The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-15
HOW WE CAN WIN 4 SWEEPING
VICTORY


With 10000 Republican Hajority-l
The Voters Are Turning to Business
Hen to Represent Them in Congress /
ard in Legislature.
The Sixth Congressional District is
coming back to the Republican party /
Kansas right now would give the grand
old party $4,000 majority; it viii do bet
ter than that next November. The
twenty-five counties that compose the
Sixth district viii do their share IN
swelling the grand total.
Ten thousand Republican majority
for the Sixth district should be the slo-
gan of next years campaign. Repub-
Ican men and women in the Sixth, let
us set that figure as our standard rnd
go and get the votes. Let US give ten
thousand Republican majority for
Republican president, and 10, 900 major
ity for Governor Capper and the state
ticket, and let US pile up 10000 major
ity for Republican congressman. If
we do this we viii elect our four Re
publican state senators and twenty-five
republican representatives and fill the
twenty-five court houses with Republi-
can officials. Let the Sixth district set
an example to the state and the nation
for sweeping Republican victory.
To insure that victory we must pre-
sent to the voters candidates whose lives
of usefulness in community and state
building stand out as worthyIof our sup
port. Such men are being sought by
the voters. Thess men and women hv-
ing on farms and in homes of the Sixth
district in their judgement of men,
what they stand for and what they
have accomplished in their business
life, will make no mistake. 1t is to
their credit that they are turning to
business men to represent them in the
state legislature and in the congress of
the United States.
The Sixth district has had enough of
the county seat type of politician as its
representative in congress. Unmistak-
ably, the voters want a business man
to succeed the present Democratic mis-
fit in congress. And there is no ques-
ton about their determination to nomi-
nate and elect such a man, for Otis L.
Benton, of Oberlin, fully fills this re-
quirement. Mr.. Benton is more than
a successful business man, he IS a prac-
/ teal farmer and stock raiser Farming
/ and stock raising are the chief inter
! ests of the Sixth district, and this great
producing class of our citizens have de-
termined to be represented in congress
by a man who knows their needs in
legislation and who has the ability to
secure the passage of laws that will
stop the discrimination in the prices of
the products they grow upon their
farms and ranches.
Otis L. Benton made a record few
years ago in Washington. He was
called there to delve into Indian funds
deposited in banks throughout the
country on which not dollar of inter
est was being paid. Mr.. Benton found
a million dollars of such funds, which
through an order made many years be-
fore did not yield the government {
cent. Ina few months a stream of in
terest vas flowing INTO the treasury
amounting to 81, 500 month, or $50, 00(
a year,-s1OO day for every working
day in the year. And that 800 a day
is still coming to the national treas
ury, due to the practical knowledge o.
public affairs, besides experience anC
ability of Otis L. Benton.
The people of the Sixth district stanC
for the man who knows how to d.
things and who goes ahead and doe
them. What he did for the genera
government in few months in Wash
ington is a sample of the service. he vii
render to the people .of the Sixth dis
trict as its congressman. Party lines
viii not be closely drawn when the vot
ers come to a choice next November
between Otis L. Benton and the pres
ent member, for thousands of Demo
cratic voters are just as much interest
ed in faithful and efficient service il
congress as are Republicans. That
why the Republicans set the mark a
10000 for Mr.. Benton.-Lincoln Re
publican.