The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-10
IAN Graybin to Warrington on
Mission All HIS Own.
But 1t Doesn't Concern Hog
Cholera in Kansas.
/ MASTERPIECE ON BRIST0W
Prize Eulogy by E. E. Kelley Of
Toronto Republican.
~He Has the Personal Magnet
ism of q Cold Sad.IrOn."

1Or q week AT least Aou0a0 Iorm-
ers must look after their own hog
cholera cases and fight the glanders
and hookworm as best they can. Live
Stock Sanitary Commissioner Sam
Graybill has gone to Washington to
zee Congressman George A. Neeley and
things far more important than pink
eye and cerebro spinal meningitis in
considered.
1t was sometime last night. possibly
Friday afternoon. that Graybill left
Topeka. In his handbag, Graybill car
rted the facts and figures concerning
He confided to a few of his most in
innate state house friends that he was
going to Washington to help straight
en- out the postoffice troubles of a few
Of the boys in his district. But when
0raybill arrives in Washington, one
Be the Hutchinson postOffice row.
After Postoffice Job.
Graybill ts q candidate for the post
office. so, also, il Coon" Beck, Reno
county sheriff. A half dozen others
are in the bread line and would well
come the appointment. But Graybill
believes that he himself should have
the Job and he has gone to Washing
ton to tell Neeley about 1t. Politicians
admit there In logic to Graybills ar
gument. 1t was Graybill who was
chairman Of the Seventh district
Democratic committee which put
Neelsy across in the special election in
1911 to succeed the late Ed Madison.
It was Graybill, more perhaps than
any one other individual. who held
the district in line in 1912. And now
0Taybill has come to claim his reward.
He wants the Hutchinson postoffice.
That there Is uncertainty as to the
appointment Ia evident, in the minds
Of the politicians. since Graybill is
making q personal visit to the nation
al capital to urge his claims.
But the Hutchinson case il NOT the
only source Of trouble to the Seventh
district congressman. He has dozen
postofI3ce fights in his district which
are demanding attention and an cleo
ton is to be held in Kansas this fall.
So Neeley is wavering and each, ap-
pointment has apparently brought
him new grief and sorrow. 0raybin,
however, is still most friendly to the
Stubs brother-in-law and. ts anxious
to stay up nights helping Neeley re-
turn to the good graces OF the Sew
enth district voters.
And ON the other hand, ,Graybiu
wants the Hutchinson poston1ce.
After his appointment, Governor
Hodges can appoint any one he
chooses to look after hoof disease.
protect quarantine laws and look for
ticks in the Kansas sheep herd.
: As Kelley Sees Bristow.
Many things have been said by the
Kansas press about the return of
Senator Bristow, to the Republican
fold, but E. e. Keiley's Toronto Re-
publican prints the prize eulogy of
the Salina statesman in a review of
the probable Bristow-Curtis candi-
dacies. Concerning Bristow Kelley
said:
"On the one hand is Bristow. Bris-
tow with his reincarnation Of Repub-
1icanism and other admitted qualifica-
tions. He has the personal magnetism
Of q cold sad-iron. and his smile thrills
with the gentle warmth OF a moon
beam coyly kissing an icicle pendant
from the northeast caves on winters
night. He has all the thrilling elO-
quence OF an adding machine footing
the totals Of a folio page. His quality
OF humor is SO finely developed that his
jests tickle the fancy even as the wild.
exuberant titillations which cOnvulse
the high school boy reciting the theo-
contents of q triangular pyranpid; and
when Joe Bristow merrf1y laughs it
gives the delicious thrill Of icewater
trickling down the spinal column of the
innocent bystander while in the back
ground a phonograph grinds out the
Ride of the Vallxyries. 1t 10 Draw
fine humor. The letter Chester I. Long
carries and ever and anon recites aloud
to refresh his memory and the later
letter to Mr.W. A. White are merely in
stances of Mr.. Bristow's humor. Mr..
Long and Mr.. White simply are not
keen enough to catch the humor. And
while Mr.. Bristow was beating a tom
toni and urging his friends into the in
surgent breach, 1t turns out he. was
just Albumin. He fooled 'em. 1t was
q joke ON 'em. A great joke. He was
. Republican all the while"