The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-01-23

the 8l0U00 OF MI oSOu1UCu. ~ u -
yond q bartonderss economic receipts
for doctor1ng; Il - too amiAble to en-.
terrain strychnine. logwood. arsenic,
cochineal or asafetida.
"a llockery Of TIE Grape.
The grape In bloom, reaching tn
embracing tendfils to everything So
licitous for q friendly touch, with its
conyoluted ana Gnsrly vine: ,. ns az tt-
clusters .as Il rambles all over the
shady trel1is. giving shade to the child
at play and flecking the sunlight on
the gray-haired ana sleeping old man
Of = slumberous afternoon 70 2 thing
OF beauty. but beauty buffers NO pars-
pips in that organization.
"Nlissef'' Senator BtlstoW.
There Ii one man In Kansas VINO
does not use grape Juice: It IL bots
too immoral and too strong for hi0
constitution, II he has one. He at
freQuenter Of no banqueting hall. He
herds by himself; his solitude IL In
the companionship of men. He has
been battening on the moor that lies
hard by the deserted plain of Es-
tie Of grape Juice If he tried: a cork
screw will not be found by his admin
istrator as part OF his possessions.
Every time appetite approaches he
SHES. mind me OF time when he
wine and champagne Of Theodore,
but by his own apostacy this is denied
him now. He IN no longer part of
the scenario in any Of the spectacu-
lars Of the Progressiye party: A man
ton in the far distance viii discover
that he IL now making for the settle
ments. He il coming back from the
husks and hog lot, to his old home.
but he will find that the grand old
does, it will be with the chilliness ana
frigidity that q newly rich welcomes
a poor relative.
VIII Find NO FAt&ed Calf.
The man Of the house Il dead. and
it is run by the widow. The estate is
In the throes OF administration and
he will find the fatted calf In the pas
ture lot tangling its long legs in a
gallop to get away from his-prox-
imity-you might call it. He will find
no veal, nor chicken, nor eggs, nor
other high cost Of living on the table
and he will have to ask some one at
the repast to move a little SO he can
sit his chair in. We can remember
when as an expatriate from the @. o.
p. he refugeed to = the Progressives.
hypnotized by the man with the big
stick, and with what anathema he
characterized the old party. He was
as vehement about it as the wife was
who took the witness stand in her ALI
mony suit and told to the dulled ears
Of the court, the awful woes she had
suffered at the hands Of her iege. He
was an old editor and knew all the
rasping and malignant adj
iectives singly and in combination, and
he showered them on his old assoct-
ates. The calf in the pasture lot is
safe. His vows to the new party
piously expressed them as the cele-
brant does when she takes the veil
and her eyes are forever hidden from
the world. The Progressives slept
three in bed with him. and were not
thick at that: and mercy knows that
his cadaverous and ossified frame
work could not be considered in camp.
court or grove. at any time. as an
unctious bedfellow: his very spoon
and turn over under the quilts OF q
ating warmth, no wave OF caloris, no
heat, nor rise Of thermometer. 1t has
been said Of him that he Is the book
worm to be found between the pages
of any staxistics,s that the multfp1ica-
ton table is his god. and his Bible Is
his hostility to democracy as he views
1t. He took a long time to select his
banner. Under which king Benzon-
ian'' was asked him repeatedly and
when he did make reply 1t was what
lawyers assert Is confession and avoid
ance.
Toying With Their Follies.
1t has been my purpose to speak Of
these two men, toying with their fol-
lies but keeping my hands OF their
stand on public Questions. for that
with them should be q matter OF con-
science, If they have one.
Now Before the People.
The two men are valorous champions.
opposed to each other in the ring In
the spot light and have been greatly
gifted by nature in the wise distrtbu-
ton of gifts, especially huge and
OVERLOOKING reservoir Of humor OF the
one, and the wonderful magazine or
warehouse of misinformation on finance
Of the other. which it II useful and
beneficial fof the American people not
to know. They are now before the peo-
pie Of Kansas and have been and Will
be, unless some of you. of this splendid
body OF young men shall shove them on
the board, and it is your duty to do it
IL you can; they are not vamped on the
same kind of last: they have but few
things in common; even upon salary
they disagree. My solicitude for the
great secretary who walls over the
twelve thousand year, although re-
infOrced by his Prince of Peace as q BIZ
product or side line, has made the
speaker more obdurate and exactinE in
his own household economics out of
pure sympathy for him. But IL you
look at the other distinguished men.
you will see how earnestly he impor-
tuned a friend to obtain for him a
sinecure at the stupendous sum of sew
en- thousand five hundred dollars q
year, and to shake the tree for him
SO 1t would drop in his basket. The
grand old party is, as some school boy
has said, "acephalous. without a head"
and there Is no one on whom its royal
mantle hangs and my words are about
the living
smile at the effort Of the many to
get money. It il q fad Of mine to hate
money. and there Is one splendid thing
to be said of Heaven to which we all
are going, as I hope. There are no
minis there: no banks: no currency, no