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

In regard to this federal patronage
which controlled the congressional
committee yesterday, a careful investi-
cation of the membership of the First
district congressional committee which
met in Topeka in the afternoon dis
closes the remarkable fact that out of
the entire number there was only one
little lone federal officeholder who
participated in the work of the COM
mittee, Mr.. Weltmer of Hiawatha. He
is a federal officeholder, one of the
newest in the state. He was appoint
ed statistician for the forestry depart
ment, to succeed the late Major T. J.
Anderson of this city. All the rest of
the committeeman who were using
such "disreputable methods to influ-
ence the election of delegates favor
able to you, President Taft" were sim
ply practical business men, profession
al men and farmers.
There was one other federal office
holder of this committee, but he re-
signed last year, although he did rot
succeed in getting himself off the off,
cial list until during the last twenty
four hours. This is Postmaster BiGdle
of Leavenworth. To succeed him was
chosen Mr. z. E. Brewster. business
man of Leavenworth, but Mr.. Biddle's
name was still being carried on Chair
man Dolley's list, SO Brewster. a few
hours ago, went up to Chairman Dol
Icy with his credentials, in order that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

No wonder Attorney General Dawson
sings the famous Missouri ''houn'
dawg'' song whenever he has a chance.
His experiences of the last few months
have been such as to put him in entire
sympathy with it's sentiments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

One more rumor comes from Wash
ington that "Tama Jim Wilson is
about to resign as secretary of agri-
culture. There have been as many ru-
mors OF this sort in the past few years
as there are hairs in Mr.. Wilson's head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

There is one good thing about po
litical activity in Kansas Just now. 1t
has brought the governor back to the
state from the Atlantic seaboard and
intervening points where he managed
national politics in assailing the ma
TONS chief and the national leader of
the Republican party.
This present state activity has also
kept our governor from going up into
North Dakota on affairs of the nation.
Let us be thankful that the governor
is here during this crisis, for although
he has found no word of commenda-
ton to extend to President Taft, the
committee meeting this afternoon will
formulate words which the governor
may read for profit and for informa-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

Let the reader not be misled in the
first place when it comes to political
activity, pernicious or otherwise, de-
pending upon whether you are friend
ly to Taft or to the exponent OF the
third term. Our governor can COVE
his opponents cards and spades and
beat them in taking part in this sort
of a game. That he cannot actually
beat them in results is because his
opponents insist upon a square deal,
have the power to see that such is
dealt, and the ability to win in a fair
political game.
The reader may gather the idea
from our governor and his bank com
missioner, who is chairman of the Re
publican state central committee that
federal Office holders were in the ma
pority at these congressional COM
mittee meetings where the conduct so
angered Governor Stubs, that he felt
impelled to take his pen in hand and
write our president at length over the
wire, charging him with being a bene-
ficfary of a deep. dark conspiracy of
federal office holders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

People will not go to the Auditorium
to see free show. and they balk at
paying regular theater rates for the
very highest class of Auditorium en-
high grade entertainment for the price
of a cigar ought to prove the happy
medium the people have been looking
for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

Charley Kerr, the Montgomery coun-
ty representative who favors abolishine
the senate, has undoubtedly looked il
over and found that he can't carry that
senatorial district
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

Whatever the political enemies may
say of his excellency, our governor,
that he lacks, no one can charge
that he is wanting in that fine
trait which often gives accom-
pIishment to desire, and described with
that graphic word, nerve. The COVER
nor displayed this faculty to the fullest
when he sent that presumptious tele-
gram to President Taft last evening,
implying that federal office holders
were controlling the various congress
sional committees which yesterday
afternoon took action, looking toward
the election of delegates to the Republi-
can National Convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

Speaking of caucuses, what is
known as the Insurgent wing of the
party was the first to hold a caucus on
this presidential primary matter. 1t
was held at a time before the state
committee had opportunity to act
upon the question today. 1t was held
last night in the state house. The
caucus showed a shortage of votes IA
vorable to a third term for a presi-
dent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

be might be plac ed upon the list of
state committeeman. Mr. DolIey APP
psrently was not happy to make this
change. He evidently wanted to keep
the federal officeholder on the commit
tee but the federal officeholder would
not agree. and the chairman was oblig-
ed to write in rex ink the name of the
new member.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

The Mineola lawyer who remarked
and we VIII excuse yOu,' may not pose
as a starter of new fads, but there is
a grim suspicion that an overwhelming
majority Of the people will repeat that
brief sentence during the next few
months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
CHAPTER CIV.
Political Activity.1

Topeka is the scene today, as Il has
been many times in the past. of the as
sembly of the prominent and repre-
sentative Republicans of Kansas.
brought here by the meeting of the
Republican State Central Committee
to adopt a method, fix time and set
place for the selection of the four
delegates at large to represent the
state at the Republican National Con-
vention to be held in Chicago on the
18th of June.
The sentiment among the commit
teemen and the Republicans here with
them seems to be Overwhelmingly Ia
vorable to the denomination OF Presl-
dent Taft; there seems to be very
general belief that he has made a
good president and is entitled TO re-
nomination; that if this should be re-
fused him, the party would StulliIy
itself. repudiate its own policies and
platform and give ammunition to the
Democracy; the assembly here today
shows a remarkable trend toward
Taft and overwhelming opposition to
a third term and an appreciation of
the fact that the President of the
United States has proven himself all
that Roosevelt said of him when he
was nominated for the presidency,
namely;
81 do not believe there can be found
in the whole country man so Wei
fitted to be president. He is not onl!
absolutely fearless, absolutely disln-
terested and upright, but he has the
widest acquaintance with the nation
needs without and within, and the
broadcast sympathies with all our c1tl-
zens.
He would be as emphatically
president of the plain people as Lin
coin yet not Lincoln himself, would
be freer from the least faint of dema-
gogy, the least tendency to arouse, to
appeal to class hatred of any kind.
I'm Mr.. Taft we have clean man
who combines all these qualities to a
degree which no other man in our pub
lie life since the civil war has sur
passed.
There was a fixed determination
among the committeeman present to
decline to sanction, in the absence of
a law, any state wide presidential pri-
mary. for which neither expense nor
safeguards could be provided, but 10
favor the legal and customary proceed
ing. alike fair to both factions, the con-
vention plan for electing delegates-the
plan promulgated by the national COM
mittee, where no primary law prevails. |
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-06-19

Norman have returned to their home
at Glen Dean after spending sometime
at the home of their sister, Mrs. David
X. Murray, in indianapolis
Mrs Everett Frank and little baby
son, Orville, arrived from Evansville
Saturday to see her sister, Miss Bertha
Burdett, who has tuberculosis. She is
i'll at the home of her father, Mr.. Gid
Burdett.
Mr. and Mrs. William Laslie have
moved into the new cottage rece ntly
built on Elm street on the hill by Mr..
Peyton Scott. Among other improve
ments on the hill, the Scott nome has
been newly painted
Word has been received from Mrs.
Kate Ditzenbaugh, who was taken to
Lakeland recently on account of her
sad mental condition, that she is very
much improved. She may get well
enough TO return home.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-06-19
LOOK HERE FOR IT
Many A CIoverport Reader Will
Be Interested.

When people read about the cures
made by a medicine endorsed from
far away, is it surprising that they
wonder IL the statements are true? But
when they read of cases right here at
home, positive proof is within their
reach, for close investigation is an
easy matter. Read Cloverport en-
dorsement of Doan's Kidney Pills.
J. Is. Strong, farmer, Cloverport,
KY, says; ! used several boxes of
Doan's Kidney Pills and found them
very satisfactory. A few months ago
/ had trouble from my kidneys. togeth-
err with pains across the small of my
back and through my sides. Seeing
Doan's Kidney Pills highly recon-
mended in the local papers, ! went to
Gibson e. Sons Drug store and got a
box. They quickly cured me and IN re-
turn, highly recommend them
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Fosier-Milbur Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name--Doan's--and
take TO other.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-06-19
FOR Sale

EOR SALE-Deeds, Mortgages and all kinds
Of legal blanks. - breckenridge News,
Cloverport. Ky.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-06-19
BIG SPRING

Miss Ethel Williams will return
home this week from Bowling Green
where she has been attending the Ken
lucky Normal.
Gus Kennedy and four children, of
Castleb berry, Ala, are guests of relat-
ives.
III Meador was at Irvington Thurs
day.
The ladies of the Baptist church
will have an ice cream supper Satur-
day evening, June 30.
J. H. Harmed and Miss Mayme
Norman, of Vine Grove, were guests
of Mrs. w. A. Hynes Friday.
A. ID. McCans, of Elizabethtown,
spent last week with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Miller were {
Vine Grove last week.
Miss Mary Smith, Of Elizabethtown
was the guest of Mesdames Martha
and Jim Clarkson.
Mrs. Hynes, of Enron, is with Mrs
w. A. Hynes and children.
Dick Clarkson, of Elizabethtown
visited Mesdames Julia, Jim, ant
Martha Clarkson last week
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-06-19

Miss Maud Mattingly returned home
Saturday from Custer where she had
been on a visit to her brother, Mr.. Earl
Mattingly.
A number Of the good ladies of our
town went in Thursday night to give
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee a shower Of good
things. it was a surprise to them by
filling their pantry.
Mr.. and Mrs. |. B. Richardson we're
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Minor Compton,
Of Hardinshurg, Sunday.
Little Mildred Sanbaeh enjoyed her
sixth birthday Saturday. A number OF
little folks found their way {, the din.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-06-19

O. IN Louisville Evening Post
M I'll and Breckenridge News
TVOO one year So. 80.