Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-09-05

columns from the state fire marshal,
sixteen columns from the state grain
department, twenty columns from
the state employment bureau, forty
four columns from the state bank
gard TO the work of his administers
tioD.
ssEyery newspaper man in Kansas
knows that Governor Hodges has the
best organized and most effective
publicity bureau ever maintained by
a Kansas executive. He early APP
pointed twenty-five competent news
paper men to various state positions
and they have been watchful of his
political interests almost from the
beginning of his administration He
has had from the beginning of his
term, and still has, the kindly sup
port of not only the leading evening
paper of Kansas, located at the state
capital, but fourteen other daily
newspapers covering every congress
sional district of the state. He has
had the friendship of the Kansas
City Star, issued every morning and
afternoon. He has had the assistance
of Judge Seaton's famous press bu-
reau, maintained in the governors
office at state expense. This bureau
has been able TO obtain at least
a column of space every week
for the last year in nearly one hum
'dred daily and weekly newspapers in
Kansas, telling not only of the great
achievements of the Hodges admins
tration, but at the same time lam
basting the candidate who opposed
the governor at the November cleo
tion of 1912.
''In addition to all this newspaper
publicity, the governor in the brief
time he has been in Office has visited
almost every county in Kansas, has
made nearly 100 political speeches in
which he attacked his political oppo-
nent. his critics, and spoke eloquent
ly of all the good things possibly or
impossibly attributed to his own ad
ministration.
1.-The governor says in his letter,
also repeats in his political speeches.
that the Capper publications have
Systematically misrepresented him
At the head of The Capitals editor
ial column there has appeared every
day since the governor has been in
office this announcement: When
the attention of The Capital is called
to any mis-statement of facts in its
columns, OF to any error concerning
any man or thing, correction will
cheerfully be made.
Neither the governor nor anyone
connected with his Office at any time
during his administration has called
the attention of The Capital to a
single mis-statement of fact.
THE Capital has had less to say
editorially in criticism of the COVER
nor than any other Republican OIL
Progressive newspaper in Kansas
What little it has said, has been sup
ported by the official records at the
state house, and has not yet been dis
proved by the governor nor anyone
else.
'These columns have never beer
closed to the governor. They never
will be closed to the governor He i:
welcome now and at any time durins
the coming campaign, to any reason
able amount of space he may desire
in which to conduct a debate Will
the taxpayers of Kansas in explana
.tion of the figures on their 1913 anC
1914 tax receipts, in which he can pre-
sent TO any of the people of Kansa!
any official figures or other authentic
facts he thinks the public SHOULD
have. They are the ones who are cal
ling him.
LAS publisher of The Capital,
heartily welcome the publicity of al
facts which have any bearing on thi
campaign. We cannot have too mucl
light of these matters of real impor
tance to the public. Any service m,
newspapers can render the governo
or the public in fully informing
the voters on all sides, Of the issue
before them, will be given freely anc
gladly, truthfully and accurately.
sMudslinging is not argument
There is no need of misrepTesenta
tfon on the part of anyone in thi
campaign.
$50 far as / am concerned / shall
continue to confine nv efforts in tn
contest to fair as we'll as truthful
presentation of facts strictly peril
nent to the actual public issues IN
yolved in it. The man who canno
be elected on his own merits and tn
, strength of the cause or the mearure