Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-11-25

probably does not want to get Che
country into q war with European
powers Now let the opposition
admit the we'll known fact that his
course has been such as TO encourage
imposition and make war more pro-
bable.
Conversation between two voters
dis cussing local candidates, overheard
on election day:
'.Who are you going to vote for9''
81 intend to vote for blank y
why, blank is so crooked he has
TO sleep standing up
A democratic member of the Ar
kansaw supreme court has resigned
to accept an election to the United
States Senate. Seems to me that
Hughes got a skfnning for a similar
act.
But of course the election is over
and speaking OF the OK that is gored,
a great deal depends on the owner
ship of the animal
The old notion of states rights bobs
up every now and then to plague US.
Our electoral college method of elect
ing presidents is a bunglesome affair
which had its origin in jealousy be-
tween the original thirteen states.
Hughes and prohibition carried
Michigan. Wilson and the open SAL
Don carried Missouri. Be your own
brakeman.
Michigan had two temperance prop
ositions up for decision. One was
local option and the other prohibit
tion, and the people decided in favor
of prohibition. However, prohibi-
tion by states is only local option on
large scale With open saloons in
nearby states and across the line in
Canada, Michigan will have hard
time enforcing prohibition. Prohfbi-
tion In. Missouri would be good
thing for Kansas.
And therein lies one reason why u
am q Republican. Such matters as
suffrage, prohibition, marriage and
divorce laws can be managed best
and made most effective IL placed in
the hands of the general government.
Kansas is not the only state which
gives its Probate Judges long terms
OF service. In Michigan many OF
them have served from IL to 16 years;
at least two have served % years, and
in Wayne county (Detroit) Hon. E.
Durfee is now serving his 10th con-
secutive year as Judge of the Probate
Court.
| Every few days you hear new ex-
about the recent election said,
sHughes is too fast, Wilson Is too
| slow. and Teddy has too much Npow-
der in the head"
| Returning public thanks for an
Overwhelming majority is good deal
like rubbing it in on the other fel-
low.
| Returning thanks for a vigorous
defeat would Indicate that there is
lsuch a thing as a ''good loser"
Probably the only effective thanks
NdludOlC S1OW Va kAeNAodoC 10 Q
faithful performance of ones duty tc
the best of his knowledge and ability
The political whirligig turns every
which away. The co-workers of ons
icampaign are vigorous opponents ir
1.-THE next. A candidate receives sup
lport from quarters where it is leas
iexpected and fails where it Is mos
depended upon, and very often sup
port or noH-support turns upon somi
Itrifiing incident which the candidat.
thas forgotten or possibly has neve
theard OF. -
/ Voters are sometimes governed b.
Isentiment, sometimes by fear, an,
sometimes by spite, envy or ven
lgeance. Perhaps a bare majority ar
governed by Judgment and very Otter
that judgment is based on faulty o
insufficient information. We all ar
human.
Poverty and politics make strang'
bedfellows, Worse get, the making
and remaking of the beds kicks "
an aggravating dust.
In politics a man viii do more t,
nnnish a suuposed enemy than h,