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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
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honest politician. Perhaps that Mr.
Il don't think he would come to see
you, daddy. You know you threatened
Then he can stay away. can get
har a dozen good men to swear that
Shane was a liar"
The senator walked around with his
chest thrown out and self-satisfled
air, but he was worried. He was be-
ing written up in his party organs as
the snow-white candidate. He wanted
to seem defiant. even to his daughter,
asked in what he thought was jocu-
lar tone
wei. sunragette. any further
alarms2''
not think it worth minding. owing to
your snow-white record but Mr. Ray
burn considers IL a great find"
Dang Mr.. Rayburn!"
so l say, but you see he has got
another death-bed confession. He droYs
cut the other day to see Farmer BrsPn-
Bile. 1t seems that the farmer owned
land where the aquecuct is to run ana
by the aid of a certain politician ana
state senator he was enabled to ger
$4,000 for land worth about $1,000. OF
course, there was a divvy in il"
''They can't prove it," shouted the
senator.
Perhaps not. but you see the farmer
1ldO OGSn hlCh0u ny anu
dying. He couldn't die in peace until
he confessed that the senator got two
thirds of the graft. Mr.. Rayburn has
the document"
And it saws I'm the senator, does
it?''
'I think it does. daddy think so.
Is there such an expression as dead
to-rights?''
q believe So
well, I think that Mr. Rayburn
thinks that that document gets you
dead-to-rights- Don't they sometim es
say that a man is caught with the
goods or? %
yves"
And there is something about a
mans goose being cooked?"
"And with the three death-bed con
fessions in Mr.. Rayburn's pocket, and
with the suffragettes investigating
and with the Examiner hot On the
trail, 7 think, daddy, dear-I think
that you will be showed under ten feet
deep at the coming electiOn!"
But he wasn't. What does poor,
innocent girl know about the tricks
ator fixed that thing in a day. Wher
Mr.. Rayburn came calling again he
seemed to feel perfectly at home, but
he did sigh as he observed:
You are worth 1t ten times over
but really I almost hated to do it."
But if you were a suffragette you
would understand that graft must be
met with graft. Daddy gratis the
public and we graft l1iml''-(Copy-
righted 1912 by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

A man can work himself to death,
says the Yates Center News, but not
many of them do it.
There is one consolation, reflect the
Alton Empire. The ice man has to
buy coal in winter and the coal man
has to buy ice in summer.
AS might have been expected, the
water pipes in the home of H. T.
Freese of Larned, froze and burst
during the recent cold SPELL
When a man buys a new hat, says
the Altoona Tribune. he wants one
somewhat like the one he had before
but it's different with a woman
Noting that a Colorado woman is
clothing her hens to keep them warm,
the Alton Empire adds: It is not I'M
common to see a dressed chicken
A young man who has curly hair,
and is proud of it, says the Concordia
kansan. is about as badly handicap
ped in the race to amount to anything
in life, as the boy who is waiting for
a rich father to die.
A Conway Springs man allowed his
wife to have her teeth fixed as a
Christmas present.=JeweH Republi-
can. He was liberal beside the Downs
man who merely washed his wind VS.
on Christmas day so his children could
watch the neighbors' boys playing with
their sIeds.-DoWns News Well, some
fellows would have made their wives
wash the windoWs.-Cawker City
Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

economic instead of political basis.
Under his administration the anti
trust law for the first time became
actually operative, and he now ~ro-
poses to use the power of the govern
ment for the enforcement of the law,
and advocates additional legislation
for the control and regulation of
trusts. All the prestige and Ever of
tai progressive legislation directlv in
the interest of the people whom he
seeks earnestly to serve.
I'm this connection we have no quar-
rel with Senator IaFollette and the
clique responsible for his parade
through Ohio. Every man. be he
Democrat Republican, or Socialist,
has a right to campaign for the presi-
dency. But the assum ption that La
Folletteism is Progressive Republican
ism or that Progressive Republicans
are of necessity for LaFOlette is rank.
If Senator LaFollette were real Pro
gressive Republican he would be back
ing up the president in his fight for
honest progress and aiding in his de-
Tense against the powerful and self
ish interests who seek the president
destruction because of his service to
the people,"
There are many who think that the
friends who are most loyal and sincere
towards Roosevelt, are those who would
urge him to continue his present stand
first place Roosevelt does not wish to
be one, nor does he desire the presi-
dency again. He is apparently well
content with his place in life today. His
influence and example are of marvellous
potency. If he should again be dragged
into personal politics there is a doubt
about the outcome. Defeat might ham
per his prestige and nation wide and
world wide influence.
He came back from Africa a ma
tion's idol, but he plunged into a New
York state campaign and his candi-
date was defeated. There are many
of the warmest possible friends of
Roosevelt who would not vote for him
for a third term because they say that
none other than our first president,
Washington himself, set the example
of no more than two terms. Grant,
with his great record, a popular hero
returning from a trip around the
world, where all nations had shown
him honor; his own giving him the
warmest welcome on his return, was
thrust into a third term contest but
defeated for the nomination.
(Chapter LXXXII Tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
WILLOW PATrERN PLATE.

WILLOW PATTERN PLATE.
Betty in the kitchen broke a willow pat
tern plate.
To save those little people from a very
dreadful fate
Whose fortunes told in blue upon the
willow pattern plate
Two blue little people come running
Across a blue ridge, in the sunshiny
They run from garden. where stands a
blue tree
Above the blue house of a wealthy
Chinee.
The one is a maiden. the other her
A blue weeping-willow hangs half the
bridge over.
Behind, IN pursuit. comes papa. with a
whip.
But they're over the bridge and aboard
the blue ship
OF the sea
With a shove off the shore. from his
wrath they are free.
Now deep in the water the oars they
are playing,
While high in the heaven the blue doves
are plying.
To his blue island home her lover Will
And there they will happily live ever
after.
This is the story of the willow pattern
So please be very careruI-though it's
only one and eight
And remember that you have in hand a
very precious freight
When you carry from the kitchen a wit
low pattern plate.
Westminster Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
BY TIE WY
BY HARVEY PARsoNi

Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont is planning to
start daily paper for women only
This Will fill a long-felt want among
large number of women who have al
ways held that the club notes should
occupy the front page
From his pictures, we gather that
Doc Wiley looks very much like that
other eminent comedian, Harry Bulger-
To those who are out of coal, the fact
that 16-inch ice is being harvested IS
little consolation.
A walking delegate should make a
good umpire without much practice.
Calling 'em out on strikes is one of the
best things he does
When a married man says he hasn't
decided yet" it means that he hasn't
had time to ask his wife about it.
Being in and of Kansas, we have no
personal knowledge of the subject, but
have heard that wine. like a majority
of people, either improves or sours with
age.
Roast duck is our favorite fruit; and
our favorite notion of nothing to do is
to meet a roast duck face to face while
we are full of fried potatoes and flank
steak.
The dog, who tried to grab mule by
the tail was probably the originator of
the statement that it never pays to
jump at conclusions
Sometimes a modern problem novel;
gets a first class review, when what it
really needs is a first class inquest.
The increased cost of living has been
the goat so long that it will not object
to the added burden of local defalca-
ton, SO it is being rumored that the
young man went crooked to avoid
straitened circumstances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
WILL BE TWO REPORTS
Sugar Trust Investigating Committee
is Not in Accord.

Washington. Jan. 23.-Chairman
Hardwick Of the congressional COM
mittee. which for several months has
been investigating the socalled sugar
trust. hopes to submit report TO the
house within a week. The committees
win begin consideration of the evil
dence in executive session tomorrow
Democratic leaders in the house
urged Mr. Hardwick to report as soon
as possible. Witnesses who had come
many miles to testify in rebuttai Of
anti-beet sugar testimony were denied
hearings. Two reports will come from
the committee. as the Democrats and
Republicans disagree over the tariff
on sugar. and the tariff will be the
theme OF both reports. Representa-
tives Fordney, Malby and Hines ara
expected to prepare minority report.
arguing that the removal of the duty
on sugar would mean the destruction
of the beet sugar industry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The women know the reason why
Solomon was so wise.
y
What has become of the old-fash-
toned children who were seen and not
heard?
X
A woman likes to be told she's beau
tiful even when she knows she isn't.
x X y
When a smoker swears off for
a while, he also has a convenient ex-
cuse for his meanness.
=
A marriage that is a failure is soon
known to all the world, but nothing is
ever heard about the many that are
SUCCESSES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News.1
Be sure you are right-then ask your
wife.
Some of US are born foolish and never
outgrow it
Many people suffer intensely over mag
mary injuries
All things come more quickly to him
who tips the waiter
It is better to appreciate wisdom than
to be appreciated by fools
1t sometimes happens that a man who
talks like a book is a pIasiarist.
An engaged couple prefer a lip to lip
silence rather than q heart to heart talk
Many a flowery speech has been nipped
in the bud by a nonapprecfative audience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

'.Buy Topeka Made Goods" is one
Of the new war cries of the CONNER
cial club that should receive a response
from every individual in the city.
About everything that everybody needs
is manufactured right here in the cap
itaI Of Kansas. A general purchase of
these goods by Topekans would mean
much in the development and growth
of the industries concerned in their
manufacture or preparation That
would mean a bigger and more pros
porous Topeka. And are these things
not worth striving for?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.l

Big. heads are worn mostly at home.
When a man threatens to kiss a girl he
runs big risk of her getting indignant
if he doesn't
What makes a man lose his temper is
the way his wife can say he always does
when he knows he never does.
1t takes a man to feel important be-
cause he saw the president come of a
ferryboat in d closed carriage.
Every man thinks he knows good coffee
so well that If he only pays enough for
it, no matter what it is, It's right.
The things that a girl pretends not to
know are a heap more important than the
things a man Dretends to know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
DAFFYDMS
By .. NOALL..

If policeman takes a trip does the
faningo2
(Throw him straw! He's going
down for the third time.)
When a sucker gets caught is the
salmon?
CFresh fish Fresh hsh.l Any today
lady? GiddapD
Would an unusual demand for ieath-
er make the cow-hide2
(Ten your troubles TO the judge. He
gets paid fer listening to such things-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Bill Morgan says he paid four cents for
a shave in England. Six cents for hair
cut He gave the barber a tip of penny
and 1t was received with thanks. Yes,
a suit of clothes costs less money in Eng
land, but the wages of barber are 81 to
90 week The street car conductor gets
50 week The man-Of-all-W work about a
house 81 week and board. Clerks in
stores IS week. Cham bermaid at hotel
trade country. That kind of wages is
what you stand for when you talk for
free trade with the Democrats and insur-
gents.-Howard Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
KANSAS COANENT
AS TO CuLTrRE-

We noticed the other day girl whom
we had heard people say was cultured
Her parents had spared no expense to
teach her music and art and a number of
other things that go to finish a girl
education. She was talking to her father
a. the time, and her reply was a quick
angry retort- 1t was uncalled for and
the old man relapsed into a hurt silence
They say she is Cultured but it looks
as if in the course of her education one
of the greatest cultures and refinements
a girl can have has been forgotten and
neglected.-Holton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

IF report from California is cor
rect, Jim Jeffries has no business in
prlxe-fighting arena these days. This
report states that the once champion
tried hard to get away from making
q statement" in reply to one of the
daily salvos of words fired out by Jack
johnson. a prize-f fighter who is un-
willing to talk is altogether too far out
~ 9o4e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
SELECT KNIGHTS QUIT
FraternaI Insurance Company Merged
With Hiawatha Company.

state superintendent of Insurance
Ike Lewis has placed his O. X. on the
transfer of policies and premiums of
the mem bers of the Select Knights and
Ladies' association of Kansas City,
Kan, to the Life and Annuity associ-
alton of Hiawatha. The latter is a. mu-
tual insurance company. 1t contracts
to assume all the risks and obligations
of the defunct Select Knights and
Ladies association and gives the 1,147
members of that body the privilege to
either hold their old policies or trade
them for Life and Annuity policies
The Annuity company is a strong mu-
tual, having over 1000 policy holders,
and superintendent Lewis is well
pleased with its acquisition of the
members of the defunct Kansas City
company.
superintendent Lewis has his trou-
bles. The other day he received let
ter from the secretary of the Ameri-
Indiana polls in which he was called
"bald headed, toothless Populist." and
all because he had made that company
nav righteous claim of two or three
a Kansas policy holder. The secretary
of the insurance company, according
to Superintendent Lewis tried in every
way to avoid payment of a legitimate
loss. Lewis insisted, and finally the
secretary came across with the check
and a lost insulting letter as noted
above. Besides referring to Lewis as a
"Pop" and criticising his lack of hair
and teeth, the secretary intimated that
Ike would make a good moving pic
ture show attraction.
This insurance company secretary
has poor judgment. Lewis has plenty
of hair and he will likely demonstrate
that he has good teeth. also. Instead
of being a Pop, Lewis is inclined to be
a conservative Republican. All he de-
handed was the payment of a just
claim. 1t is likely that the American
Livestock INSURANCE. company of In
dianapolis will have to get a new Sec
rotary If it wants to do any more bust
ness in Kansas.
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MAY GO TO PRISON
Bee Adams, First Jointist, Convicted
on Felony Charoc.

BY the convtion of Bee Adams M.
torious jointkeeper. by jury tbt-
afternoon the way is paved for A.
cision Of the supreme court in repsr6
to the validity of the law making tb-
second offense against the prohibitor,,
law a felony
The case Will be appealed at once. Ado.
mas prouted by his illegal bueine~r ,...5
VIII 1ight the case long al noe.f,,iu
The sentence which could be ri,,cr, ~. ''e.
IS one year In the penitentiary. The VEL, Yen
oict OF the jury was guilty on one count
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
How cruel the courts- can .be occ

How cruel the courts can be occa-
sionally. Until few days ago those
IN New York have held the income of
flve-year-old J. Arthur Hinckley to the
terms of his fathers viii which al
lowed the young man only $4,000 a.
year. But this terrible injustice has
finally. been righted. From now on he
will have an income of $4,000 a year
That's hardly enough. though. How
can he play marbles for keeps on any
such meager income?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Those Democrats who are figuring
on forcing Mayor Billiard out of their
gubernatorial contest won't have much
luck unless they call to their assist
ance the men who have been successful
in moving mountains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Topeka is not the only place where
ALI kinds of workmen and laborers
have been forced out of employment
on account of the severe weather
Similar conditions prevail in most of
the central and northern cities of the
country. In Chicago. alone. more than
10000 skilled workmen. who usually
have employment the year round. are
idle for this reason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Senator LaFollette must be laboring
under the delusion that Senator Bris-
tow is the mouthpiece of the whole
people of Kansas. The little giant of
Wisconsin is quoted as saying that he
is anxious to get his campaign under
way in Kansas. as he regards this state
as highly favorable to his candidacy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

If the local baseball advance no
tees turn out to be all wool and a yard
wide, an unusual sight will be seen
at the Topeka ball park when the
Kaws get in action. It Will be nothing
else than fast and sure shortstop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Cold and hunger are killing more
of the unfortunates in China than all
the battles incident to the revolution.
And these conditions. ever present in
China, are likely to be Just as direful
under the new republic as they always
have been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
CALLS 1T AN INSULT
Hitchcock Resents Report of His Dis
loyalty to Taft.

Washington, Jan. 23.-"It is an insult
for any one to think that have been dis
loyal to the president" said the post
master general at the conclusion of to-
days cabinet meeting.
Il cannot conceive how any friend Of
mine could believe such a report 1 have
never had misunderstanding with the
president and do not know where the re-
port came FROM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Presumably, the Ohio constitutional
convention, now in session. will turn
out to be a dismal failure. Because
the voters in his district thought other
wise. the convention has to deliberate
without the advice and consent of
Jimmy Garfield
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Against the accuracy of the conten-
tion that words are always cheap, can
be set the price that the government
and the other parties interested in the
suit against the packers win have to
pay to the stenographers for tran
scripts of the testimony in the case 1t
is confidently expected that the rec
ord will contain billion words.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Calling Foster Dwight Coburn kan
sas' Grand Old Man" is scarcely APP
propriate. Secretary Coburn is one Of
the young fellows of this great com
monMealth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
Mr.. WARD FAILED
Could Not Induce London to Give Up
100000 for Y. NJ. c. A.

London, jan ga grand aggregate
of S3s3, 1855 had been collected BY C;has.
s. Ward. of New York. and his assist
ants for the Young Mems Christian AZ !
sociation when the subsC rfption list Off
daily closed this evening The total
Of 100000 which was expected to be
gathered during the u days campaign
was thus not reached. but further
sums arc expected to dribble in I'D to
midnight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

The University of Kansas is keeping
we'll to the front in the higher edu-
cational procession. A course i'll aero
nautics has been established there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

If Jim Corbett and Jim Flynn don't
watch out. Tommy Ryan viii press
them hard for the heavyweight talk
ing championship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23

Attorney General Dawson reports
that he is having trouble to find a
Justice of the peace hereabouts who is
mot unfriendly'' to the prohibitory
Law. And the justices of the peace for
Topeka are appointed by the governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Things are moving along In the
wrestling arena as usual. DR.. Roller
was defeated again recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
CHATTER LXxXI.

/ (Watchman, What of LaFollette?)
The Literary Digest of New York is a
we'll known and careful compiler OF
public opinion. In fact it is a periodi-
cal which sometime ago absorbed an
other periodical OF the latter name.
4 Scores Of newspapers are quoted every
week to give the trend or opinion and
sentiment on politics and current af-
fairs. The Issue for January IS gives
an extended compilation of the presi-
dental situation, quoting various pa
pers. In the Literary Digest the Topeka
Capital is credited with being one of
the strong LaFollette papers of the
country. that If the people IN Kan
sas do not know just where the Capital
/ stands presidenualy it is set down by
those who appear to be in a position to
know. as for LaFolIette.
Upon this subject the Digest says:
Coming now to the LaFolIette can
didacy, We find that what it lacks in
numbers it makes up in enthusiasm
among the editors. His indOrSem ent
by the Minnesota Progressive league
meets the hearty approval of the Des
MoineS Register and Leader (RepO !;
and the Lewiston (Me.) Journal
(Rep). calls upon him to come to New
England and promote political ozone
No mans power and influence are
growing so rapidly AYERS the Topeka
Capital, Dec. 81, (Rep.), and if Presi-
dent Taft has a com etitor to fear he
is warned by the Minneapolis Journal
(Rep-) that it is LaFollette. ="
It will thus be noted that it was on
the last day of last month that our
morning contemporary says: NO mans
power and influence are growing so rap
idly
1t is difficult to understand just
where our neighbors got its basis fcr
this sort of a statement, for while
nearly everybody conceces that LaFol
iette stand no real show in Kansas
whatever, and yet, LaFoHette is the
leading ''Insurgent'' of the country.
This would indicate. if it indicates any
thing, that the Insurgents have lost
their grip in Kansas, and this IS ar
parently the true situation. They have
lost 1t, if indications ard actions mean
anything.
There was an object lesson of this
in the Second district and in the Sew
enth district.
Polls that are being taken over the
state show LaFonette only among the
scattering and Taft and Roosevelt n
the lead The sentiment of this state
among the level headed business men,
and careful. conscientious, fair-minded
people generally. who hive no axes to
grind aid who are not politicians is
undoubtedly most favorable to Presi-
dent Taft and his denomination