The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-05
How We Can Win a Sweeping Victory.

How We Can Win Sweeping Victory.
The Sixth Congressional District is
coming back to the Republican party.
Kansas right now would give the grand
old party $4,000 majority; it Will DO
better than that next November. The
twenty-five counties that compose the
Sixth district will 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-
lican men and women of the Sixth, let
US set that figure as our standard and
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 majority
for Republican congressman. If we
do this we will elect our four Repubh-
can state senators and twenty-five re-
publican Representatives and ill 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 worthy of
our support. Such men are being
sought by the voters. These men and
women living on the farms and in the
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 mis-
take. 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.
1 The Sixth district has had enough of
the county seat type of politician as its
representative in congress. Unmistak-
ably, the voters want 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 man, for Otis L.
t Benton, of Oberlin, fully fills this re-
ouirement Mr.. Benton IS more than g
successful business man, he is practi-
: cal farmer and stock raiser. Farming
e and stock raising are the chief inter
t ests of the Sixth district, and this great
a producing class of our citizens have de
t termined to be represented in congress
bv man who knows their needs il
legislation and who has the ability Il
t secure the passage of laws that vii
!: stop the discrimination In the prices o
the products they grow upon thei
! farms and ranches.
o Otis L. Benton made record few
T years ago in Washington. He wa
q called there to delye into Indian fund
e deposited in banks throughout tn
= country on which not dollar OF inter
.e est was being paid. Mr.. Benton fOun
% a million dollars of such funds which
through an order made many years be
fore, did not yield the government
d cent. In few months a stream of IN
e terest was flowing into the treasur
; amounting to 81, 500 a month, or $50
n 900 a year, 500 day for every work
ing day in the year. And that 500
day is still coming to the national treas
e ury, due to the practical knowledge c
public affairs, business experience an
ability of Otis L. Benton.
OF The people of the Sixth district stan
p for the man who knows how to
r. things and who goes ahead and doe
them. What ne did for the gener;
government IN a few months IN Wasl
~ inzton is a sample of the service he vi
40 render to the people Of the Sixth dii
id triet as its congressman. Party in'
y viii net be closely drawn when Il
q voters come to q choice next Novemb'
hstwssn Otis L. Benton and the pre-
est member, for thousands Of Dem
atsEstze Ysters are just - much int