The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-13
STICKY OF ARTHUR HEROES OF Marine
His PanerS Inst Goo With After Battle OFF Duty
Praises Saws Kansas Editor Complained o Silence
Soaked in Sweetness of His Men IeH Endless stories
Canddacv for Senate. Heroism Their Leader.
THEN THERE IS Mr.. BRSTOW HOWIED OVER MONKEY MEAT
His Pen With Charley Scotts Created Uproar
Opened Vein of Trouble. Canned Shredded Beef Came
Poor RuyT Without
His Advertising Expected Fresh Beef.
Then THERE is Mr.. BRISTOW
His Pen, With Charley ScOtt's,
Opened Vein of Trouble.
But Poor RoscOe-He Must Buy
His Advertising.


Walter Roscoe Stubs has COM
planned bitterly that his great handI-
cap in the United States senatorial
race has been the lack of publicity.
He recited rather feelingly that his
newspaper opponents-Capper. Scott
and Bristow-controlled the avenues
of information. But Z. G. Sutton,
publisher of the Moline Advance, be-
lieves Stubs should get down on his
marrow bones and thank a kindly
Providence that he owns no news
papers.
In lengthy editorial Sutton points
to the tribulations which have come
to roost in the Capper. Scott and
the things they wrote for their pa
pers. or the things oyerzealous sup
porters said in an effort to win the
candidates public favor.
A Publicity Review.
The Sutton editorial is a clever re-
view of publicity, sorrow and sadness
1t is in pat as follows:
Ex-Governor Stubs campaign COM
mittee is buying space in the news
papers OF the state in which to set
his candidacy before the people They
depIore the fact that their candidate
has no newspaper in which to exploit
his candidacy.
They'd better quit deploring and go
to congratulating him There are
three other candidates armed with
self-vounding newspapers and their
senatorial bOOms are decreasing while
the Stubs vogue is growing healthily.
Ex-senator Bristow's newspaper has
been his undoing. Joe is handy with
his pen and his ready newspaper has
printed the product of his pen from
day to day and has played heck with
his senatorial ambitions Because once
Joe made hit and performed real
service for the United States by un-
covering some grating. he conceived
the idea that for this purpose was ne
brought into the world, that he might
expose graft Gifted with keen i'm
agination he saw graft everywhere
and important as the uncoverIng OF
graft is, he failed to see that some
other issues are more important stiI'
and so he's all balled up, almost un-
balanced in his Judgment of what Is
first and foremost When the war
arose he saw only graft. When Ger
many became evidently he enemy d
mankind he saw only graft every
where. graft in Wall street, graft in
congress. just graft, graft, graft Poor
Joe, and he printed it all in his news
paper. When the thieves were break-
ing into our hen houses and the VII
lains threatened our daughters, Joe
stationed himself as the sure guard
of our feathered chickens His news
danger to our daughters
Then There's Charley.
Then there's Charles F. Scott, the
Hon. Charles F. Scott, alleged gentle
man and scholar, really possessed OF
EeutIemanly manners, habits and IN
stincts. having shreds and patches OF
scholarship which he cunningly turns
out so that many think them his real
clothing But he lacks the strength
of intelligence to penetrate deep into
realities and so when he went to BEL
GUM to see for the Kansas people
what was being done with the money
they had contributed for Belgian re
lief some German officers of high
command took him in their charge,
battered him and blinded him to the
realities about him so that ne saw not
the German atrocities or saw them
only as the natural acts of warning
people Lacking the acumen to see
deeply they Inuddled him all up end
impressed with the German glitter,
Brer Scott came home and took his
little pen in hand and many times and
oft wrote his fool impressions for his
paper Now these little pieces he
wrote while a victim of his own weak
ness and of German propaganda are
rising up like ghosts to give his weak
ness away, and, strive as he may, cant
lay them. Their garments are the
leaves of his own newspaper They
stalk out of his paper files and ramp
up and down the state grinning in
CHASTITY gIee at his discontinue. Like
Joe. Charlie would have been vastly
better off if he never had had a news
paper.
The Case of Artie.
Then, there's Arthur, owner of a
string o. papers, 81 varieties, all
trained to sing the praises of Arthur,
all soaked in the sweetness of Arthur,
all exuding the love of Arthur, all
glowing with the light of Arthur. all
sticky and gooey with the goodness
and greatness of Arthur.
Once he wrote letters by the barrel
and filled them with sweet promises
of great things he could and would
do for the people, These he sent
out to a long list of press clipping
bureau gathered names and so gained
personal following, thus rising to a
high political altitude whereunto no
other Kansas man had risen
But aIack and alas. The inordt-
nate love of self-praise, the gooey self
fIattery that exudes from his press has
binary personal following is dropping
off disguised. his clientele is dwindling
because of the density of the self ex-
ploitation of Arthur in Arthur's own
papers.
Now let Roscoe congratulate him
self that he has no newspaper, for
his publicity is restrained and re-
and thus will not likely rise in a
swapping tide to engulf him. His
personal vigor, his sturdy personality,
his corn and cattle and his resource
fitness are far better assets than
spouting presses and suffering edi-