The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
CAPITAL CITY NOTES
(By Gas 81. Trappl

Topeka, Kansas, Sept 2.-When
the party councils adjourned this i
week the Inc of battle for the big
prize CT = senatoTship and possibly i
for control of the United States /
senate fer years to come was formed. /
The democrats are going to make the /
fight or loyalty to the president. To /
back I'D the administration is an ever
increasing battalion OF officeholders- ]
Within 2 month there have been add
ed several men who viii travel over
the state as employees of the federal |
labor bureau. This bureau is under
the leadership of an adriot politician
who knows how things are done. A
large number Of men are now IN gov
eminent service in the postofice ana
department OF justice and these are
expected to do their utmost to uphold
the administration
The republicans will have a new
issue that will appeal to Kansans-
that the president is squandering the
food of the country thru the brewers
les and distil1eries. To the admins
tration viii be charged the millions
of bushels of grain, millions Of tons
of coal and millions of tons Of sugar
that will be used IN the ten months
up to June, 1919, in the making of
Booze. For 1t was the president who
prevented the immediate enforce
ment of national prohibition. Again,
the = republicans have a state ticket
that bristles with loyalty, every one
on the ticlzet being connected in a
positive way with the war. That the
Republicans are going to take no
chances of losing IS evidenced by the
fact that the biggest guns of the
party II the nation are to be trained
on the enemy
As the allied armies press the Hun
backward and eastward respect for
the nations flag is increasing both at
home and abroad and it is of interest
to know that there is a penalty of
hundred dollars if you use the flag as
an advertisement or in an advertise
nent. There Is no such penalty for
5he use of the state flag, tho many of
the states are just as strict with their
own emblem as with that of the ma
ion.
Not only are the newspapers back
'ng up the government in the vari-
Gus war campaigns but they are now
contributing regularly in a new way.
/ The raise in the second class postal
rates have resulted in a substantial
/ increase in the revenues and at the
same time 1t has taken a lot of the
! ease away from the postmasters.
/ These officials are now required to
register the enemy aliens and report
them to the Topeka postofice, which
n turn reports to Washington The
/ newspaper postage raise and the
/ enemy alien activities have been ad-
! led to the duties in the face of the
! shortage of labor, and men who hold
! government jobs are beginning to
wear what would be calouses if such
work hardened the cuticle.
Mr.. Donnelley, who is the guiding
spirit of the newspaper conservation,
is a printer at Chicago. Marco Nor
row, of Topeka, big advertising
man, went to Chicago last week and
had 2 session with the chief and it
was explained that there had to be
over two hundred special adjustments
made so that business in paper lines
could go at all. For instance, the
seed envelope business had to have
! = special ruling because the machines
that fill these packets would not work
on the light basis made.
Men who figure have evolved some
curious facts from the late primary
Approximately 100000 more votes
were cast for senator than for any
other Office. Roughly ten thousand
less votes were cast for the candi-
dates as they went down the ticket.
Capper received LIS votes to his
opponents l Allen 1.39, Knapp 1.36
| and State Printer Smith received the
high vote. PTS to his opponents 1.