Barton County democrat., 1914-03-20

been made clear that there Is MOI
going to be any great amount d
harmony AND. that the -eroeressiFes
are going to put out full state tick
ct. Nevertheless the stand pattera
are beginning to- show signs Of alRrm.
They are not now and never were
for Arthur Cappr, but they thought
lit would be. a good thing to get him
back into the party and so take the
influence Of his publications away
from the Progressives. It now seems
probable that when Arthur boards
the good ship &c. o. P.,'s he will
bring with him the old crew with
which he sailed to defeat in 1912, and
rumor has It that Dolley viii resume
his place at the head of the Repubi-
can State Central Committee and that
the returnEng pSodigas will be in a
position to. grab all the pie, II any
thing Of that sort is sighted. And the
stand patters are beginning to look
askance at Cappef, Dolley and their
kind. 90 o9
One Of them said the ether day
that Capper. and DOlIey reminded him
of Bryan s story about the South
lern negro who was out in the field
hoeing cotton on an unusually warm
SUNNI = day. The sum was beating
down upon him and the perspiratiOn
was. rolling from him in streams
Finally h. paused, put a hand on
his poor old lanne back and straight
ening up he gszed skyward and thus
addressed the orb of day: "oh, you
ole sun! Wha' was you last Deem.
Der when we needed you?'
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There is rumor current that prs
sure is being brought upon, Ex-Gov
Stubbs to get him to declare for Cap
per for Governor. This rumor proba.
6ly has dts origin in the old story %
the personal differences which eNst
between Stlbbs and Henry Allen
There Is no doubt however that Dol
ley and Jackson have been camping
in Strbbs' front yard urging him tc
come across Co
What the Ex-Governor will do is MOI
known, as he refuses to give out amy
information on the subject for publi
cation. 1t does not make very much
difference, however, for Stubbs' re
turn 10 the Capper fold will not bring
back any appreciable number of Pro
gressiVes, and it would surely alien
ate from Mr.. Camper the men who
fought him in 1912.
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Mr.. Alien last week set Mr.. Cappel
a very good lesson in journalism. Mr.
Allen Is editor and owner of the
Wichita Beacon, one Of the biggest
dailies in Kansas, almost, if not quite
as lage as the Topeka Capital. In al
EfditoiaL Mr.. Allen declared that his
paper would not be used to boost his
own candidacy, or to Rud his owl
achievements with a view to gettine
votes; that the people paid for &
newspaper and Were entitled toohavt
a newspaper. 90 %
Contrast this if you will, with Mr.
CappT s paper filled every day Will
fake letters telling what a fine MAJ
Mr.. Capper is and how we'll every
body likes him and what great worl
ne Is doing for the state, without tax
ing notice Of the fact that for year,
lhe has carried advertising that woull
get any obscure newspaper man a bi,
fine and a Jail sentence. Only las
year he carried advertisements for
tbig lottery scheme in the guiSe Of /;
guessing contest which is said t,
have taken as much as $3.50, 1000 ou
of Kansas and which was undOubted
ly violation Of the Kansas antiSot
ftey law.
The Honorable Robert Stone ha
broken loose again with anothe
bunch of miSinformation for the pee
iple. Mr.. Stones reply to Mr.. Har
Irfngton's Figures ON the comparativ
number Of employees under the Hodge
administration is a fine. specimen O
political pettyfoggery.
/ The object of Mr.. stones speec,
at the Kansas Day Club Banquet wa
to make the people believe tha
there were almost seven hundre
ImOre state employees under the Hoo
lges administration than Under tn
Stnhhs administration. OF conrss