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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
RESULTS IN THE COUNTY.

No matter which way the local politi-
cal wheel turns in Shawnee county next
November, the result will mean a big
shakeup at the court house. A num-
Der of the incumbents in the several
county offices who were candidates for
denominations, and in some instances
for a third or a fourth term, were de-
feated in the primaries by new Re
publican aspirants for county honors.
This was no more than the reasonable
outcome that might have been expect
ed. There is no particular reason why
men, regardless of their integrity and
efficiency, who get elected to county
offices should consider them personal
property and make fine plans to camp
in them for the rest of their natural
lives. These offices should be passed
on once in four years, anyhow, if for
no other reason than that new brooms
have a tendency to sweep a little clean
er than old ones. And surely no COM
plants can come from some of the
present county officers because their
friends have notified them that they
have served sufficiently well and long
in their present public positions.
One of the decidedly popular vic
tories in the Republican county arena
was that won by Mr.. l.. L. Kiene in his
quest for the shrievalty nomination
Mr.. Kiene was connected with the
State Journal for many years as it's
managing editor. AS such his services
to Topeka and Shawnee county were
large. And the many friends that he
made among all classes of people dur
ing his newspaper career evidently
made up their minds that he was at
least entitled to a chance for the only
political office he has ever sought, al
though many of an appointive variety
have sought him and always in vain-
Mr.. Kiene's victory is all the more
agreeable to his friends because he
was pitted against a political foeman
worthy of any mans steel. Colonel
Jonathan D. Norton is one of the per-
sonaIly most popular men in Shawnee
county. He has served his fellow citi-
zens most acceptably as sheriff. Ano
his belief that he was entitled to a
second elective term which many good
lawyers declared would be in reality
third term and thereby in contraven-
ton of the constitution. was no doubt
a thoroughly sincere and honest one,
or Colonel Norton would never have
pressed it.
If Mr.. Kiene is honored by an cleo
ton to the sheriffs office in Novem-
Der he will make good. He is one of
those men who does that very thing
wherever he is placed. In fact, he
will make such a good sheriff that
the people of Shawnee county will
probably want to continue him in Of
flee for life. Unfortunately, though,
Mr.. Kiene has declared against a third
term and he is a man of his word.
However, Mr.. Kiene will not have
a walkaway in November. Mr..
Schlicter, who won the Democratic
nomination for sheriff in convincing
fashion. is an honest and capable man
and a hard and successful campaign
er. This is equally true of all the
candidates who won the Democratic
county nominations. They make up
an especially strong ticket. And the
battle next fall for the Shawnee coun-
ty offices will be a hard fought one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Every mans judgment is excellent
in his own estimation
A mans memory is generally as
good as he cares to have it.
e X
If all people were compelled TO prac-
tice whaI they preach there wouldn'
be nearly so much preaching.
u
What has become of the oId-fash-
toned man who always suggested re-
ferring intricate questions to "Phila-
deIphia lawyer?"
One wav to get unpopular with a
small cigar manufacturer is to go into
his shop and ask for a cigar made by
one of his business rivals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
LET THE PEoPLE RULE.

That was the War-cry of Colonel
Roosevelt and his boy scouts a few
weeks ago. They shed real tears be-
cause there were not primaries in
every state for the selection of dele
gates to the Republican national con-
vention. They tore their hair over a
political outrage of such monumental
proportions. They got black in the
face while making pronouncements
against "boss-ridden" political par
ties and conventions. Naturally, it
was reasonable to expect that when
the Bull Moose and his clan organ
lied political party of their own, the
people would be consulted about, and
given the power to direct every move
that was made.
But to what extent have the people
been permitted to rule in the creation
of the new party, and the organization
and conduct of its first convention ?
1t is to laugh. Not a line of news
can be found in any of the stories
concerning the formation. of the new
party or the creation of it's conven-
ton where the people have had the
smallest kind of a voice to determine
the procedures. From all the ac-
counts that have come from Chicago
the delegates to the Bull Moose con-
Vention are of the hand-picked va
riety. Nothing that savored of a pri-
mary was held for the selection of a
single one of them. Such as were
chosen with any regularity at all were
selected at conventions of the Roose-
welt followers in several of the states.
Conventions. mind you, those crooked
and machine controlled affairs that
for a brief spell, at least, were under
tho ban of the Roosevelt cohorts.
And there wasn't even a convention
to select the Kansas delegates to the
Bull Moose pow WOW. A half dozen
of the elect of the Rooseveltians III
this state held a secret conference in
Topeka a couple of weeks ago. At it's
conclusion it was announced that only
William Allen White and Henry Allen
would represent Ka<sas at the great
convention of the new party. As the
days passed on, and wonder began to
be expressed in divers quarters of the
state as to why the preponderant
Roosevelt sentiment in Kansas was
going to find expression at Chicago
only through the presence of Mr..
White and Mr.. Allen, there was a fan
fare of trumpets in Bill Whites cosy
corner. InlS was preliminary 10 an
announcement from him that Kansans
were going to flock to the Bull Moose
convention by the score. No less than
$50 were going, said Mr.. White. And
he added as an incidental that as soon
as these -Kansans gathered in Chicago
twenty of their number would be
picked to serve as delegates in the
convention and twenty more would be
picked to serve as alternates. That's
letting the people rule, as it Is
worked out in practice by Mr.. Roose-
welt and his friends.
Until they gathered at Chicago,
Publicity" spelled with capital letters
and with a hyphen between each one,
was another watchword of great i'm
port with the Bull Moosers. They
ragged at any possibility that the Re
publican national committee might
hold secret sessions in hearing and
deciding contests. President Taft and
his friends Joined with. the Roosevelt
men in a request that all of the ses-
sions Of the Republican national COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
THE LONG RnAn

Brother, what if the road be long,
A gay good heart and a snatch of song,
And life laughs back we trudge along.
What if the inns be good bad!
Turn your face to the wind, my lad
Take the long road with a will,
Out of the gray town, over the hill
Brother, what If the day be long,
Journeys end, and the stars, and the sun.
There's a dusty highway ribboning free
Through jeweled land to the cleaning
sea.
Drink a health to the hearts that roam;
Fling the cup at the stay-at-homei
Then take the road till the day be done,
Till journeys end, and the stars, and the
sun.
Charles w. Kennedy, in Everybody's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subec1 Ihers of tho state Journal
away from hon.e during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents a week or thirty cents a
month Thy wall only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State Journal VIII be
fo you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
Bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
DAFFYDH.S
BIZ q. NoALL.

If a Portland mans wife felled
British Columbia cedar would Oregon
pine? No, but California redwood.
(HistiIi 'Tis the landlord.)
If a storekeeper in st. Petersburg
took in 20 rubles day would you say
he was doing a Russian business?
Glands up. there nowi I've got
the drop on you.)
If your mother-in-law made you a
visit would the ash-receiver?
lJohn Henry, you have already said
quite enough.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Neither were the results of yesterdays
primaries anywhere near as important
to the welfare of Topeka as was the an
nouncement on the same day that the
entire shop force of the Santa Fe here
some 5000 men-were to be placed again
on full working time, nine hours day
for six DAYS in the week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

And the battle-cry of the Bull Moosers
is a long drawn out moe which is
supposed to be an imitation of the call
oe the arrogant animal for which the
new party is named. By November it
will likely have dwindled away into the
peevish meow that comes from a
half-starved kitten-cat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
EFrom the New York Press.1

EFrom the New York Press.1
Politeness in a man is largely a matter
of whether the object of it is more i'm
portant than he is.
man can understand a girl till he
marries her, and she can't understand
him till she narries him.
If a man could try to get to heaven the
way he can into public office, the devifs
business wouldn't pay at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

lust one-half of the counties in the
Seventh Congressional district of Kan
sas produced wheat alone this year that
was worth more than all of the gold,
silver, copper, lead, zinc and other min
erals produced in the whole state Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Mr.. Beverage. former United States
senator from Indiana, must be in
happy mood these days. AS one of the
star performers at the national conven-
ton of the Roosevelt party, he is get
ting his picture in the newspapers
AGAIN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Presumably there won't be much
left of Chicago by the end of this
week. No more destructive an animal
ranges the forests than the Bull
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Next to Colonel Roosevelt, George W.
Perkins, the organizer of the harvest
trust, a power in the steel trust, and a
former member OF the firm of ]. PIr-
pont Morgan & Co., the reputed father
of most of the trusts, is the most prom
inent figure at the gathering of the Bull
ATooSo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
TELEPHONES.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganizdtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The state Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
RY THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PAReoNA

After day in the busy marts OF
| politics-with that morning a1ter Ieei-
ing and the rest of it, we hail, wltn
three or more cheers, another cohtri'
button from the Mysterious Guy
| "a
wit:
DISSERTATION OF THE SAB
BATH AT THE zoo.
How doth the 'Fretful porcuplne
fret out in Cages PARK
Because the basking Crocoolle won
change her basque till dark.
The Coyote screamed the Eagle
bald, but it wasn't any use.
And some one in the party calleo
the sweetest Swan goose
This made the missing Link SO mai
he most rough-housed the zoo
''You are no Gent! You are a Eau
cried the lady kangaroo.
You see she'd had her pocket plcKed
by some one in the croWo'
Who took her best lace hanukeE-
chief, her carfare and her po"o-
Err puff, a mirror too, think, and
sundry other toilet things
And SHE suspects The LINK
We leave it to you if the Mysterious
Guy, whose contributions bear local
postmark, is not a worthy successor u
the late Ponce, and the still later LeUn
Macarthur? At least he is on the JoD'
and they are not.
There was not a dissenting vote re-
corded in the first day of the present
so-called Chicago convention. but no
me could expect ME- to vote against
MYSELF on any question
In the recent street duel between co.
tors at Huntsville Mo-, not only an
innocent bystander but both EDITORS
were hit. That is raising the editorial
shooting record by two hits. Heretofore
the innocent bystander has peen u
only victim.
1t is sad but true that the editorial
six shooter and the editorial pen 90
not fit the same hand. That Is the
reason this department is editorlally
deficient. We can pot a mouse at ~
feet.
tbs said that a bullmouse conVen-
ton without Senator Dixon would Do
like a plum pudding without the pluns.
AS the plum is a mere figure OF speech
in connection with plum puddlns-
as no plum pudding ever contained
plums, the comparison is a good one.
Outside of the colonel, all attendants
upon the bull mouse convention are
mere hall and newspaper filters.
And, as to why the colonel kicked
the cullud delegates in the neck: He
didn't need them; as no one is run
ming against him in his one man relay
race, there was no chance that the
cullud delegates might Save the Day
for the Pee-pul.
Nutty Challoner has received a mes
sage from hell. If the temperature
around Merry Mills Va was anything
like it was here last week, when his
nuttiness claimed to have received the
message, it was delivered by messen-
ger boy or local telephone.
HoO-raw for Kiene!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Ella Wheeler Wilcox insists that
marriage is the most important bust
ness in the world. And the married
man who fails to bring home a skein
of silk that matches the sample he
took with him will heartily agree with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Naturally, that Tacoma preacher
who has arrived at the conclusion that
he is a failure as a clergyman has de-
cided to go into the chicken-raising
business. Chickens and preachers are
the real thing in the affinity line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Doesn't it make you angry to read an
item in a newspaper about somebody
laughing so vigorously over a joke as
to break a jaw, with nothing detailed
in the item as to just what the joke
happened to be?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

There's a screw loose somewhere in
Georgia. They've just arrested a
white man there for the murder of a
negro which happened a year ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Inasmuch as the weather experts
were emphatic with their predictions
that fair weather would prevail on pri-
mary day, it was almost a foregone
conclusion that it would rain. And. it
did
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Present indications are that in some
of the Kansas election districts they
won't get through counting the primary
ballots until it is time for them to begin
counting the election ballots next No
VeTnber
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Some of the political keynotes that
have been sounded at Chicago during
the past few days have had false ring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Colorado last year. And many agricul-
turists of the home-seeking variety
travel right through Kansas in their
quest for lands of promise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Here's another German invasion of
Err gland. Beer is being used at court
functions in London instead of wine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Maybe England thinks she is en-
titled to some special privileges in
the Panama canal because three times
as many Englishmen as Americans
are engaged in the work of its con-
rtruofiop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Many of the would-be off1ce-holders in
Kansas of yesterday are feasting today
on crow, that is if they have any appe-
tite at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

At least Harry Thaw doesn't have to
decide whether he will go to the sea
shore or the mountains for his vacation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

High ideals are beautiful and wonderful
things. 1t is always inspiration to me
TO meet anyone who has some aspiration
ana some sense of responsibility in life be-
yond surrounding himself and his own
with all the comforts and pleasures and
friends possible, and living pleasantly
But conversely, it is always a saddening
establishment to find my idealist notably
failing to live up to the little obligations
of daily living.
And yet how often one finds this sad
combination-grand thinking and petty
living, stern ideals and slack realtiesl
path this summer whose beautiful ideals
about the brotherhood of man and our re-
sponsibihty towards our less fortunate
fellow creatures were a Stimu1ant to me.
And then one day heard the woman with
whom she boarded telling how much trou-
Bile and extra work this particular girl
had caused bv being consistently and un-
necessarily late to meals. The hostess
is very Woodworking little widow who
is evidently overtaxing her strength, and
most of her guests-even though they do
not have ideals to the brotherhood of
man-do all they can to make it easier
for her. Naturally. after that, my young
friends ideals failed to inspire me.
Again, the most impassioned champion
of justice and equal rights for all whom
1 ever knew was a young man who lived
in a boarding house and was diSliked by
all his mates because he would keep pos
session of the bathroom at the rush hours
just about twice long as the law of
justice and equal rights for all allowed.
Just the other day my shampoo lady
came an hour early, inquiring anxiously
If I could have my treatment then, and
explaining that it would be a great favor
if could, for Mrs. s., whom she usually
treated at that hour, had gone to town
and left word that she would postpone
her appointment until that afternoon.
That had thrown out her entire schedule,
and unless I could accommodate her, she
said she didn't know what she would do.
Now Mrs. S. is woman of unusually
high ideals of justice. Wasn't it strange
that 1t didn't occur to her to put them into
practice in the relations of daily life?
OF course, we all know very well inten-
toned people who cause infinite incon-
venience and unhappiness by slackness in
paying their debts. ITO talk of living the
higher life and to ignore the financial in
tegrity of keeping ones debts promptly
and accurately paid" someone has said,
''is to speak meaningless jargon-"
Now there are many kinds of consist
ency which are absolute folly. AS, for in
stance, that which makes a man cling
to a position after he has come to realize
IT is a mistake. But the consistency which
makes a man try to live in little things
as he talks in big ones, surely is a jewel
And they who lack this consistency GER
tainly are talking a meaningless 5argon"
when they try to tell us about their ideals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

An old farmer went to a cattle show to
exhibit a favorite COW, with which he
had high hopes of winning the first prize.
on learning the result. and that his COW
had been placed fifth, his anger knew
no bounds, and, rushing into the ring. he
attacked the judges. why is my COW
not first What are her faults, I'd like to
know At this point one of the judges
approached him and answered: Her
faults my good man, are somewhat akin
to your own. She lacks good breeding
Argonaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

We leave it to you if the Mysterious
Guy. whose contributions bear a local
postmark, is not a worthy successor -
the late Ponce, and the still later Leon
Macarthur? At least he is on the JoD'
and they are not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

There was not a dissenting vote re
corded in the first day OF the PreseIi1
so-calIed Chicago convention. But no
me could expect ME- to vote against
MYSELF on any question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

After a day in the busy marts o.
politics-with that morning after Ieei
ing and the rest of it. we hail, with
three or more cheers, another contr1'
button from the Mysterious Guy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

In the recent street duel between co.
tors at Huntsville Mo-, not only an
innocent bystander but both eolIorS
were hit. That is raising the eoiIorlal
shooting record by two hits. Heretofore
the innocent bystander has been tte
only victim.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

It is sad but true that the editorial
six shooter and the editorial pen do
not fit the same hand. That is the
reason this department is edltorlally
deficient. We can pot mouse at ~
feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07

Hoo-raw for Kiene!
The Yale expositor., 1912-10-24
NOR I'll RILEY.

Mrs. Thos. Reidy of Detroit is the
guest of her parents Mr.. and Mrs. p
Foley this week.
Lolo Murphy spent last week in Port
Huron and st. Clair visiting friends
and relatives.
Mrs. Albert Foley of Detroit Is visit
ing relatives here.
A number from here attended the
foot ball game at Memphis Saturday,
Romeo vs.. Memphis, the score being
81 to in favor Of Memphis,
Robt Pratt Is seriously i'll.
Irving Murphy has gone to Detroit
where he has secured position.
Mrs. Pat Egan of Ann Arbor was
called here on account of the illness of
her mother, Mrs. 5. White.
Jas. Muspratt of Riley was married
to Erie Robertson Of Port Huron last
Wednesday.
Mrs. ID. Z. Wheelhan of Port Huron
is spending the week with relatives
here.
The Yale expositor., 1912-10-24
LYNN.

Mrs. John Wickham of Mussey was
in town to see her daughter Mrs. Car.
RE Leach on Friday.
The bean crop is hard to secure this
fall on account of the wet weather, and
some of the fields are SO weedy that a
mower has to be used to get the crop,
and some are pulling by hand. The
farmers are discouraged with the crop
as it is poor one this year.
Emery Dell and son Ray of Detroit
spent part of last week at the home of
Fred Leach.
Mrs. Joe Sprotberry and Mrs. Fred
Leach spent Thursday at the home of
Harrison Long near Yale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Collins have
adopted the 6.yearold daughter, Anna,
of Mrs. Carrie Leach.
Herbert GOttschalk and wife of Ca
pac were in town Monday.
Albert E. Brough is busy with his
outfit filling silOs.
Miss Minnie Lorcb, teacher i'm the
Wickham school district, is doing ex-
cellent work in the school room.
VIM. Schroeder is doing carpenter
work in Brockway.
A business meeting of the class of
Bethel church will be held at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Leach, Friday
evening.