Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-02-20

From the Marion Record

Marion County folks-among whom
Col. Bill Payton labored joyfully for
quite spell, and who remember with
fondness s-will be interested in the
following communication which he
sent to the Chanute Tribune. The
introductiye remarks are by Col.
Herb Cavaness, the editor of the
Tribune.
Col Bill Payt0n, the rip-Snorting,
ranktankerous. handsome young Bull
Moose of Colony, the never-say-retreat
drummer boy in General Bill Whites
brigade at Armagedden, is going to
start the New Year off at the old
Republican homestead. Worn out
fighting windmills, lonely and home
sick far out in the stony wilderness
where the hell-raisers whang doodle,
Bill bethought himself of the happy
days down on the farm, of the rose
bush trellis on the front porch, of
good old Shep, of the girls and moth
err. and of all the rest, and he said TO
himself down deep in the recesses of
his soul, William Allen and Henry
and Vic can keep rampaging out
here in the cactus and sage brush
getting nowhere, if they want, but,
as for me, I'm going home, and home
and home he is. But let him tell the
story. Here it is in regulation New
Year resolution form, just as the
Tribune received it this morning,
with permission to print which it
does gladly, for Bill is royal good
fellow. He says:
| To
Whereas, Our vision was restricted
to state organization in politics, and
something like six years agone under
the leadership of Stubbs the Repub-
lican party of Kansas was annihilated
and there being no state organiza
tion, we quit.
Whereas. the Bull Moose party
sprang into existence and afforded an
excellent chance for hell raising. we
Joined it whole heartedly and with
all the vigor of our young manhood.
| Whereas, The last sad rites have
| been performed for this excellent ami
NAL, whose memory we still fendly
cherish. $ sEs.s-'sl
Wfereass We the people, are suff
| fering from the failure of the present
tariff; the deficiencies of the present
income tax commendable though. its
purpose may be; the failure of firm
and fatherly policy toward our neigh
Dor, Mexico. policy that permits the
waste of life and destruction of prop
erty: the failure of an attitude by our
government that will not permit our
| transacting business with neutral ma
rio of hn ho ahc ,+a fai
ure of our present officials to provide
adequate defence for our country.
Be 1t Resolved, That as one man
ia our glorious land, who not only
loves the flag freedom. but who has
followed her through the mosquito
infested swampS of the land of the
Igorrote, who wants to see products
of the people of the United States
market with the freedom that is a
nation with pride and dignity, who
wants to see order restored in Mex
leo for the protection of the lives and
property of our brothers there. who
wants to see adequate protection for
our trade and people by proper tariffs
and by plentiful armament. who
believes that the doctrine of State IS
Rights is wrong for political parties
as well as in matters of police powers
and the regulation of interstate busi-
.. ness, / say, believing as We do, there
is now but one thing left for us to do
and that is to join hands with the
properly chastised Republican party
and seek to solve our present
Z tsorry mess of trouble by eliminating
the present Democratic administra-
tion and on this gladsome New Years
day, this Friday that ends all of our
bad luck politically, we come humbly
and contritely to the synagogue of
stalwart Republicanism and ask TO
be permitted to partake of the sacra-
ment and to have seat alongside
Homer Hoch, Chester Sheldon and
Herbert Cavaness, this committee of
three to see that we wonder astray
never again
The only reservation we can make
is the privilege of taking a day of
once in year to scatter flowers ever
the new made grave ia the political
cemetery where iieth our beloved
little Bull Moose.
Witness my hand, at Colony, kans
this first day of January. 1915
w. E PAYroN
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