Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18
News From Over The County
COPY OF INTERVIEW
Given Out by Mr.. Hodges at wichit

ernOr, is IN the city To-Day. Chair
man Jacques has him in charge. He
lunched with Judge Dale at the Com
mercial Club and met a. number of
the business men who have made
Wichita famous.
The Senator can see nothing but
victory for his party, and is more
than enthused from the fact the Re-
publicans have no State ticket. He
quotes them as saying that they
would rather vote for straight-out
Democrats than hybrids."
The statement made by Mr.. Roose.
welt at Ottawa, wherein he insisted
that all true Progressives would
and should get out from under Mr..
Taft's name and get under his
name on the independent ballot, Is
causing sincere Progressives to view
Mr.. Capper's staying ON the Repub-
lican ticket and trying to ride into
office upon the coat tails of Presi-
dent Taft, the man he is trying to
politically assassinate, as merely Of
flee sreking, and | find hundreds
who will not support him.
When Mr.. DoIEey's Galena state
ment was called to Mr.. Hodges at
tention, he only laughed and said,
Eyes, l did pay Mr.. Sapp a little
compliment, nothing more" but he
added, 'Dolley must have little
things to work upon" "sSome an
finals are known by the length of
their ears, but Mr.. Dolley is best
known by his braying."
Mr.. Hodges grew intensely earn,
lest when he branded the state
ments made in Capper's Mail an
Breeze, that he belonged to a
Lumber Trust, as an infamous false
hood. BY it he casts a reflec-
ton upon the integrity of all the
retail lumbermen in the state. At
torney General Jackson investigated
the Lumber Trust rumor for four
years, and found they were the
same clean, capable, honest men
that were conducting other lines Of
business, that he, Mr.. Capper, is
helping to ruin by his mail order
schemes and mail order advertising
t Ii is the same despicable method that
: Gov Stubs used two years ago, and
] his errand boy, Capper, is doing as
+ is told.
We belong to no t.JSt, pool, Of
combination of any sort, and have
no price agreement with anyone. We
are in the retail lumber bushes:
and have no interests in saw mill!
or manufacturers. We are like al
the retail merchants in that We are
compelled to buy our lumber from
u the manufacturers, and if price
agreement exists anywhere, it 4
among the wholesalers. We be
longed several years ago to tn
Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Com
pany, and by a mutual agreemen
insured each others business. AL
q of our yards are near Kansas City
where we have the hardest cOmpe
tition. We sell lumber in Kansa
p City, and recently shipped materia
!. from Olathe into Texas. Lumber /
sold at less price from our yard
D than any other place in Kansas. w
are independent and have built up
big, clean, legitimate business W
are proud Of. Every dollar We hav
made is so clean that you can Civ
# to your boys and girls, for it col
tains no microbes, while the ma
Capper, who in a cowardly fashio
peddles through his papers an n
sinuating political falsehood, ha
made his millions out of advertil
ing. Some Of it he receives $2.5
line for, and such stuff that n
legitimate newspaper would pubhsl
Nauseating, vile stuff. Experts sa
that he gets $2O,OO0.OO an issue Il
the stuff he prints in his Househol
magazine. 1t was such illegitimat
advertising that caused Henry
Allen to write his peculiarly int
esting aid racy editorial calling NJ
Capper human vampire.
Recently Mr.. Capper has write
letter to the ministers of the stat
saying he would discontinue the wi
stuff and asking for their supper
He can well afford to make tn,
promise now, after tile damaging e
fects Of such advertising have reaeI
ed Kansas homes, and he rests snui
ly and securely behind his enormoI
bank account made principally by
business method he now proposes
abandon or trade for votes.